West Chester Meet Notes
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   West Chester University returns to South Campus Friday for the first of two meets this weekend. The Golden Rams will host a tri-meet on Friday night against Towson University and Ursinus College before heading up I-95 to Philadelphia for a tri-meet at the University of Pennsylvania with Towson as well. It is the first, and only time, this year that the Golden Rams will compete twice in the same weekend.
   West Chester went with a pretty young lineup last weekend at the Unviersity of Bridgeport and almost came away with a road win in Connecticut. Freshman
Jaslyn McComeskey performed an outstanding vault to score a 9.700 in her first collegiate action. She was the anchor in that event and showed why with her vault. The Purple & Gold scored a season high as a team on the vault while head coach
Barbara Cordova witnessed five career highs and three more season bests in the meet.
   Cordova's freshman class has stepped up and performed well so far this winter. However, this particular weekend will be a challenge with two competitions in three days. That is something that the young gymnasts have not experienced yet. Sunday's meet with Towson and UPenn will be an opportunity for the Golden Rams to show how far they have come against the Gymnastics East Conference (GEC) preseason favorite and the East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) defending regular-season champions in the gym.
   West Chester has shown the ability to compete against GEC opponents Cornell, William & Mary and Bridgeport so far this year. The Golden Rams saw UPenn the first weekend of the season. But, now they will be able to see how they match up with four more meets under their belts. They will see UPenn twice more in march at the Pink Invitational and at the GEC Championship Meet at Cornell.
WEST CHESTER LAST WEEK
   West Chester's gymnasts won two events in the team scoring and had three individuals walk away with a first-place finish in two events, but it was not enough to overcome host University of Bridgeport, 192.225-191.025, in a Gymnastics East Conference (GEC) meet inside the Wheeler Recreation Center on UB's campus Saturday afternoon.
    West Chester (4-3, 2-2 GEC) posted five career highs and three more season highs in the dual meet, but came up just shy of the Purple Knights. Freshman
Jaslyn McComeskey had a breakout performance on the vault with a 9.700. It was her first college meet and first time doing the vault.
SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION
TOWSON (2-4, 1-1 EAGL)
   Following Towson's 194.725-193.475 dual meet win vs. LIU on Saturday, Towson stands at 37 in Road to Nationals (RTN) with a National Qualifying Score (NQS) of 194.992. West Chester is at 67 with an NQS of 191.617 while Ursinus is 77, NQS of 187.825, and Penn is 37, NQS of 194.942.
   Towson faced West Chester is a dual meet on Jan. 9 in SECU, winning 195.325-187.900. Towson is undefeated against West Chester since 2013, being 13-0, and against Ursinus, 10-0 since 2010. Since 2011, Towson is 8-2 against Penn.
   Adriana Hoffman is the EAGL Specialist of the Week, announced on Feb. 11. Hoffman earned the top score of floor on Saturday with a 9.875 in Towson's dual meet victory vs. LIU. She also finished tied for fourth place on vault with a 9.750.
URSINUS (2-2, 2-2 NCGA)
   Ursinus set a new season-high team score in a 189.800-187.275 victory over Utica University on Super Bowl Sunday that evened the squad's record at 2-2 on the year.
   The Bears put together a consistent performance across all four events, totaling their highest team score since recording a 190.925 at the NCGA East Regionals last season. Ursinus posted a 48.125 on vault, a season-high 46.825 on bars, a season-best 47.150 on beam and a 47.700 on floor.
   Junior Erin Roe was named the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) East Region All-Around Gymnast of the Week back on Jan. 21 for the third time in her career, During her sophomore campaign, Roe was named an All-American on the vault, bars and in the all-around at nationals. She currently leads Division III in the all-around this season with an average score of 38.100 and ranks third in the East with a season-high vault score of 9.725.
CHASING HISTORY
   West Chester University head coach
Barbara Cordova entered the 2026 campaign just seven wins shy of her mentor while at West Chester and former legendary head coach Sandy Thielz. She picked up two more victories two weeks ago at George Washington University and one more in each of the last two weeks in duals against William & Mary and SUNY Cortland. Cordova now has 174-152 (.534) record in her 17+ years at her alma mater. Thielz authored an all-time record of 177-88-1 (.670) during her 21-year career at the helm of the Golden Rams from 1974 through 1995. Cordova is three wins away from tying Thielz as the all-time winningest women's gymnastics coach at West Chester.
WEST CHESTER SECURES VIRTIUS TO BROADCAST HOME MEETS
    West Chester University signed on with Virtius to broadcast and web stream all five of its home gymnastics meets, including the 2026 WCGNIC Women's national championships in late March for the second time in the last three years.
