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LOGAN, Utah – Utah State's 21st-ranked gymnastics team returns to action on Saturday, Feb. 13, when the Aggies welcome No. 22 Boise State to the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.
The Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference dual meet featuring the Aggies (1-5, 1-4 MRGC) and Broncos (3-1, 2-1 MRGC) will begin at 7 p.m., and streamed live at utahstateaggies.com/watch.
Additionally, live stats will be available online at utahstateaggies.com and Aggie fans can also follow the Utah State gymnastics social media outlets for meet updates.
Following the meet, the Aggies will honor their five seniors in
Autumn DeHarde,
Taylor Dittmar,
Mikaela Meyer,
Leighton Varnadore and
Logan Varnadore, along with team manager
Madi Tueller.
"We are so grateful that we get the opportunity to honor this incredible senior class," said fourth-year Utah State head coach
Amy Smith. "They have made such a profound impact on Utah State gymnastics. We are also grateful we get another opportunity to compete because many teams got shut down this week. We really feel like the team has started to figure out what gear we need to compete in to be at their best and we are excited to really put together a complete meet top to bottom.
"We've been good, but we haven't put together a great meet just yet. We have been training like a championship team for the last two weeks in practice, so if we do what we have been doing in practice we should be able to put together a great meet Saturday night."
The Aggies and Broncos are meeting for the second time in as many Saturdays. A week ago, at ExtraMile Arena, Utah State recorded its fourth-highest road score in school history with a 196.250, which also ranks 10th all-time in school history.
Boise State won the meet with a 196.350.
"We are all so excited to be back at home and get our rematch against Boise State,"
Logan Varnadore said. "Being so close last week really fired us up to go in this week and work really hard on the details and we can't wait for that to show up Saturday night.
"This senior class and these girls are something special. Being a senior is so bittersweet, but I am truly lucky to have had such a great class to go through this journey with."
Utah State holds national rankings on three events. The Aggies are 23rd on vault (48.863), 24th on bars (48.919) and 20th on beam (48.881).
Individually, DeHarde is tied for first in the MRGC and tied for eighth in the nation with a beam average of 9.900, while Meyer is first in the league and tied for 18th in the nation with a vault average of 9.869.
DeHarde was named the MRGC Beam Specialist of the Week after capturing the title with a season-high-tying 9.925, which is tied for eighth all-time in school history, on the event against the Broncos. She has captured a pair of beam titles this season and has 14 in her career, extending her own school record. Her 23 career titles rank 13th all-time in school history.
Meyer was tabbed the MRGC Vault Specialist of the Week for the second-consecutive week after she won the title with a career-high-tying 9.900 against BSU. She has captured the vault crown in the Aggies' last three meets, and has five vault titles in her career, which is tied for 11th all-time in school history.
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