The Big Ten Conference is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. It is based in Rosemont, Illinois. For over eight decades this conference consisted of ten universities, and presently has 14 member and two affiliate institutions. They compete in the NCAA Division I; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, the highest level of NCAA competition in that sport. The conference includes the flagship public university in each of 11 states stretching from New Jersey to Nebraska, as well as two additional public land-grant schools and a private university.
The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) is a fourteen-school collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. It is a member of the NCAA's Division II for all sports. Its fourteen members, located in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, include twelve public and two private schools. The MIAA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in Missouri.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference, and the Cornhuskers compete in NCAA Division I, fielding 22 varsity teams in 15 sports. Nineteen of these teams participate in the Big Ten, while rifle is a member of the single-sport Great America Rifle Conference and beach volleyball and bowling compete as independents. The Cornhuskers have two official mascots, Herbie Husker and Lil' Red.
Courtney Anne Kupets Carter is an American former artistic gymnast. She is a two-time Olympic medalist from the 2004 Olympics, the 2002 world champion on the uneven bars, the 2003 U.S. national all-around champion, and the 2004 U.S. national all-around co-champion. She is also a member of the gold-medal-winning U.S. team at the 2003 World Championships.
The World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) is a two-facility gymnastics club located in Plano and Frisco.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers women's gymnastics team represents the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference. Since being established in 1975, the program has won 23 conference championships and qualified for the NCAA Championships 26 times. The Cornhuskers have had five individual national champions and 163 total All-Americans.
The UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics team represents the University of California, Los Angeles and competes in the Pac-12 Conference. They currently compete in Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA. The team, coached by Chris Waller, has won 21 Regional titles and 7 NCAA National Championships, most recently in 2018.
The Florida Gators women's gymnastics team represents the University of Florida in the sport of gymnastics. The team competes in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Gators host their home matches in the O'Connell Center on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus, and are currently led by head coach Jenny Rowland. The Gators women's gymnastics program has won nine SEC championships, and four national championships: the 1982 AIAW national tournament and the 2013, 2014, and 2015 NCAA championships.
The 2009 NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship involved 12 schools competing for the national championship of women's NCAA Division I gymnastics. It was the twenty eighth NCAA gymnastics national championship and the defending NCAA Team Champion for 2008 was Georgia. The Competition took place in Lincoln, Nebraska hosted by the University of Nebraska in the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
The 2000 NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship involved 12 schools competing for the national championship of women's NCAA Division I gymnastics. It was the nineteenth NCAA gymnastics national championship and the defending NCAA Team Champion for 1998 was Georgia. The competition took place in Boise, Idaho, hosted by Boise State University in the BSU Pavilion. The 2000 Team Champions were the UCLA Bruins. For the individual championship, Heather Brink, Nebraska, 39.625, and Mohini Bhardwaj, UCLA, 39.625 shared the title.
The 2011 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship was held in the Wolstein Center, at Cleveland, Ohio on April 15–17, 2011. Twelve teams from the six regional meets advanced to the NCAA Division I national team and individual titles. The Alabama Crimson Tide were the 2011 national champions.
The 2004 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship was held in April 2004 and involved 12 schools competing for the national championship of women's NCAA Division I gymnastics. It was the twenty third NCAA gymnastics national championship. The defending NCAA Team Champion for 2003 was UCLA. The competition took place in Los Angeles, California hosted by the UCLA in Pauley Pavilion. The 2004 team championship was won by defending champion UCLA and the individual champion was Jeana Rice of Alabama, 39.650.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men's Gymnastics Championships are held each year. All schools compete in one division because only 15 schools sponsor NCAA men's gymnastics teams. One of the 15 teams is not in Division I: Springfield College.
Richelle Aiko Simpson is a retired Canadian artistic gymnast and current acrobat for the renowned Cirque du Soleil company. An elite level gymnast for five years, representing the Canadian National Team at both Pan American Games and the World Championships competitions during that period, Simpson enjoyed her career highlights as an NCAA collegiate student-athlete – competing as a member of the Nebraska Cornhuskers women's gymnastics program. She remains one of the program's finest ever gymnasts, holding a total of four individual school records. Additionally, she was the first Nebraska gymnast to receive first-team All-American awards in all five events, and is one of only two Nebraska gymnasts to win an NCAA National all-around title – an accomplishment she achieved in 2003.
Francis Allen was head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers men's gymnastics team from 1969 to 2009. Those 40 years make him the longest tenured head coach in the history of Nebraska Cornhuskers athletics. He has coached his men's gymnastics team to eight NCAA National Championship titles. He was the head coach for two Men's Olympic Gymnastics Teams and coached nine gymnasts who competed in the Olympics.
The 1983 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the second annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States. This year's event was hosted at the Bob Devaney Sports Center at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska. The men's and women's titles would not be held at the same site until 2006.
The 2018 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships were held April 20–21, 2018, at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri. The UCLA Bruins were the team Champions with a total of 198.075 points. The twelve teams invited were Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Nebraska, Oklahoma, UCLA, Utah, and Washington.
Allan Bower is an American artistic gymnast. A member of the United States men's national gymnastics team, he represented the United States at the 2018 American Cup and the 2017 Cottbus World Cup. Domestically, he finished second in the all-around at the 2017 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships and third at the 2018 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships. Bower was a member of the Oklahoma Sooners men's gymnastics team from 2014 to 2017, winning three National team titles with the Sooners.
