CEDAR CITY, Utah - Utah State's gymnastics team will compete at the 2018 MRGC Championships on Saturday, March 24. The meet, featuring host Southern Utah, No. 15 Boise State and No. 20 BYU, is being held at the America First Event Center at 6 p.m.

The quad meet will be streamed live for free on PlutoTV and will be carried on two different channels (200 and 201). Two events will be streamed on one channel and the other two events will be on the other channel, allowing fans to watch all four events and all four teams. The link, http://pluto.tv/watch/pluto-tv-sports, takes fans to channel 201, and once channel 200 is active, fans can switch back and forth between them.

Live stats are available at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=215957. Additionally, Aggie fans can follow the Utah State gymnastics social media outlets for meet updates.

"The team is fired up and ready to go," said first-year USU head coach Amy Smith. "We need to make the most of this opportunity on Saturday as we make our final push toward securing a spot in regionals. The team showed what it is capable of doing in our final home meet last weekend, and they brought their best when it was needed. We need to come out and do that again tomorrow night."

Utah State, one of six teams fighting for the final three spots in the upcoming NCAA Regional Championships, will begin the meet on vault, then move to bars in the second rotation, followed by beam and finish on floor.

Utah State (8-9, 2-4 MRGC) comes into the meet fresh off a 196.500-195.750 Senior Night victory over Southern Utah last weekend at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. The Aggies' 196.500 was the third-best team score in school history. Utah State swept every event title, including sophomore McKinley Pavicic capturing the beam crown with a career-high 9.950, which is tied for first all-time in school history.

As a team, the Aggies reached the 49-point plateau on every event for the first time this season. Utah State had a 49.050 on vault, a 49.000 on bars, a 49.200 on beam, which is tied for sixth all-time in school history, and a 49.250 on floor.

"We are excited for this opportunity to get another high score and prove we belong at NCAA regionals," said freshman Leighton Varnadore. "The team is more than ready. We just need to do what we do every day in practice."

Pavicic, sophomore Jazmyn Estrella and junior Madison Ward were tabbed the MRGC Beam, Bars and Floor Specialists of the Week following their performances against the Thunderbirds. Overall, they are the Aggies' 18th, 19th and 20th MRGC weekly honorees in their fourth season in the league.

Estrella won the bars title against Southern Utah with a career-high 9.925, helping Utah State record a season-high team score of 49.000 on the event. Ward captured the floor title against SUU with a 9.900. She also won the vault title with a career-high-tying 9.850.

The Aggies are 38th nationally and fourth in the MRGC with a Regional Qualifying Score (RQS) of 195.575. As a team, Utah State is 38th in the nation on vault (48.900), 51st on bars (48.700), 25th on beam (49.055) and 29th on floor (49.145).

Freshman Mikaela Meyer ranks fifth in the MRGC and 86th in the nation on vault (9.835), while Ward is sixth in the league and 95th nationally on the event (9.830).

Estrella is the Aggies' top bars performer as she is tied for 11th in the MRGC with a 9.810 RQS. Ward and sophomore Brittany Jeppesen are tied for 13th with matching 9.805s.

Freshman Autumn DeHarde is second in the MRGC and tied for 48th in the nation on beam (9.875). Junior Emily Briones is sixth in the conference and tied for 90th in the nation on the event (9.845).

Ward is tied for third in the league and tied for 54th in the nation on floor (9.885). DeHarde is sixth in the conference and tied for 69th nationally on the event (9.875), while freshman Faith Leary is tied for eighth in the MRGC and tied for 87th in the nation (9.865).

"The team is super ready," Leary said. "We are all really excited to have a lot of fun and get another high team score."

Three-time defending MRGC champion Boise State enters the meet with an overall record of 12-2 and a record of 5-1 in league action. In the RQS standings, the Broncos are 15th nationally and first in the MRGC with a 196.650. Boise State is 16th nationally on vault (49.1125), tied for 15th on bars (49.215), 27th on beam (49.030) and tied for 11th on floor (49.300).

BYU heads into the weekend with an overall record of 10-8 and a record of 5-2 in MRGC competition. The Cougars handed the Broncos their lone conference loss of the season. In the RQS standings, the Cougars are 20th nationally and second in the MRGC with a 196.430. BYU is tied for 26th in the nation on vault (49.030), tied for 23rd on bars (49.155), ranks 24th on beam (49.095) and is tied for 20th on floor (49.250).

Host Southern Utah enters the weekend with an overall record of 4-8 and an MRGC mark of 1-6, dealing the Cougars one of their only two league setbacks. In the RQS standings, the Thunderbirds are 31st nationally and third in the MRGC with a 195.915. SUU is 29th in the nation on vault (49.010), 31st on bars (49.035), 33rd on beam (48.900) and 28th on floor (49.170).

The Aggies have won five conference championships in the history of the program. USU captured Big West titles in 1992, 1996, 1998 and 2001, as well as a Western Gymnastics Conference crown in 2005.

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