This marks the first time LeVasseur earned an end-of-the-year conference honor. Junior Katherine LeVasseur became the third consecutive Sooner to win the Big 12 Event Specialist of the Year and 10th overall. Freshman Faith Torrez became the 10th OU gymnast to be named Big 12 Newcomer of the Year, joining teammates Smith (2020) and senior Olivia Trautman (2019) as current Sooners to have won the award. Team, that's what it's all about.'īig 12 yearly awards were announced following the meet. 'From Jenna (Dunn in the leadoff spot) and all the way through to Ragan, simply a magical performance. 'The beam team was legitimately on fire,' Kindler said.

It also marks the 14th Big 12 team championship in program history and 19th conference title overall. The title is the 13th in the tenure of 17th-year OU head coach K.J. OU now owns the nation's best, third-best and fourth-best scores of 2023, and has topped the 198 mark a nation-leading seven times. The 198.400 still represented the Sooners' third-best score (tied) and the nation's fourth-best score of the season, based on totals entering the weekend.

OU scored a 198.500 on the night but was penalized one-tenth of a point for being out of order on bars. 1-ranked Oklahoma women's gymnastics team won all four events, posted its best beam score in program history (49.800) behind senior Ragan Smith's perfect 10, and registered the best-ever Big 12 Championship score to claim its 10th conference title in the last 11 seasons with a 198.400 in a victory over No.

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