Six Gymnasts Earn All-America Honors
4/20/2015 12:00:00 AM | Gymnastics
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - On the way to posting the program's seventh consecutive top-four NCAA Championship finish, the 2015 Southeastern Conference and NCAA Auburn Regional champion Alabama gymnastics team saw six gymnasts collect 10 All-America honors at this year's championships. The Tide's 2015 total pushes the program to 312 honors all time by 69 different gymnasts.
Senior Kayla Williams, who was sidelined as a junior after tearing her Achilles tendon during warm-up prior to the first meet of the 2014 season, earned her third First Team All-America nod on the balance beam and added first-team honors on the vault, for a career total of four. She also finished third on the vault during the NCAA individual event finals.
Sophomore Katie Bailey earned first team honors on the uneven bars, adding to her second team honor in the all-around and on the uneven bars last season. Bailey also finished fifth on the uneven bars during Sunday's NCAA individual event finals.
Junior Lauren Beers, the 2014 and 2015 NCAA Elite 89 Award winner as the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade point average, earned a trio of second team honors - vault, floor exercise and all-around - to bump her career total to six.
Junior Carley Sims, sophomore Keely McNeer and freshman Mackenzie Brannan all earned the first accolades of their respective careers. Sims was second team on the vault and floor exercise, McNeer was second team on the balance beam and Brannan was second team on the floor exercise.
The University of Alabama
2015 All-America Honors
Kayla Williams - Vault (1st), Balance Beam (1st)
Katie Bailey - Uneven Bars (1st)
Lauren Beers - Vault (2nd), Floor Exercise (2nd), All-Around (2nd)
Carley Sims - Vault (2nd), Floor Exercise (2nd)
Keely McNeer - Balance Beam (2nd)
Mackenzie Brannan - Floor Exercise (2nd)
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