Let’s set the scene: “Believe” by Cher was bumping on the radio, Madonna’s “Ray of Light” won Video of the Year at the MTV VMAs, “Titanic” took home Best Picture of the Year while we were still being kind and rewinding our VHS tapes, heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas was the Kids’ Choice Awards favorite TV actor, Hanson was playing nonstop in our Discmans, and Olivia Keyes was still three years from entering this world. It was 1998, and until now, it was the last time Rhode Island set sail to NCGA nationals as a team.
Jumping the timeline forward, along came 2011, when the program was nearly cut, and the program had to kick into a new gear, a new era, when the gymnastics team was able to stay.
But the 2025 Rhode Island College gymnastics season isn’t about what happened then, it’s about how far the program has come and the force it is today. If you’re not current about the oceans the Anchorwomen have sailed this season, here’s a little refresher: They set a team program record of 192.125, a team record on bars with a 47.550, Keyes set a record with a 9.700 on bars, and a 38.725 in the all-around. A couple of weeks later, they bumped the team score to a 192.725 and added a 48.625 record on beam. So to say this team was in ship-shape from the…
