Gymnastics Hosts BGSU Monday For Squishmallows Night

Ball State Gymnastics hosts Bowling Green
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» THIS WEEK IN BALL STATE GYMNASTICS: Ball State gymnastics will look to build on its record-setting performance at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic when it hosts Bowling Green at 7 p.m. Monday in its Mid-American Conference regular season opener ... It will be Squishmallows Night in Worthen Arena and the Cardinals encourage fans to bring their favorite fluff-filled friends ... BSU's student-athletes will also throw out Squishmallows to fans throughout the night, including for each routine hitting 9.750-or-higher ... There will also be a raffle for a giant Squishmallow which will be drawn at the conclusion of the meet.

» GET YOUR TICKETS NOW: Starting this season, Ball State will be charging admission for home meets with season tickets starting at $32 for adults and $16 for youth (18-and-under) ... Season tickets include all three regular season duals and the 2024 MAC Championships set to be held in Worthen Arena on March 23 ... That's a 20% savings over individual meet tickets which are $10 for adults and $5 for youth (18-and-under) ... Fans can purchase their tickets in advance at https://BallStateSports.com/gymnasticstickets.

» RECORDS FALL AGAIN AT TENNESSEE COLLEGIATE CLASSIC:
- For the second consecutive season, the Ball State gymnastics program shattered records at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic (Jan. 19), highlighted by a team record score of 198.025 ... The Cardinals were the first program in the nation to break the 198 mark this season, with the score also being a Mid-American Conference record.
- The effort included program event records on vault (49.375), bars (49.775) and floor (49.625), as well as the fourth best beam score in program history (49.250) ... The program's beam record of 49.350 was set at last season's Tennessee Collegiate Classic.
- Ball State's gymnasts registered a program meet record 12 scores of 9.900-or-higher, including perfect 10s by Suki Pfister (vault), Zoe Middleton (bars) and Megan Teter (bars) ... Prior to last Friday, the Cardinals only had one perfect 10 in program history.
- Ball State's student-athletes earned 21 career best scores over the course of the meet, with each athlete who competed tallying at least one.

» MORE RECORD NOTES FROM TENNESSEE:
-  On floor, Suki Pfister tied the program record for a second time in her career with a 9.950 ... Three Cardinals, Carissa Martinez, Zoe Middleton and Megan Teter, all earned 9.925s, while Hannah Ruthberg added a 9.900 ... It marked the first time in program history all five countable scores on an event were 9.900-or-higher.
- Ball State produced five of the top 10 individual bars scores in program history, led by the first two perfect 10s on bars in the BSU record book from Zoe Middleton and Megan Teter ... The Cardinals also received 9.925s on bars from Ashley Szymanski, Victoria Henry and Hannah Ruthberg.
- Suki Pfister posted just the second perfect 10 in program history on vault, while Zoe Middleton added a 9.950.
- Zoe Middleton crushed the program's all-around record with a 39.750, including a 10.00 on bars, a 9.950 on vault, a 9.925 on floor and a 9.875 on beam ... The previous record was 39.400 set twice last season ... All five of Middleton's scores were career-best efforts.
- Megan Teter and Victoria Henry also passed the previous all-around mark with scores of 39.575 and 39.450, respectively ... Teter's effort of 39.575 included a 10.00 on bars, a 9.925 on floor, a 9.850 on beam and a 9.800 on vault ... Henry's effort of 39.450 counted a 9.925 on bars, a 9.850 on beam, a 9.850 on floor and a 9.825 on vault.

» A RECORD OPENER AS WELL: Ball State picked up right where it left off last season, beginning the year with the best opening meet score in program history with a 194.925 at the UNC Quad (Jan. 5) ... The previous record was 194.475 set at Kentucky to open the 2018 season.

» GOING 9.975-OR-HIGHER: Senior Victoria Henry turned in the best vault of her career to win the event at the Ohio State Tri-meet (Jan. 14) with a mark of 9.975 ... Along with the three perfect 10s registered at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic by Suki Pfister, Zoe Middleton and Megan Teter, Henry is one of only six gymnasts in program history to register a score of 9.975-or-higher ... The other two are Sarah Mikrut with a 10.000 at Kent State (Feb. 21, 1997) and Denasiha Christian with a 9.975 on vault at Northern Illinois (Feb. 19, 2016).

