No. 16 @MizzouGym Hosts State of Missouri Meet Friday

Friday, February 5

Columbia, Mo.

7 p.m. CT

University of Missouri

Lindenwood

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No. 16 @MizzouGym Hosts State of Missouri Meet Friday

2/4/2016 4:12:00 PM | Gymnastics

Mizzou hosts Lindenwood and Southeast Missouri at the Hearnes Center on Friday

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The No. 16 Mizzou gymnastics team returns home to the Hearnes Center as the team hosts Lindenwood and Southeast Missouri in the State of Missouri Meet on Friday, Feb. 5 at 5 p.m. The competition will be aired live on SEC Network +. Fans who bring at least two canned food items for Tiger Pantry will receive free admission. Additionally, the first 250 fans receive the second set of Mizzou gymnastics trading cards.

OPPONENT	DATE // TIME	TV	STATS
Lindenwood // SEMO	Friday, Feb. 5 // 7 p.m.	SEC Network +	StatBroadcast

TIGER TIDBITS

The Tigers clock in at No. 16 in this week's national rankings with an average team score of 195.645.
Mizzou scored a 195.825 at the Metroplex Challenge on Jan. 30. The team tied its season highs on both vault (49.025) and floor (49.075) and tallied its second highest bars score of the year (49.150).
In the Metroplex Challenge, Missouri compiled a season best 14 scores of 9.8 or higher, including three from freshman Brooke Kelly.
Mizzou won its first-ever SEC dual meet on Jan. 22 in a 195.800-195.350 win over then-No. 9 Georgia at Mizzou Arena. The Tigers boasted event scores of 49.075 on floor, 49.025 on bars, 48.925 on beam and 48.775 on vault against Georgia.
Against the Gymdogs, Ward took top honors on two events (vault and beam) and sophomore Kennedi Harris won the floor title in the Tigers' win.
Freshman Britney Ward has already been recognized twice this season by the SEC. She claimed Freshman of the Week honors on Jan. 26, just one week after she was named the SEC Specialist of the Week.
Through five meets in 2016, the Tigers have notched 53 individual scores of 9.8 or higher, which calculates to 44.2 percent of all routines.
The Tigers opened 2016 with a 195.350-195.075 win over No. 15 Illinois on Jan. 8. The score tied the program record for highest opening meet team total in program history. The 2004 squad also opened its season with the same score.
Against the Illini, Mizzou recorded a 49.175 on bars, the team's highest score on the event since midway through the 2014 season.
Two days later, Mizzou traveled to Lindenwood and notched a 195.200-192.000 win over the Lions.
Mizzou scored a season-high 196.050 at Alabama on Jan. 15.
Head Coach Shannon Welker enters his third season at the helm of the Tiger program. Welker led Mizzou to the nation's biggest improvement in 2015, as the squad finished 21st in the national rankings after coming in 41st at the end of the 2014 campaign.
Youth will be served in 2016, as over half (eight) the 15-person roster are freshmen. Additionally, 12 of the team's gymnasts are freshmen or sophomores in 2016.
The Tigers will face a tough schedule once again, with regular season matchups against seven teams ranked in the preseason coaches poll top 10.