Despite promising performances, Towson freshmen Abby Griswold and Katie Sassa saw their season end at the NCAA regional qualifying meet Saturday at the O’Connell Center in Gainesville, Fl. Griswold and Sassa were selected to compete in the regional qualifying meet after Towson did not qualify as a team. Griswold’s scores in the all-around competition and Sassa’s on the vault were high enough to earn them a trip to Gainesville. No. 1 Florida took home the [...]

A year after the Towson gymnastics program sent three of its top seniors to the NCAA Regional meet, the Tigers will be represented again on the national stage, this time by two freshmen. Katie Sassa and Abby Griswold found out Monday they qualified for the meet. Qualification is based on the gymnasts’ cumulative scores from the season. Both gymnasts’ regional qualification scores earned them a spot in the Regional meet even before the Eastern Athletic [...]

Towson (192.675) ended its season with an eighth place finish in the East Atlantic Gymnastics League Championship meet, falling to Champion North Carolina State (195.175) Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C. “For as young as we are, knowing that this was a building year, we had a good season,” Head Coach Vicki Chliszczyk said. “We had some ups and downs but we came on stronger at the end. I think that will help them going into [...]

Towson earned season-high team scores on the bars and the floor exercise, but fell to Rutgers 195.550-194.500 Friday night at the Towson Center. The Tigers bounced back after a fall on vault in the first rotation, in which they scored an overall 48.950. Senior Brittany Russell’s 9.875 and sophomore Lydia Thompson’s 9.850 helped overshadow freshman Abby Griswold’s 8.725, which was dropped as the lowest score. “The one word I’d sum up this meet with is [...]

Towson recorded its highest score of the season (194.675) en route to a second place finish behind host New Hampshire (194.850), and ahead of Brown (191.850) and Yale (190.925) at the UNH Invitational Meet Saturday in Machester, N.H. The Tigers’ effort was boosted by season-high team scores on the bars, beam and floor events. For the first time this season, Towson surpassed a 194.000 score. “It was a fantastic meet. We finally put four events [...]

Towson (193.150) recorded its highest beam score of the year, but still finished fourth to No.3 Michigan (196.925), No.25 West Virginia (196.550) and New Hampshire (194.975)  Sunday in Morgantown, W.Va. Michigan and West Virginia made the meet a two-team battle, but it was the Wolverines who came out on top behind three first place individual event scores in the floor, beam and vault. Towson’s beam score, 48.450, was up .300 points from last week, but [...]

Towson (193.275) recorded its highest team score of the season against Cornell (192.250), Temple (190.600) and Ursinus (182.425) Sunday when it hosted and won the Shelli Calloway Memorial Invitational. The Tigers’ score was bolstered behind season-high team scores on the beam and floor exercises. The floor routine on the fourth rotation was enough to move them up from second and seal the victory. Cornell held a .550 lead after three rotations, but Towson’s 48.975 on [...]

Towson (192.250) finished fourth behind host Maryland (195.150), North Carolina State (194.600) and New Hampshire (193.300) Friday night in College Park. The Tigers started strong with three team scores above 48.000 on the vault, uneven bars and floor. However, a 46.750 on the balance beam sealed their fourth place in the event. “We had three very good events that we are happy about,” Head Coach Vicki Chliszczyk said. “As poorly as we did on the [...]

Towson picked up its second win of the season against the Cornell Big Red on a snowy Saturday afternoon in Ithaca, N.Y. 192.325-191.000. With the victory, in which the team won each event, the Tigers extended their 10-game dual meet win streak against the Big Red. “Wins and losses are secondary to the score,” Head Coach Vicki Chliszczyk said. “We saw some really good things out of different individuals and we saw some fight out [...]

Towson finished second in its first home meet of the year, finishing with a score of 193.000 behind first place Bridgeport. The Tigers recorded their highest team score of the year, which was enough to top Lindenwood (187.650) and Ursinus (181.150), but could not match Bridgeport’s 194.650. “I think the meet was kind of sandwiched in that we started very well on the vault and ended well on the floor,” Head Coach Vicki Chliszczyk said. [...]