For the first time since 2014, the Rutgers gymnastics team will be heading to the NCAA Regionals as a team.
After placing second in the first session of the 2025 Big Ten Championships with a program Big Ten Championship record score of 196.225, the Scarlet Knights qualified for regionals with a National Qualifying Score (NQS) of 195.890, which was good enough for 34th nationally. The teams with the top 36 NQS scores qualify for regionals.
Rutgers was selected to the Tuscaloosa Regional, where they will compete in a play-in dual meet against Clemson on April 3. The winner of that meet will advance to compete in a quad meet against 3-seed Florida, 14-seed Oregon State, and NC State on April 4. From there, the top two teams from that quad would advance to face the top two teams from the other Tuscaloosa Regional quad meet for the regional championship on April 6. The top two teams from each regional advance to the national semifinals on April 17 in Fort Worth, Texas.
The last time the Scarlet Knights qualified as a team for the NCAA Regionals, they finished in sixth place, out of six teams, at the Athens, Georgia, regional.
Beyond competing as a team in the regionals for the first time in over a decade, Rutgers also had three gymnasts selected as individual competitors. Delaney Adrian will be competing on the uneven bars, while Gabrielle Dildy and Rachael Riley will be competing as individuals on the balance beam. Adrian, Dildy, and Riley will compete in the second round quad meet regardless of the team’s play-in dual meet result.
Additionally, from a conference standpoint, the Scarlet Knights are one of a Big Ten record 11 teams selected to the NCAA Regionals this year.
Rounding out the Tuscaloosa Regional field are 6-seed California, 11-seed and host, Alabama, North Carolina, and Big Ten foe, Iowa.
