WINONA, Minn.- UW-Oshkosh women's gymnastics won its sixth straight WIAC Championship/National Collegiate Gymnastics Association West Regional (Presented by Culver's) title with resounding flair, shattering the Division III scoring mark with 195.175 points and establishing program records in both the vault and balance beam Saturday (March 7) at McCown Gymnasium in Winona, Minn.
 
Oshkosh became the first Division III school to score 195 or better, eclipsing its own previous Division III record of 194.975 set at the 2024 NCGA Championship in Collegeville, Pa.
 
The Titans scored a school-record 49.125 on the balance beam, a school-best 48.775 on the vault, 48.775 in the floor exercise and 48.500 on the uneven bars. Oshkosh's prior apparatus team records were 48.850 on balance beam and 48.750 on vault.
 
The record-setting Titans, the NCGA's top-ranked team, easily surpassed runner-up UW-Whitewater's score of 193.825 to clinch the program's 20th overall WIAC Championship title. Both Oshkosh and Whitewater secured automatic berths into the NCGA Championship by virtue of placing among the top two teams at the regional meet.
 
The NCGA Championship commences at noon (CDT) March 20 in Cortland, N.Y. The East Regional teams securing automatic berths into the NCGA Championship on Saturday were State University of New York at Brockport (193.675 points) and State University of New York at Cortland (193.000).
 
Rounding out the WIAC Championship/NCGA West Regional standings were UW-La Crosse in third with 193.100 points, UW-Eau Claire fourth with 192.050, host Winona State University fifth with 191.925, Simpson College (Iowa) sixth with 189.625, Gustavus Adolphus College (Minn.) seventh with 186.550, UW-Stout eighth with 186.300 and Hamline University (Minn.) ninth with 184.200.
 
Oshkosh's Reanna McGibboney (Chester Springs, Pa./Downingtown East) was named WIAC Gymnast of the Year after winning the vault title with a 9.850 while also finishing tied for second in the floor exercise (9.775) and tied for 13th on the uneven bars (9.625). McGibboney, the 2023 WIAC Newcomer of the Year, is the second Titan to garner conference Gymnast of the Year honors and first since Emily Buffington in 2022.
 
The Titans produced four of the top five performances on vault as Kris Phillips (Warrenton, Mo./Warrenton) tied for second behind McGibboney with a score of 9.775, followed by Amaya McConkay (Broken Arrow, Okla./Union) and Kasha Muraski (Crystal Lake, Ill./Crystal Lake South) in a tie for fourth at 9.750.
 
Ome Ellis (Oak Park, Mich./Royal Oak) set the program record on balance beam with a WIAC-winning score of 9.925 to overtake the longest standing program mark of 9.900 by Tiffany Barden in 1998.
 
Lydia Hayden (Broomfield, Colo./Broomfield) placed third for the Titans on balance beam with a 9.850 while Sam Dorrity (Lewisville, Texas/iUniversity Prep) finished tied for fourth with a 9.825 and Kristina Jakubiak (Ballston Spa, N.Y./Ballston Spa) was seventh at 9.800.
 
Oshkosh's Jay Ratkowski (Franklin/Franklin) topped the WIAC floor exercise podium with a score of 9.800.
Hayden shared the WIAC uneven bars individual title with a score of 9.800 to tie Whitewater's Elaine Copeland. Averie Evans (Fort Worth, Texas/Boswell) (9.750) and McConkay (9.675) rounded out Oshkosh's top-eight finishes by placing tied for third and tied for seventh, respectively, on the uneven bars.
 
Whitewater's Juliette Rider was tabbed the 2026 WIAC Newcomer of the Year. Eau Claire's Jessie DeZiel was voted WIAC Coach of the Year.
 
Oshkosh will be seeking its sixth overall NCGA title and fourth in the past five years when it travels to the Empire State in two weeks. The Titans, who placed third at last year's national meet, earned their previous NCGA championships in 1989, 2007, 2022, 2023, and 2024.