Acrobatics and Tumbling to Open 2025 Season Saturday

Saturday, February 15

Eugene, OR

4:00 PM

University of Oregon

Morgan State

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Acrobatics and Tumbling to Open 2025 Season Saturday

02/14/25 | Acrobatics & Tumbling

Meet Notes

EUGENE, Ore. – The fourth-ranked Oregon acrobatics and tumbling program opens up the 2025 season on Saturday against Morgan State at 4 p.m. at Matthew Knight Arena.

MEET INFO
When: Saturday, Feb. 15
Where: Matthew Knight Arena | Eugene, Ore.
Time: 4 p.m. PT
Watch: https://www.bigtenplus.com/en-int/livestream/morgan-st-at-oregon/1853026
Live Results: https://goducks.com/sports/2022/2/28/acro-scores

THE DUCKS vs. BEARS
This will be the first all-time meeting between Oregon and Morgan State. The Bears fielded their first-ever acrobatics and tumbling team last season, becoming the first Division I HBCU to do so. Morgan State finished its inaugural 2-4 with wins over Bluefield State and Stevenson and opened the 2025 season with a 270.565-246.745 loss to No. 2 Quinnipiac, the team's highest score in program history.

AMONG THE BEST
The Ducks enter the 2025 season ranked No. 4 in the NCATA preseason coaches poll, their fourth time being ranked in the top five under head coach Taylor Susnara. Oregon was one of four teams, alongside No. 1 Baylor, No. 2 Quinnipiac and No. 3 Gannon, to receive at least one first-place vote. The Ducks will look to climb up the rankings throughout the season and will have ample opportunity to do so, as six of UO's seven regular-season meets are against teams ranked in the top eight.

LOOKING BACK
The Ducks finished 4-4 in Susnara's third year at the helm of the program, with all four wins coming against teams ranked in the top 10 of the final NCATA poll. Oregon reached at least the NCATA semifinals for the second season in a row and claimed four event titles in 2024, winning the open toss and duo, trio and quad tumbling pass titles. Four event titles were the most claimed by a UO squad in a single season since 2019 and pushed the program total up to a staggering 56 all-time event titles. The Ducks shined in the pyramid event, averaging 29.23 per meet and scoring 29.00 or higher seven times, and in the compulsory toss event, where UO scored at least 9.85 five times.

» Oregon has historically dominated the trio pass event, as last season's title was the sixth in program history.
» The duo tumbling title was Oregon's first since 2013.

LOOKING FORWARD
The Ducks return 17 letterwinners from last season's squad for the 2025 season. Alexis Giardina is back for her senior season after earning NCATA all-America honors last season while being an integral piece in the Ducks' trio tumbling event. Five other Ducks who were a part of event title-winning lineups - Ava Gowdy, Brylie Hoover, Rachel Furlong, Rickelle Henderson and Riley Watson - are back for Coach Susnara's squad as well. After missing all of last season with achilles injuries, Haley Ellis and 2022 NCATA Freshman of the Year Blessyn McMorris will make their return to the mat on Saturday as seniors. The Ducks will have to replace two-time all-American McKenna Carrion, but Oregon welcomes 11 newcomers to the squad, headlined a pair of tumblers - Briya Alvarado and Morgan Willingham - and the electric duo of Cassidy Cu and Angelica Martin that will look to make an instant impact in their debut seasons.