OU Gymnastics: Oklahoma Lands Eight All-Americans

The Sooners ended up with All-America honors in 10 spots, including two each for super senior Olivia Trautman and sophomore Jordan Bowers.
OU Gymnastics: Oklahoma Lands Eight All-Americans
OU Gymnastics: Oklahoma Lands Eight All-Americans /

By OU Media Relations

FORT WORTH – In addition to advancing to the NCAA finals, eight members of the Oklahoma women's gymnastics team combined for 10 All-America honors at during Thursday night’s NCAA semifinals.

NCAA Championships All-Americans are based on individual finishes in each semifinal session, with first-team honors going to gymnasts who finished in the top four of their semifinal and second-team recognition to those who finished in positions five through eight.

Super senior Olivia Trautman and sophomore Jordan Bowers each tallied a pair of All-America honors.

Trautman was recognized as a first-team selection on both vault (NCAA champion) and beam. The Champlin, MN, native now has 12 career All-America honors (10 NCAA, two regular season).

For the second year in a row, Bowers was named a first-team honoree on floor by finishing in second place. She also picked up her first All-America honor in the all-around (second-team). Bowers tallied three All-America honors in her freshman season, earning a first-team nod on floor and second-team recognition on vault and bars.

Audrey Davis, Katherine LeVasseur, Danielle Sievers, Ragan Smith, Allie Stern and Faith Torrez all claimed All-America honors on Thursday, as well. LeVasseur and Stern both earned first-team honors on vault, with LeVasseur picking up her first championship All-America honor on the event and Stern with her third overall.

Torrez earned her second career All-America recognition and first championship honor on floor in her freshman season. Davis earned her fourth NCAA All-America honor (second-team in the all-around) and seventh overall (four NCAA, three regular season).

Smith earned second-team honors on bars and now has nine career All-America honors (four NCAA, five regular season). She has picked up championship All-America honors on bars, beam and floor. Sievers picked up her third championship All-America honor and fourth overall with a second-team selection on floor.

The Sooners will be back in action on Saturday at 3 p.m. for the NCAA finals. No. 1 OU will face No. 2 Florida, No. 5 Utah and No. 6 LSU for a chance to bring home its sixth national championship. The meet will be televised by ABC for the third straight year. Streams of each individual event and a quad box to watch all four events at once will be available on ESPN+.


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John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.