Alisha Robinson

	Class: Senior
	Hometown: Bates City, Mo.
	High School: Oak Grove

	Height: 5-3
	Event: All-Around
	Birthdate: 05/14/1982
	Club Team: Great American Gymnastics Express

Junior (2004): Alisha Robinson scored a 9.950 to tie for first-place honors on vault at the 2004 Big 12 Championship to become one of five Missouri gymnasts to win a Big 12 title ... also scored a 9.900 on floor to tie for second-place and earn a second All-Big 12 first team nod ... scored a 39.350 all-around total to finish fifth overall ... rewrote the Tiger recordbooks scoring a 39.650 on her way to winning the Cat Classic all-around title ... reaching the podium, Robinson also picked up the Cat Classic vault title scoring a 9.925 ... tied Lauren Schwartzman setting a Mizzou and Cat Classic floor exercise record (9.975) ... repeating the feat, she scored her second 39.650 to win the Mizzou Invitational all-around title ... picking up three additional event victories, she scored a 9.925 on vault and beam and then scored a 9.950 to win the floor title ... earned Big 12 Gymnast of the Week recognition for her performance ... setting a new Mizzou vault high scoring a 9.975 against Nebraska, she also established a new junior vault record ... she now owns the freshman, sophomore and junior Missouri vault records ... picked up four-of-six event titles in MU's two-meet trip to Utah ... won the vault and bar titles against Utah State/Boise State and picked up the vault and floor titles against BYU ... received national recognition as the sixth ranked vaulter owning a 9.945 RQS at the end of the regular season ... was also tabbed 42nd on floor (9.915), 44th on bars (9.885) and 26th in the all-around owning a 39.450 RQS ... ranked first on vault in the South Central Region--the highest ranking a Tiger has received ... also ranked fifth on floor (9.915), eighth on bars, and 23rd on beam (9.835) and eighth in the all-around (39.275) during the regular season ... won 21 event titles in 2004 with six second-place finishes ... scored a 9.900 or above on 10 consecutive vaults, including a 9.900 at the Cat Classic individual finals ... failed to score a 9.850 on vault during the entire season.

Sophomore (2003): Robinson earned her second bid to the NCAA Championship as an individual all-arounder ... finished preliminary session ranked 13th with a 38.975 ... won the 2003 South Central Regional vault title scoring a 9.900 ... finished fourth in the all-around scoring a 39.350 ... named first team All-Big 12 finishing second in the all-around at the Big 12 Championship scoring a 39.550 ... the mark is both Missouri and Robinson's second-highest career score ... also finished second on the floor exercise to earn All-Big 12 first team honors tying her career-high with a 9.950 ... the mark set Missouri's sophomore record ... scored a 9.900 on bars (sixth) and scored a 9.850 on vault and beam to finish seventh and eighth, respectively at the Big 12 meet ... scored her third 9.900 vault against BYU ... won the all-around title against Arkansas scoring a 39.425 tying Missouri's third-highest score in history ... also tied for top honors on the balance beam and vault with 9.875 scores ... tied for first-place honors on vault scoring a 9.875 against then No. 19 ranked Iowa State and was second in the all-around competition scoring a 38.700 ... won the Corvette Cup all-around title scoring a 39.400 tallying her fourth-highest mark ... shared the Corvette Cup floor title with Schwartzman and finished second on the vault posting 9.900 marks in both events ... both scores rank second in Corvette Cup history ... won the Auburn Invitational vault title scoring a 9.900 setting MU's sophomore record for the third time ... won the Cat Classic uneven bars title scoring a 9.900 and tied the Mizzou sophomore record ... finished second or higher on 10-of-12 vaults in 2003, including four first-place honors ... owns 11 first-place event finishes overall and 11 second-place rankings.

Freshman (2002): Leapt onto the scene as Missouri's most decorated athlete in 2002 ... in 51 events during the season, the freshman only scored below a 9.8 on 14 apparatus and recorded a 9.9+ on 19 events ... she won 19 event titles, including three meets simultaneously winning the vault, bars, floor and all-around titles ... rewrote all five Mizzou freshman records in her first meet against Bowling Green, setting MU's highest all-time all-around record at 39.575 ... stunned spectators at the Cat Classic winning the floor exercise setting another all-time and Cat Classic record (9.925) ... again topped the feat scoring a 9.950 during the individual championship to lead the field and establish Mizzou and tournament highs ... won two event titles at the Corvette Cup scoring a 9.900 on bars and a 9.775 on vault ... earned Big 12 Freshman of the Year honors ... won the 2002 North Central Regional all-around title to become Missouri's first regional all-around champion in school history ... her 39.500 score was the second highest amongst all regional competitors ... became MU's first NCAA qualifier since Kellie Copeland in 1993 ... finished second on bars, fourth on vault, fifth on floor and seventh on beam at the regional meet ... became Missouri's second All-American in school history finishing seventh on the vault at the NCAA Championships scoring a 9.875.

Club/High School: A member of the U.S. National and World Tumbling team from 1999-2001 ... won the U.S. power tumbling title in 2001 ... went on to finish fifth at the World Championship meet ... was fourth at the World Cup in 2000 and helped the U.S. team to a fifth-place finish overall ... ranked 14th in the world as a U.S. team member in 1999 while helping team to a fourth-place showing ... trained at Great American Gymnastics Express in Blue Springs, Mo., under the direction of coach Al Fong ... also tumbled for three-time world champion Jon Beck at the American Center for Elite Sports (ACES) in New Orleans, La.

Personal: Alisha is the daughter of Roger and Pam Robinson ... born May 14, 1982 ... is majoring in general agriculture ... has aspirations to own her own gymnastics training facility.

Career Highs Vault: 9.975, twice in 2004
Bars: 9.950 v. Texas Women's, 2004
Beam: 9.925 at Mizzou Invite, 2004
Floor: 9.975 at Cat Classic, 2004
AA: 39.650, twice in 2004

Shire, Perry to Rotate with SEC Squads

04/06/2009 - W. Gymnastics

This is senior Adrianne Perry's fourth trip to the NCAA National Championships, a school record, and the first time Missouri has sent two individuals to the competition.