Alabama Gymnasts Earn Eight All-America Honors
4/17/2016 12:00:00 AM | Gymnastics
FORT WORTH, Texas - On the way to earning its NCAA-best 23rd top-three finish at the NCAA Championships, four Alabama gymnasts combined to bring home eight All-America honors. The Crimson Tide's 2016 total pushes the program to 320 honors all time by 70 different gymnasts.
Katie Bailey, the 2016 NCAA vault champion, earned first-team honors on the vault and the uneven bars. It marked the third year in a row that the junior from Kernersville, N.C. came away from the national championships as an uneven bars All-American. She now has five All-America honors through the first three years of her career.
Sophomore Mackenzie Brannan earned a trio of All-America nods, taking first-team honors in the all-around and vault and second team on the uneven bars. A floor exercise All-American as a freshman, Brannan now owns four career All-America honors.
Kiana Winston capped her sophomore season with a pair of All-America accolades, earning first team on the floor exercise and second team on the balance beam.
Lauren Beers, the three-time NCAA Elite 90 Award winner as the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade point average at the NCAA Championships, closed out her senior season by earning second-team honors on the vault, bringing her career total to seven.
2016 Alabama Gymnastics All-Americans
Four gymnasts, eight honors - five first team, three second team
Mackenzie Brannan - All-Around (1st), Vault (1st), Uneven Bars (2nd)
Katie Bailey - Vault (1st), Uneven Bars (1st)
Lauren Beers - Vault (2nd),
Kiana Winston - Floor Exercise (1st), Balance Beam (2nd)
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