The NC State gymnastics team completed a perfect ACC dual season on Sunday afternoon, wrapping up its ACC schedule with a 196.850-195.200 victory at Pitt to move to 6-0 in its league slate.
196.850 marked the Pack's best score on the road this season and its second-highest total of 2024. NC State's team total also registers as the seventh-highest in program history, and is the second-best score away from Reynolds Coliseum during the
Kim Landrus era.
Landrus' squad saw three event titles on the day, with
Ashley Knight matching her career-best score of 9.875 on vault en route to a first-place finish,
Emily Shepard registering a 9.950 on bars to claim her 14th first-place result of the season, and
Chloe Negrete ending the afternoon with a 9.900 on beam to take the event during the Pack's final rotation.
Shepard was additionally the lone all-around competitor of the day, with her four-event total of 39.500 securing her 26th podium finish of the year and her fifth all-around crown of 2024.
Bars (49.300)The Wolfpack started its afternoon with a 49.300 on bars, highlighted by a 9.950 from Shepard who anchored the event for the Pack. Shepard's 9.950 followed a personal best 9.975 on bars last week, with Sunday's bar result marking her seventh-straight routine with a score of 9.9+, a run that stretched back to the third rotation of NC State's Feb. 11 dual meet against North Carolina.
The Pack's opening rotation was its best of the night, with 49.300 coming in as the second-highest bars score of the season for NC State and its best of the year on the road.
Alexis Ortega,
Madeline Reid, and
Katie Harper each landed podium finishes for the Wolfpack as well, with Ortega taking a solo second-place finish at 9.875 and the duo of Reid and Harper tabbing a 9.850 that resulted in a four-way tie for third place.
A strong rotation by the Pack was led off by bars specialist
Kailee Adomaites who accounted for NC State's final counted score of the rotation at 9.775. An impressive wire-to-wire night for the Wolfpack, NC State never counted a score lower than 9.775.
Vault (49.150)Knight claimed a first-place finish on vault for the Wolfpack, with her second-straight score of 9.875 on the event. Like bars, the Pack counted four scores of 9.8+, with Negrete matching
Krista Zultevicz at 9.825 to tie for third place and Shepard landing on the podium at 9.850.
Ortega rounded out the scoring effort on vault for the Wolfpack, tying her second-highest score on the event this season at 9.775.
Floor (49.225)NC State only counted scores of 9.8+ in its third rotation, led by a pair of 9.875 marks from Shepard and Negrete that landed the fifth-year pairing on the podium in a four-way tie for second place.
Katya Edwards continued a strong sophomore campaign by matching her career-best total of 9.850, while Zultevicz added a 9.825 and Knight fired a 9.800.
Beam (49.175)The Pack's afternoon ended on beam, where Negrete's 9.900 pushed both her total of first-place finishes and 9.9+ score this season to nine. Harper additionally worked her way onto the podium for the Wolfpack, eclipsing her previous career best with a new personal record of 9.875.
Shepard and Ortega continued strong campaigns on the beam with a 9.825 and 9.800, respectively, while
Meg Adler led the event off with a 9.775.
Up NextWith its ACC schedule now finished NC State will return home for its first of four-straight quad meets to close the regular season. The Pack will host Iowa State, Northern Illinois, and Temple on Saturday, Mar. 2, with the first rotation set for 4 p.m. in Reynolds Coliseum. Tickets are available on GoPack.com and can also be purchased through the NC State Ticket Office by calling (919) 865-1510. Fans who are unable to attend can watch the meet on the ACC Network via the WatchESPN app.
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