ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Ithaca College gymnastics team will seek individual honors at the 2013 National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Championships, hosted Friday and Saturday by Wisconsin-Whitewater. A total of 10 Bomber gymnasts have qualified to compete for a total of 15 event entries. Event preliminaries take place Friday along with the team championships, beginning at 6 p.m. Event finals will be held Saturday beginning at 5 p.m.

A live video webstream will be available along with live scoring. Fans can also visit the official championship meet site and download the meet program (.pdf).

The top-10 individuals in the all-around earn NCGA All-America honors while the top-six in the vault, bars, beam and floor earn NCGA First Team All-America awards.  The next six individual finishers are selected NCGA Second Team All-America.

Three Bombers will compete who have earned NCGA all-America honors in previous seasons. Senior Chelsea Robie and graduate student Christine Niles were 2012 all-Americans on the uneven bars. Robie placed fifth on bars in 2012 and Niles was eighth on bars in 2012. Junior Shilanna Gallo earned all-America honors on uneven bars as a freshman in 2011 when she placed eighth. Those three gymnasts will be competing on bars, and Niles will also compete on vault.

Senior Katie Sampson is entered in the all-around finals, which will take place Friday. Graduate student Tiffany Grube will vie for honors in three events - vault, balance beam and floor exercise. Sophomore Valerie Cohen and junior Kate Woodward are also entered in multiple events. Cohen qualified on both vault and floor exercise and Woodward is in the running on uneven bars and balance beam

Three other Bomber gymnasts will compete in one event each as freshman Megan Harrington and freshman Emma Duncan are on floor exercise and junior Rani Jacobson is on vault.

A total of 11 Ithaca gymnasts have won event national championships in program history and the team won the national title in 1998. This is just the third time in the event's 27-year history that the Bombers will not participate in the team scoring championships.