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Cattelino, Zubella Lead Titans At WIAC Championship

Cattelino, Zubella Lead Titans At WIAC Championship

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Natasha Cattelino (Fr. • Pleasant Prairie) and Abby Zubella (Jr. • Appleton) were UW-Oshkosh's top individual finishers as the Titans placed seventh at the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Women's Gymnastics Championship held Saturday (March 3) in Eau Claire.

UW-La Crosse scored 187.70 points to capture its first league title since 2009 and 21st overall. Two-time defending champion UW-Whitewater finished second in the eight-team meet with 185.50 points, while UW-Eau Claire placed third with 183.025 and Winona State University (Minn.) fourth with 181.30.

Rounding out the remaining list of teams in the standings were fifth-place UW-Stout with 180.65 points, sixth-place Hamline University (Minn.) with 180.60, seventh-place UW-Oshkosh with 176.175 and eighth-place Gustavus Adolphus College (Minn.) with 172.45. The Titans also finished seventh at last year's meet.

UW-Oshkosh calculated its overall team score by counting 45.025 points in the floor exercise, 44.925 on the vault, 43.65 on the uneven bars and 42.575 on the balance beam.

Zubella recorded UW-Oshkosh's highest individual score with her 10th-place mark of 9.40 points in the floor exercise. Courtney Benson of Hamline University won the event with a score of 9.65.

UW-Oshkosh had a pair of top 20 finishers on the uneven bars as Cattelino placed 10th with 9.15 points and Leah Herchenbach (Fr. • Libertyville, Ill.) 18th with 8.95. Christa Booman of UW-La Crosse took first place with a score of 9.70.

On the balance beam, UW-Oshkosh's Jill Lindberg (Sr. • Meridian, Idaho) finished17th with a score 9.175. The Titans also had Stephanie Gorman (So. • Belvidere, Ill.) place 18th on the vault with a mark of 9.25. Allyse Dieringer of UW-Whitewater won the balance beam and Katherine Prouty of UW-Stout the vault with scores of 9.60 and 9.65, respectively.

In the all-around competition, Herchenbach compiled 34.275 points for 13th place. Morgan Shene of UW-La Crosse earned the all-around title with 37.925 points.

The top six finishers in each event secured All-Conference recognition.

The WIAC named UW-Stout's Heather Harmeyer as its recipient of the Judy Kruckman Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award.

The WIAC Championship also served as the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) West Regional. Teams advancing to the NCGA Championship that will be held March 23-24 in Brockport, N.Y., are UW-La Crosse, UW-Whitewater and UW-Eau Claire.