» HENRY HITTING THE 9.900 MARK: Senior Victoria Henry has registered 14 scores of 9.900-or-better over her career, including four so far this season ... The total includes six floor routines, six vaults and two bars performance.

» SHINING ON FLOOR: Ball State's best event so far this season has been floor, with the Cardinals averaging a 49.275 in the event to rank 21st nationally  ... Last time out, the Cardinals  set a program record with a 39.625 at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic (Jan. 19) ... So far this season, BSU has registered eight floor scores of 9.900-or-higher, led by Suki Pfister's program-record tying effort this past Friday.

» SWINGING ITS WAY UP ON BARS: Ball State's 49.775 on bars at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic is the best team bars score in the nation so far this season ... The effort, which included  two perfect 10s and three routines of 9.925, helped the Cardinals climb to 15th in the nation with an average score of 49.233.

» PFISTER HITTING HIGH MARKS ON VAULT: Following her first career 10.00 on vault at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic (Jan. 19), Suki Pfister has had 12 of her 35 collegiate vault performances score of 9.900-or-higher ... The total includes one 10.00, three 9.950s, two 9.925s and six 9.900s.

» SZYMANSKI SHINING ON BARS: Ashley Szymanski has led the Cardinals on bars in two of the team's three meets this season, including winning the event at the Ohio State Tri-meet with a 9.900 ... The effort earned her MAC Specialist of the Week honors ... She would go on to score a career-best 9.925 on bars at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic (Jan. 19), while scoring a 9.800 in her BSU debut on beam.

» ONE TO WATCH: Zoe Middleton, one of two Ball State student-athletes named to the 2024 MAC Gymnasts to Watch list, has provided plenty of highlights for the Cardinals so far this season including her perfect 10 on bars and program record all-around score of 39.750 at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic ... So far this season, all 12 of her routines have counted in the final team score ... During her freshman campaign, 37 of Middleton's 39 routines counted towards Ball State's team total.

» MORE FROM THE ALL AROUND: Hannah Ruthberg also turned in a solid all-around effort at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic (Jan. 19), turning in the second-best performance of her career with a score of 39.375 ... The effort included career-best scores of 9.925 on bars and 9.900 on floor, as well as a 9.875 on beam and a 9.675 on vault.

» SCORING HIGH IN 2024:
- Ball State has registered 40 scores of 9.800-or-higher so far this season, with eight coming at the UNC Quad (Jan. 5), 10 at the Ohio State Tri-meet (Jan. 14) and 22 at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic (Jan. 19) ... Of the 40 routines, 12 have come on floor, 12 on bars, 10 on vault and six on beam ... The total includes 18 scores of 9.900-or-better.

» RECORDS UNDER SALEEM:
- In the program's first 11 seasons under head coach Joanna Saleem, Ball State has tallied the 27 best team scores in program history … In fact, of Ball State's 31 scores of 195.450-or-higher, 29 have been set by Saleem's squads.
- Saleem's squads own the event records on all four apparatus: vault (49.375), bars (49.775), beam (49.350), and floor (49.625).
- All 37 entries in the vault record book are held by Saleem's teams, as are 21 of 27 scores on floor, 21 of 28 scores on bars and 20 of 25 scores on beam.

» MORE FROM THE FRESHMAN CLASS: Freshman Lindsay Fuller currently ranks fourth on the squad on beam with an average score of 9.638 ... The effort includes a 9.725 in her collegiate debut at the UNC Quad (Jan. 5) ... Freshman Ava Molina also made her collegiate competition debut at UNC, scoring a 9.725 on floor.

» A FEW MORE EARLY HIGHLIGHTS:
- Junior Carissa Martinez turned in a pair of career-best performances at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic (Jan. 19) with a 9.925 on floor and a 9.800 on vault.
- Junior Grace Sumner also hit a career-best mark at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic, with her 9.875 on bars.

Gymnastics Hosts BGSU Monday For Squishmallows Night

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Players Mentioned

Lindsay Fuller

Victoria Henry

Carissa Martinez

Zoe Middleton

Ava Molina

Suki Pfister

Hannah Ruthberg

Grace Sumner

Ashley Szymanski

Megan Teter