​The 2018 NCAA gymnastics season is still months away, but it's never too early to get to know the incoming freshman class for each team. Here's a breakdown of the new additions Kentucky has made for next year.

Kentucky narrowly missed the NCAA championships in 2017 after setting program records throughout the season. The Wildcats posted a program-best score at the SEC Championships in March with a 196.925, and they bested SEC rival Alabama on February 14 for the first time in program history. The Wildcats rewrote the record books with two new top scores, first with a 196.950 on the road against Florida and then again a week later with a 197.100 against Auburn at home. Freshman phenom ​Mollie Korth​ and sophomore standouts ​Alex Hyland, Sidney Dukes, ​​and ​Katie Stuart ​were huge parts of the 2017 squad with both Korth and Dukes representing the Wildcats at the NCAA championships. Look for Kentucky to keep climbing the ranks in 2018.

​Outgoing: None
The Wildcats are in a unique position: they do not lose any routines from the 2017 season. Tim Garrison's squad entered the 2017 season as a young squad with only three juniors on the 16-member team. It will make competition for the roster spots even more fierce with four new faces entering the fray.

​Incoming: ​Madison Averett, Mackenzie Harman, Katherine Marianos, Megan Monfredi

Madison Averett

Louisiana 
Trains at Athletes in Motion

Averett is a three-time Region 8 and Louisiana state qualifier. She tied for seventh on balance beam and earned 11th place on balance beam at the 2017 Region 8 championships. Earlier in the season, she earned seventh in the all-around, second on balance beam, fourth on vault, and sixth on uneven bars. Averett competed at the 2016 J.O. National Championships where she earned a ninth place finish on floor exercise. She earned sixth in the all-around and grabbed bronze on floor exercise and fourth on balance beam at Region 8 championships in 2016. Averett earned state titles on uneven bars (2016) and floor exercise (2015). She earned bronze in the all-around and on vault and silver on balance beam in 2015.

​Video courtesy of Madison Averett

​Impact event: Floor exercise

Mackenzie Harman

Raleigh, North Carolina
Trains at Team Attraction Gymnastics
Coached by Monica Ward, Lauren Elliot, and Scott Wilson

Harman is a four-time Region 8 qualifier from 2014-2017. She finished 10th in the all-around, took bronze on balance beam, and ninth on uneven bars at the 2017 Region 8 championships. She took seventh on bars at the North Carolina state championships where she only competed on bars and beam. Harman earned fifth on beam at the Region 8 championships and North Carolina state championships in 2016. She also took 10th in the all-around and sixth on uneven bars at the state championships in 2015.

​Video courtesy of Mac Harman

​Impact event: Balance beam

Katherine Marianos

Georgia
Trains at Gymnastix Training Center

Marianos qualified to the Region 8 championships three times in four years. She finished sixth on floor exercise at the regional championships in 2017 after eighth-place finishes on both vault and bars at the Georgia state championships. Marianos took silver on floor exercise at the Region 8 championships in 2015. She was the Georgia state champion on vault where she also took sixth in the all-around and on floor, fifth on bars, and eighth on beam.

​Video courtesy of Katherine Marianos

​Impact events: Vault and floor exercise

Megan Monfredi

Pennsylvania
Trains at X-Cel Gymnastics

Monfredi competed at the Region 7 championships all three years of her Level 10 career. She tied for sixth place on vault in 2017 and earned fourth on floor and tied for seventh on vault in 2016. At the Pennsylvania state championships in 2016, Monfredi placed third on floor, ninth on vault, and 10th on balance beam. She earned 10th on beam and 12th on vault at the 2015 Pennsylvania state championships.

​Impact event: Vault