A BYU and Utah gymnast are nominees for the closest thing college gymnastics has to the Heisman Trophy

BYU’s Sadie Miner-Van Tassell, left, and Utah’s Cristal Isa, proper, are nominees for the 2022 AAI award, given to probably the most excellent senior feminine gymnast within the nation.

Jaren Wilkey, BYU picture; Laura Seitz, Deseret Information

NCAA girls’s gymnastics doesn’t have a Heisman Trophy, which is awarded yearly to probably the most excellent participant in school soccer.

What school gymnastics does have, although, is the AAI Award, which for the final 30-plus years has been introduced to probably the most excellent senior feminine gymnast within the nation.

On Monday, American Athletic, Inc. launched the nominees for the 2022 AAI Award and BYU’s Sadie Miner Van-Tassell and Utah’s Cristal Isa made the listing.

A complete of 34 gymnasts from across the nation had been nominated. The AAI Award is a coaches award, facilitated by AAI.

Yearly, NCAA head coaches are requested to submit a nomination for the candidate or candidates of their alternative (by the use of comparability, the Heisman Trophy is voted up on by media and former Heisman Trophy winners).

Each Miner-Van Tassell and Isa have been standouts for his or her respective groups this season.

Miner-Van Tassell has been the very best all-around gymnast within the Mountain Rim Gymnastics Convention, profitable the convention’s Gymnast of the Week award each week this season, besides one.

Isa, in the meantime, has been Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week and Pac-12 Specialist of the Week, and is one among solely three Purple Rocks to attain an ideal 10 this yr.

honored to be nominated with the very best of the very best!! ♥️ https://t.co/HEZjLkzIUK

— cris :) (@cristal_isaa) February 22, 2022

The 5 earlier winners of the AAI Award had been Minnesota’s Lexy Ramler (2021), Oklahoma’s Maggie Nichols (2020), LSU’s Sarah Finnegan (2019), Stanford’s Elizabeth Value (2018) and LSU’s Ashleigh Gnat (2017).

The 2022 AAI nominees

• Audrey Barber — College of Maryland.
• Alyssa Baumann — College of Florida.
• Rachel Baumann — College of Georgia.
• Alissa Bonsall — Penn State College.
• Maya Bordas — College of California.
• Rachel Borden — College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
• Lauren Bridgens — Penn State College.
• Kyla Bryant — Stanford College.
• Ariana Castrence — Temple College.
• Leah Clapper — College of Florida.
• Kathryn Doran — College of Bridgeport.
• Sami Durante — Louisiana State College.
• Norah Flatley — UCLA.
• Derrian Gobourne — Auburn College.
• Isabel Goyco — Texas Girl’s College.
• Lexi Graber — College of Alabama.
• Belle Huang — Rutgers College.
• Cristal Isa — College of Utah.

• Anna Kaziska — Southeast Missouri State College.
• Ona Loper — College of Minnesota.
• Colby Miller — Ohio State College.
• Olivia Miller — College of Pittsburgh.
• Emily Muhlenhaupt – Boise State College.
• Maggie O’Hara — College of Arkansas.
• Nya Reed — College of Florida.
• Kynsee Roby — College of Nebraska.
• Alexandria Ruiz — College of Denver.
• Savannah Schoennherr — College of Florida.
• Megan Skaggs — College of Florida.
• Trinity Thomas — College of Florida.
• Olivia Trautman — College of Oklahoma.
• Sadie Miner-Van Tassell — Brigham Younger College.

Profession-high 9.950 for our all-around queen #byugymnastics#gocougs#gymternetpic.twitter.com/rRBFyyhLGg

— BYU Gymnastics (@BYU_Gymnastics) February 19, 2022

• Drew Watson — Auburn College.
• Natalie Wojcik — College of Michigan.