Carey Repeats as All-Around Champion, Beavs Finish Fourth at Pac-12 Championships

Saturday, March 18

Oregon State

197.200

197.925

Utah

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Carey Repeats as All-Around Champion, Beavs Finish Fourth at Pac-12 Championships

March 18, 2023 | Women's Gymnastics

Results

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah – Sophomore Jade Carey repeated as the all-around champion and the Oregon State gymnastics team finished fourth, behind a 197.200 at the Pac-12 Championships, hosted by the Maverik Center.

"This was a great test for our team to go against three other top 10 programs," head coach Tanya Chaplin said. "We'll learn from this, get back in the gym over the next week and be ready to go when we head to Regionals."
Finishing the all-around with a 39.750, Carey took her second-straight all-around title, besting her score of 39.725 at the same meet a year ago. The Phoenix native also shared the title on floor and beam, with a 9.975 on both events. The floor title was her second-straight, as she was Co-Champion at the 2022 Pac-12 Championships, while the beam title was the first of her career.

Senior Madi Dagen was presented with the 2023 Women's Gymnastics Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year following the meet. The Pleasanton, California native completed her undergraduate degree in Human Development and Family Sciences with a 4.0 grade-point-average and currently holds a 4.0 GPA in her Leading and Creating Change Graduate Certificate program. Dagen is highly accomplished in the classroom, earning four WCGA Scholastic All-American honors (2019-22) while being named a Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll recipient each of the last three years.

The senior is just as impressive on the apparatuses, collecting several honors throughout her career. As a junior, Dagen was named a 2021 WCGA Regular Season All-America Second Team selection in vault after she earned All-Pac-12 First Team nods in vault and balance beam that year. In all, Dagen has five All-Pac-12 honors as she was also a 2022 All-Pac-12 First Team award recipient in the all-around last season, earned All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention on balance beam as a sophomore in 2020 and was named to the All-Pac-12 Second Team on balance beam in her first season in 2019.

Dagen is the first Beaver to earn the honor since Madeline Gardiner in 2017.

Starting on beam, OSU grabbed the lead after the first rotation with a 49.500, marking the ninth time this season the Beavs have scored a 49.500 or higher. The 2023 beam squad now holds six of the top 10 scores in program history, with the 49.550 tying the mark for the sixth highest score in program history.

BEAM:
Peterson – 9.850
Domingo – 9.900
Letzsch – 9.900
Gonzales – 9.200
Dagen – 9.875
Carey – 9.975 – Pac-12 Co-Champion

OSU held their lead through the halfway point with a second 49.500 to start the meet. Led by Carey's 9.975, the 49.500 was the sixth score of 49.500 or better for the Beavs on floor this season and marked the fourth time achieving a 49.500 over the course of the 2023 season.

FLOOR:
Miller – 9.875
Young – 9.850
Letzsch – 9.900
Gonzales – 9.850
Dagen – 9.900
Carey – 9.975 – Pac-12 Co-Champion

Rotating to vault, Oregon State fought to a 49.125, led by Sydney Gonzales and Carey both posting a 9.875.
VAULT:
Chavez – 9.450
Briones – 9.800
Letzsch – 9.800
Gonzales – 9.875
Dagen – 9.775
Carey – 9.875

On the final rotation, the Beavs posted a 49.075 to close the meet with a 197.200 to finish fourth in the session.

BARS:
Beeman – 9.725
Miller – 9.750
Weaver – 9.850
Caso – 9.750
McMillan – 9.800
Carey – 9.925

UP NEXT
The Beavs will find out their postseason fate on Monday at 9 a.m. PT with OSU headed to one of the four sites of Denver, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh or UCLA for the 2023 NCAA Regionals, which run from March 29 through April 2.

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