NORMAN The Oklahoma women’s gymnastics team broke the program record on Friday night, setting a new standard with a score of 198.675, and went on to hold the top spot in the US for eight weeks running. With the greatest initial National Qualifying Score (NQS) in program history, 198.270, the Sooners are undefeated. For the first time this season, NQS has established the rankings, and that is this week.
A team’s six best regular season scores—three of which must be away—are used to calculate their NQS. The five remaining scores are averaged once the overall top score is removed. NCAA regional competition seeding is decided by NQS scores.
Oklahoma NQS
1. 198.675 (He)
2. 198.450 (H)
3. 198.375 (A)
4. 198.325 (A)
5. 198.300 (A)
6. 197.900 (A)
LSU (197.845) and California (197.810) complete the top three, leaving the top five unaltered. At the moment, (197.600) is ranked No. 5 while Utah (197.645) is ranked fFloridaourth.
The sooners rank first in the events for the vault (49.455), bars (49.620), beam (49.615), and floor (49.625). This past weekend, the Sooners tied their program record on beam with a score of 49.800, and OU is the only university to score 49.80 or above on two events (bars, 49.825).
In the first week of NQS, seven Sooners received a total of 20 individual ranks, with at least one gymnast placing in the top 10 in each event and in the all-around. Five out of six athletes competing this weekend in the vault and beam
