NCAA Championships Semifinals on Deck for No. 8 Alabama

FORT WORTH, Texas – The Alabama gymnastics team prepares for its final practice of the season Wednesday, in a build up for Thursday's NCAA Championships Semifinals. The Crimson Tide will compete in the second semifinal session against Oklahoma, Florida and Utah at 8 p.m. CT at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. Alabama will start on the uneven bars, then advance to the balance beam and floor exercise before closing on the vault.

The top-two teams from each of Thursday's semifinal sessions will advance as the final four to the NCAA Gymnastics Championships on Saturday, April 20. Arkansas, Cal, LSU and Stanford will compete in Thursday's first semifinal session at 3:30 p.m.

The top-two teams from each of Thursday's semifinal sessions will advance as the final four to the NCAA Gymnastics Championships on Saturday, April 20.

Meet Information

Both semifinal sessions will air live on ESPN2 with extended coverage being streamed via WatchESPN.com and the WatchESPN app
Fans can visit this stream for the main broadcast of the second semifinal session
Extended coverage can be found via WatchESPN.com and the WatchESPN app
- Fans can visit this stream for vault and beam coverage
- For coverage of the uneven bars and the floor exercise, fans can visit this stream
- For a simultaneous, multi-view coverage, fans can visit this stream
- There will also be a Spanish Language stream available on ESPN+

Head Coach Ashley Johnston Said

"We're super excited for this week. I've said all year that it's a marathon and not a sprint, and here we are, in the final week, with an opportunity to compete on the biggest stage against the toughest teams in the country. Overall, we feel prepared and ready, but now it's about how we own that process, how we carry that mentality from the moment we leave [Tuesday], all the way through the final night of competition."

Alabama and the NCAA Championships

The NCAA Championships will be held in Fort Worth, Texas, April 18-20 in Dickies Arena
This season marks the 39^th time Alabama has advanced to the NCAA Championships final site, the second-highest total in NCAA history
Alabama is joined in Fort Worth by Arkansas, Cal, Florida, LSU, Oklahoma, Utah and Stanford, giving the Southeastern Conference half the field
The Crimson Tide will compete alongside the Sooners of Oklahoma, the Gators of Florida and the Utes of Utah, as the four schools share a total of 25 national championships
- Three from Florida
- Six-a-piece from both Alabama and Oklahoma
- 10 from Utah
As a program, Alabama has posted 29 top-four finishes and 13 top-two finishes at the NCAA Championships
UA gymnasts have also excelled individually, winning 29 individual NCAA championships, including Luisa Blanco's balance beam title during the 2021 season
Alabama heads into the NCAA Championships ranked fourth on the uneven bars (49.555), sixth on the balance beam (49.480) and ninth on vault (49.380)
The Crimson Tide won its sixth national championship, and second in a row, in 2012, marking the first time in Alabama's storied history that the team claimed back-to-back titles

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