Drass's Dialogue on Gietler: "Ann is the leader of this team both on and off the floor. She will do a good job of balancing such a young team and will provide a ton of help on bars and floor."
Junior Year (2000): Set a career-high on bars-9.775-in Missouri's final regular season meet at Texas-Woman's...A firsr-team Big 12 All-Academic selection each of the last three years...One of the two Tigers from Arizona
Sophomore Year (1999): Had Missouri’s highest average score on floor — 9.71 — and tied with teammate Meggen Smiley to win that event at the Shakespeare’s Gymnastics X-treme ... set a school sophomore record on floor when she scored 9.875 on the first night of the Cat Classic ... competed only three times on bars and tied her career high with a score of 9.65 in dual meet at Oklahoma in late February.
Freshman Year (1998): Walked on to the Missouri team and broke into the lineup in late January ... competed in the final nine meets on floor (her favorite event) ... had a career high of 9.675 in home win over SE Missouri State ... chipped in with four uneven parallel bars routines with a best of 9.65 at LSU.
Club/High School: Competed for Desert Devils and Starfires gymnastics clubs ... trained with Mizzou senior gymnast Shannon Brown at Starfires ... qualified for Level 10 Nationals ... USFG career-bests: vault (9.275), bars (9.35), beam (9.375), floor (9.375) all-around (36.85) ... club coaches — Stormy Eaton and Bob Peterson.
Personal: Majoring in biology, with hopes to go into pre-medicine to pursue a career in orthopedic surgery ... one of three Tigers who were first-teamers on the 2000 Big 12 all-academic team, and was an honorable mention choice on the same unit in 1999... parents — Richard and Dorothea Gietler ... her father excelled in baseball ... born Nov. 3, 1978 ... ranked 20th in her high school graduating class of 820 ... chose MU because “I wanted to try something new and to do gymnastics.”
