Taylor Waldo

Photo by: Nick Lawler - Ball State Sports Link

Position:
All-Around
Class:
Senior
High School:
Chisago Lakes
Hometown:
Stacy, Minn.

* WGCA Scholastic All-American (2021 & 2022)
* Academic All-MAC (2022)
* MAC Specialist of the Week (March 8, 2022)
* Second-Best Individual Beam Score in Program History with a 9.900 at West Virginia (March 6, 2022)

Taylor Waldo Entering 2023 Season
Career Highs
  VAULT – 9.575 on Feb. 13, 2022
  BARS – 8.875 on Feb. 13, 2022
BEAM – 9.900 on March 6, 2022
FLOOR – 9.875 on Feb. 20, 2022
  ALL-AROUND – 38.050 on Feb. 13, 2022

Career Points: 455.175

Event Wins:
BEAM: 6 - Feb. 23, 2020 / Feb. 14, 2021 / Jan. 23, 2022 / Feb. 13, 2022 / Feb. 20, 2022 / March 6, 2022

2022 – JUNIOR SEASON: WGCA Scholastic All-American … Academic All-MAC … set career highs on all four events and in the all-around over the course of the season … competed in the beam lineup in all 13 meets … won the event four times, including her career-best 9.900 at West Virginia (March 6), which is the second-best individual beam score in program history … also used scores of 9.850 to win beam in home meets versus Kent State (Jan. 23), versus Bowling Green (Feb. 13), and versus Eastern Michigan (Feb. 20) … the effort versus EMU helped Ball State turn in a program record team score of 196.325 … her 9.850 at the MAC Championships (March 19) helped Ball State tie the program’s event record of 49.150 which it also broke earlier in the year … tallied at least a 9.800 in six of her 13 beam routines … competed in the floor lineup in 12 meets … scored a career-best 9.875 in the program record setting win over EMU … landed a 9.825 in the home tri-meet versus Central Michigan and Illinois State (Jan. 30) … registered nine floor routines of 9.700-or-better … competed in the all-around for the first time in her career versus BGSU, scoring a 38.050 … the effort included her win on beam, a 9.750 on floor and her first collegiate vault (9.575) and bars (8.875) routines.

2021 – SOPHOMORE SEASON: WGCA Scholastic All-American … competed on bars in all 10 meets, while seeing action in the floor lineup four times … registered season-best scores of 9.850 on both beam and floor at the Mid-American Conference Championships (March 20) … scored 9.850s on beam at Eastern Michigan (Feb. 6) and at the GymQuarters Invitational hosted by Lindenwood (Feb. 12) … hit five beam routines of 9.825-or-better … scored 9.825 on floor at Kent State (March 3), while adding a 9.800 in the quad-meet at Central Michigan (March 13).

2020 – FRESHMAN SEASON: Competed on beam in the last five meets of the season … registered a season-best score of 9.800 to win the beam competition versus Kent State (Feb. 23) … tied the mark with a 9.800 versus North Carolina (March 8) … scored 9.775 in her collegiate debut in the tri-meet at Georgia (Feb. 14) and at Northern Illinois (March 1).

CLUB: Trained at Flyaways Gymnastics for 14 years … seven-time regional qualifier and five-time national qualifier.