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2009 NCAA® National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championships | April 16-18

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2009 National Collegiate Women's Gymnastics Championships

Georgia's Courtney Kupets put the finishing touches on one of the most dominant national championship performances in NCAA history by claiming three individual national titles during Saturday night's Individual Event Finals at the Bob Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln.

Just 24 hours after leading Georgia to its fifth consecutive NCAA team title with perfect 10's on bars and vault to finish off a 39.90 cumulative score in all four events, Kupets started Saturday night's finals with a resounding 9.95 to win the bars title. She was even better on beam, uncorking a 9.9875 to run away with her second individual title of the night, before capping her championship weekend by tying LSU's Ashleigh Clare-Kearney for the floor exercise crown with a 9.95. Clare-Kearney added a second title of her own on the night by winning the vault title with a 9.90. LSU teammate Susan Jackson was the runner-up on vault with a 9.8938, while Kupets and Utah's Kristina Baskett tied for third at 9.8563.

Earlier in the championships, Kupets became just the second three-time NCAA All-Around champion with a 39.80 on Thursday. Her four individual national titles in 2009 tied Kentucky's Jenny Hansen (1995) and Utah's Missy Marlowe (1992) for the most in an individual championships in NCAA history. Kupets, who is a 15-time All-American, entered the championships as a five-time national champion and concluded her career with an NCAA-record nine individual national titles.Here is a complete list of the 2009 All-Americans.

Learn more about the 12 teams competing for this week's national championship. The head coaches and a student-athlete from each team talked with the media on Wednesday afternoon. (Video replay).

In addition, 12 of the nation’s best all-arounders and four individual event specialists will contend for national honors on the sport’s grandest collegiate stage.

The championship home page includes ticket and schedule information, live links to press conferences and additional information on the Bob Devaney Sports Center, the University of Nebraska and the City of Lincoln. Live Stats and Free Live Video are not available for Session I. The live video is being generated by in-arena feed from HuskerVision inside the Devaney Center and will not include highlights of each individual gymnasts performance.

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