Oklahoma won its national semifinal session on Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas, and advanced to the NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship final on Saturday.
The 2-seeded Sooners will make their 13th appearance in the NCAA Championship final and first since winning back-to-back national titles in 2022 and 2023.
Oklahoma will be joined in the championship final by No. 7 Missouri, which edged out No. 3 Florida in the first semifinal session, and No. 4 Utah and No. 5 UCLA, the top two teams that advanced out of semifinal session II. No. 1 seed and defending national champion LSU will not be able to repeat after finishing third in the evening semifinal session.
Oklahoma paced the field in Session I with a final score of 197.550. Missouri finished second with a 197.300, edging Florida's 197.200, and No. 11 Alabama was fourth with a 196.825.
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Sooners win semifinal session at NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships
The Sooners have made it into the NCAA Championship finals 11 of the past 12 years. The one season they missed was last season, when they finished sixth overall after failing to qualify out of the semifinal session.
Oklahoma took the lead after the first rotation, scoring 49.4000 on beam, and never trailed after that. The Sooners also posted the high score in floor exercise (49.5250). They held onto the lead through the first three rotations and secured the semifinal title with a score of 49.250 in the final rotation on vault, the event that kept OU out of the championship final a year ago after a substandard vault score of 48.3250.
OU senior Jordan Bowers, the first person in NCAA women's gymnastics history to post three perfect scores in the same meet at the Seattle Regional, led the all-around competition after the first semifinal session with a score of 39.7125. Sooner teammate Faith Torrez was second in the all-around with a 39.6375.
Bowers and Torrez also sit atop the field after the afternoon session with matching 9.95s in floor exercise and the high score on bars (9.9375).
On Saturday, Oklahoma will vie for its seventh national championship in women's gymnastics. The championship will take place at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday and will be televised at 3 p.m. CT on ABC.