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Navy Sports Magazine Interview w/Riley Rose
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The six-time defending ECAC Champions, the Navy gymnastics team will be looking to capture its seventh straight conference crown on Saturday when it travels to Simpson College for competition at the 2025 ECAC Championship. The top seed among a six-team field, No. 8 Navy will aim to hold off the tightly-packed trio of teams ranked 11 through 13, William & Mary, Army and Greenville, that are separated by just 1.6 points, as well as No. 14 Springfield and No. 15 Simpson, who will have the advantage of competing in their own gym. This past weekend Navy and Army went one-two at the USAG Collegiate Championship with the Mids holding off the Black Knights behind a season-best 320.70 performance. First touch at Simpson’s Cowles Field House is slated to begin at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m.-local). Besides vying for the team title on Saturday, the top six scorers in the all-around competition and on each individual apparatus will earn All-ECAC honors.
The 2025 ECAC Championship will have live video and statistics posted on the Virtius platform.
Navy at the ECAC Championship last 5 Years
2024 – (at Springfield): 1st Place – 401.45 points || Greenville, 2nd – 393.00 || Springfield, 3rd – 392.05 || Army, 4th – 390.90 || William & Mary, 5th – 387.80 || Simpson, 6th – 360.95
2023 – (at Navy): 1st Place – 394.45 || Springfield, 2nd – 386.75 || William & Mary, 3rd – 383.55 || Army, 4th – 377.65 || Greenville, 5th – 376.25 || Simpson, 6th – 346.65
2022 – (at William & Mary): 1st Place – 401.85 || Springfield, 2nd – 387.05 || William & Mary, 3rd – 385.25 || Army, 4th – 384.85
2021 – (at Army): 1st Place – 397.8 || William & Mary, 2nd – 392.1 || Army, 3rd – 388.05 || Springfield, 4th – 381.75
2020 – Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
Most Recent ECAC Championship ~ April 6, 2024 in Springfield
A dominant second half of the meet and season-highs across the board led the Navy team to its sixth straight ECAC Championship. Coming in with just a 2.74-point advantage in scoring average over Springfield and 3.07 points over Greenville, Navy turned in its best team scoring performance of the season with a 401.45-point output on Saturday. The Mids were firing on all cylinders with conference glory on the line at Springfield’s Blake Arena as they surpassed their season averages on five events and cruised past the field by 8.45 points. Four individual event winners and six additional top-three results aided Navy’s effort in clinching the conference crown.
The final scoreboard had Navy first with 401.45 points and Greenville second at 393.00. Springfield rounded out the podium in third place less than a point back at 392.05. The second half of the leaderboard was Army in fourth at 390.90, William & Mary in fifth at 387.80 and Simpson in sixth with 360.95 points.
Navy received contributions from across its roster as Midshipmen gymnasts won individual titles on three separate apparatuses and a fourth with Isaiah Drake’s all-around gold. Riley Rose had a breakthrough conference championship as he earned his first career ECAC individual titles as he won the rings by 0.20 points before following up his effort with another gold, three events later on the high bar. The third recipient of All-ECAC gold on Saturday was Matthew Petros, who out-paced the field on the parallel bars by 0.25 points.
As a team, Navy scored 67.9 points on the floor exercise, 64.45 on the pommel horse, 64.95 on the rings, 71.5 on the vault, 67.3 on the parallel bars and 65.35 on the high bar. Those scores surpassed five of Navy’s season averages: 65.65 (FX), 63.03 (R), 70.02 (VT), 65.62 (PB) and 64.20 (HB).
Comparing the Squads
(Four-Score Averages)
|
Navy |
W & M |
Army |
Green. |
Spring. |
Simps. |
Top. Ind. in ECAC |
Top Navy Ind. |
All-Around |
313.167 |
311.167 |
310.858 |
309.550 |
307.150 |
297.983 |
B. Solomon, 75.3 (NV) |
|
Floor Exercise |
52.88 |
52.93 |
52.93 |
52.83 |
51.87 |
51.57 |
E. Wilkin, 13.7 (WM) |
I. Drake, 13.4 |
Pommel Horse |
51.48 |
48.75 |
52.75 |
52.33 |
50.77 |
46.82 |
M. Pabellon, 14.1 (AR) |
J. Soltz, 13.2 |
Rings |
52.27 |
52.12 |
51.09 |
50.63 |
50.72 |
50.40 |
B. Rollison, 13.4 (SIM) |
I. Drake, 13.4 |
Vault |
55.08 |
55.15 |
54.00 |
55.13 |
54.97 |
53.95 |
B. Jones, 14.2 (SIM) |
I. Drake, 14.1 |
Parallel Bars |
51.46 |
51.48 |
51.15 |
51.53 |
49.45 |
48.42 |
C. Heary, 13.4 (AR) |
M. Petros, 13.2 |
High Bar |
52.35 |
51.02 |
51.43 |
49.72 |
50.72 |
48.73 |
M. Petros, 13.4 (NV) |
|
Last Time Out ~ USAG Collegiate Championships: March 28 & 29 in Annapolis
Under the bright lights of the 2025 USAG Collegiate National Championship, the Navy gymnastics team shined with a season-best performance on its way to the team title. Locked in from its first rotation on the parallel bars, the Mids hit 24-of-24 routines as every gymnast, who raised their hand for action on Friday scored 12.75 or more points on every routine and added nine stick bonuses on their way to a 320.70-point showing, 5.65 points ahead of runner-up Army.
The final leaderboard consisted of Navy in first with Army in second at 315.05 and Air Force in third with 313.05 points. William & Mary battled to the end, but missed the final medal-winning position on the podium with a fourth-place result of 310.10. Springfield and Simpson College rounded out the standings with respective scores of 308.45 and 300.80.
Individually, Isaiah Drake highlighted the team’s success as he placed top-five on four separate apparatus and won the all-around title for his first career USAG Championship gold medal. He tied for the top vault of the day before finishing fourth on the rings and fifth on both the parallel bars and high bar.
Drake led a contingent of nine different Mids that qualified for the event finals as fellow senior William Champagne and Matthew Petros joined him in multiple finals courtesy of strong efforts on the floor exercise and parallel bars for Champagne and high bar and parallel bars for Petros. Freshman Boone Washburn matched Drake for the result of the day as he turned in the top score on the high bar on Friday.
As a team, Navy scored 54.25 points on the floor exercise, 52.35 on the pommel horse, 52.05 on the rings, 55.0 on the vault, 53.4 on the parallel bars and 53.65 on the high bar. Four of those six marks are season-highs as the Mids’ previous best score on the floor was a 53.20, a 52.05 on the horse, a 51.5 on the p-bars and a 52.85 on the high bar. This was the first time all season that the team posted scores of 52.0 or better across all six disciplines.
On Saturday, the 2025 USAG Collegiate National Championship Meet concluded with the event finals at Halsey Field House. The Mids were well represented on the podium throughout the meet as 10 of the team’s 12 routines on Saturday earned medals with William Champagne and Matthew Petros leading the way with first place results.
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