2022 SOUTHEAST MISSOURI GYMNASTICS GUIDE ASHLEY LAWSON
ASHLEY LAWSON HEAD COACH
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he 2022 season marks Ashley Lawson’s fourth year as Head Coach of the Southeast Missouri Women’s Gymnastics Team. Lawson coaches the vault and floor teams. In their first year competing as a team and hosting, the Redhawks secured the 2021 USA Gymnastics Women’s Collegiate National Championship April 10 at the Show Me Center with a team score of 195.025. Trailing Lindenwood 145.725-145.650 entering the final rotation, SEMO tied a program-best 49.375 on beam to secure the Championship. SEMO’s beam score matched the program-record set at the 2003 MIC Championships (March 29, 2003) where Lawson (then Godwin) led SEMO on the
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FOURTH YEAR // SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE, 2005 event with a 9.975. SEMO also recorded a 48.900 on vault at the 2021 USAG Championship, which tied for the seventhhighest score in SEMO program history. Dahlia Solorzano-Caruso won the 2021 USA Gymnastics All-Around crown with 39.225. The score tied for 11th in SEMO history. Solorzano-Caruso posted a 9.750 on vault, 9.800 on bars, 9.825 on beam and 9.850 on floor. Makenzie Marciniak was awarded the Mari Rae Sopper Spirit Award at the conclusion of the 2021 USA Gymnastics Championships and assistant coach Andavea Alexander was selected as the 2021 USAG Assistant Coach of the Year. Lawson was also named the Ken Anderson USAG Coach of the Year for the second-straight
season. SEMO earned 18 USA Gymnastics All-American selections in 2021. Lawson coached Anna Kaziska who secured the 2021 USA Gymnastics Women’s Collegiate National Beam Championship with a 9.912 to win the event title after finishing as the runner-up at the 2019 edition of the Championships. She also finished as the runnerup on floor at the 2021 USAG Championship with a 9.875 for Silver after also earning second at the 2019 USAG Championships. Alana Fischer tied for second on beam, compiling a career-best matching 9.850 in her third career USAG Individual Event appearance, for Silver. SEMO registered a team score of 194.825 to take third at
the 2021 MIC Championships. Eight Redhawks earned All-MIC honors for their performances at the Championships and head coach Ashley Lawson was named the MIC Coach of the Year for the second-straight season. Dahlia Solorzano-Caruso paced the Redhawks with five All-MIC team honors and finished as the runner-up in the all-around competition with 39.150. Solorzano-Caruso and Anna Speller also tied for Bronze at the Championships on beam with 9.825. Anna Kaziska represented the Redhawks at the 2021 NCAA Salt Lake City Regional. Kaziska registered a 9.900 on floor to tie for second in the session and third overall at the Regional. She also recorded a 9.875 on beam, which tied for ninth overall at
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