Sunday, February 12
Waco, Texas / Ferrell Center
1:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
at
Baylor
No. 3 QU Acrobatics & Tumbling Opens 2017 Season At No. 1 Baylor On Sunday, Feb. 12
2/10/2017 1:10:00 PM | Acrobatics & Tumbling
No. 3 QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY BOBCATS AT
No. 1 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY BEARS
Date: Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017
Time: 1:00 PM (CT)
Location: Waco, Texas
Live Video: BaylorBears.com/collegesportslive
Nationally-ranked No. 3 Quinnipiac University acrobatics and tumbling team will open the 2017 season at No. 1 Baylor University in Waco, Texas on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017 at 1 p.m. (CT).
NCATA PRESEASON POLL
Quinnipiac was picked to finish third in the National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association (NCATA) preseason coaches' poll. Baylor was picked to finish first with 12 first-place votes followed by Oregon, who received the other first-place vote. Quinnipiac, at third, preceded Hawaii Pacific, Azusa Pacific, Fairmont State, Alderson-Broaddus, Gannon, King, Concordia-Wisconsin, Glenville State, Georgetown College and Adrian.
IN REMEMBRANCE
Quinnipiac acrobatics & tumbling will compete this weekend without assistant coach Manny Bonilla who passed this week following a long fight with cancer. Bonilla played a pivotal role in guiding Quinnipiac's acrobatics & tumbling program to one of the best in the country while also having a profound effect on Bobcats' student-athletes, coaches and staff. Bonilla joined the Bobcats coaching staff in 2013 and had helped Quinnipiac to a pair of NCATA National Championship semifinal appearances. He passed on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017 at the age of 39 after a lengthy battle with cancer. During his treatment, Bonilla was extremely active in several cancer awareness initiatives while Quinnipiac also raised money annual for the Miles for Manny Fund.
ECAC ACROBATICS & TUMBLING
Quinnipiac and NCATA members Alderson-Broaddus, Gannon and King were announced as members of the newly-formed Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Acrobatics & Tumbling League. The formation of the league will signal an additional championship for the sport that continues to grow, nationally.
THE CAPTAINS
Noelle Brasier (Simi Valley, California), Kelsey Rule (Kendall Park, New Jersey) and Allee Tallman (Farmington, New York) will serve as captains for the 2017 season, as voted on by the team's coaching staff and student-athletes.
ALL-TIME AGAINST BAYLOR
Quinnipiac and Baylor will go head-to-head for the sixth time on Sunday, with Baylor winning four of the first five meetings between the two teams. Quinnipiac last defeated Baylor on Feb. 23, 2014 in Hamden, Conn. when the Bobcats topped the Bears, 279.39 – 278.83.
2015-16 RECAP
Quinnipiac had its most successful season in the program's seven-year history as it posted an all-time best 7-3 record while advancing to the NCATA National Semifinal for the third time in program history, which also included a National Championship berth in 2013.
No. 1 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY BEARS
Date: Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017
Time: 1:00 PM (CT)
Location: Waco, Texas
Live Video: BaylorBears.com/collegesportslive
Nationally-ranked No. 3 Quinnipiac University acrobatics and tumbling team will open the 2017 season at No. 1 Baylor University in Waco, Texas on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017 at 1 p.m. (CT).
NCATA PRESEASON POLL
Quinnipiac was picked to finish third in the National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association (NCATA) preseason coaches' poll. Baylor was picked to finish first with 12 first-place votes followed by Oregon, who received the other first-place vote. Quinnipiac, at third, preceded Hawaii Pacific, Azusa Pacific, Fairmont State, Alderson-Broaddus, Gannon, King, Concordia-Wisconsin, Glenville State, Georgetown College and Adrian.
IN REMEMBRANCE
Quinnipiac acrobatics & tumbling will compete this weekend without assistant coach Manny Bonilla who passed this week following a long fight with cancer. Bonilla played a pivotal role in guiding Quinnipiac's acrobatics & tumbling program to one of the best in the country while also having a profound effect on Bobcats' student-athletes, coaches and staff. Bonilla joined the Bobcats coaching staff in 2013 and had helped Quinnipiac to a pair of NCATA National Championship semifinal appearances. He passed on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017 at the age of 39 after a lengthy battle with cancer. During his treatment, Bonilla was extremely active in several cancer awareness initiatives while Quinnipiac also raised money annual for the Miles for Manny Fund.
ECAC ACROBATICS & TUMBLING
Quinnipiac and NCATA members Alderson-Broaddus, Gannon and King were announced as members of the newly-formed Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Acrobatics & Tumbling League. The formation of the league will signal an additional championship for the sport that continues to grow, nationally.
THE CAPTAINS
Noelle Brasier (Simi Valley, California), Kelsey Rule (Kendall Park, New Jersey) and Allee Tallman (Farmington, New York) will serve as captains for the 2017 season, as voted on by the team's coaching staff and student-athletes.
ALL-TIME AGAINST BAYLOR
Quinnipiac and Baylor will go head-to-head for the sixth time on Sunday, with Baylor winning four of the first five meetings between the two teams. Quinnipiac last defeated Baylor on Feb. 23, 2014 in Hamden, Conn. when the Bobcats topped the Bears, 279.39 – 278.83.
2015-16 RECAP
Quinnipiac had its most successful season in the program's seven-year history as it posted an all-time best 7-3 record while advancing to the NCATA National Semifinal for the third time in program history, which also included a National Championship berth in 2013.
- Head coach Mary Ann Powers earned NCATA Coach of the Year Honors while Allee Tallman was honored as an All-American.
- For the first time in program history, the Bobcats claimed the Acro Six-Element and Synchronized Toss Championships. In the Six-Element, the four-seeded Quinnipiac team of Tallman, Abby Ziser (Pompton Plains, New Jersey) and Noelle Brasier (Simi Valley, California) captured the individual title with a 9.80.
- The Bobcats then captured the Synchronized Toss as the number two-seed. Tallman, Brasier, Taylor Johnson (Foxboro, Massachusetts), Catherine Toma (Hackettstown, New Jersey), Jenna Capristo (Wolcott, Connecticut), Kelsey Rule (Kendall Park, New Jersey), Kayla McCormack (Hanson, Massachusetts), Jordan Cavallaro (Bloomingdale, New Jersey), Stephanie Amaral (Stoughton, Massachusetts) and Alexandra Williams (Poughkeepsie, New York) all combined efforts to take home the Bobcats' second championship with a 9.50.
- Helped Quinnipiac to win a meet over Fairmont State, 273.995-269.975, in the NCATA Quarterfinal. She and her teammates scored a 9.95 in the Release heat, the Bobcats' highest mark of the meet.
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