Quote:DeKalb, IL – All that stood between the NIU gymnastics team and its first MAC Championship was a beam of wood four inches wide that stood four feet off the ground.

Quote:DeKalb, IL – Two days after winning MAC individual titles on their specialties NIU gymnasts Anna Martucci (Clarkston, Mich./Our Lady of the Lakes HS) and Mia Lord McCordsville, Ind. (Hamilton Southeastern) are headed to the NCAA Regionals on floor exercise and balance beam, respectively, as the NCAA announced the Women's Gymnastics Championships field on Monday.

Quote:The Huskies will send a gymnast to regionals for the fifth consecutive season and for the 11th time in the last 12 seasons.

Quote:ANN ARBOR, MI – After leading the NIU gymnastics team throughout the season on their individual events, Mia Lord and Anna Martucci are set to compete as individuals Friday in the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional at Crisler Arena on the University of Michigan campus.

Lord, who won the MAC individual title on balance beam to clinch the first Mid-American Conference title in school history for the NIU team in 2019, takes center stage first as she will compete as an individual event specialist on beam in the afternoon session, which begins at 1 p.m. (CT).

MAC floor exercise champion and Michigan native Martucci, meanwhile, will be part of the evening session on floor at 6 p.m.