Josh is the sports director at KSL and beat writer covering University of Utah athletics — primarily football, men’s and women's basketball and gymnastics. He is also an Associated Press Top 25 voter for college football.
WEST VALLEY CITY — It's been a season defined by adversity — including Saturday night during the Big 12 championship meet at the Maverik Center — but for the second consecutive season, the Red Rocks hoisted the trophy as champions again.
The Red Rocks used the final two events of the night to pull away for good as champions with a 197.675 score — its highest road score of the season — to top the Big 12 competition that included Denver , BYU and Arizona in the second session of the championship meet."Just super proud of this team tonight," Red Rocks head coach Carly Dockendorf said. "Winning the conference championships is not something you can take for granted, and this team fought the entire night to stay in the meet. And just really proud of their grit and resilience throughout the competition, some great individual performances."At the midway point in the meet, though, Denver controlled a narrow lead over the Red Rocks following a team-best 49.425 score on floor to overtake the regular season champions.Utah found itself in a bit of a hole after a lower than usual uneven bars event in the second rotation , where the team had to count a 9.575 from Ashley Glynn after a near fall on dismount that forced her to lunge forward for a significant deduction.Glynn's score had to be counted due to an Ana Padurariu fall to her back on the mat below after missing the high bar on the transfer. Padurariu considered finishing the routine, but took a minute with the training staff and decided it wasn't worth considering and went back to the locker room to be evaluated.Padurariu returned just before the third event, but was a last-minute scratch from the beam lineup as a precaution. Dockendorf said Padurariu wasn't injured on the fall but was just "a little bit lightheaded, but she's fine."On beam, the Red Rocks found its rhythm again and reeled off three consecutive 9.875 scores from Elizabeth Gantner, Ella Zirbes and Abbi Ryssman before Avery Neff increased the scores with a 9.925 on a beam routine that elicited a 10.0 from at least one of the four judges.But it was Camie Winger who took it to another level and closed out the beam routine with a 9.975 and had two judges turn around a 10.0 score. It was exactly the moment the Red Rocks needed to make their move going into the final rotation with a 0.475 lead over Denver."I was so proud of her for doing that tonight," Dockendorf sa
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