Every NCAA gymnast hopes to go to the NCAA national championships with her entire team. When that’s not possible, going as an individual is the next best thing. Junior balance beam specialist Sirena Linton will get to experience the next best thing this year. She was announced as the beam qualifier out of the Norman regional on Saturday evening.
To qualify as an individual, an athlete must be the highest-scoring competitor on an event or the all-around whose team did not qualify for nationals. Linton was assured of a place on Thursday when she won the balance beam competition in Norman but Arizona was eliminated in the regional semifinal.