Air Force Academy

Below is the report on the women's final regular season competitions.  They finished the season with a bang and are the first women's team in AFA history to qualify for a NCAA Division I postseason event!  If you are in the Salt Lake City/area next weekend, please get out and support them.  They compete at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 7th at the University of Utah.

The men finished fifth at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships -- about where we figured we would be if everyone did a decent job.  Oklahoma (#1 national ranking) won, with Cal-Berkeley second, Nebraska third, Stanford fourth and UC Santa Barbara sixth.  Point of interest: those top four teams have won at least 16 NCAA championships since 1976.  We were very happy to get two to the finals C2C (Jr.) James Hayes on pommel horse and C2C Stephen Sistare on rings.  They did a good job and finished seventh on their respective events.

Good News x 2.   (1) We qualified six gymnasts (12 routines) to the NCAAs this coming weekend at St. John's Arena at Ohio State University: C1C (Sr.) Andrew Fisher on rings, vault, parallel bars, and high bar.  C3C (So.) Aaron Jackson on floor exercise and parallel bars; Hayes on pommel horse and high bar; C2C Matt Kenkel on rings and parallel bars; Sistare on rings and C1C Levi Torkelson on pommel horse. Competitions begin on Thursday, April 5 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. and on April 6 and 7 at 7 p.m.

(2) We qualified as a team to the USAG Championships at UC Davis, and will be competing on Friday and Saturday, April 13 and 14 at 1 p.m.

I won't get anything out until after the USAG meet, but hope to have some great things to report then!

Thank you,

Lou Burkel

L. A. Burkel

Director of Gymnastics

(719)333-2421 Office

(719)333-7320 Fax

Check out our team website at

http://www.airforcesports.com/gym/mgym/