BRISTOL, Tenn. – The National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association (NCATA) announced their All-America honorees and Academic Honor Roll on Monday evening. King University's
Claire Guittard was selected NCATA All-America while 18 individuals were named to the Academic Honor Roll.
Guittard earns NCATA All-America honors for the first time as she garnered first team All-Conference Carolinas honors earlier this spring. She is the fourth individual to earn All-America honors, joining
Catherine Reynolds in 2021, Ashley Berlin in 2019 and Sonia Stone in 2017 and 2016.
In her career, Guittard is a three-time all-conference selection and 2019 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Freshman of the Year.
This season, the senior competed in 14 heats for the Tornado, helping King to a program record score of 9.90 in the compulsory pyramid. She also helped the Tornado to 11 heat scores above 9.00, including seven above 9.50. The Connelly Springs, N.C. native has been invaluable to the Tornado over the last four years as she has competed as a base, back base and tumbling. She helped King to an 8-2 record, going 7-1 in Conference Carolinas play.
The individuals that were named to the honor roll were,
Brooklyn Arant,
Grace Ann Beatty,
Lindsay Bowles,
Katie Christian,
Raegan Cromwell,
Brooke Dobson,
Claire Guittard,
Nicole Hansen,
Kenley Karlon,
Alexis Marquith,
Alexa Mathews,
Liz Medved,
Araya Meredith,
Abigail Morrison,
Hannah O'Dea,
Camiel Oliver,
Brooklynn Quark,
Madeline Robison,
Alyssa Talabac and
Alexis Wynn.
The 2022 Academic Honor Roll includes all active Acrobatics & Tumbling student-athletes with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.30 or higher. In all, 504 Acrobatics & Tumbling student-athletes, from 32 competing teams, were named to the NCATA Academic Honor Roll.
