Gophers gymnast Mya Hooten earns All-American honors for fifth consecutive season

Mya Hooten and the Gophers women’s gymnastics team will compete in the NCAA Salt Lake City Regional, beginning Thursday at 2 p.m.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
March 31, 2025 at 10:02PM
Mya Hooten, shown competing on the balance beam during an NCAA meet in Las Vegas in 2024, has added another award to her Gophers gymnastics career. (Stew Milne/The Associated Press)

Gophers gymnast Mya Hooten has earned All-American honors for the fifth consecutive season, as her team prepares for the NCAA regionals starting Thursday in Salt Lake City.

The Women’s College Gymnastics Association (WCGA) named Hooten a second-team All-American on floor exercise this season. The Woodbury native is ranked tied for 14th in the country in floor with a national qualifying score of 9.930 and narrowly missed All-American honors on the vault.

Hooten has earned eight WCGA All-American honors for her career and joined Lexy Ramler (2018-2022) as the only Gophers to earn WCGA All-American honors in five consecutive seasons.

The Gophers (15-3, 8-1 Big Ten) are the No. 12 overall seed entering the NCAA regionals and will compete Thursday at 2 p.m. Two teams will advance from the Salt Lake City regional; other top teams there include No. 4 Utah, No. 5 UCLA and No. 13 Stanford. The regional final is Saturday at 6 p.m.

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Joe Christensen

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Joe Christensen, a Minnesota Star Tribune sports team leader, graduated from the University of Minnesota and spent 15 years covering Major League Baseball, including stops at the Riverside Press-Enterprise and Baltimore Sun. He joined the Minnesota Star Tribune in 2005 and spent four years covering Gophers football.

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