Inside Women's Gymnastics: A Q&A with Lindsay

Lion Career
2007 (Junior): Academic All-Big Ten ... NACGC/W Scholar Athlete ... competed in 13 meets of the season, seeing action on bars, beam and floor ... averaged a 9.740 on bars (12 meets), a 9.570 on beam (nine meets) and a 9.550 on floor (five meets) ... recorded a career-high 9.875 on bars at the Big Ten Championships (3/31) ... placed fifth on bars at the Penn State Quad meet with a 9.800 (3/24) ... received the Ann Carr Award and finished fifth on bars with a 9.625 against Minnesota (1/20) ... scored a season-high 9.800 for fifth place on the beam at West Virginia (2/3), also posting a season-best 9.825 on floor.

2006 (Sophomore): Academic All-Big Ten ... NACGC/W Scholar Athlete... competed in nine contests of the season, averaging a 9.450 on vault (two meets), a 9.650 on bars (seven meets) and a 9.543 on beam (seven meets) ... posted two top-five finishes on beam, including a fifth-place 9.775 at Ohio State (2/25) and a first-place 9.775 the following week at New Hampshire (3/4) ... recorded a season-high 9.750 on bars at the Big Ten Championships (3/25) and NCAA Regional Championships (4/7).

2005 (Freshman): Competed in seven meets before suffering a season-ending Achilles Tendon injury versus Ohio State (2/26) ... prior to the injury, averaged a 9.804 on the vault, a 9.613 on the bars, a 9.563 on the beam, a 9.679 on the floor and a 38.746 in the all-around ... Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (2/2) ... competed in the all-around at the Super Six Challenge (1/7), scoring an 11th-place 37.650, including posting a 9.750 on the vault, 8.900 on the bars, 9.225 on the beam and a ninth-place and team-high 9.775 on the floor ... finished second in the all-around against Illinois & Pittsburgh (1/15) scoring a 38.500, including a second-place 9.800 on the vault, a 9.675 on the bars, a 9.350 on the beam and a sixth-place 9.675 on the floor ... placed fourth on the vault at Michigan (1/21), scoring a 9.775 ... earned the Ann Carr Award versus Maryland (1/29), breaking her career high in the all-around (39.325 - 1st) and in every event including vault (9.825 - 1st), bars (9.850 - 2nd), beam (9.725 - 4th) and floor (9.925 - 1st) ... placed first in the all-around with a 38.775 versus Cornell, Missouri and UNH (2/5), scoring a fourth-place 9.750 on the vault, a first-place 9.750 on the bars, a 9.475 on the beam and a second-place 9.800 on the floor ... claimed second in the all-around at West Virginia (2/13) with a 39.300, placing first on the floor with a career-high 9.925 and finishing second on the beam with a career-high 9.825 ... finished second in the all-around versus George Washington (2/19), scoring a season-high and second place 9.875 on the vault, a second-place 9.800 on the bars, a second-place 9.775 on the beam and a 9.475 on the floor.

High School/Club
Led Stevenson (Ill.) High School team to four-straight Illinois State Championship titles, breaking the state record her senior year ... seven-time National Qualifier ... two-time Junior Olympic National Team member ... Level 10 gymnast for seven years ... champion in the all-around at Level 10 Nationals her junior year, finishing first on the beam, fourth on the vault and ninth on the bars ... 2001 Junior Olympic National Champion ... Region 5 Athlete of the Year in 2001 ... bar champion 2001 and 2002 ... finished third in the all-around at Regionals her senior year, taking home first on the bars, second on the floor and fifth on the beam ... has a bar move named after her called "The Borkan" ... member of the American Academy of Gymnastics, coached by Leonard Issacs in Wheeling, Ill.

Personal
Born Lindsay Anne Borkan on Nov. 18, 1985 in Chicago, Ill. ... parents are Mimi and Brian Borkan ... has one brother, Brett (24) and one sister, Sami (19) ... majoring in communications, arts and sciences with plans to go into commercial real estate.