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ARNO-TEMPLET HEADED TO NCAA REGIONALS
 DENTON, Texas (April 2) – Texas Woman’s University senior Courtney Arno-Templet (pictured) will take part in both the uneven bars and balance beam individual competitions at the 2008 NCAA South Central Regional on Saturday, April 12, at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
Arno-Templet qualified on bars with the sixth-highest Regional Qualifying Score (RQS), 9.860, in the South Central region. She is also the top-ranked bar worker in the USA Gymnastics (USAG), Midwest Independent Conference (MIC), and NCAA Division II bar rankings. She averaged a 9.804 score on bars this season, and, on four occasions, recorded a season-high score of 9.875. She already has nine individual bars titles to her credit this year.
Arno-Templet’s RQS for beam this season was 9.723, the twelfth-best in the South Central region and the highest in the USAG, MIC, and NCAA Division II. Her season-average score on beam is a 9.723. She won the individual beam title at six of the Pioneers’ meets this season, and on March 20, in a dual at Southeast Missouri State University, set a new career-high (and school record) with a beam score of 9.900.
This is the third year in a row that Arno-Templet will compete in the South Central regionals. In 2007, she tied for fifth on the bars with a score of 9.800. In 2006, she represented TWU in both the bars and beam events.
TWU head coach Frank Kudlac is looking forward to seeing Arno-Templet test her skills at the regional level.
“Courtney has proved this season that she is one of the best gymnasts in the country,” he said. “If she hits like she has done all year long it wouldn’t surprise me to see her place very high at this meet.”
Two other TWU gymnasts, senior Nicole Poling and junior Amie Boles, were named alternates for the regional competition on vault and floor respectively. Poling posted a vault RQS of 9.795 while Boles had an RQS of 9.815 on floor.
The 10th-ranked University of Oklahoma Sooners will host the meet with #4 Alabama, #16 Boise State, #19 Arizona State, #24 Illinois and #36 Southeast Missouri State joining them for what should be a heated team competition. The Pioneers final team RQS this season was 193.370, which left them ranked 41st in the nation on the outside looking in for a team berth at regionals. TWU remains, however, number one in the USAG rankings heading into the 2008 USAG Women’s Collegiate National Championships, scheduled for April 17-19, at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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