HONORS: First-Team All-Mountain West: Floor (2026); Second-Team All-Mountain West: Floor (2025); Mountain West Floor Co-Specialist of the Week (2/10/26; 1/27/26; 1/13/26; 2/21/25); Academic All-Mountain West (2024, 2025); Mountain West Scholar-Athlete (2024, 2025); Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association Scholastic All-American (2024, 2025); College Sports Communicators Academic All-District (2025).
RECORDS: Average 9.843 on floor during the 2026 season to rank as the 14th-highest average on the event in program history.
2026 (JUNIOR CAMPAIGN): Earned first-team All-Mountain West honors on floor as she ranked third in the conference, 15th in the North Central Region, and 92nd in the nation with a National Qualifying Score (NQS) of 9.880 ... ranked 34th in the region on bars with a NQS of 9.805 … competed in all 15 meets on bars and floor, and in six meets on vault … had an average score of 9.843 on floor, 9.800 on vault and 9.627 on bars ... her average on floor (9.843) ranks as the 14th-best in program history … won six titles during the season with three on floor, two on bars and one on vault … named the MW Floor Co-Specialist of the Week three times during the season … won her first honor following the Best of Utah Meet (1/12) after tying her then-career-high on floor with a 9.875 to tie for third … won her second honor after tying her then-career-high of 9.875 on floor at Oregon State (1/25) to tie for second … her third honor was following the Utah State Quad Meet (2/9) as she placed second with a then-career-high-tying floor score of 9.875 … scored a then-career-high 9.850 to win the bars title against Southern Utah (1/17) … tied her then-career-high with a 9.875 to win the floor title against San José State (1/23) … scored a career-high 9.900 to share the floor title at the Air Force Tri (2/6) … tied her career-high on bars with 9.875 and scored 9.850 on floor to share the titles on both events against Boise State (2/20) … scored a career-high 9.875 on vault to share the title against Southern Utah (3/2) … tied for second on floor with a 9.875 and tied for fourth on vault with a 9.800 at the MW Championships (3/21) … tied for 18th on floor with 9.800 in the second round of NCAA Regionals in Baton Rouge, La. … scored 9.800 or better on floor 13 times, 9.800 or better on bars five times and 9.800 or better on vault three times … finished among the top three on floor nine times, among the top three on bars twice, and among the top three on vault once.
2025 (SOPHOMORE CAMPAIGN): Earned second-team All-Mountain West honors on floor as she ranked tied for fifth in the conference and tied for 31st in the North Central Region with a National Qualifying Score (NQS) of 9.835 ... competed in 12 meets on floor, five meets on beam and one meet on vault ... averaged 9.717 on floor and 9.730 on beam … Named the MW Floor Co-Specialist of the Week as she scored a career-high 9.875 to tie for first against Boise State (2/21) ... tied for second of floor with a 9.850 and tied for 12th on beam with a career-high 9.750 at the MW Championship (3/23) ... placed second on floor with a 9.825 against No. 18 Southern Utah (1/10) ... placed second on floor with a 9.825 at San José State (3/2) ... placed ninth on beam with a 9.750 against BYU at the NCAA Regional Championships (4/2) ... tied for fourth on floor with a career-high-tying 9.875 at Arizona (3/14) ... earned Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association Scholastic All-America accolades and College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honors ... named Academic All-MW and a MW Scholar-Athlete.
2024 (FRESHMAN CAMPAIGN): Competed in five meets on floor and two on beam … averaged 9.600 on floor and 9.525 on beam … tied for 10th on floor with a 9.750 against Southern Utah (2/2) … scored a season-high 9.625 on vault at the Best of Utah Meet (1/15) ... earned Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association Scholastic All-America accolades ... named Academic All-Mountain West and a MW Scholar-Athlete.
CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: Trained at Browns Gymnastics under the direction of Kyle Khou and Jordan Cobbs ... placed fourth in state in the all-around, vault, bars, beam and floor in 2022, and second on both bars and floor at the Valley of the Sun Challenge ... in 2021, she placed first on both bars and floor, and tied for first in the all-around ... two-time Western Nationals qualifier and earned club MVP honors on floor in 2021 and bars in 2022 ... graduated from Faith Lutheran High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2023.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Heidi Vater ... majoring in marketing ... last name is pronounced Vaught-er.
CAREER HIGHS:
| VAULT |
BARS |
BEAM |
FLOOR |
ALL-AROUND |
| 9.875 |
9.875 |
9.750 |
9.900 |
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