The Arizona GymCats have some talented upperclassmen. Juniors Malia Hargrove and Sirena Linton were both critical to ensuring that the team qualified for NCAA Regionals. But a pair of freshmen give.
Malia Hargrove tries to become first Arizona GymCat to win a national title since 1996
How a young gymnast’s drive to do more put her in a place few Arizona gymnasts have been.
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Gymnastics is a sport of tenths. A stuck landing, an upgraded skill and a couple of degrees in a split during a jump can make the difference between going home after regionals and competing for a national championship. For Arizona GymCat
Malia Hargrove, becoming the first representative of the program to advance to the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships since 2016 was about all of those things.
Arizona extends GymCats coach John Court through 2024
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It was a good two days for the Arizona GymCats. They got their first two wins of the season at a tri-meet against Air Force and Texas Woman’s University on Sunday. Then on Monday they announced that head coach
John Court has signed an extension through the 2024 season.
“I am very excited to continue building Arizona Gymnastics,” Court said in the University’s press release. “We have accomplished many things in a short amount of time and we look forward to pushing the program to new heights in the future.”