| Meggen Smiley |
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 | Class:
Senior
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| Hometown:
O'Fallon, MO
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| High School:
Fort Zumwalt North
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| Height:
5-2
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| Experience:
3L
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| Club Team:
Team Central
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A stylish gymnast who is coming off her most complete season at Missouri ... performs on an even keel, using her consistency to put up winning performances by not making little mistakes ... has increased the difficulty factor in her routines for this her final campaign.
JUNIOR YEAR (1999): Competed in the all-around in all but one meet and came within an eyelash of qualifying for the NCAA Region 3 Championships, which would have given Mizzou four at-large competitors ... her career-high all-around score of 38.65 came at mid-season in dual meet at Iowa State ... was second on the team in average floor score (9.638) and tied with teammate Ann Gietler for the floor exercise championship at Mizzou’s Shakespeare’s Gymastics X-treme with a score of 9.825 ... that was her season-high floor score which she also matched on the second night of the Cat Classic ... scored a career-high 9.85 on balance beam at the Big 12 Conference Championships and averaged a team-high 9.706 in that event.
SOPHOMORE YEAR (1998): Was one of the Midwest’s best floor performers in 1998 ... ranked fourth in the Big 12 and 20th in the Central Region with an average score of 9.685 ... topped out three times with her career-best of 9.85 (at Iowa State, Artistic Challenge, Corvette Cup) ... scored 9.7 or better on floor in the final nine meets of the season ... also posted career highs on vault (9.65, Big 12), bars (9.675, SE Missouri, Corvette Cup), beam (9.8, LSU) and all-around (37.85, LSU).
FRESHMAN YEAR (1997): As a freshman, was plugged in to fill any gaps that arose in the Missouri lineup ... scored 9.725-or-better seven times in 1997 and her top mark was a 9.775 at the Cat Classic ... had the Tigers’ best season average floor score of 9.663 ... also scored 9.775 on the beam in record-shattering win at Iowa ... appeared 10 times on bars with a high of 9.65 in the Shakespeare’s Festival.
CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: A two-time USGF Level 10 Region IV team member ... 1996 Missouri state champion in the all-around and beam ... competed for Team Central along with former MU teammate Kelly McKinnie ... USGF career-bests: vault (9.5), bars (9.6), beam (9.75), floor (9.65), all-around (37.65) ... club coaches — Debbie and Scott Cusimano and Eric Geren, who is now in his third year as an assistant coach at MU.
PERSONAL: Majoring in physical therapy, and learned at the 1998 Big 12 meet in Nebraska that she’d been accepted to P.T. school ... Academic All-Big 12 three years running ... parents — Koreen and Bill Smiley ... born Jan. 4, 1978 ... enjoys diving.
