Coming off a huge 2024 slate for the team, season tickets for Arkansas gymnastics’ 2025 campaign are now on sale.
Fans can purchase general admission season tickets for just $35 via Razorback Ticket Center. Renewals for reserved seat ticket holders will be available this fall.
Razorback Nation did not disappoint in its support for gymnastics in 2024, starting with a new season ticket record of 2,480. Arkansas recorded a total regular season attendance of 35,367 across five meets, and set a new average attendance record at Barnhill Arena with 6,084 over three contests in the venue.
The Gymbacks soared to new heights in 2024 with a season that ended at the NCAA Gymnastics National Championships, their first trip in eight years. Arkansas finished seventh in Fort Worth and were in the same spot of the final rankings of the season, the team’s highest closing rank since 2012 and best under head coach Jordyn Wieber.
Over the course of the season, the Gymbacks set and broke their team program score record three times. They reachd their peak on March 15 against Nebraska with a 198.100, the first 198 ever for Arkansas. The team also set new event records on vault (49.550), beam (49.575), and floor (49.725).
The team ultimately tallied 11 total scores of 197+, a new program single season record by six, and compiled a 15-15-1 record, the most wins since 2012 and most in Wieber’s tenure. The Gymbacks had a 4-2-1 record in SEC competition, the most conference victories since 2016
Arkansas only loses two key routines from last season heading into 2025 and returns a wealth of talent including All-Americans Reese Drotar (bars), Leah Smith (vault) and Cami Weaver (vault). Floor regular season All-American and All-SEC honoree Frankie Price will be back for another season of fan favorite gymnastics, and fellow all-conference teammates Maddie Jones, Hailey Klein and Lauren Williams will also play big roles for the Gymbacks.
The team’s new additions are sure to make a big impact, starting with incoming freshman Joscelyn Roberson. Roberson has just returned stateside after a trip to Paris for the 2024 Olympics as a traveling alternate for Team USA, the first gymnast to ever represent Arkansas at the games. En route to Paris, she had an excellent showing at Olympic Trials with back-to-back personal high all-around scores of 55.475 and 55.500. She placed sixth overall with a combined score of 110.975, finished in fourth place on vault and floor and tied for first on beam.
Roberson is 2023 world champion, 2023 U.S. vault champion. Since her senior debut in 2022, Roberson has earned 23 top 10 finishes across eight domestic competitions and 11 in her four international assignments with Team USA.
Grace Drexler, Ja’Leigh Lang, Sadie Smith and Julianna Weeks join Joscelyn in the freshman class. Drexler was the 2022 national all-around and floor champion and earned three top five finishes at this year’s Region 4 championships, including third overall. Lang was the 2023 national vault champion, all-around silver medalist, and came in fourth on bars. Smith is the reigning Region 2 all-around and bars champion, and also took silver on floor. Weeks posted a top 15 finish on bars at Level 10 nationals in May, and went into the meet as the Region 8 bars champion and all-around silver medalist.
Arkansas has also added two graduate transfers in the off-season, Kaity Ewald and Mati Waligora. Ewald heads to The Hill from Illinois, where she contributed mostly on bars and beam. She has scored 9.850+ in 19 of her appearances on bars, and holds a personal best of 9.950, set this past season. She earned 9.850+ in six appearances on beam, which included a career-high 9.875 on March 17. Waligora is an in-conference transfer from Alabama, where she has spent the last five seasons. She was a staple in the Tide’s bars, beam, and floor lineups in 2024 and competed in all but one meet on the season. She scored 9.850+ seven times on bars and beam and nine times on floor.
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