Completed Event: Men's Gymnastics versus Nebraska on April 18, 2025 , Loss , 323.460, to, 324.694
Final
Men's Gymnastics
323.460
vs Nebraska
324.694
University of Oklahoma Athletics
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Dodanli Named a Finalist for Nissen-Emery Award
March 11, 2025 | Men's Gymnastics
NORMAN – Oklahoma men's gymnastics senior Emre Dodanli was named one of seven finalists for the prestigious Nissen-Emery Award, which is presented annually to the year's outstanding senior collegiate gymnast, the College Gymnastics Association announced Tuesday.
Dodanli is a senior captain at Oklahoma, the 2024 CGA Specialist of the Year, a five-time All-American and six-time Regular Season All-American and a 2024 Olympian. He is joined on the list of finalists by Air Force's Patrick Hoopes, Nebraska's Taylor Christopulos, Ohio State's Kameron Nelson, Penn State's Joshua Karnes and Stanford's Taylor Burkhart and Khoi Young.
A product of Turkey by way of Milton, Ontario, Dodanli is a three-time All-American on floor exercise (2022-24) and earned All-America status on vault (2022) and parallel bars (2024). He is a three-time CGA Regular Season All-American on floor exercise (2022-24), a two-time Regular Season All-American on vault (2023-24) and a high bar Regular Season All-American (2024). He is a two-time MPSF floor exercise champion and a three-time MPSF all-conference selection (floor exercise and high bar in 2023 and floor exercise in 2024). He is also a medalist at the NCAA Championships with OU, winning the team silver medal in 2022.
Dodanli is one of the most consistently high-performing gymnasts in the country over the last two years. As of March 10, he is ranked among the top 14 nationally in four-score average on three events, and he was the only gymnast ranked among the top 8 nationally on three events at the end of the 2024 campaign. For the 2025 season, he is tied for second on horizontal bar (13.833), tied for 10th on vault (14.083) and tied for 14th on floor exercise (13.500). In 2024, he led the nation on floor exercise (14.975 NQA), ranked sixth nationally on horizontal bar (14.000 NQA) and ranked eighth on vault (14.625 NQA). Additionally, Dodanli has won 26 career event titles (16 on floor exercise, four on vault and six on high bar), including 17 individual event titles since the start of the 2024 season.
This season, Dodanli has registered nine scores of 14.000 or better on his 19 routines across five meets. In 2024, he scored 15.000 or better on floor exercise three times and remains the only collegiate gymnast nationally to post a 15.000 or better on floor exercise even once since the 2021 season. He scored 14.400 or better on all 10 of his floor exercise routines in 2024, and his four floor routines of 14.900 were better than any other single floor exercise score recorded by a collegiate gymnast last season (the next highest was 14.800). His floor exercise career high of 15.250, which was set at the 2024 Rocky Mountain Open, is the highest nationally since the 2021 NCAA Finals. In the seven meets in which Dodanli competed in four events in 2024, he totaled at least 56.100 on all of them, with a high of 57.750.
Dodanli won gold in the all-around at the 2024 Turkish National Championships and competed with Turkey at the Paris Olympics, helping lead the team to a ninth-place finish, just .235 points shy of advancing to team finals. Dodanli notched a 79.597 to finish 31st in the all-around, just 1.6 points behind the 24th-place cutoff for all-around finals. He was one of the 15 youngest athletes among the 96 competing in men's artistic gymnastics at the 2024 Games. A member of the Turkish National Team, Dodanli also competed at the 2024 European Championships, and at the 2023 World Championships, helping Turkey qualify a men's gymnastics team to the Olympics for the first time.
Dodanli is pursuing his bachelor's degree in health and exercise science and is expected to graduate in May.
Since 1966, the Nissen-Emery Award, the "Heisman Trophy" of gymnastics, has been presented to the collegiate senior gymnast who has established an outstanding record of achievement during his college career. The winner must also exhibit good sportsmanship and fair play and maintain a high standard of scholarship throughout his college career. The award presentation is held annually at the NCAA Gymnastics Championships.
Oklahoma has produced a nation-leading eight Nissen-Emery Award winners: Bart Conner (1981), Jarrod Hanks (1991), Daniel Fink (1998), Todd Bishop (1999), Daniel Furney (2003), Jonathan Horton (2008), Steven Legendre (2011) and Yul Moldauer (2019).
