{"id":233815,"date":"2026-01-12T06:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/233815\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T06:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:29:11","slug":"samuelson-matches-career-high-bars-mark-at-ball-state-tri-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/233815\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuelson Matches Career-High Bars Mark at Ball State Tri-Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     MUNCIE, Ind. &#8212; Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/wmubroncos.com\/sports\/womens-gymnastics\/roster\/reese-samuelson\/14363\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14363\" target=\"_blank\">Reese Samuelson<\/a> matched her career-high bars score as the Western Michigan gymnastics team wrapped up a tri-meet against Ball State and Rutgers on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Samuelson earned a 9.875 and finished second overall in the event. As a team, the Broncos fell to the host Cardinals 194.275-193.025 and to the Scarlet Knights 194.975-193.025. For Samuelson, it matched her career-best mark that she recorded twice during the 2025 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a team, bars was Western Michigan&#8217;s strongest event on the day with a combined score of 48.650. <a href=\"https:\/\/wmubroncos.com\/sports\/womens-gymnastics\/roster\/reilan-garvey\/15753\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15753\" target=\"_blank\">Reilan Garvey<\/a> had a 9.800, while <a href=\"https:\/\/wmubroncos.com\/sports\/womens-gymnastics\/roster\/aliyah-kelly\/15791\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15791\" target=\"_blank\">Aliyah Kelly<\/a> was WMU&#8217;s third-best bars performer with a 9.700. <a href=\"https:\/\/wmubroncos.com\/sports\/womens-gymnastics\/roster\/amy-robins\/15788\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15788\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Robins<\/a> with a 9.675 and <a href=\"https:\/\/wmubroncos.com\/sports\/womens-gymnastics\/roster\/julie-korfhage\/14364\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14364\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Korfhage<\/a> with a 9.600 rounded out the scoring for the Broncos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Freshmen <a href=\"https:\/\/wmubroncos.com\/sports\/womens-gymnastics\/roster\/casey-mooney\/15768\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15768\" target=\"_blank\">Casey Mooney<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wmubroncos.com\/sports\/womens-gymnastics\/roster\/isabella-ciolfi\/15786\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15786\" target=\"_blank\">Isabella Ciolfi<\/a> were the team&#8217;s top performers on beam, both scoring a 9.750. Mooney and <a href=\"https:\/\/wmubroncos.com\/sports\/womens-gymnastics\/roster\/kennedy-cooper\/15752\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15752\" target=\"_blank\">Kennedy Cooper<\/a> had WMU&#8217;s top scores on vault, both scoring 9.725. <a href=\"https:\/\/wmubroncos.com\/sports\/womens-gymnastics\/roster\/brooke-gelesko\/14499\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14499\" target=\"_blank\">Brooke Gelesko<\/a> scored a 9.750 on floor to top the team.<\/p>\n<p>Western Michigan is back on the road next Sunday, traveling to Central Michigan to open Mid-American Conference play.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; MUNCIE, Ind. &#8212; Junior Reese Samuelson matched her career-high bars score as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-233815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}