Arinn Wade Claims Program's First MPSF Title

April 2, 2016

PALO ALTO, Calif. – With a season-high score of 15.450, Air Force sophomore Arinn Wade won the pommel horse at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Men's Gymnastics Championships this evening (April 2) at Stanford – becoming the Falcons' first-ever conference champion in the MPSF.

Air Force, which placed at least one gymnast in the top-10 on five events, tallied a 429.200 to finish fourth in the overall team standings. Top-ranked Oklahoma won its fifth straight title with a 448.050, while second-ranked Stanford and fifth-ranked California finished second (444.650) and third (435.550), respectively. The 11th-ranked Falcons rounded out the conference meet with the seventh-highest total in program history – and the highest ever at a conference meet.

Wade, who became the first Academy gymnast to capture a conference title since Jerry Michael Cline (floor exercise) and Joel Miller (still rings) won titles at the 1991 WAC Championships, registered the second-highest total of his career to better the field by 0.250 points. The sophomore paced the Falcons to a pair of top-five finishes, as junior Tim Wang finished fifth with a 14.900.

Fellow juniors Aaron Nubine and Chase Cannon also finished within the top-five of their respective events, as Nubine scored a season-high 15.100 to tie for fourth on the floor exercise and Cannon posted a 14.900 to tie for fifth on the high bar.

Nubine paced a trio of Falcons to top-10 finishes on the floor exercise, as Wang and senior Denis Aurelius finished in ties for eighth (14.900) and 10th (14.800), respectively. Wang, who finished sixth in the all-around (87.400), also paced the Falcons on the parallel bars (career-best 14.900, 10th tie) and tied with Aurelius for the team lead on the still rings (15.000, eighth tie).

Freshman Christian Kalustian rounded out the Falcons' event leaders, as he finished 12th on the vault with a score of 14.600.

Air Force closes out the 2016 season at the NCAA Championships on April 14-16 in Columbus, Ohio.

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Denis Aurelius

Chase Cannon

Christian Kalustian

Aaron Nubine

Arinn Wade

Tim Wang

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