Four Individuals Qualify for Utah Regional

AMES, Iowa – After falling just short of qualifying for NCAA Regionals as a team, four Cyclones were announced as earning individual bids to the Utah Regional, held April 3 in Salt Lake City.

On Monday, Frederique Sgarbossa (UB), Haylee Hardin (FX), Noelle Adams (FX) and Josie Bergstrom-Te Slaa (AA) were all announced as qualifiers for the Utah Regional, where they will compete as individual gymnasts.

The top 12 all-arounders and the top 16 individual event specialists on each event, who are not on a top 28 qualifying team, make it to regionals. All four will compete following one of the four teams in the regional in the day's first session.

For Bergstrom-Te Slaa, this will be her third time in four years competing in the postseason, while Adams will be competing for the second straight year. Both freshmen, Hardin and Sgarbossa, will be making their postseason debut.

On bars, Sgarbossa is tied for 96th nationally with an NQS of 9.860. She averages a 9.796 on bars and her season high was a 9.900. Sgarbossa will compete on bars in the second rotation, following Minnesota's bars team.

Both Hardin and Adams qualified on floor for the Cyclones, as each has an NQS of 9.860 or higher. Hardin is tied for 56^th on floor nationally, boasting a 9.895 NQS and averages a score of 9.877. Adams, meanwhile, is tied for 110 and has an NQS of 9.865. She averages 9.827 points per floor routine and had a season-high of 9.9. Adams will compete on floor in the first rotation following UCLA. Hardin will compete in the fourth rotation, following Minnesota's floor exercise.

In her first year competing all-around for ISU, Bergstrom-Te Slaa qualified as an all-around competitor. This achievement is especially impressive for Josie, as she hadn't competed on bars or floor prior to this season. Bergstrom-Te Slaa is 59th nationally as an all-around competitor with an NQS of 39.080. Bergstrom-Te Slaa will follow Southern Utah throughout the first session, beginning on bars and finishing on vault.

For ISU, it's the most individual postseason qualifiers it has had since seven individual event specialists qualified for the 2016 regional in Minneapolis.

Players Mentioned

Noelle Adams

Josie Bergstrom-Te Slaa

Haylee Hardin

Frederique Sgarbossa

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