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Gymnasts leap to third straight regional bid CMU's gymnastics program capped another championship season with its third consecutive appearance at the NCAA Regionals. No. 25-ranked CMU traveled to the University of Alabama to face the No. 2 Crimson Tide, No. 11 Penn State, No. 14 Illinois, No. 22 Auburn and Kentucky in the regional meet. The meet marked CMU's eighth appearance at regionals, but it was the first time in program history that the Chippewas qualified in three consecutive seasons. The Chippewas earned their regional bid in large part by sweeping their way through the Mid-American Conference. CMU was 6-0 against MAC opponents during the regular season, then clinched its second straight title by winning the conference championship meet at McGuirk Arena on March 19. The Chippewas scored a season-high 195.900 in claiming their record 12th MAC title. Junior Kristin Teubner was named the MAC Co-Gymnast of the Year after winning three individual titles at the MAC Championships. She won the beam (9.900, career high) and the all-around (39.325) outright while sharing the title on floor (9.875). Senior Cheryl Conlin was part of a three-way tie with Teubner and Ball State's Nicole Allen on floor, while true freshman Brittany Petzold won the MAC title on bars with a 9.850. • Borrelli leads young team to national prominence Tom Borrelli's 20th season as CMU's head wrestling coach may have been his finest. Forced to rebuild a lineup that lost six starters to graduation, Borrelli led a young and inexperienced group of Chippewas to a share of the Mid-American Conference regular-season title, a 10th consecutive conference tournament championship and the program's fifth straight top-15 finish at the NCAA Championships. Junior 133-pounder Scotti Sentes, sophomore 174-pounder Ben Bennett and junior heavyweight Jarod Trice each earned All-America honors at the national tournament to lead CMU to a tie for 13th place in the team standings. The 2011 NCAA Championships marked the eighth straight year that CMU produced multiple All-Americans, and for the second straight year CMU boasted the most All-Americans of any Division I program in Michigan. Sentes, Bennett and Trice each earned their second career All-America honors, making them the 14th, 15th and 16th Chippewas to be All-Americans more than once. Borrelli's 35 career All- Americans are tied for eighth most among active Division I head coaches. • Jarod Trice centralight summer '11 31

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