Utah State’s Brianna Brooks One of 59 Nominees for AAI Award

Courtesy of Utah State

LOGAN, Utah — Utah State graduate gymnast Brianna Brooks has been named one of 59 nominees for the American Athletic Inc. (AAI) Award. Brooks was one of 50 nominees for the AAI Award in 2024.

The AAI Award is presented annually to the most outstanding senior collegiate female gymnast and is considered the Heisman Trophy of gymnastics.

Brooks is one of two Mountain West nominees, joining Boise State’s Emily Lopez, and one of three in-state nominees along with Utah’s Grace McCallum and BYU’s Eliza Millar-Crossman.

This season, Brooks has a team-best eight event titles with five on beam and three on bars. Her five beam titles are tied for the fifth-most in a single season in school history.

For her career, Brooks has claimed 20 event titles with seven on beam, seven on bars, five in the all-around and one on vault. Her seven beam titles are tied for the seventh most in program history, while her seven bar titles are tied for the eighth most.

This season, Brooks ranks first in the MW, tied for sixth in the North Central Region and tied for 40th in the nation on beam with a National Qualifying Score (NQS) of 9.870 and is tied for second in the MW, tied for ninth in the North Central Region and tied for 57th in the nation on bars with a NQS of 9.860.

Brooks is a four-time all-conference gymnast in the all-around and bars and was named the NCAA North Central Region Gymnast of the Year in 2023 and 2024. She has earned nine weekly honors from the Mountain West and Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference during her career.

Academically, Brooks excels in the classroom and holds a 4.00 GPA in her graduate studies in sports management. She graduated from Utah State in the spring of 2024 with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology with an exercise science emphasis with a 3.58 GPA. She is a four-time Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association Scholastic All-American, a two-time Academic All-District honoree and a two-time Academic All-Conference recipient.

The native of Las Vegas, Nevada, ranks first all-time in school history with a single-season bars average of 9.860, set in 2022. Brooks also holds the third- and fourth-best bars average in program history with a 9.855 and a 9.852, set in 2023 and 2024, respectively. She ranks eighth and ninth all-time in school history with single season beam averages of 9.825 and 9.820, set in 2022 and 2023, respectively.

Brooks also holds the second-best and is tied for the third-best bars score in school history for an NCAA Regional Championships meet with a career-best 9.925 in 2023 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and a 9.900 in 2022 (Norman, Oklahoma) and 2024 (Berkeley, California). Her 9.925 on bars is also tied for 11th all-time in school history on the event. She also tied for the ninth-best beam score in school history with a personal-best 9.925 set in a home tri meet against Alaska and Nebraska (3/3/23).

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