Texas Woman’s Blessing named gymnast of the week

by PegNews wire

Blessing’s performance on vault and floor helped TWU to a team score of 190.900, the highest season-opening score in the thirty-year history of the Pioneers’ gymnastics program.

Texas Woman’s University freshman Mollie Blessing was named the Midwest Independent Conference (MIC) Gymnast of the Week for the period ending January 8, 2008.

Blessing’s performance on vault and floor in the Pioneers’ quad meet versus LSU, Denver University, and the University of Minnesota last Friday afternoon at the Cancun Classic in Cancun, Mexico helped TWU to a team score of 190.900, the highest season-opening score in the thirty-year history of the Pioneers’ gymnastics program.

Blessing scored a TWU team-best 9.725 on vault, tying her for 7th place in the overall vault competition at the meet. She hit as well on floor, scoring a 9.600 to tie for 16th overall.

“Mollie was phenomenal in the first meet of her collegiate gymnastics career,” said TWU head coach Frank Kudlac. “She really stepped up and proved that she could compete against some of the nation’s best gymnasts in a pressure-packed situation. I’m very proud of the way she performed.”

Blessing and her TWU gymnastics teammates are idle this week. They will be back in action next Saturday, January 19, when they host the University of Oklahoma Sooners in a 7:00 p.m. dual meet at Kitty Magee Arena.

Source: TWU