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West Chester University will be looking for a little redemption on Sunday when the Golden Rams visit Ursinus College at 1 p.m. inside Helfferich Hall. These two squads squared off in a tri-meet with Towson at West Chester's Sturzebecker Health Science Center on Feb. 13. The Bears ended a personal 29-meet losing streak to the Golden Rams with the program's first win over West Chester since 2015.
Ursinus scored a season-high 191.575 that evening and are in the midst of one of their best seasons in quite some time. The Bears finished second in that tri-meet with its triumph over the host Golden Rams. Both fell to Towson, who put up a score above 195, while both West Chester and Ursinus were in the 191 range.
The Golden Rams are looking to get back to their winning ways at the end of the month here with dual meets against Ursinus and then Bridgeport. That said, West Chester performed very well last Sunday in a tri-meet at Penn. The purple & gold put up their second-highest score of the year against two very tough programs. Head coach
Barbara Cordova will look to build upon that momentum and positivity as her squad closes out the month of February and heads into the final month of the 2026 campaign.
March will see West Chester compete in the Pink Invitational in the Philadelphia Convention Center, the GEC Championships and the WCGNIC National Meet to close out the season.
Senior
Anna Lacey is coming off an excellent weekend competing on both the balance beam and the floor exercise. She set a new career high with a 9.900 that tied for first place against Ursinus and Towson. West Chester witnessed four season highs and one career high on Sunday, two days after gymnasts posted five career highs with three of those coming on the floor. The Golden Rams also registered a season-best score on the floor last Friday night.
WEST CHESTER RECAP FROM LAST SUNDAY
West Chester posted four season highs and one career high in Sunday's tri-meet at The Palestra with Gymnastics East Conference (GEC) rival Penn and Towson University. The Golden Rams scored a 192.35, which is the second-best team score for West Chester this winter.
West Chester opened the meet on the balance beam, an event that the Golden Rams performed well in at home two days earlier, and the purple & gold kept that momentum going on the beam by hitting a season-high score of 48.375 – 0.50 higher than Friday's tri-meet.
EmmaGrace Kelly and
Tatum McGuinn, steady stars on the beam all year long, led the way once again with a pair of 9.750 scores that tied them for fifth overall.
Lydia Stoner posted a 9.675 while both
Anna Lacey and
Macarthy Keane scored a 9.600 each. For Keane, that 9.6 was a season-best score on the beam.
Lacey posted West Chester's top score on the floor exercise with a 9.800 in the anchor position and tied for seventh.
Corinne Gruber posted a 9.750 right before Lacey's performance and those two scores lifted the Golden Rams to a 48.250 team mark on the floor. Stoner led off on the floor for the second straight meet and scored a 9.6 while
Aly Sobczak also posted a 9.6.
Ziyan Williams put up a 9.500 in her first time in the scoring lineup. She had a 9.550 in exhibition on the floor Friday night, and coach
Barbara Cordova stuck her in the lineup on Sunday.
West Chester put up a 47.875 on the vault which equaled what they did on Friday evening.
Sarah Eskew was the Golden Rams' top performer on the vault with a 9.725.
Ava Griffith scored a 9.6 while both
Karah Vargo and
Jaslyn McComeskey put up 9.550 scores.
Vargo continued her strong showing inside The Palestra with a career-high on the uneven bars scoring a 9.475. That followed up Maddie McCullough's
9.625 that led off the Golden Rams on the bars. Eskew posted the Golden Rams' top score with a 9.8 from the anchor position on the bars that tied for third overall. West Chester finished with a team score of 47.85
Hannah Shelton put up a season high on the bars with a 9.425.
SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION
URSINUS (3-3, 2-2 NCGA)
For the second consecutive week, the Ursinus gymnastics team set a new season high as they competed in a tri-meet at West Chester University alongside Towson University.
The Bears delivered a consistent performance across the board, earning season highs in all four events and finishing with a team total of 191.950.        The score marked Ursinus' highest since posting a 193.550 at the NCGA East Championships in March 2015, ranks fourth overall in Division III this season, and third best in program history. Roe finished second overall in the all-around with a season-high total of 38.550, which ranks second in Division III this season.
Ursinus totaled 48.225 on the vault, 47.175 on the bars, 48.200 on the beam and 48.350 on the floor. Towson won the meet with a 195.325, while Ursinus finished second and West Chester placed third with a 191.575.
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.
