COLLEGE PARK, MD -- The University of Maryland gymnastics team will begin the 2025 season Sunday afternoon in the annual Red vs. Black Meet at 1 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 Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025 at the Collegiate Invite in San Antonio, Texas.
Brett Nelligan leads Maryland in his 16th season as head coach and hopes to bring the Terps back to NCAA Regionals for a seventh consecutive year (eight including the 2020 season, when Regionals were not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Entering the 2025 campaign, Maryland is ranked No. 22 in the College Gym News preseason poll.
The Terps welcome back a multitude of starters, including graduate student
Alexa Rothenbuescher, who holds All-Big Ten Second Team honors for 2024, as well as being the team's leader in floor scoring. Along with Rothenbuescher, sophomore
Natalie Martin returns as the team's leader in beam scoring. Five of the team's top scorers return to the lineup for the bars, beam and floor exercise,
Taylor Rech, Rhea Leblanc,
Sierra Kondo, Maddie Komoroski and
Victoria Gatzendorfer all returning as event starters from last season.
Last season, the GymTerps finished with a 13-7 overall record while finishing with the season ranked No. 26 in Road To Nationals NQS scoring. Maryland won Session I of the Big Ten Championships for the first time in program history, while also clinching their highest team score at the Big Ten Championships of 196.775. Maryland finished with the highest team NQS in program history after the championships with a 196.790.
