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The Reighard Erachampionship with a new team recordscore … Nicole Bills wins the beam titleand Nikki Liphardt wins the floor exercise… they join Bethany Couturier on thefirst team All-MAC squad.2000: Undefeated in the MAC season …second three-peat in school history …eighth team title … CMU wins its secondNational Invitational Tournament in MountPleasant … USA Gymnastics namesCoach Reighard National Coach of theYear for the second time … TammyVerrinder and Nikki Liphardt share theMAC title on bars … Liphardt wins thefloor exercise and becomes the firstregional event champion, winning floorexercise at regionals and advancing tothe NCAA Championships at Boise State… CMU advances to the NCAA Regionaland places fourth.2001: A second-place MAC finish isovershadowed by CMU winning three offour events plus the all-around individualtitle … Tammy Verrinder repeats herbar title and adds the vault title as asophomore … Sarah Dame wins theall-around championship and LauraChow wins the balance beam title …Gina Black, Dame, Verrinder, and Chowmake All-MAC … Verrinder posts CMU’sfirst-ever 10.0 (vault) … two weeks later,Chow scores a 10.0 on vault, and CMUupsets Kent State by one-tenth of a point.2003: CMU claims its ninth MAC title andbreaks the school record for team scorewith a 197.425 … Chippewas post fifthundefeated MAC record … CMU ties forsecond at the NCAA Central Regional… the Chippewas win every individualtitle at the MAC Championships …Michele Orloski scores a perfect 10 infloor exercise twice and Katie Teft doesso twice on bars … Kara Reighardsets a school record in the all-arounden route to three MAC individual titles(all-around, vault, floor) … Teft wins thebars, Bethany Couturier wins the beamand Orloski ties Reighard for first on floorat the MAC Championships … Reighard,Teft, and Sarah Dame advance to NCAAChampionships.2004: CMU once again sweeps eachevent, claiming its 10th MAC title …shatters last year’s school record with ascore of 197.525 … Sara Burtinsky winsbars, beam, and all-around, StephanieLangley ties for first in floor and KaraReighard ties for first in vault at MACChampionships … Burtinsky goes toNCAA Championships and finishes 23rdin all-around.2005: CMU reaches as high as the No.12 national ranking … goes undefeatedin MAC dual meets for third consecutiveseason … finishes second at the MACChampionships … Sara Burtinsky winstwo MAC titles, on the uneven bars andin the all-around … CMU is a seededteam at the NCAA Regionals for the firsttime, getting sent to compete at the WestRegional in Seattle, Washington … KaraReighard scores a perfect 10 on the floorexercise at the State of Michigan Classic… a record crowd of 2,267 fans watchCMU defeat Stanford on February 4.2006: CMU overcomes a slow startto the season to finish with a winningrecord for the 10th consecutive season… after finishing fourth in the MAC inthe regular season, CMU takes secondat the MAC Championships … MattieCrawford, Danielle Espinoza, and JulesPassy all qualify for the NCAA Regionals… three Chippewas earn Academic All-MAC honors for the first time in programhistory.2002: CMU has a bittersweet MACChampionships by placing second whilefour individuals win MAC titles … KaraReighard wins the all-around title with aschool record-tying 39.425 … Reighardbecomes the first MAC FreshmanGymnast of the Year in CMU history …Bethany Couturier, Shanna Duggan,Michele Orloski, and Reighard are allMAC champions and are named All-MAC… the team sets a season-high 195.725in a home meet and a new balancebeam record (49.250).Reighard and the 2004 MAC Championship squad display the trophies collectedby CMU Gymnastics during the coach’s tenure with CMU.Central Michigan University Womenʼs Gymnastics2110-time Mid-American Conference Champions