Monica Mesalles Sallares And Melissa Doucette Earn Weekly ECAC Division II Gymnastics Awards

Centerville, Mass.-For the second straight week, two members of the University of Bridgeport women's gymnastics team have earned weekly ECAC Awards for their outstanding performances at the Purple Knights Quad Meet victory at Temple University last Saturday afternoon.  Senior Monica Mesalles Sallares (Barcelona, Spain), who last week was selected the ECAC Specialist of the Week, has been selected as the ECAC Division II Gymnast of the Week, and junior Melissa Doucette (Somersworth, N.H.) has earned the ECAC Division II Specialist Award for the week. 

Mesalles Sallares helped Bridgeport remain undefeated on the 2013 season as the Purple Knights won the Ken Anderson Memorial Quad Meet hosted by Temple University last Saturday, as she won the vault with a score of 9.900 and tied for first in the floor exercise with a score of 9.875.  Monica is nationally ranked among gymnasts at all levels of NCAA competition in both events, as she is sixth in the floor exercise and 12th in the vault.

UB newcomer Doucette continues her strong start to the 2013 season after transferring to Bridgeport from the University of Alaska, as she helped the Purple Knights remain unbeaten on the year with a quad meet win at Temple as she took second place in the vault and performed an extremely difficult floor routine with ease to score a 9.825 to tie for third place.

This Sunday, February 10, the Bridgeport gymnastics team is in action at Brown University where they will face the host Bears along with Rhode Island College and Springfield College.  The Sunday's meet gets underway in Providence at 1:00 p.m.

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