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BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 26: Brie Clark of the Clemson Tigers competes on the floor exercise ... [+] against the California Golden Bears at Haas Pavilion on January 26, 2025, in Berkeley, California. (Photo by Thien-An Truong/ISI Photos/Getty Images)
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In its second year as an accredited division I gymnastics program, Clemson Women’s Gymnastics has made history once again. Redshirt junior Brie Clark has been a standout for the budding ACC program. Tonight, she etched her name in the NCAA record books.
Clark successfully competed The Biles I tumbling pass, helping the Tigers secure a dominant win over Texas Women’s University and the University of New Hampshire. A highly-difficult element named after its originator – seven-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles – The Biles is seldom competed at international meets.
In the routine seen here, Clark had no shortage of power in the tumbling pass, landing the first of its kind in women’s NCAA competition.
With her successful Biles I, Clark also becomes only the fifth woman to compete the skill successfully. Clark joins an elite club, headlined by Biles, Trinity Thomas (USA), Hillary Heron (PAN), and London Phillips (USA).
While many NCAA gymnasts compete the difficult yet popular double-layout, The Biles adds a uniquely difficult twist to the skill – quite literally. Officially recognized as a “double layout with a half twist,” The Biles requires an athlete to complete two full laid-out flips while finishing the second with a 180-degree rotation. The result? A supremely difficult blind landing. However, Clark made it look easy.
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