The first session of the NCAA Semifinals will take place at 2:30 p.m. MT on Thursday, April 17, and features No. 2 Oklahoma, No. 3 Florida, No. 7 Missouri, and No. 11 Alabama.
The Red Rocks will compete in the later semifinal session on April 17 at 7 p.m. MT against No. 1 LSU, No. 5 UCLA, and No. 8 Michigan State.
Both NCAA Semifinal rounds can be watched on ESPN2.
The top two teams in each semifinal session will advance to the NCAA Final
on Saturday, April 19, at 2 p.m. MT. That meet will air nationally on ABC.
Event Announcers: John Roethlisberger, Samantha Peszek, Aly Raisman
Event Reporter & Preshow Host: Taylor Davis
Stream Team: Kennedy Baker, Bridget Sloan, Trinity Thomas, Anastasia Webb
All NCAA Gymnastics National Championship Meets next week will take place at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.
Fans wishing to travel to Texas for the action can purchase meet tickets here.
IN THE RANKINGS
- Through 14 weeks, Utah is ranked among the nation’s top 10 in all four events:
VT: 6th | UB: 4th | BB: 3rd | FX: 6th | AA: 4th
- Grace McCallum is tied second on bars, tied fourth on beam, and ranks ninth in the all-around.
- Makenna Smith is fourth in the nation on vault, tied 14th on floor, and is No. 10 in the all-around.
- Avery Neff and Camie Winger are tied 15th in the country on beam.
- Utah’s all-around NQS score is 197.780, while their season average score is 197.390.
AWARD SEASON
- McCallum received the WCGA North Central Region Gymnast of the Year while Sport Supervisor Cathy Badger was recognized as the Administrator of the Year.
- McCallum was crowned the Regional Bars Champion, while Neff earned the Vault and All-Around Title (4/3).
- McCallum, Smith, Winger, and Neff earned WCGA Regular Season All-America honors for their 2025 performances.
- The Red Rocks had eight gymnasts earn All-Big 12 Team honors at the conclusion of the 2025 regular season:
All-Big 12 Vault Team: Smith, Ella Zirbes, Ashley Glynn, McCallum
All-Big 12 Bars Team: McCallum, Amelie Morgan, Zirbes
All-Big 12 Beam Team: McCallum, Winger, Smith, Morgan
All-Big 12 Floor Team: Smith, McCallum, Jaylene Gilstrap
All-Big 12 All-Around Team: McCallum, Smith
Big 12 All-Freshman Team: Neff
- McCallum was named the Big 12 Gymnast of the Year and is a finalist for the AAI Award.
- Neff was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year.
- Utah Gymnastics clinched both the Regular Season Big 12 Title (2/21) and the Big 12 Championship (3/22) in their first season in the league.
QUICK STICKS
- Utah is heading to its 49th-straight NCAA National Championship.
- The Red Rocks are the only program to have qualified for every National Championship.
- Utah has won 35 regional titles (32 NCAA) and finished second the other 14 years.
- Utah has hit the 198-mark twice this season. 198.075 against Denver on 2/21 and 198.100 against UCLA on 3/15.
- The Red Rocks cleaned up on Big 12 Weekly Awards during the 2025 season with six different gymnasts being recognized 13 times.
- McCallum has the most event wins for Utah in 2025 boasting 30, while Smith is hot on her heels with 24.
- Utah Gymnastics clinched Utah Athletics’ first two Big 12 Titles since joining the league before the 2024 fall sports season began. The Red Rocks won the Big 12’s Regular Season Championship outright on 2/21, and clinched the Big 12 Championship on 3/22. In 2014, Utah Gymnastics was responsible for Utah Athletics’ first Pac-12 Title, four years after the Utes made the jump to the league from the Mountain West Conference.
CHALK TALK
- Head coach Carly Dockendorf is in her second season leading the Red Rocks program and her eighth overall with Utah Gymnastics.
- In 2024 Dockendorf became the first head coach in NCAA history to lead a team to the Final Four in her first year in the position, earning the highest finish (3rd-place) by any first-year head coach.
- Utah returned 16-of-24 routines from last year’s team, which finished in third place at the NCAA Championships.
- Utah’s roster contains five All-Americans: Grace McCallum (8x), Makenna Smith (4x), Ella Zirbes (2x) and Jaylene Gilstrap.
- Makenna Smith seeks to build off her breakout sophomore season, which saw her hit all 61 routines. The Albuquerque native earned NCAA All-America honors in the all-around and vault, and second team on bars in 2024.
- Utah closed its 13-year membership in the Pac-12 Conference in 2024 by winning its fourth consecutive Pac-12 Championship meet.
- Utah added two new faces to the coaching staff in the offseason, starting with the addition of assistant coach Mike Hunger, who brings more than 50 years of experience to lead the vault squad and assist on floor.
- Utah Gymnastics legend Maile O’Keefe returns to the program as a student assistant coach, coming off one of the most decorated college gymnastics careers. She won four NCAA individual titles (bars, floor – 2021; all-around, beam – 2023). O’Keefe collected 19 All-America awards (7 regular season, 12 NCAA) while competing for the Red Rocks.
- Utah has amassed 112 perfect 10.0 scores all-time, with 81 of those performances coming at home in the Jon M. Huntsman Center.
LAST TIME OUT
- The No. 4 Red Rocks took first in their Regional Final (197.825) to advance to their 49th consecutive NCAA National Championship.
- McCallum won the all-around in the final (39.725) after a dominant performance earning a 10.0 on bars, 9.95 on beam, and 9.975 on floor (4/5).
- Freshman Zoe Johnson earned her first career win on vault in the final to seal the deal for the Red Rocks’ 49th trip to Nationals posting a 9.95 (4/5).
- McCallum was crowned the Regional Bars Champion after posting a 10.0 in the Semifinal round (4/3). Neff earned the vault title sticking a 9.95, and the all-around title with a 39.650 (4/3). That was Neff’s first all-around win of her career.
