COLLEGE PARK, MD -- The University of Maryland gymnastics team will begin the 2024 season Friday night in the annual Red vs. Black Meet at 6 p.m. inside the XFINITY Center. The meet will be the first glimpse fans will catch of the GymTerps ahead of their regular-season opener on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024 against West Chester. Admission is free to the public.
Brett Nelligan leads Maryland in his 15th season as head coach and hopes to bring the Terps back to NCAA Regionals for a sixth consecutive year (seven including the 2020 season, when Regionals were not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Entering the 2024 campaign, Maryland is ranked No. 25 in the College Gymn News preseason poll.
The Terps welcome back a multitude of starters, including graduate student
Emma Silberman, who currently ranks ninth in Maryland gymnastics history in career points scored, and junior
Josephine Kogler, who received All-Big Ten Second Team honors in 2023. Along with Silberman, sophomore
Madeline Komoroski returns as the team's leader in beam scoring. Four of the team's top five scorers return to the lineup for the bars, beam and floor exercise, with
Olivia Weir,
Taylor Rech,
Rhea LeBlanc,
Tayler Osterhout,
Sierra Kondo and
Victoria Gatzendorfer all returning as event starters from last season.
Last season, the GymTerps finished with a 17-8 overall record while finishing with the season ranked No. 23 in Road To Nationals NQS scoring. Maryland produced three of its top-10 highest scores in a single meet last season, peaking with 197.100 at the Maryland Five Meet on March 12. It was just the sixth time in program history that the Terps reached a 197 in a single meet.
