Arkansas won’t have to worry about being left out of the SEC Gymnastics Championships moving forward.

The 2025 Southeastern Conference Spring Meetings concluded Thursday, with SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey addressing several topics, including conference athletic directors approving including all nine SEC schools that sponsor gymnastics to participate in the SEC Gymnastics Championships starting in 2026.

After a season that saw the Razorbacks beat LSU and Florida – teams ranked No. 2 in the nation at the time of competition – during the regular season, Arkansas still ended up as the ninth place team in the SEC by National Qualifying Score (NQS) and was subsequently eliminated from competing at the conference championship meet. This, despite being the No. 16 team in the country at the time (the Razorbacks would finish No. 12 overall after the NCAA tournament). The team also lost out on an away meet score to potentially include in its NQS, which could’ve impacted postseason seeding.

With the addition of Oklahoma to the SEC gymnastics ranks, the conference changed the format of the meet for 2025, opting to leave one school – whoever finished last in the regular season rankings by NQS – out of the conference championship, including individuals. This decision faced backlash from fans, athletes, and coaches throughout the season, especially as Arkansas proved it was capable of wreaking havoc on the conference’s top teams.

Part of the hang up on having nine teams was the issue of having five teams in either the afternoon or evening session, which would mean adding a bye rotation and increasing the runtime of the meet by approximately 20-30 minutes – a potential obstacle for the meet broadcast as networks continue to try to optimize the viewer experience. According to Whole Hog Sports, the 2026 SEC Gymnastics Championships will see the bottom four teams compete in the afternoon session and the top five teams compete in the evening session.

“All nine [teams] will be invited,” Sankey said. “Noting just the high level of competition and the impact on some of the score opportunities, it’s important for all of us to compete together.”

STILLWATER – Oklahoma State’s September 6 game at Oregon kicks off at 2:30 p.m. CT on CBS, announced Thursday by the Big Ten.
 
It marks the fourth time in program history and the first time since the 1987 Sun Bowl that Oklahoma State has played on CBS.
 
With Thursday’s announcement from the Big 12 of OSU’s first two home game kickoff times, the non-conference schedule is complete.
 
The Cowboys’ season opener against UT Martin on Thursday, August 28, kicks at 6:30 p.m. CT on ESPN+ and the Gateway First Bank Turnpike Classic against Tulsa on Friday, September 19, starts at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN.
 
Kickoff times for OSU’s conference slate will be announced within two weeks prior to each game.
 
Season tickets that include all seven home Cowboy football games are on sale now at okstate.com/tickets. The OSU ticket office can also be reached via call/text at 877-255-4678 or through email at tickets@okstate.edu.
 
 

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State men’s tennis player Ozan Baris collected All-America accolades from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) for the third-straight year.

ITA All-America honors are awarded to student-athletes that advanced to the round of 16 at the NCAA Individual Championships in November or finished in the top 20 of the final ITA singles rankings released last Wednesday, and Baris did both.

Baris has now earned ITA All-American honors in 2023, 2024 and 2025. He is MSU’s only multiple All-American recipient, now with three of the Spartans’ seven total All-America honors, joining Mashiska Washington (singles) in 1994, current MSU head coach Harry Jadun and John Mullane (doubles) in 2015, Max Sheldon (doubles) with Baris in 2023.

A junior from Okemos, Michigan, Baris earned First Team All-Big Ten accolades this spring, logging 23 overall singles wins this season, including 10 during dual action, in helping the Spartans reach the Round of 32 at the NCAA Tournament. Last fall, Baris was the NCAA Individual Championships National Runner-Up, falling to National Champion Michael Zheng of Columbia in the title match.

The Spartans ended their 2024-25 campaign at 17-10, concluding their season in the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row. Overall, Michigan State was making its third appearance in the NCAA Tournament, first doing so in 2013. 

MSU’s 17-10 overall record gives the Green & White 40 wins over last two years, the most wins in back-to-back seasons since 2012-13, the Spartans’ previous NCAA Tournament trip when current head coach Harry Jadun was a sophomore student-athlete.

 

Aaronson Mansberger received a wealth of accolades in his first season on the University of Michigan’s men’s gymnastics team.

The 2024 Carmel High School graduate was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week three times. He also was named Michigan’s 2024-25 Rookie of the Year for men’s gymnastics and was named a College Gymnastics Association Regular Season All-American.

But those are not the accomplishments that meant the most to him.

“Helping the team win its fifth straight Big Ten Conference title and first NCAA title in over 10 years (April 19) brought me more joy than any individual title ever could,” Mansberger said. “It was a really special moment to look up at the home crowd at (Michigan’s) Crisler Arena and see all of our friends and supporters cheering us on after bringing home the championships.”

Next up for Mansberger is competing June 28 in the men’s national qualifier.

“My goal is to qualify from that meet to the U.S. Championships in August, which serves as the selection competition for the U.S. Senior National Team and the 2025 World Championships Team,” he said. “Looking ahead to next college season, my goal is to improve my dismount skill. I fell at the (Big Ten) pommel horse final and NCAA Championships and I want to increase the difficulty score in my routine while maintaining the high-execution scores I received last season.”

Mansberger’s season-high score of 14.7 in the Big Ten team competition qualified for second place for the pommel horse final. The next evening, he fell on his dismount and scored 13.575, which placed him sixth. In the NCAA Championships, he had the third-highest score with 14.466 after qualifications. In the finals the next night, he again fell on his dismount and scored 13.4, which placed  17th.

Mansberger said his uncharacteristic falls on his dismount in the Big Ten and NCAA finals are why he knows there’s still work to do to improve his consistency.

“I showed very high potential by being in the top three of both the Big Ten and NCAA after qualifications, but I wasn’t able to finish strong in finals,” said Mansberger, who trained at Interactive Academy in Zionsville from the time he was 5 years old through high school.

Mansberger said the falls taught him that he still needs work on his mental and physical preparation.

“I didn’t have a perfect record, but I was able to prove myself as someone the team can rely on to anchor the pommel horse lineup,” he said. “In my club career before college, I struggled with performing under pressure. This year, I did a lot of mental training, and this helped me perform my routine more reliably. Knowing that my 24 teammates had my back no matter what gave me confidence.”