Blue team edges White team in intra-squad meet

PROVO— The Blue team edged the White squad in the last rotation to claim a 189.775-189.750 win in BYU's inaugural Blue & White women's gymnastics meet Friday night at the Smith Fieldhouse.

Being an intra-squad meet, each event did not feature a full lineup of six competitors to potentially add to the scoring but BYU gymnastics head coach Guard Young was pleased with the outcome of the inaugural Blue & White meet.

“Overall I’m really pleased with the girls and how they're ready so early,” Young said. “It’s nice to do something like this where they compete for real in front of a crowd. It really felt like a meet today. It was nice to get ready for it and have good performances.”

The first rotation on vault, the Blue team finished with a 47.775 trailing the White team’s 48.200 on bars. Sin To led the Blue team with a 9.750 followed by Éliane Kulczyk’s 9.725. From the White team, Brittni Wilde scored a 9.825 on bars to match her career high.

Kulczyk led the White team in the second rotation on bars with a 9.700. Mikaela Jones and Makenzie Johnson Halliday would both earn a 9.750 on bars for the Blue team to create a three-way tie on bars with To. The second rotation ended with the White team leading the Blue team 96.325-94.300.

In the third rotation, To and Kulczyk helped the Blue team with a 9.725 and 9.675 respectively on beam to close the gap with the White team. Sophomore transfer Mackenzie Douglas scored a 9.850 on floor for the White team, making it the highest score on any event of the night. The Blue team finished its rotation on the beam with a 48.100 while the White team scored 47.125 on floor.

Senior Emily Vidmar took the floor and scored a 9.800 to help the White squad take the lead. Halliday and freshman Natasha Trejo held steady on the beam and finished with 9.775 and 9.625, respectively. After leading the first three rotations, the White team saw the Blue side come out on top.

Halliday had the top score in the all-around with a 38.950 followed by Kulczyk, 38.600, and Trejo, 38.325. 

BYU will start its regular season on Friday, Jan. 8 against Utah. The meet will begin at 6 p.m. MST at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City.