(Updated at 9:15 p.m. PT, following conclusion of session two)
CORVALLIS, Oregon – The No. 23-ranked University of Denver women’s gymnastics team finished in fourth during the first session of the 2026 NCAA Second Round at the Corvallis Regional on Friday afternoon.
DU scored a 195.950 but fought to ensure it would not count falls on any event in what became the team’s final meet of the season. No. 12-ranked Utah led the session with a 197.500 and advanced to the regional final with No. 5-ranked Alabama (197.225). Host and No. 25-ranked Oregon State was third with a 196.375.
SIGNIFICANT STATS
- In the final meet of her collegiate career, senior Kiley Rorich scored matching 9.900s on both of her events – tying her career high on floor for the second meet in a row.
- Freshman Shyla Bhatia competed in the all-around for just the second time in her career, appearing in her second beam lineup and her first since the team’s second meet of the year.
- Denver set a new program record for consecutive meets without counting a fall on vault, doing so for the 127th meet in a row.
- DU did not count a fall on any event in 12 of its 13 meets on the season.
- Bhatia and Rorich both sat within reach of the final regional podium on floor, and Bhatia was tied for the lead on vault following the first half of the two-session meet.
- Bhatia’s 9.900 on vault tied the sixth highest score on the event for a DU gymnast at NCAA Regionals.
BEAM RECAP
Once again, Denver choosing to begin its meet on beam proved successful with the team putting together five hit routines to start the meet on a strong note. In the lead off, freshman Megan Aamold set the tone with a solid set for a 9.775. Classmate Bhatia stepped into the No. 2 spot for the second beam appearance of her career and delivered a 9.725 for DU. Junior Ashley Gallen posted what would be the team’s highest score of the rotation in Denver’s third routine, going 9.825 for a routine punctuated by a stuck dismount.
Immediately following a fall in the No. 4 spot, junior Amanda Hargraves got the rotation back on track with a 9.800, ending her season with a perfect nine-for-nine in hit beam routines after making her NCAA debut on the event this season – and finishing with a five-meet streak of scores at or above 9.800. Senior Cecilia Cooley added her own 9.800 in the anchor spot, ensuring DU would drop the fall from earlier in the rotation and getting redemption for her missed routine the last time Denver competed in OSU’s Gill Coliseum.
FLOOR RECAP
DU proved why floor has been its strongest event of the year in the second rotation, going 49.300 for its top rotation score of the day – its 10th score at or above such a mark in 2026. All five counted scores were at least 9.800s, beginning with the lead-off 9.800 from Gallen, giving her only one score below 9.800 in her first season competing the event for DU. Hargraves began to build the scores for Denver, going 9.825 in the No. 2 spot – her 11th score at or above the 9.800 mark in what was also her first year making the lineup for DU.
Two Denver gymnasts followed with 9.900s that would tie for the second highest floor scores of the session. Rorich had the first, matching her career high of 9.900 for a second meet in a row and for the third time since making her season debut on the event on March 1. Bhatia added her own 9.900 in the next routine, which was only a quarter tenth from her personal best.
Junior Maddison Reidenbach finished off a breakout floor season with a 9.875 that was just off Rorich’s and Bhatia’s pace. She ended the season without scoring below 9.850 on the event all year. Cooley anchored the lineup but saw her rebounding split jump out of her first pace carry her out of bounds to begin the routine.
VAULT RECAP
The core of DU’s vault lineup gave Denver four marks of at least 9.800. After an underrotated vault to start the rotation, freshman Sevana Kasparian stuck her Yurchenko full for a 9.825 that was only .025 from her personal-best score. Sophomore Addie Hewitt followed with a 9.800 to end the season with a streak of six 9.800s or higher in the team’s last seven meets.
A small hop in place on another Yurchenko full from senior Mila Brusch matched Kasparian’s 9.825, setting up Bhatia for her third stuck-cold Yurchenko one-and-a-half of the season, scoring a 9.900 to sit tied for the top score in the session. Finishing the rotation was Reidenbach, who competed a Yurchenko one-and-a-half of her own for the first time in 2026 but could not save an under-rotation and sat down the vault.
BARS RECAP
DU overcame a scary fall and a completely shuffled lineup on bars to end its day, showing fight all the way to the end. For the first time since February 1, Bhatia led off the lineup and earned a 9.725 to kick off the final rotation and end her day with a 39.250 in the all-around. Kasparian entered the full lineup for just the second time and posted a 9.850 – her first NCAA full-lineup hit routine on the event.
Rorich made it into the 9.900 range for the third time this season, registering a team-best 9.900 in the No. 3 spot that would put her into a tie for fourth overall in the meet’s first session. Her fellow seniors followed in the next two routines with Brusch going next and looking on track for a strong routine of her own until she peeled off on her dismount. Despite a hard-to-watch landing, Brusch was able to get up on her own after receiving guidance from the DU medical team.
Cooley was able to refocus and immediately respond with another hit routine for Denver, going 9.850 in the penultimate routine for the team. Reidenbach, who slid back to the anchor position for a second consecutive rotation, hit her straddle Jaeger to get redemption after a fall on the skill in the team’s last meet, but she also struggled with the dismount, coming in too shallow but pushing through a deep knee bend to save the skill and allow DU to replace Brusch’s score.
PODIUM FINISHES (Combined Session Results)
Vault
Bhatia: Third Place (tie) – 9.900
NEXT UP:
The University of Denver gymnastics team will also await final individual selections for the 2026 NCAA National Championships, which will be determined based on combined results from both second-round sessions and based on advancing teams from Sunday’s NCAA Regional Final.
