{"id":11547,"date":"2025-04-21T15:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=11547"},"modified":"2025-04-21T15:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:33:57","slug":"mizzou-gymnastics-makes-program-history-at-the-ncaa-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2025\/04\/21\/mizzou-gymnastics-makes-program-history-at-the-ncaa-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizzou Gymnastics makes program history at the NCAA National Championship!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Gymnastics-NCAA-win-scaled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Gymnastics-NCAA-win-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Mizzou Tigers Gymnastics team wins third place at the NCAA Championship Final.\" class=\"wp-image-11548\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Gymnastics-NCAA-win-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Gymnastics-NCAA-win-scaled-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Gymnastics-NCAA-win-scaled-1-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Gymnastics-NCAA-win-scaled-1-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Gymnastics-NCAA-win-scaled-1-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Gymnastics-NCAA-win-scaled-1-2048x1638.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Mizzou Tigers Gymnastics team wins third place at the NCAA Championship Final.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This past Saturday, our Mizzou Gymnastics team made history by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/news\/2025\/4\/19\/mizzou-gymnastics-concludes-best-season-in-program-history-with-third-place-finish-at-ncaa-championship-final.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reaching third place in the NCAA National Championship Final<\/a>! It was an exceptional finish for the Tigers in Fort Worth, Texas, and the first time in program history that the team advanced to the NCAA National Championship Final. It was also the best postseason finish of any women\u2019s team in Mizzou history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The No. 7 Tigers competed against No. 2 Oklahoma, the No. 4 Utah and No. 5 UCLA with a final score of 197.2500, beating Utah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250419_GYM_atNCAAChampionship_JG-324-1-scaled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250419_GYM_atNCAAChampionship_JG-324-1-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Senior and balance beam National Champion Helen Hu finishes her career final beam routine on Saturday.\" class=\"wp-image-11554\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250419_GYM_atNCAAChampionship_JG-324-1-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250419_GYM_atNCAAChampionship_JG-324-1-scaled-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250419_GYM_atNCAAChampionship_JG-324-1-scaled-1-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250419_GYM_atNCAAChampionship_JG-324-1-scaled-1-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250419_GYM_atNCAAChampionship_JG-324-1-scaled-1-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250419_GYM_atNCAAChampionship_JG-324-1-scaled-1-2048x1638.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Senior and balance beam National Champion Helen Hu finishes her career final beam routine on Saturday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizzou\u2019s Helen Hu won the NCAA Gymnastics Balance Beam National Championship with a score of 9.9875 during last Thursday\u2019s semi-final competition! Her score secured the Tiger\u2019s advancement to the 4 on the Floor championship by one tenth of a point. Saturday, she concluded her outstanding Tiger career by scoring a 9.9650 on the beam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am extremely proud of the Tigers and everything they have accomplished this year! Coming soon, we will share details about a special celebration of the team\u2019s achievements on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M-I-Z!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday, our Mizzou Gymnastics team made history by\u00a0reaching third place in the NCAA National Championship Final! It was an exceptional finish for the Tigers in Fort Worth, Texas, and the first time in program history that the team advanced to the NCAA National Championship Final. It was also the best postseason finish of any women\u2019s team in Mizzou history.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}