Teams from West Virginia, North Carolina, and Nebraska all gathered in the home of the Iowa State gymnastics team. Fans from each respective team were alive and rowdy in Hilton for the last meet of the weekend.

Iowa State was looking to bounce back from their previous tri-meet, but couldn’t get it done and placed third in today’s quad-meet. North Carolina State won the meet with a 195.450, Nebraska placed second with a 195.350, Iowa State placed third with a 194.900, and West Virginia La Cross finished last with a 192.900.

The meet started off on the vault for the Cyclones, which is an area that coach Jay Ronayne has stressed more improvement in throughout the season.

On the vault, Sara Townsend opened with a 9.700. Kelly Martin earned a 9.775, Sydney Converse earned a 9.750, Briana Ledesma a 9.800, Haylee Young a 9.825, and Meaghan Sievers finished the round with a 9.775.

“We stuck a lot of the landings which is really what went right,” Ronayne said. “Meaghan couldn’t put the brakes on her routine, it probably would have been close to 10 if she could’ve stopped because she does it so well. Aside from that, I’m really really happy with how it went.”

The Cyclones finished the first round in second place behind Nebraska who, on the uneven bars, had nearly all 9.8 or more.

The Cyclones next took on the uneven bars for the second event of the quad-meet. The uneven bars are what the team struggled with in their last meet and were desperately looking for improvement.

With both Paz and Young falling on a release in the last meet, today it was no different. Both Paz and Green had mistakes which brought the Cyclones down to last place after two.

“I’m really frustrated with [the uneven bars] personally,” said Kelsey Paz. “It’s a lot of uncharacteristic things that I don’t normally do, and I’m not going to do them again. It fuels my fire to get even better.”

In second to last event, the Cyclones were faced with the beam in hopes to decrease their .900 deficit from first place. Young earned a beautiful 9.900 too get the highest score in the meet on the beam.

Heading into the final rotation on the floor, Iowa State held third place behind Nebraska and North Carolina State. It was up to their shining floor routines to bring them to first place, which was just .475 out of reach.

The Cyclones had Pearsall, Middelkoop, Sievers, Paz, Ledesma, and Young to take on the floor. Pearsall scored a 9.650, Middelkoop scored a 9.675, Sievers with a 9.750, Paz a 9.800, Ledesma a 9.850, and Young closed out the meet with a 9.875.

“We know that Illinois it a really good team,” Sievers said. “And we’re going to have to bring our game and be competitors.”

Iowa State has a week to improve and get ready to hit the road in Champaign, IL. The team will take on Illinois Friday at 7pm to try and break their second consecutive loss.