Stories courtesy of MAC Athletic Communications Departments
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The 2025 NCAA Regional Gymnastics Meets will feature a total of 11 student-athletes from six different Mid-American Conference rosters competing as individuals.
Two of the MAC’s 11 qualifiers were selected to the Utah Regional on Wednesday, April 2, with three others are set to compete in the Pennsylvania Regional on Thursday, April 3. The remaining six MAC gymnasts will then gear up for the Alabama Regional on Friday, April 4.
Utah Regional (University of Utah, host)
All-Around – Raisa Boris, Eastern Michigan
Floor Exercise – Abby Brushwood, Eastern Michigan
The Eastern Michigan University gymnastics team will send senior Raisa Boris (all-around) and sophomore Abby Brushwood (floor) to the NCAA Regional in Salt Lake City, Utah. EMU will compete in the second session April 2, at 9 p.m. ET, hosted by the University of Utah.
Senior Raisa Boris registered a season-best 39.300 all-around score, Feb. 27, which is tied for the 19th-best mark in program history. Boris earned her fifth all-around win of the season and scored 9.750 or better in all four events, highlighted by season-high 9.875 efforts on beam and floor. Boris also produced a season-high 9.800 on vault. Senior gymnast Raisa Boris earned MAC Gymnast of the Week honors four times in 2024, in addition to earning the recognition twice this season. Against Kent State, March 3, she contributed to the Eagles' 196.450 team score (good for third all-time).
Sophomore Abby Brushwood has produced an impressive stretch on floor. She topped the floor scores, March 9, with a 9.875 mark. Brushwood's career-high 9.900 won the floor competition, Feb. 27, as the sophomore has won the event in back-to-back meets after tallying a then-career-high 9.875 at Central Michigan, Feb. 14. Through March 22, Brushwood has scored 9.800 or higher in 10-straight meets on floor, tallying a 9.850 or higher in seven of those 10 meets. In the meet, Feb. 27, Brushwood also put up a solid 9.800 on vault, the second-best mark of her career in the event.
Pennsylvania Regional (Pennsylvania State University, host)
Vault – Charlie Behner, Kent State
Balance Beam – Heidi Schultz, Kent State
Floor Exercise – Alyssa Guns, Kent State
Charlie Behner was selected to compete on vault after leading the Flashes with a 9.835 NQS in the event, ranking third in the MAC in 2025. The junior led Kent State on vault in five meets this season, posting a season-high 9.850 on three separate occasions and scoring a 9.800 or better in seven meets in 2025. Behner was named Second-Team All-MAC for her performance on vault in the regular season.
Heidi Schultz qualified for the Pennsylvania regional on beam, an event where she boasts the joint-highest NQS in the MAC with a 9.850. She claimed the MAC beam championship in her previous outing with a 9.875 to anchor Kent State's final rotation after earning All-MAC Second-Team honors for her performance on the beam in the regular season. Schultz has posted Kent State's highest beam score in five meets this season, including a career-high 9.925 on March 9 against Ball State, matching the highest score in any event this season by a MAC gymnast.
Alyssa Guns is set to compete in an NCAA regional for the fourth consecutive year of her collegiate career, qualifying on the floor as a freshman and sophomore before competing with the Flashes' team last season in the Ann Arbor Regional. She was selected to the Pennsylvania Regional on the floor, an event in which she earned First-Team All-MAC honors for her regular season performance. Guns' 9.900 NQS on the floor is the highest among all MAC gymnasts this season, ranking 47th nationally. The senior has led Kent State on the floor in six meets this season while earning a score of 9.900 or better on five occasions, including a 9.925 at Eastern Michigan in January to match the best score in any event by a MAC gymnast in 2025. In her previous outing at the MAC Championship, Guns placed second with a 9.900.
Alabama Regional (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, host)
All-Around – Luciana Alvarado-Reid, Central Michigan
Vault – Halle Faulkner, Western Michigan
Vault – Kiera O'Shea, Northern Illinois
Uneven Bars – Reese Samuelson, Western Michigan
Uneven Bars – Ashley Szymanski, Ball State
Floor Exercise – Cassie St. Clair, Western Michigan
Central Michigan’s Luciana Alvarado-Reid, a junior from Cartago, Costa Rica, qualified in 2024 for the uneven bars and competed in the Fayetteville Regional in Arkansas. In 2025, she will compete at the Tuscaloosa Regional in Tuscaloosa, Alabama from April 2-6 at Coleman Coliseum. Alvarado-Reid was named 2025 MAC Gymnast of the Year at the 2025 Mid-American Conference Championships in Mount Pleasant, where the Chippewas claimed their third team title in four years. She won the floor title by tying her career-best score of 9.925. She leads the league in the all-around with a National Qualifying Score (NQS) of 39.230 and is ranked 48th nationally. The junior is ranked 2nd in the league on the uneven bars and 87th nationally and 4th in the league on floor and 88th nationally. Through the 2025 season, Alvarado-Reid won nine all-around titles and was named three different times as MAC Gymnast of the Week, and once as MAC Scholar-Athlete of the Week.
Western Michigan’s Halle Faulkner will compete on vault after finishing the season with a National Qualifying Score of 9.840. She has averaged a 9.817 in the vent and posted a high of 9.875.
Northern Illinois University gymnast Kiera O'Shea will compete at the NCAA Regionals for the second straight season. O'Shea will compete in session 1 on Friday in the first rotation with the host Alabama Crimson Tide. O'Shea, a junior from Norridge, Ill., earned an NQS of 1.845 and an average of 9.812 this season. She was also named to the All-MAC first team last week after leading the conference in NQS on the vault. The 2024 NCAA Regional qualifier and 2024 MAC Champion earned seven wins on vault this season. That included a streak of six straight wins from January 24 through February 23 this season. O'Shea posted a season high of 9.900 on Feb. 23 at Western Michigan.
WMU’s Reese Samuelson will compete on bars in her first-ever trip to the NCAA Regionals after finishing the season with a NQS of 9.845, an average of a 9.813 and a high of 9.875. Samuelson reached her high, which is also her career-high, twice during the season.
Fellow Bronco Cassie St. Clair is tied for the 78th-best NQS in the nation at a 9.880. She has an average of a 9.840 and reached a high of 9.925 back on Feb. 9 against Eastern Michigan. This is St. Clair's second-straight season competing at the NCAA Regionals as an individual. Last season she competed on floor and scored a 9.850 at the University of Michigan. With that and her time competing with team in 2023 and 2022, she has competed at NCAA Regionals in all four of her seasons at Western Michigan.
Ball State’s Szymanski, the two-time defending Mid-American Conference bars champion, will compete on bars after finishing the season ranked 67th nationally with a National Qualifying Score (NQS) of 9.875. The 2025 MAC Specialist of the Year, 2024 MAC Freshman of the Year and two-time First Team All-MAC selection, Szymanski also competed as an individual on bars at the 2024 NCAA Ann Arbor Regional, tying for seventh overall with a score of 9.900. A two-time MAC Specialist of the Week honoree this season, Szymanski turned in a season-best 9.900 to win the event in Ball State's dual versus Northern Illinois (March 2). She also tallied six scores of 9.875, including her effort to win the individual title at last Saturday's MAC Championships, which was 0.050 ahead of the next closest competitor.
