- Utah State gymnastics won consecutive Mountain West Championships for the first time in 2026, went 19-8 and unbeaten at home, and posted the nation's best team GPA. In 2026-27 it joins a four-team Pac-12 gymnastics league.
- Mya Witte, Sydney Jelen, Lundyn VanderToolen, Utah State Gymnastics connect back to Utah State University and the wider gymnastics picture.
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October 18, 2026
October 18, 2026
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Utah State gymnastics enters 2027 in a new conference after winning its old one twice in a row. In 2026 the Aggies won the Mountain West Championship for a second straight year, the first back-to-back postseason titles in program history, shared the regular-season crown with Air Force and went 19-8, unbeaten at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. They reached the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional, the program's 29th regional. For 2026-27 Utah State is one of four teams in the Pac-12's gymnastics league, with Boise State, Oregon State and Southern Utah. The Utah State gymnastics team page links the official roster and schedule.
How the 2026 season unfolded
The Aggies opened at the Best of Utah meet in West Valley City on Jan. 12, placing second with 195.825 behind Utah and ahead of BYU and Southern Utah. Five days later they beat Southern Utah 195.700-195.550 in their home opener. A then-season-high 196.075 in a loss at Oregon State followed on Jan. 25, then a win at the Boise State Quad on Jan. 30 with 195.350.
February brought a second-place finish at the Air Force tri-meet, a win at USU's own quad meet on Feb. 9, a road loss at San Jose State and two home conference wins: 196.325-194.950 over Boise State on Feb. 20 and 196.025-195.825 over Air Force a week later. The best stretch came in early March. On March 2 the Aggies scored 196.875 at Southern Utah, the third-highest total in program history, and on March 6 they beat No. 25 Oregon State 196.650-196.150 at home, the 10th-highest. That sequence was part of a school-record six straight meets at 196.000 or better, by head coach Kristin White's bio.
USU's schedule page lists the team 19-8 overall and 8-0 at home, counting each opponent in a multi-team meet as its own result. The Aggies went 4-0 against Southern Utah. The 19 wins are the program's most since 1986, by USU's end-of-season banquet release.
Back-to-back Mountain West champions
At the Mountain West Championships in Boise on March 21, Utah State scored 196.400 to finish ahead of Boise State (196.200), San Jose State (195.800) and Air Force (195.750). Mya Witte was named championship MVP after a career-high 9.950 on beam, tied for the second-highest beam score in program history. The day before, six Aggies earned seven All-Mountain West honors. First-team picks were Sydney Jelen and Witte on beam, Nyla Morabito on vault, Isabella Vater on floor, and Olivia Orengo and Lundyn VanderToolen on bars; Jelen also made the second team on bars.
Baton Rouge
Utah State entered the postseason ranked 26th with a 195.905 national qualifying score and drew the Baton Rouge Regional. In its second-round session on April 2 it scored 195.750 and placed fourth behind No. 7 Stanford (197.175), No. 10 Michigan (196.600) and No. 22 North Carolina (196.250). It was the Aggies' first second-round appearance since 2022, by USU's recap.
Program history
The 1991 team remains the only Utah State squad to reach the NCAA Championships, where it placed 12th, according to USU's 2026 media guide. The school record team score is 197.225, set at Texas Woman's on March 1, 1997. USU counts nine conference titles in program history after the 2026 season. In the classroom, the WCGA named Utah State's 3.89 team GPA the best in the nation for 2025-26.
Who is back for 2027
USU's 2026-27 roster lists 18 gymnasts. Witte, a senior from Greenacres, Florida, competes vault and beam. Jelen, a senior from Algonquin, Illinois, was the team's 2026 MVP at the season banquet and owns a 9.925 career high on bars. VanderToolen, a junior from Cottonwood Heights who trained at Olympus Gymnastics, shared the Mountain West Championship vault title. Freshman Mara Gruber won the conference championship floor title in 2026 and is back as a sophomore.
The newcomers include three November 2025 signees, Leighton Didier of Fort Worth, Texas, Julia Gothers of McKinney, Texas, and Stella Guth of Stillwater, Minnesota, plus Leona Gentien of Banff, Alberta, whom USU's release describes as Canada's 2025 national all-around champion, and Lauren O'Brochta, a beam specialist who spent three seasons at Iowa State.
Coaching staff
White was named head coach on May 20, 2022, and USU extended her contract through the 2030 season on March 3, 2026. Robert Ladanyi, Brianna Brooks and Abby Mueller are assistant coaches; Brooks, a former Aggie gymnast, joined the staff in July 2025 and Mueller in July 2026.
When the season starts
Utah State had not published its 2027 schedule when this story was checked on Oct. 18, 2026, and its 2026 schedule had been announced on Oct. 8, 2025. The Pac-12 lists its 2027 gymnastics championship for March 20 at Oregon State. The Utah college gymnastics guide sets the Aggies alongside the state's other three programs.
Key facts:
- Team: Utah State Aggies women's gymnastics, Pac-12 Conference for 2026-27, Dee Glen Smith Spectrum in Logan
- Head coach: Kristin White, named May 2022, extended through the 2030 season
- 2026 record: 19-8 overall and 8-0 at home, as USU's schedule page counts multi-team meets
- Mountain West Championship, March 21, 2026: first with 196.400, the program's first back-to-back postseason titles
- Best 2026 score: 196.875 at Southern Utah on March 2, third-highest in program history
- NCAA Baton Rouge Regional, April 2, 2026: fourth in the second-round session with 195.750; the program's 29th regional
- Academics: nation's top team GPA for 2025-26, 3.89, per the WCGA
- 2027: schedule not yet published as of Oct. 18, 2026; Pac-12 Championship March 20, 2027 at Oregon State