Six NCAA senior gymnasts have been nominated for this year's AAI award! This is the sport's equivalent of the Heisman trophy, exclusively for the Division I senior class.
 
The AAI Award recognizes the most outstanding senior female gymnasts in the country and is voted on by every NCAA head coach. The winner will be announced at the NCAA Women's National Championship banquet on April 21. This years finalists include:
 
Megan Ferguson of Oklahoma
Megan is currently ranked #2 on uneven bars and #1 on balance beam and floor exercise. She is a five-time All-American and claimed 20 event titles during the 2012 regular season. Megan is the reigning Big XII bars and beam champion. This season she has scored a 9.9 or higher in 22 of her 39 routines!
 
Leslie Mak of Oregon State
Leslie is currently ranked #13 in the all around, #16 on bars, and #1 on beam in the nation. Mak is a two-time All-American and has won 18 event titles this season. A very consistent performer for the team, Leslie has nailed 43 of her 44 routines in 2012! She has recently been named the 2012 Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year, becoming the only woman to ever win this award two years in a row. 
 
Mary Burke of Missouri
Mary is currently ranked #15 in the nation for the all around. Her personal best all around is an incredible 39.475! As a strong leader in and out of the gym, she was named Mizzou's Female Student Athlete of the Year last year. Coach Rob Drass says, "We are honored to have someone like Mary Burke on our team. She works hard in her classes and at practice every day, I cannot think of anyone who deserves this recognition more than she does."
 
Kat Ding of Georgia
Gymdog, Kat, is currently ranked #15 on vault and #1 on bars! Last year she won the NCAA title on bars and has won the SEC bars title in 2010 and 2011 and placed 2nd this year with a 9.9. 
 
Jaime Pisani of Arkansas
Jamie has recently been named the SEC Gymnast of the Year! She is ranked #1 in the all around, tied for #1 on floor exercise, tied for #15 on vault, tied for #9 on bars, and tied for #7 on balance beam. She had made school records of 39.725 in the all around and 9.975 on floor! She has 31 event titles this season and 90 for her career. Coach Rene Cook says, "Her confidence and her will to compete keep up in the ballgame. She's great."
 
Amy Glass of Boise State
In her sophomore season, Amy broke her neck during a competition and was told she would never do gymnastics again. Refusing to believe this, Glass made a miraculous comeback to gymnastics six months later. In her second year back in competition (2011), Glass qualified to the NCAA National Championships as an individual all around gymnast. She is making the most of her final season of gymnastics and has been ranked as high as #2 nationally on beam.
Hear Amy tell her story here