Most major sports are accustomed to the Power Five—a group of five athletic conferences that are arguably the biggest names in college athletics—however NCAA gymnastics has been rocking with a Power Four ever since the Big 12 added gymnastics in 2004. Over the last 20 or so years, many conferences have come and gone (rest in peace Western Athletic Conference gymnastics), but until 2021, one big name has been absent from the college gymnastics landscape: the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Flashback to June 17, 2021, when the Power Four turned into the Power Five with the announcement of Clemson adding a gymnastics team for the 2024 season. With the beginning of Clemson’s program came all the hallmarks of a burgeoning team: the search for a coaching staff, the first recruits, a few transfers, and a whole lot of hype. But what made Clemson different was that along with the new program came the onset of ACC gymnastics as a whole. The same day that the new program was announced, the ACC announced its intention to sponsor gymnastics beginning with the 2024 season. Now that we’ve gotten to this point, let’s take a look at how the inaugural ACC championship may play out in just a year’s time.
N.C. State
If we’re going off of past performance, N.C. State will be the…
