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Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons Class: Senior Hometown: Philadelphia, Pa. High School: Home Schooled Height: 5-7 Event: AA Club: Houston Gymnastics Academy

	FX	PH	SR	V	PB	HB	AA
Career Highs	-	14.400	15.900	-	15.200	14.750	-

2008 NCAA Championships: Score of 15.400 on rings in Team Finals helped clinch OU's eighth national championship ... Led the Sooners with a 14.050 on pommel horse in Team Qualifier.

2008: Placed second on rings (15.500) and p-bars (14.950) and third on h-bar (14.600) at Penn State ... Finished second on pommel horse (14.400) and rings (15.650) and was third on p-bars (15.200) and fourth on h-bar (14.400) in Senior Night win over Minnesota ... Pommel horse and p-bars scores against the Golden Gophers set career highs ... Placed third on rings with a season-high 15.900 at Pacific Coast Classic ... Also set career high on high bar (14.750) at PCC ... Won p-bars with a season-high 15.100 and took the rings title (15.600) in win at Iowa ... Tied for fifth on rings (30.450) and tied for 15th on p-bars (29.900) at Winter Cup Challenge ... Won parallel bars (14.900) and placed second on rings (15.600) and fourth on h-bar (13.950) in home win against Nebraska ... Finished third on p-bars (14.600) in Michigan win ... Third on rings (14.250) against Nebraska and Air Force ... Won rings title (15.000) at the season-opening Rocky Mountain Open.

2007 NCAA Championships: 2007 NCAA all-around champion with a career-high score of 55.75 ... All-American in the all-around and on rings, vault and high bar ... Tied for second on rings in team finals with a career-high 9.7 ... Also scored career highs with 9.5s on floor and h-bar in the team finals.

2007: Finished second in the all-around (54.6) at MPSF Championship ... Set a season high on vault (9.1) and career high on floor (9.45) at MPSF meet ... Second on rings (9.45) in Iowa win ... Won his first all-around title of the season (54.4) against No. 4 Ohio State ... Third on p-bars (9.35) and h-bar (9.35) and tied for third on vault (8.75) and rings (9.45) against the Buckeyes ... Scored a career-best 9.35 on floor against OSU ... Recorded top 10 finishes on p-bars (9.15) and rings (9.35) at the Pacific Coast Classic ... Runner-up on rings (8.95) versus Texas and Washington ... MPSF Gymnast of the Week for Feb. 12 ... Finished fifth in the all-around at the Winter Cup Challenge ... Recorded top-25 finishes on all six events at the WCC ... Competed in the all-around for the first time this season at Nebraska ... Won the rings (9.15) and tied for second on h-bar (9.2) and finished fourth on floor (9.05) against the Huskers ... Second on p-bars (9.6) and rings with a career-high 9.55 at No. 1 Michigan ... Won the rings (9.2) and tied for third on p-bars (8.85) against Nebraska and Air Force ...Tied for fourth on pommel horse (7.5) at Rocky Mountain Open event finals.

2006 NCAA Championships: Broke his own school record when he posted a 9.675 on the parallel bars at the NCAA team finals ... Hit a season-high 9.4 on the high bar during team finals ... Notched a career-high 9.525 on the vault to help OU clinch its seventh NCAA title ... Took All-America honors in the all-around after finishing sixth (53.85) in the event at the NCAA team finals ... Also was named All-American on the vault (8.95) and parallel bars (8.887).

2006: Took still rings (9.4) and parallel bars (8.55) titles in win over Air Force ... Won parallel bars title (9.3) and tied teammate Jonathan Horton for second on the still rings (9.3) in win over Michigan ... Finished eighth in the all-around and fifth on the parallel bars at the 2006 Winter Cup ... Also posted a career-high on the still rings (9.5) against the Buckeyes ... Took first in the all-around (52.95) and on parallel bars (9.05) in win over Nebraska ... Won the parallel bars (9.35) and took third in the all-around (51.85) against Stanford and Nebraska.

2005 NCAA Championships: Broke his own school record on the parallel bars with a 9.6 in NCAA team finals ... Set career high in the all-around (54.975) and on floor exercise (9.05), pommel horse (9.4) and parallel bars (9.6) during NCAA team finals ... Finished fourth on the parallel bars (9.45) in NCAA event finals.

2005: Took first on the parallel bars (9.55) and third on the vault with a 9.1 in the MPSF Team Finals ... Took first place (9.525) on the parallel bars in win over Iowa ... Took first place (9.425) on the parallel bars in Ohio State win ... Competed in 2005 Winter Cup ... Tied for second (9.4) on the parallel bars in win over Air Force.

Club/High School: Coached by Rustam Sharipov and Kevin Mazeika at Houston Gymnastics Academy ... U.S. Senior National Team member ... Competed in the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials and the 2004 Visa U.S. Championships ... Placed first in the all-around and floor exercise, fourth on the parallel bars, and fifth on the still rings and on the vault at 2004 Pacific Alliance Championships ... Two-time participant at the 2003 and 2004 Winter Cup Challenge ... Placed fourth in the all-around at 2003 U.S. Championships ... Placed first at the 2002 U.S. Championships in the all-around, floor exercise, parallel bars and high bar ... Also tied for second on the vault, tied for third on the pommel horse and took third on the still rings at the 2002 U.S. Championships ... Placed second in the all-around, first on the floor exercise, third on the vault and parallel bars and fourth on the high bar at the 2002 Junior Nationals.

Personal: Born February 11, 1986, in Philadelphia, Pa. ... Son of Fatimah and Amin Abdullah-Simmons ... Also recruited by Michigan, Cal Berkley, Penn State, Ohio State and Illinois ... Brother, Mubarak, was a member of the OU team in 2004 and 2005 ... Majoring in human relations.