{"id":1719,"date":"2017-12-08T15:20:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2017-12-12T06:25:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T06:25:25","slug":"allan-bower-interview-oklahoma-mens-gymnastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/allan-bower-interview-oklahoma-mens-gymnastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan Bower Interview | Oklahoma Men&#8217;s Gymnastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GymnasticsVillle.com Kerry Adderly, interviews Allan Bower from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soonersports.com\/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&amp;SPID=127248&amp;SPSID=750341&amp;DB_OEM_ID=31000\">Oklahoma men\u2019s gymnastics team<\/a> in preparation for the upcoming season. Bower, who earned six All-America honors as a senior on last year\u2019s OU national championship team, at the 2017 Cottbus Cup, secured a fourth-place finish with a 13.966 on the floor exercise and a seventh-place finish on pommel horse with a 14.066.<\/p>\n<h3>Stats (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soonersports.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&amp;ATCLID=209248724\">SoonerSports.com<\/a>)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>2016<br \/>\n<\/strong>Competed in every meet for the Sooners in 2016 \u2026 Earned All-America honors on pommel horse (15.100), parallel bars (14.700) and in the all-around (88.100) at NCAA team finals \u2026 His all-around score was good for fourth place at team finals \u2026 Won the 2016 MPSF all-around title with a score of 90.100 \u2026 Named a MPSF All-Academic Scholar-Athlete and was also named to the Academic All-Big 12 At Large First Team \u2026 Claimed 11 event titles on the year with four on pommel horse, three on vault, two in the all-around and one each on rings and parallel bars \u2026 Finished the year ranked No. 2 nationally in the all-around with a national qualifying average (NQA) of 88.750, tied for fifth on vault with an NQA of 15.188 and seventh on pommel horse with an NQA of 15.175 \u2026 Logged career-bests of 15.300 on floor and 15.400 on pommel horse against Iowa and Cal \u2026 Turned in a career-high 15.300 on rings against Nebraska \u2026 Had his best career all-around performance against Stanford, scoring 90.400, including a career-high 15.850 on parallel bars \u2026 Named NCAA and MPSF Gymnast of the Week on March 22 after OU&#8217;s road win over No. 5 Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GymnasticsVillle.com Kerry Adderly, interviews Allan Bower from the Oklahoma men\u2019s gymnastics team in preparation for the upcoming season. Bower, who earned six All-America honors as a senior on last year\u2019s OU national championship team, at the 2017 Cottbus Cup, secured a fourth-place finish with a 13.966 on the floor exercise and a seventh-place finish on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[]},"categories":[216,2,178,234],"tags":[145,661,131,480,43],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gymnasticsville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}