Boise State to Host Mountain West Gymnastics Championship

Saturday, March 21

Boise, Idaho

6 p.m. MT

Boise State

Air Force

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Miraya Nero floor routine at March 13 home meet

Boise State to Host Mountain West Gymnastics Championship

3/19/2026 12:00:00 PM | Women's Gymnastics

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WHAT'S NEXT: Boise State hosts the 2026 Credit Union 1 Mountain West Championship on Saturday, March 21 at 6 p.m. The Broncos will compete against Air Force, San Jose State and Utah State in ExtraMile Arena.

FOLLOW THE MEET: Live scoring for the meet will be available for free on Virtius. A free live stream will be available on the Mountain West Network. Both links can be located on BroncoSports.com.

SEASON-BEST SCORES: On March 1, Boise State swept a road quad at San Jose State, posting a season-high 196.275 while adding season-best scores on vault (49.150) and floor (49.275). Julia Krzywanski (vault) and Blake Pascal (floor) each scored a 9.900 on their respective routines to earn a share of the event title for the first time this year. It was Krzywanski's first-career win and Pascal's fifth. The Broncos equaled the team-high score in a March 13 win over Southern Utah, notching a season-best 49.150 on bars and rallying for the Senior Night win with a 49.250 on floor.

BROUGHT IT ON BARS: Boise State recorded a season-high 49.150 on bars on March 13, its fourth-straight meet tallying a season-best. Noelle Ball and Mahleea Werline earned the first event titles of their careers, both posting a career-best 9.900. Kristina Shchennikova added a 9.875 to tie for third. Werline and Shchennikova tied for third on the apparatus at Stanford, scoring 9.850. Shchennikova has five 9.800+ routines in the last six meets, earning a team-high NQS of 9.845 that ranks fourth in the Mountain West. This was Werline's sixth-straight 9.850+ routine, giving her an NQS of 9.835, sixth-best in the conference.

TRIPLE CROWN: Boise State had three beam champions on March 13, with Sydney Kho, Kristina Shchennikova and Sydnie Whipple splitting the crown with a 9.850. This marked the first-career title for Kho and Whipple, while Shchennikova picked up her first of the season and fourth overall. Kho has two overall titles this year and three in her career and Shchennikova has two crowns this season and five in her career.

PAIR OF AWARDS FOR PASCAL: Blake Pascal earned Mountain West Co-Floor Specialist of the Week honors following her 9.900 routine and event crown at San Jose State, then added another MW Floor Specialist of the Week accolade after tallying a career-high 9.925 at Stanford. She boasts Boise State's highest NQS (9.860) in any event, ranking fifth in the conference. The fifth year has 16-career 9.850+ floor routines, including five of 9.900 or higher. Pascal is the lone Bronco to earn multiple weekly awards for one event this year, giving Boise State seven total honors.

KHO-BOOM: Sydney Kho captured her first vault title of the year and second of her career at Air Force on Jan. 23, scoring a season-high 9.825. On March 13, she earned a share of the beam title for the first time in her career, posting a 9.850. She followed that with a career-best 9.900 beam score at Stanford, her sixth-straight 9.800+ beam routine. This boosted her NQS to a team-high 9.840, ranking . The senior has appeared in Boise State's vault lineup in all but two meets in her career, completing 45 routines.

KRISTINA KEEPS IT GOING: Kristina Shchennikova won a share of the bars title in Boise State's Feb. 6 quad, recording a 9.875. It gave the sophomore her first-career win on the apparatus. In a March 7 dual at California, she tied for second on bars with a career-best 9.925, Boise State's top-scoring routine this year. On March 13, she earned a career-high 9.900 on floor while posting a 9.875 on bars and winning a share of the beam crown with a 9.850. She has five overall wins in her career and is the only gymnast on the Boise State roster with a title in multiple events in her career She tallied a 9.850 on bars and floor at Stanford on March 15. The sophomore is one of three gymnasts in the conference to have a high score of 9.900 or better in three events this year.

