University of Oregon
Individual Event Finals
UO Earns Two Individual Titles at NCATA Championships
04/17/16 | Acrobatics & Tumbling
WACO, Texas – The second-ranked Oregon acrobatics and tumbling team earned two event national championships Saturday night at the NCATA Individual Event Finals at the Ferrell Center. At the conclusion of the competition, sophomore Taylor Galvin and senior Nicole Seybold were named NCATA All-Americans.
How It Happened: Featuring the top groups and individuals from the 2016 season, the Individual Event Finals include all heats from the acro, pyramid, toss and tumbling events. The Ducks had participants in 13 different individual event finals, including two entries in the aerial tumbling and heat 1.
Competition opened in acro, where host team Baylor started the night earning a title in the 5-element. Quinnipiac followed with a win in the 6-element, and Hawaii Pacific earned the victory in the 6-element.
With no entries in the first two pyramid heats, the Ducks' only chance in the event came in the pyramid release heat, where Oregon had excelled all season with four 10 scores on the year; however, Hawaii Pacific came away with the win.
Oregon picked up its first title of the night with a 9.70 in the heat 1 toss. The Duck crew of Casi Jackson, Taylr Keating, Tia Thomas, Blaire Wilson and Kaile Michaud topped three other teams, including another group from Oregon, to snag the win. The title marked Wilson and Michaud's third, while it was Keating's second. Jackson and Thomas both tallied their first event title.
The Ducks had another chance at a toss title in the open toss as part of a three-way tie in the heat, but Alderson-Broaddus came up on top in the tiebreaker to earn the championship.
Baylor earned three titles in the tumbling event, but it was sophomore Taylor Galvin that was named the national champion of the 6-element pass with a 9.925. The win was Galvin's second tumbling title, as the sophomore won the open pass last season for her first career individual title.
All-Americans: At the conclusion of competition, sophomore Taylor Galvin and senior Nicole Seybold were both named NCATA All-Americans for the first time in their careers.
As a sophomore, Galvin did it all for the Ducks, competing in 12 heats and qualifying for six individual event finals. Galvin participated in all four compulsory heats, acro 6 element, pyramid 1, pyramid 2, toss 2, toss 3, tumbling duo, solo 6 element and the team event. In the 6-element tumbling, Galvin recorded a season high of 9.975 twice to average 9.89 in the heat. Competing in the tumbling duo pass all season for the Ducks, she recorded a high of 9.90 at Azusa Pacific.
Galvin competed in all three toss heats to record season highs of 9.95, 9.75 (twice) and 9.95 (twice), in heats one, two and three, respectively, to earn a spot in the event finals for each. Galvin pushed the Ducks to a season high of 9.95 twice in the 6-element acro to clinch a spot in the event finals for that heat as well.
Competing in the team event all season, she was instrumental in the Ducks recording a season average of 98.48 in the with a season-high score of 105.43.
Seybold regularly competed in all four compulsory events, acro 7 element, pyramid 1, pyramid, 2, pyramid 3, toss 2, toss 3, and the team event in her final season as a Duck to lead Oregon to a 9-2 season in 2016. Seybold competed in all four compulsory events to help the Ducks to a high of 39.25 in a win over Gannon and King, and a season average of 38.25 in the Ducks' win over Fairmont State. Seybold recorded a season high of 9.90 in the 7-element acro and clinch a spot in the event finals for that heat.
The senior was instrumental in the Ducks tallying four 10 scores this season in the pyramid 3 to qualify for the event finals in that heat. She also helped Oregon to highs of 9.95 (twice) and 9.90 (four times) in pyramid 1 and 2, repectively. Seybold competed in all three heats of the pyramid to push Oregon to an average of 29.29 and a season-high 29.85. Seybold also competed and earned spots in the individual event finals in all three heats of the toss with season highs of 9.95, 9.75 (twice) and 9.95 (twice) in the toss 1, 2 and 3, respectively.
Seybold competed in the team event all season, and was instrumental in the Ducks recording a season average of 98.48 with a season-high score of 105.43 at Azusa Pacific that led to the Ducks recording their highest overall score in school history.
Notable: With the individual accolades earned tonight, the Oregon acrobatics and tumbling team now boasts 36 individual titles and 15 All-Americans in the program's history.
Up Next: The No. 2 seed Ducks will take on seventh-seeded Alderson-Broaddus in the NCATA quarterfinals on Sunday at noon PT.
