Mati Waligora - Gymnastics - Arkansas Razorbacks

Mati Waligora

AA | Graduate | 5-3 | Rochester, Mich. | Alabama

Personal Bests
VT: 9.900 (at Alabama)
UB: 9.950 (3x), last vs. Florida, Feb. 7, 2025
BB: 9.925 (6x), last at Kentucky, March 7, 2025
FX: 9.950 at Kentucky, March 7, 2025

2025 (Graduate Sixth Year)
Competed in every bars lineup for Arkansas and added beam and floor by meet six… Finished third on the team in points with 283.8… Went 9.850+ on bars seven times throughout the season with four top three finishes and one event title… Matched her career high of 9.950 in Arkansas’ upset of No. 2 Florida on Feb. 7, good for first place… Never scored lower than 9.850 in her eight appearances on floor, with back-to-back 9.900+ marks in both rounds of regional competition… Collected four top three finishes on floor with one event title… Earned a new career high of 9.950 on floor at Kentucky March 7, good for third place… Went 9.850+ six of eight times on beam… Finished in the top three on beam in two meets… Matched her personal best of 9.925 at Kentucky, part of a program high 49.575 rotation on beam… 2025 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll recipient

Prior to Arkansas
Spent five seasons at Alabama… Staple in the Tide’s bars, beam, and floor lineups in 2024, competed in all but one meet on the season… Scored 9.850+ seven times on bars and beam and nine times on floor… Appeared in all 13 meets for the Tide in 2023… Matched her career high of 9.925 on floor on Feb. 3 and scored 9.850+ in nine appearances…. Appeared on each event at least five times in her junior campaign, and twice competed all-around in 2022… Set or matched every event’s career high in that season: 9.900 on vault, 9.950 on bars, 9.925 on beam and 9.925 on floor. Earned the 2022 NCAA regional bars title with a 9.950… In 2021, made the vault lineup 10 times and scored below 9.850 just twice… Made nine appearances on bars, and seven on beam… Five-time SEC Academic Honor Roll honoree, four-time WCGA Scholastic All-American… Won the Alabama Fern Hampton Academic Award three years in a row, also earned the Paul W. Bryant Award at the 2024 Crimson Choice ceremony, “given to the top male and female student-athletes encompassing athletic success, academic success, as well as service to the community”… Completed a master’s degree in health studies in 2024 and earned her bachelor’s in kinesiology/exercise science in 2023