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Juda Captures All-Round and Vault NCAA Titles, Leads Michigan to Third Place
4/16/2022 11:09:00 PM
// Scott Kemps
» Paul Juda received the all-around and vault particular person titles and earned six All-America honors.
» Michigan positioned third within the crew competitors with a season-best 414.490 behind Stanford (423.628) and Oklahoma (414.555).
» Six Wolverines earned a complete of 11 All-America citations.
Website: Norman, Okla. (Lloyd Noble Middle)
Occasion: NCAA Championships (Finals)
U-M End: third place of 6 groups (414.490)
Subsequent U-M Occasion: Season accomplished
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NORMAN, Okla. — Junior Paul Juda of the College of Michigan males’s gymnastics crew took house a pair of NCAA titles, profitable each the all-around competitors in addition to vault because the Wolverines positioned third as a crew on the NCAA Championships Saturday (April 16) at Oklahoma’s Lloyd Noble Middle.
Juda took the all-around win with an 85.298 and scored 15.000 on vault on the way in which to tying Sam Mikulak’s modern-era faculty report of six All-America honors. He additionally positioned within the high eight on excessive bar (second, 14.566) and parallel bars (fourth, 14.366) along with ending eighth on each flooring train and nonetheless rings.
The win for Juda was U-M’s first all-around title because the 2014 season (Sam Mikulak) and first title total since Anthony McCallum in 2019 (vault). The all-around win is the sixth in crew historical past, whereas the vault title is the sixth.
Michigan had three extra top-three finishes. Senior Jacob Moore scored a 14.633 on flooring train for a runner-up end, sophomore Javier Alfonso took third on nonetheless rings with a 14.366, and sophomore Evgeny Siminiuc positioned third on parallel bars with a mark of 14.400.
Different All-America citations have been awarded to junior Adam Wooten on excessive bar (seventh, 14.000) and freshman David Wolma on vault (eighth, 14.566).
The All-America haul of 11 provides the Wolverines 244 in program historical past and double digits in every of the final two seasons (13 in 2021).
U-M (23-3) sat in second for many of the meet, holding slender leads over host establishment Oklahoma till the fifth rotation on nonetheless rings, when the Sooners handed the Wolverines and took a lead of simply over one-tenth of a degree (.133) into the ultimate rotation. The Wolverine vault group compiled a 71.299 to a 71.231 for the Oklahoma flooring group, however U-M couldn’t make up the distinction, ending in third by a slender .065 margin with a season-best 414.490.
Stanford ran away with the meet, main wire-to-wire with a 423.638 to win the crew title by greater than 9 factors over runner-up Oklahoma (414.555).
Tweet of the Meet
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The meet wraps up Michigan’s 2022 marketing campaign, highlighted by a Huge Ten championship and convention regular-season title in addition to Juda being named Huge Ten Gymnast of the 12 months. Interim head coach Yuan Xiao was named Huge Ten Coach of the 12 months, and the 11 All-America citations are the fourth-most at school historical past.