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Ilene Cohen

Player Profile
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Wantagh, N.Y.
High School:
Wantagh
Height:
5-2
Birthdate:
03/05/1981
Club Team::
Mid Island Gymnastics

2002: Academic All-America … Academic All-Big Ten … earned her third collegiate letter ... competed in nine of 11 meets on beam and seven times on bars … posted career-high 9.900 for MSU’s highest bars score of the year and placed first in that event Feb. 16 vs. Rutgers … five of her seven bars scores were 9.725 or higher … had recorded beam scores of 9.800, which placed her sixth at Shanico Inn-vitational March 16 and tied for 12th at Big Ten Championships March 23.

2001: Named an Academic All-American for the 2000-01 school year by the National Association of College Gymnastics Coaches for Women after earning a 4.0 GPA ... Academic All-Big Ten ... earned her second collegiate letter … participated in every meet for the Spartans in 2001, competing in floor all but two meets and balance beam all but three ... also competed twice on uneven bars ... posted season bests of 9.800 in the floor and on the beam Jan. 27 vs. Illinois, placing second on the beam and third on the floor ... recorded a 9.750 on the floor March 11 vs. UCLA and March 17 vs. Missouri ... had at least a 9.700 in last four floor exercises ... had a 9.750 on the beam Feb. 11 at Bowling Green, and posted a 9.700 Feb. 17 at New Hampshire.

2000: Earned her first collegiate letter … competed in every meet for the Spartans in 2000 … specialized on uneven bars and the balance beam … averaged a team-best 9.600 on the beam in 2000 … also recorded the second-highest team average on bars (9.703) … hit a career high beam score of 9.850 on March 4 … set her personal best on bars of 9.775 three different times, including at the Big Ten Championships and NCAA Region IV Championships.

Pre-MSU: Four year gymnastics letterwinner at Wantagh High School ... captained the team in 1998 and ’99 ... two-time All-American (1997-98) ... 1998 high school national champion in vault, bars and all-around ... four-time all-state selection (1995-98) ... high school county champion as a junior on vault, bars, floor and all-around ... repeated as county champion in those events as a senior and added a beam title ... Level Nine state and regional champion as a freshman ... Level 10 team and state champion in senior year ... competed for Mid-Island Gymnastics as a Level 10 gymnast ... 1999 Level 10 state champion ... team also won Level 10 state title ... two-time national competitor ... also earned three letters in lacrosse ... a member of the National Honor Society, she was eighth in her graduating class.

Personal: Born on March 5, 1981 in New York, she is the daughter of Marc and Myra Cohen ... gymnastics representative on the SAAC ... majoring in human biology.