With all the newness surrounding the 2020 Utah gymnastics team, it was a familiar face who led the fifth-ranked Utes past No. 12 Kentucky on Friday at the Huntsman Center.
Senior Kim Tessen won both the vault (9.9) and the uneven bars (9.925) and tied teammate Sydney Soloski for the floor honors (9.9) as the Utes defeated the Wildcats 196.425-195.35 in front of 14,417 fans.
The Utes return just 10 of the routines from their 2019 NCAA Championships lineup and have begun the post-Marsden era of coaching, so it was hard to predict what kind of performance the Utes would have.