UNIVERSITY PARK, PA(SMI-GLOBAL-WOMEN-SPORTS-UNIVERSITY-04-02-04-05-08, 2025)-The Michigan State University Women's Gymnastic team advances to the NCAA Elite-8, after finishing Runner-up behind LSU with the score 198.00, leaving behind Kentucky and Arkansas at 2025  NCAA Penn State Regional at Penn State University.

MSU and LSU advance, and join the other Six winners who qualified from the other regionals to the NCAA Elite-8, and will compete in the 2025 NCAA Women's Gymnastic semifinals championship to take place April 17-19, at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.

The 8-teams who advanced the 2025 NCAA championships are :LSU and Michigan State from Penn State Regional, UCLA and Utah from the Salt lake City Regional, Oklahoma and Missouri from the Seattle Regional, and Floria and Alabama from the Alabama Regional.

​The top two teams from each semifinal session on April 17, will advance to the final four and compete for the national title on April 19, 2025 at Dickies Arena in Forth Worth, Texas. 


It was a very competitive Quad-Meet from start to finish with all fighting ferociously for the first two spots and advance to the NCAA championship. 
 
Find the Final Results of the 2025 NCAA Penn State Regional Quad Meet Below:
1) LSU:  198.050,  2) Michigan State: 19800   3) Kentucky : 197.625   4) Arkansas: 197.375  
 
Vault Rotation Competition:
Michigan State won the Vault Competition with the Spartans claiming the first two spots in the standings with Nicky Smith and Sage Kellerman scoring 9.9500 while team-mate Makaya Tucker and Olivia Zsarmani taking 2nd place with 9.9250, to claimed the Team Vault title with 49.6500.
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Amary Drayton, Haleigh Bryant and KJ Johnson from LSU shared third place with Ja'Leigh Lang(Arkansas) and Cecily Rizo (Kentucky) with all scoring 9.9000 and LSU team total of 49.3500. 
Bars/Uneven Bars Rotation Competition:
In the Uneven Bars, Spartan's Nikki Smith claimed first place with 9.9750, while Mara Jones(Arkansas) and Gabriell Stephens (Michigan State) shared 2nd with 9.9500, and Michigan State claiming the Uneven Bars team competition with 49.5750.
Lexi Zeiss (LSU), Joscelyn Roberson (Arkansas) and Sage Kellerman (Michigan State) took third place with 9.9250. 
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Beam Rotation Competition:
Aleah Finnegan, and Kaitlin Chio from LSU shared first place with
Joscelyn Roberson (Arkansas) & Sharon Lee ( Kentucky) with the score 9.9500 and The Tigers winning the rotation with the overall score of 49.6750. Cady Duplissis, Delanie Harkness and Skyla Schulte from Michigan State scored 9.900 each for a team total 49.350 and take 3rd place in the BB rotation. 
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Floor Rotation Competition:
Aleah Finnegan( LSU ) won the Floor rotation registering 9.9750 and team-mate Amari Drayton (LSU) took third place with 9.9250. 
Joycelyn Roberson (Arkansas), Maddie Jones(Arkansas), Creslyn Brose (Kentucky) and Skyla Schulte(Michigan State) scored 9.9500 to share 2nd place while LSU winning the team rotation with 49.5750 overall and The Spartans scoring 49.425 to take third place in the FX rotation.
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In the AA Overall Individual Overall score:
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Nicky Smith (Michigan State) 39.6500
Joscelyn Roberson ( Arkansas) 39.6250
Haleigh Bryant (LSU)  39.6000
Aleah Finnegan (LSU) 39.6000
Delaynee Rodriguez (Kentucky) 39.5250
Skylar Killough-Wilhem (Kentucky) 39.4000
Gabrielle Stephen ( Michigan State) 39.0500
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Article & Photo by Staff Writer/ Staff PhotoGrapher/ Women Starlight/SMIW.MEDIA