OSHKOSH, Wis.- UW-Oshkosh women's gymnastics, the three-time defending national champion, will travel to Saint Peter, Minnesota to compete in the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) Championship on Saturday (March 22).
 
Gustavus Adolphus College (Minn.) will host the meet at Gus Young Court at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Gymnasts will be competing for the team and five individual (vault, uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise, all-around) national titles.
 
The Titans are making their fifth straight appearance in the national championship as a team. They won the 2022, 2023, and 2024 titles and placed fourth in the 2019 meet. The 2020 and 2021 championships were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. In 19 total championship appearances, Oshkosh has also collected NCGA titles in 1989 and 2007 and owns seven national championships overall. The first two came at the 1980 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women AIAW and the 1986 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics NAIA championships.
 
UW-Oshkosh won its fifth consecutive and 19th overall WIAC Championship/NCGA West Regional on Saturday, March 8 with a meet-record score of 193.925 points. UW-La Crosse finished second to claim the WIAC's other automatic bid to the national championship with 192.975 points.
 
State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport won the NCGA East Regional on March 8 by totaling 192.525 points and SUNY Cortland finished second with a score of 192.050 points. UW-Whitewater (192.850) and Rhode Island College (190.875) qualified as the two at-large bids the regions share.
 
The Titans enter the national championship ranked first in Division III with a season average team score of 193.9563 points in Roadtonational.com's Division III Ranking Index. Oshkosh also ranks first in with a season average score of 48.5688 points on the balance beam, while sitting in the top-three in team vault (48.4688, second), uneven bars (48.3938, second) and floor exercise (48.7000, third) scores.
 
Seven Oshkosh gymnasts hold nine top-eight rankings in individual events. Reanna McGibboney (Jr. • Chester Springs, Pa.) and Mia Lucero (Sr. • Bolingbrook, Ill.) sit fourth and seventh on the vault. Amaya McConkay (Jr. • Broken Arrow, Okla.) and McGibboney rank first and second on the uneven bars while Sam Zeilinger (Sr. • Wheaton, Ill.) is sixth. On the balance beam, Delaney Cienkus (Sr. • Plainfield, Ill.), the 2025 WIAC Gymnast of the Year, ranks second and is followed in fifth by Lydia Hayden (Jr. • Broomfield, Colo.). Jay Ratkowski (So. • Franklin) leads Oshkosh in the floor exercise in sixth and Cienkus is eighth.
 
Titans competing on Saturday that have previously collected All-America honors include Hayden (2023 balance beam-third), Lucero (2023 vault-eighth; 2024 vault-champion, floor exercise-champion), McGibboney (2023 floor exercise-third, vault-eighth; 2024 floor exercise-second, vault-third), and Ratkowski (2024 floor exercise-fifth).
 
The top three teams at Saturday's championship receive a trophy while individuals finishing first through eighth (and ties) on each individual event and the all-around collect All-America medals.
 
Individually, Oshkosh boasts 22 individual NCGA titles from 14 gymnasts. Oshkosh student-athletes have combined to earn 127 All-America awards throughout the history of the NCGA Championship.