BEAM QUEENS: Boise State recorded its top beam score of the season in the March 7 dual at Cal, tallying a 49.150. Sydney Whipple paced the Broncos with a career-best 9.875, followed by Sydney Kho, who posted a 9.850. Brantley Lucas added a career-high 9.825 while Isabella Delarosa and Kristina Shchennikova each added a 9.800. This was the Broncos' first meet with five 9.800+ beam scores since March 7, 2025.

FABULOUS ON FLOOR: Boise State had its best rotation of the year at San Jose State on March 1, posting a 49.275 on floor. Blake Pascal earned a share of the event title with a 9.900 and Anna Ferguson posted a career-high 9.875. On March 13, the Broncos tallied a 49.250 on floor, with Kristina Shchennikova (9.900), Delaney Reeves (9.875) and Miraya Nero (9.850) earning career-highs. Boise State added another 49.250 on floor at Stanford on March 15, with Blake Pascal (9.925) notching a career-high to finish second.

BIG SCORES ON VAULT: The Broncos secured their quad meet sweep with a season-best 49.150 on vault, their best score since Feb. 28, 2025. Julia Krzywanski captured her first event title with a career-high 9.900, while Noelle Ball added a career-best 9.850. Bridget Kemp matched her career-high with a 9.825 and Sydney Kho tallied a 9.800.

TRIO OF AWARDS: Following their 9.900 beam routines at the Feb. 15 Metroplex Challenge, Miraya Nero and Kristina Shchennikova were named Mountain West Co-Beam Specialists of the Week, with Nero adding MW Co-Freshman of the Week. Nero has three MW weekly awards this season, most on the team. This was Shchennikova's first weekly honor of the year and team-best ninth of her career, with four of those being MW Beam Specialist of the Week.

FANTASTIC FRESHMAN: Miraya Nero was named Mountain West Co-Freshman of the Week after her Jan. 16 performance at BYU, where she won the all-around crown with a 39.075 and tied for second on beam with a 9.825. She was the vault runner-up at the Metroplex Challenge on Feb. 15, scoring 9.850, and added a career-best 9.900 on beam. At Utah State, she captured her second all-around crown, becoming the first Boise State freshman to win two all-around titles since 2017 (Courtney McGregor). At San Jose State (March 1), she earned a career-high 9.800 on bars and notched the program's best all-around score (39.125) since 2021 (Hope Masiado). She enters this weekend with four-straight 9.800+ floor performances, including back-to-back career-high 9.850s. Nero is tied with sophomore Bridget Kemp for the team's highest NQS on vault (9.780) and ranks third on the team in beam (9.795) and floor (9.820).

LOCAL LEGENDS: Freshmen and Meridian, Idaho natives Isabella Delarosa and Sydnie Whipple have made an early impact on their hometown team. Delarosa competed at home for the first time on Jan. 30, scoring 9.825 on beam to earn a share of the event title, the first of her career. The following week, she posted a career-high 9.800 on vault, Boise State's highest score in the Feb. 6 home quad. She was the team's top vaulter on March 13, scoring a career-best 9.825. Whipple earned a 9.800 on beam in her second-career routine at the Feb. 20 dual at Utah State, then followed with a team-high 9.875 on beam at California, capturing Mountain West Co-Freshman of the Week honors. This is the first time multiple Broncos have been named MW Freshman of the Week in the same season, with Miraya Nero winning twice. In the March 13 meet, Whipple captured her first-career event title, tallying a 9.850 on beam.

PACK THE X: Boise State set a single-meet attendance record in the Jan. 30 home opener, bringing in a crowd of 2,986. The Broncos currently average an announced attendance of 2,653, which is on pace to shatter the current record of 2,196, set in 2025. This ranks 25th in the NCAA and is over 1,000 more than the next-highest Mountain West team (Utah State, 1,548).

--BroncoSports.com--