A&T Earns End-of-Year Awards from NCATA

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The Baylor acrobatics & tumbling team earned postseason awards on Sunday from the National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association, including academic and athletic based honors.

Sophomore Payton Washington was named the NCATA DI Athlete of the Year. The NCATA DI Specialist of the Year is Jordan Gruendler, a senior. The NCATA DI Freshman of the Year award went to Leavy McDonald.

Felecia Mulkey earned NCATA Coach of the Year after leading her Bears to their 10^th-straight NCATA title. It is Mulkey's second accolade while at Baylor.

Earning NCATA All-America were freshman McDonald, sophomores Emily Bott and Washington, and senior Gruendler. It was the second All-America honor for both Gruendler and Washington and first for Bott and McDonald.

Gruendler was named to the NCATA All-Academic Team, her second time.

The full list of major award winners for the NCATA can be found here.

For the NCATA Academic Honor Roll, 35 Bears were named to the team. The full list can be found here.

To stay up to date all year long on all things Baylor acrobatics & tumbling, follow the team on Facebook, X (Twitter), TikTok and Instagram: @BaylorAcroTumb.

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A&T Earns End-of-Year Awards from NCATA

Players Mentioned

Emily Bott

Jordan Gruendler

Leavy McDonald

Payton Washington

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