BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Cal senior gymnast Kyana George has been piling up awards this year, and she added another on Tuesday as she was named the Region 6 Gymnast of the Year by the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association.
 
George is one of six regional winners announced Tuesday after a vote of the coaches in the region.
 
This year, George was the Pac-12 Champion on the floor exercise, a two-time Pac-12 weekly award winner this year and a finalist for the AAI Award for top senior gymnast in the country. George is also a Regular Season All-American on the floor exercise. The senior has won 16 events this year (2 vault, 4 beam, 8 floor and 2 all-around) and collected 29 top-three finishes. She now has 96 top-three finishes and 42 wins in her four-year career.
 
She is ranked first in the region on vault, second on balance beam and fifth on vault. She is still ranked fourth in the all-around and 19th on uneven bars despite not competing on the bars during the second half of the season due to a lingering injury.
 
George has posted a 9.875 or above on the floor exercise in all 10 competitions this year, including eight at 9.90+ and six at 9.95+, including her last five in a row. She set a career high 9.975 at the event on senior day, tying for the best score ever recorded on the event by a Cal gymnast, which also helped Cal set a school record floor score of 49.575 that afternoon vs. Washington.
 
On beam, George scored a 9.90 for five straight competitions, one of which helped the team break the school record with a 49.500 performance vs. UCLA. George has 17 scores at 9.90+ this year and posted a career-best 39.650 in the all-around at Oregon State, which was the top all-around score by any gymnast in the region this year. Her consistent excellence has propelled Cal to a No. 5 overall ranking, the best in program history, a second-place finish at the Pac-12 Championship, the best-ever finish for the Bears and a berth at the NCAA Championship.
 
Cal will be one of eight teams headed to the NCAA Gymnastics Championship, which will be held on April 16-17 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. The Bears will be part of the first semifinal which will be at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET on Friday, April 16 and be broadcast on ESPN2. If the Bear can be one of the top two teams in the semifinal they will advance to the final four on the floor on Saturday, which will be at 12:30 p.m. PT/3:30 p.m. ET on ABC. Tickets for the NCAA Championship are available here.
 
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