Fresh off her performance in the Utes’ season-opening win over BYU, the Pac-12 on Tuesday named Skinner the conference’s gymnast of the week for the eighth time in her career. That places Skinner second in Pac-12 history, putting her behind only UCLA’s Vanessa Zamarripa, who earned the honor nine times between 2009-13.
Skinner’s three victories last Friday against BYU led Utah to the third-highest season-opening score in school history and a 197.000-194.275 win.
She tied for first in the all-around with teammate MaKenna Merrell-Giles (39.475) and won bars (9.90) and beam (9.90). Skinner’s scores in the all-around, bars,beam and vault (9.