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2015 Nebraska Women’s Gymnastics
emily wong Valley Gymnastics
Departed Senior • Grand Forks, N.D. • Red River
honors and awards
• AAI Award Winner
• Nebraska’s Female Student Athlete of the Year
• Honda Award Finalist
• First-Team All-American (2011: UB; 2012: BB; 2013:
V, FX, AA; 2014: FX, BB)
•Second-Team All-American (2012: FX, AA; 2013 BB;
2014: AA)
•CoSIDA Academic All-American (2013, 2014)
•NACGC/W First-Team All-American (2013:UB, BB,
FX, AA; 2014: AA, FX)
• NACGC/W Second-Team All-American (2014: UB, BB)
•NACGC/Scholastic All-American (2011, 2012, 2013)
• NCAA Seattle Regional Champion (2014: AA, UB, FX)
•NCAA Morgantown Regional Co-Champion (2013:V)
•NCAA Salt Lake Champion (2012: BB)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Year (2014)
• Big Ten Medal of Honor (2014)
•Big Ten All-Around Champion (2012, 2013)
•Big Ten Beam Champion (2012, 2013, 2014)
•Big Ten Floor Champion (2012, 2013, 2014)
•Big Ten Bars Champion (2013)
•All-Big Ten Championship Team (2012: V, BB, FX, AA;
2013: UB, BB, FX, AA; 2014: FX, BB)
•First-Team All-Big Ten (2012, 2013, 2014)
•Academic All-Big Ten (2012, 2013, 2014)
•Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2012, 2013, 2014)
career highs
VAULT:
9.95 (2 times, last at NCAA Morgantown Regional, 4/6/13)
BARS:
9.95 (5 times, last at NCAA Seattle Regional, 4/5/14)
BEAM:
9.95 (2 times, last at NCAA Super Six, 4/19/14)
FLOOR:
10.00 (at Big Ten Championships 3/22/14)
ALL-AROUND:
39.725 (at Big Ten Championships, 3/23/13)
2014 • senior season
Emily Wong cemented her position as one of the nation’s top
all-around student-athletes in 2014. She recorded one of the
best senior seasons by a Nebraska gymnast in history. Through
the regular season, Wong captured 32 event titles, remained
undefeated in the all-around and posted some of the top scores
in the country. Her momentum inspired the entire Nebraska
gymnastics team to the best start to a season (5-0) since 1997.
Wong took home three All-America honors at the 2014 NCAA
Championships to give her 11 total honors to tie with Emily
Parsons and Heather Brink for the most in school history. In
the Semifinals Wong put up a 39.525 all-around score to finish
fifth. On floor, Wong performed her famous routine one last
time at the event finals, notching a 9.90 mark to finish ninth,
while adding a 14th-place finish on beam.
At the conference level, she was the Big Ten Gymnast of
the Week five times and at the Big Ten Championships, she
collected two career-high scores on beam (9.95) and floor,
posting a perfect 10.00. Wong is only the second Husker
gymnast to record a 10.00 on the event, joining Richelle
Simpson. Wong was awarded Big Ten Gymnast of the Year after
the meet for her efforts during the season. She took home her
10th all-around crown at the 2014 NCAA Seattle Regional by
delivering a notable performance. She tallied a career-high
9.95 on bars and 9.90 on floor to notch both event titles enroute to the all-around crown (39.625).
Wong continued to stockpile honors both in the gym and the
classroom in 2014, as she was selected as Nebraska’s Female
Student-Athlete of the Year and a Honda Award Finalist. Wong
became the second Nebraska gymnast presented with the AAI
American Award, an honor annually given to the nation’s top
gymnast on the basis of athleticism, academic excellence and
civic responsibility. Wong was also awarded the Big Ten Medal
of honor and Big Ten Wayne Duke Postgraduate Scholarship.
She closed her Husker career as an 11-time All-American with 77
event titles, holding the Nebraska floor record with Richelle Simpson.
2013 • JUNIOR season
A four-time All-American as a junior, Wong tied for third
nationally in the all-around at the NCAA Championships with
a score of 39.525. Her performance also landed her first-team
All-America accolades on vault, floor, and the all-around and
second-team laurels on beam. She finished third on floor and
10th on vault at the event finals.
Wong snagged a total of 24 titles in 2013, including seven in
the all-around. She saved her finest performance of the season
for the Big Ten Championships, winning the all-around for the
second consecutive year with a career high of 39.725. Wong
was also the conference champion or co-champion on floor,
beam and bars.
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2012 • sophomore season
Wong put together another stellar season in her sophomore
campaign at Nebraska, capturing first-team All-America
honors on beam and adding second-team accolades on floor
and in all-around competition at the NCAA Championships in
Duluth, Ga. Wong also qualified for the beam finals at the NCAA
Championships, posting a score of 9.825 to finish 10th.
Wong saved one of her finest performances of the year
for the conference championship, winning titles on beam
(9.900) and floor (9.900) and earning Nebraska’s first Big Ten
Championship individual all-around title (39.600). Her top
all-around performance of the year came against top-ranked
Florida on March 4, where the Grand Forks, N.D., native posted
a score of 39.60 to win the all-around title.
2011 • Freshman season
Wong capped an impressive freshman season by claiming
first-team All-America honors on bars at the 2011 NCAA
Championships. Wong’s score of 9.875 in the semifinals
helped the Huskers advance to the NCAA Super Six Team
Finals. NU took fourth at the Super Six, thanks in part to
Wong’s 9.90 on bars. She added an 11th-place finish at the
Event Finals with an average of 9.8125.
Wong notched four event titles on the season, including
three on bars and one on beam. She posted a 9.90 on beam
at the Big 12 Championships, tying for third and earning
All-Big 12 Championship Team honors. She tallied season
highs of 9.90 on bars, 9.90 on beam and 9.875 on floor as
a freshman.
Before Nebraska
Wong competed for coaches James and JJ Bayer at Red
River Valley Gymnastics in Grand Forks, N.D. She was the
North Dakota state all-around champion in 2008 and 2009,
in addition to being the North Dakota vault, bars, beam and
floor champion in 2009. She placed fifth in the all-around,
fourth on bars and third on beam at the 2009 regionals.
Wong garnered a 10th-place finish on beam and came in
16th in the all-around at the 2009 Junior Olympic National
Championships as well. She chose Nebraska over Iowa State,
Southern Utah and Southeast Missouri State.
Personal
Wong was born on Aug. 7, 1992, in Grand Forks, N.D. She
is the daughter of John and Karen Wong and has two sisters,
Melissa and Lindsey, and one brother, Michael. A 2010
graduate of Red River High School, she was a member of the
National Honor Society and the honor roll. She is a nutrition,
exercise and health sciences major at Nebraska.
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