For updates and more information on Oklahoma men's gymnastics, follow the Sooners on Twitter and Instagram (@OU_MGymnastics) and like Oklahoma Men's Gymnastics on Facebook.
Dodanli is a senior captain at Oklahoma, the 2024 CGA Specialist of the Year, a five-time All-American and six-time Regular Season All-American and a 2024 Olympian. He is joined on the list of finalists by Air Force's Patrick Hoopes, Nebraska's Taylor Christopulos, Ohio State's Kameron Nelson, Penn State's Joshua Karnes and Stanford's Taylor Burkhart and Khoi Young.
A product of Turkey by way of Milton, Ontario, Dodanli is a three-time All-American on floor exercise (2022-24) and earned All-America status on vault (2022) and parallel bars (2024). He is a three-time CGA Regular Season All-American on floor exercise (2022-24), a two-time Regular Season All-American on vault (2023-24) and a high bar Regular Season All-American (2024). He is a two-time MPSF floor exercise champion and a three-time MPSF all-conference selection (floor exercise and high bar in 2023 and floor exercise in 2024). He is also a medalist at the NCAA Championships with OU, winning the team silver medal in 2022.
Dodanli is one of the most consistently high-performing gymnasts in the country over the last two years. As of March 10, he is ranked among the top 14 nationally in four-score average on three events, and he was the only gymnast ranked among the top 8 nationally on three events at the end of the 2024 campaign. For the 2025 season, he is tied for second on horizontal bar (13.833), tied for 10th on vault (14.083) and tied for 14th on floor exercise (13.500). In 2024, he led the nation on floor exercise (14.975 NQA), ranked sixth nationally on horizontal bar (14.000 NQA) and ranked eighth on vault (14.625 NQA). Additionally, Dodanli has won 26 career event titles (16 on floor exercise, four on vault and six on high bar), including 17 individual event titles since the start of the 2024 season.
This season, Dodanli has registered nine scores of 14.000 or better on his 19 routines across five meets. In 2024, he scored 15.000 or better on floor exercise three times and remains the only collegiate gymnast nationally to post a 15.000 or better on floor exercise even once since the 2021 season. He scored 14.400 or better on all 10 of his floor exercise routines in 2024, and his four floor routines of 14.900 were better than any other single floor exercise score recorded by a collegiate gymnast last season (the next highest was 14.800). His floor exercise career high of 15.250, which was set at the 2024 Rocky Mountain Open, is the highest nationally since the 2021 NCAA Finals. In the seven meets in which Dodanli competed in four events in 2024, he totaled at least 56.100 on all of them, with a high of 57.750.
Dodanli won gold in the all-around at the 2024 Turkish National Championships and competed with Turkey at the Paris Olympics, helping lead the team to a ninth-place finish, just .235 points shy of advancing to team finals. Dodanli notched a 79.597 to finish 31st in the all-around, just 1.6 points behind the 24th-place cutoff for all-around finals. He was one of the 15 youngest athletes among the 96 competing in men's artistic gymnastics at the 2024 Games. A member of the Turkish National Team, Dodanli also competed at the 2024 European Championships, and at the 2023 World Championships, helping Turkey qualify a men's gymnastics team to the Olympics for the first time.
Dodanli is pursuing his bachelor's degree in health and exercise science and is expected to graduate in May.
Since 1966, the Nissen-Emery Award, the "Heisman Trophy" of gymnastics, has been presented to the collegiate senior gymnast who has established an outstanding record of achievement during his college career. The winner must also exhibit good sportsmanship and fair play and maintain a high standard of scholarship throughout his college career. The award presentation is held annually at the NCAA Gymnastics Championships.
Oklahoma has produced a nation-leading eight Nissen-Emery Award winners: Bart Conner (1981), Jarrod Hanks (1991), Daniel Fink (1998), Todd Bishop (1999), Daniel Furney (2003), Jonathan Horton (2008), Steven Legendre (2011) and Yul Moldauer (2019).
For updates and more information on Oklahoma men's gymnastics, follow the Sooners on Twitter and Instagram (@OU_MGymnastics) and like Oklahoma Men's Gymnastics on Facebook.
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