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OU women's gymnastics: Nichols vaults OU gymnastics to new heights

NORMAN — It took Haley Scaman three seasons to set the Oklahoma women's gymnastics program record with five perfect 10.0 scores.

But after just eight weeks of her collegiate career, freshman Maggie Nichols enters the final home meet of the regular season against No. 7-ranked Georgia chasing her fifth 10.0.

Seven months after barely missing the U.S. Olympic team, the 5-foot-4 dynamo is dominating collegiate gymnastics in a way that hasn't been done by anyone in more than a decade.

“When she first came here, her goal was to get a 10 — just one,” coach K.