TEMPE – The 2023 gymnastics season begins this weekend and for No. 24 Sun Devil Gymnastics, that will be at the Super 16 presented by Ozone in Las Vegas on Saturday at 1 p.m. MST.
Meet Information
The four sessions of the Super 16 will be spread out between Friday and Saturday at the Orleans Arena. Arizona State will be in the first session on Saturday at 1 p.m. MST, along with BYU, Cal and Iowa. The rotation order has Cal starting on vault, Iowa on bars, ASU on beam and BYU on floor. That session will be on B1G+. Fans can follow along on Twitter (@SunDevilGym) and Instagram (@sundevilgymnastics) for updates as well.
The universities competing in the Super 16 are Arizona State, Auburn, BYU, Fisk, Oregon State, Rutgers, Southern Utah, Stanford, California, UCLA, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Washington. Single-session tickets range in price from $30 to $55 plus taxes and fees, along with all-session tickets for $79 to $291, plus taxes and fees. Tickets may be purchased online through the Orleans Arena website, and discounted all-session tickets will be available through participating gym clubs.
Sun Devil Outlook
Arizona State (0-0, 0-0 Pac-12)
Meet Information
The four sessions of the Super 16 will be spread out between Friday and Saturday at the Orleans Arena. Arizona State will be in the first session on Saturday at 1 p.m. MST, along with BYU, Cal and Iowa. The rotation order has Cal starting on vault, Iowa on bars, ASU on beam and BYU on floor. That session will be on B1G+. Fans can follow along on Twitter (@SunDevilGym) and Instagram (@sundevilgymnastics) for updates as well.
The universities competing in the Super 16 are Arizona State, Auburn, BYU, Fisk, Oregon State, Rutgers, Southern Utah, Stanford, California, UCLA, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Washington. Single-session tickets range in price from $30 to $55 plus taxes and fees, along with all-session tickets for $79 to $291, plus taxes and fees. Tickets may be purchased online through the Orleans Arena website, and discounted all-session tickets will be available through participating gym clubs.
Sun Devil Outlook
Arizona State (0-0, 0-0 Pac-12)
- In the first meet of the season, the Gym Devils will face BYU, Cal and Iowa, all of whom finished in the top 25 on Road to Nationals in 2022.
- The Sun Devils enter the season ranked No. 24 on the WGCA preseason poll with eight of their opponents this season ranked in the top 25 of that poll. In the Pac-12 Preseason Poll, ASU was picked seventh.
- The team returns all but three routines from 2022 and adds five freshmen with a lot of solid experience. Two Gym Devils were named to the inaugural 2023 Pac-12 Preseason Watchlist: senior Hannah Scharf and junior Emily White.
- All three of ASU's opponents were ranked in the top 25 on Road to Nationals to finish the 2022 season: Cal was No. 11, Iowa was No. 15 and BYU was No. 24. In the WCGA Preseason Poll, Cal is No. 8, Iowa is No. 18 and BYU is No. 22.
- Arizona State leads BYU in the all-time series 11-1. They last competed against each other in 2021 in Tempe, with ASU getting the win.
- Fellow Pac-12 team Cal will be in the session. Last season when these two teams met, the Gym Devils ended the Bears' undefeated season. The two teams were co-Pac-12 Regular Season Champions, alongside Oregon State and Utah.
- ASU and Iowa have faced off four times, with the Sun Devils leading 3-1 in the all-time series. The last meeting was in 2018 when the Gym Devils took second at a quad meet and the Hawkeyes finished in fourth.