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  Diandra Milliner

Diandra Milliner

Player Profile

Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Wichita, Kan.
High School:
Maize
Height:
5-3
Event:
All-Around
Experience:
2L
Club Team:
Folger's Gymnastics

04/27/2013

Gymnastics Celebrates Season with Year-End Banquet

The Crimson Tide finished third at last week's NCAA Championships, giving head coach Sarah Patterson and her squad their fifth consecutive top-3 finish and an NCAA-best 22nd overall finish in the top-3

04/25/2013

Gymnastics Continues Extraordinary Academic Achievement

Academic accolades have come pouring in as the Tide comes to the end of the school year, including a trio of NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships, a fourth NCAA Elite 89 Award, a league-best 14 gymnasts on the Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll, the SEC Gymnastics Scholar-Athlete of the Year and a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

04/23/2013

Alabama Once Again Leads All Gymnastics Teams with 15 in the SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll

Beyond leading the league this season, Alabama also leads the SEC all-time with 256 honors since the award's inception in 1984

04/21/2013

Diandra Milliner Wins NCAA Vault Title

. It was Alabama's 24th individual NCAA title and 10th over the past decade

04/20/2013

Gymnastics Takes Third at NCAA Championships

In its 31 consecutive NCAA Championship appearances, Alabama has finished in the top four 29 times

ALABAMA HIGHLIGHTS:
2012 | Sophomore NCAA Championships Vault Runner-up ... First team Vault All-American ... Second team Floor Exercise All-American ... Scholastic All-American ... SEC Academic Honor Roll ... scored a perfect 10.0 to win the vault against Florida ... is the 14th UA gymnast to score at least one 10.0 during her career and the eighth to score a 10.0 on the vault ... competed on the vault and balance beam in all 14 meets of the season ... won the vault at LSU and against UNC ... matched her career high of 9.925 on the floor against Arkansas... scored a career-high 9.9 to win the balance beam against Florida ... made her UA all-around debut at Auburn ... scored 9.95 on the vault in both the semifinals of the NCAA Championships and the NCAA Championships Super Six Team Finals ... competed 42 routines during the season ... earned Dean's List honors (3.5 or better grade point average) for the spring semester.

2011 | Freshman Second team Balance Beam All-American ... Scholastic All-American ... scored a 9.95 in the NCAA Championships Super Six Team Finals, tying with teammate Kayla Hoffman for the highest vault score of the night ... Second team All-SEC ... Freshman All-SEC... joined the Crimson Tide on Dec. 26 for the second semester after graduating from high school early ... twice named SEC Freshman Gymnast of the Week, after the Tide's meets against Auburn and LSU... posted a career-high 9.975 on the vault against LSU ... scored a 39.450 against Kentucky in her first all-around appearance ... scored a career-high 9.825 on the uneven bars against Kentucky ... scored a career-best 9.925 on the floor exercise against Kentucky and LSU ... competed 40 routines during the season, scoring 9.9 or better 10 times | seven on the vault and three on the floor exercise ... anchored Alabama's vault lineup in all 14 meets ... won five of 10 individual vault titles during the regular season ... scored a career-high 9.875 on the balance beam at the Metroplex Challenge ... in the first routine of her first meet for the Crimson Tide, she won the vault against Penn State with a 9.9 ... earned Dean's List honors (3.5 or better grade point average) for the spring semester.

PREP HIGHLIGHTS:
Graduated from Maize High School early and joined the Crimson Tide for the spring semester ... coached by Mark Folger at Folger's Gymnastics ... 2010 Junior Olympic National vault and floor exercise champion ... won the vault and finished second in the all-around at the 2009 Junior Olympic National Championships ... took first on the vault, uneven bars and floor exercise at the 2010 Junior Olympic Regional Championships ... won the vault and floor exercise at the 2010 Nastia Liukin Cup ... won the all-around at the Pink Ribbon Invitational, Texas Prime Meet and National Gymnastics Challenge in 2009.

PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Full name: Diandra Quinn Milliner ... daughter of Traci and Reuben Milliner ... sisters, Aleah and Micala ... health studies major ... October 18, 1992.

MILLINER'S TOP SCORES:
All-Around: 39.450 | Vault: 10.000 | Bars: 9.825 | Beam: 9.900 | Floor: 9.925