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2022 Men's Gymnastics Roster

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98 Hamish Carter

  • Position AA
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown West Midlands, UK
  • High School Bishop Vesey's High School
  • Instagram hamishcarter1
  • Twitter hamishcarter1

Biography

Individual Event Titles 

Event Titles
Floor --
Pommel Horse 1
Still Rings --
Vault 2
Parallel Bars 1
High Bar 7
All-Around 5
Total  16

Career Highlights

  • 2019 Big Ten High Bar Champion
  • NCAA High Bar All-American (2019)
  • 3x Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (January 14, 2020; February 4, 2020; January 26, 2021)
  • 2x Academic All-Big Ten (2020, 2021)
  • 2021 CGA Regular Season All-American (high bar, all-around)

Career Highs

Floor Exercise: 14.150 (at Oklahoma, 3/9/19)
Pommel Horse: 13.750 (vs Ohio State, 1/23/21)
Still Rings: 13.800 (vs Nebraska, 2/1/20)
Vault: 14.600 (2x, last at Minnesota, 1/24/20)
Parallel Bars: 14.000 (vs Michigan, Nebraska 2/21/21)
High Bar: 14.300 (at Oklahoma, 3/9/19)
All-Around: 83.550 (vs Michigan, Nebraska 2/21/21)

Senior - 2022

  • Secured second-straight high bar title with a 13.600 vs. Ohio State 2/5/22
  • Won fifth career high bar title with a 13.800 at Penn State, 1/29/22

Junior - 2021

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Saw action in seven meets for the Illini, primarily competing all-around.
  • Won five event titles on the season, including two all-around, two high bar, and one parallel bars
  • Posted career-high scores on pommel horse (13.750 vs Ohio State), parallel bars (14.000 vs Michigan, Nebraska), and all-around (83.550 vs Michigan, Nebraska)
  • His 83.550 all-around score vs Michigan, Nebraska is highest all-around score in program history under current scoring code
  • 2021 CGA Regular Season All-American (high bar, all-around)
  • 2021 Team MVP

Sophomore - 2020

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Won seven event titles on the season, including three in all-around, two on vault, one on pommel horse, and one on high bar
  • Saw action in six meets for the Illini
  • Secured a career-high 82.200 all-around total against UIC
  • Was a two-time Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (Jan. 14, Feb. 4)

Freshman - 2019

  • Big Ten High Bar Champion
  • NCAA All-American on High Bar
  • Won two high bar event titles on the season, including one at the NCAA Qualifier Session II
  • Saw action in nine meets, competing on floor, high bar and parallel bars
  • Secured a career-best 14.300 high bar total at Oklahoma on March 9, 2019

High School/Club

  • Scottish Floor Exercise Champion
  • Bronze All-Around at English Championships (competed as guest so wasn’t awarded medal)
  • Third place in All-Around at Scottish Championships
  • Fifth on All-Around at British Championships
  • British Master’s Floor Exercise finalist
  • British Master’s High Bar final silver medalist behind Nile Wilson, beating Olympian Brinn Bevan
  • Member of Team Scotland that won Bronze medal at Commonwealth Games Team Final (performed winning floor routine of 14.275 that secured the medal) Qualified for All-Around final and finished in sixth place at Commonwealth Games
  • Finished just one tenth of a point shy of earning a medal on Floor Exercise at Commonwealth Games
  • Qualified for High Bar final at Commonwealth Games
  • Selected for the 2016 Great Britain’s Junior European Team (unable to compete due to injury)
  • Member of the 2015 European Youth Olympic championship team and earned a silver medal on Floor Exercise at the event
  • "I want to smash on to the scene and showcase 'Great British' gymnastics on the NCAA circuit and to prove that I am a worthy member of the Fighting Illini."

Historical Player Information

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    2019Freshman

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    2020Sophomore

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    2021Junior

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    2022Senior

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