Seniors Sasha Tsikhanovich And Caitlin Perry Earn Weekly Corvias ECAC Division II Women's Gymnastics Awards
Purple Knights Will Be Looking For Seventh Straight ECAC Division II Team Title On Saturday
Danbury, Conn.-University of Bridgeport seniors Sasha Tsikhanovich (Maryville, Ohio) and Caitlin Perry (N. Kingston, R.I.) have been named the recipients of this week's Corvias ECAC Division II Women's Gymnastics Gymnast of the Week and Specialist of the Week.
Earning ECAC Gymnast of the Week, Sasha did an excellent job with consistently strong performances in the all-around and received another perfect score of 10.0 from one judge in the floor exercise for the second consecutive week as she tied her school record of 9.975 that event. Tsikhanovich took multiple first places in events competing twice during the week. Sasha is leading the country in the all-around (D II & USA Gymnastics). This last week's Senior Meet versus Brown, her mother paid a surprised visit, and Sasha then surprised her by performing her mom's 1988 Olympic floor routine. Her mother was in tears the entire performance. It was a night full of emotions with Sasha giving the biggest surprise of all.
The ECAC Specialist of the Week, Perry received scores of 9.90 and 9.95 from of the floor officials this week averaging a 9.925. Caitlin scored a personal best of 9.8 on vault this weekend and is shaping up to championship form from hip surgery last summer.
This week, Tsikhanovich and Perry plus their teammates will be looking for the University of Bridgeport's seventh straight ECAC Division II Women's Gymnastics Team Title on Saturday at the 2015 ECAC Division II Championship Meet hosted by Southern Connecticut State University. Action is scheduled to get underway in New Haven at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday.