Taylor Christopulos Season 2021-22

Honors & Awards 

• 10x All-American- 
  (2025: High Bar (8th), All-Around (5th); (2024: Floor (2nd), Vault (4th), High Bar (3rd), All-Around (6th); 2023: All-Around (2nd), Floor (5th), Parallel Bars (7th); 2021: Vault (5th))
• Nissen-Emery Award Recipient (2025)
• NCAA Team Finals Competitor 
  (2025: All-Around; 2024: All-Around; 2023: All-Around; 2022: Floor, Pommel Horse, Vault, Parallel Bars, High Bar; 2021: All-Around)
• NCAA Team Qualifier Competitor
  (2025: Pommel Horse, Parallel Bars, High Bar; 2024: Floor, Pommel Horse, Vault, Parallel Bars, High Bar; 2023: Floor, Pommel Horse, Vault, Parallel Bars, High Bar; 2022: Floor, Vault, Parallel Bars, High Bar; 2021: Floor, Still Rings, Vault) 
• CGA 2023 Most Valuable Player 
• CGA Regular-Season All-American
  (2025: Floor, High Bar; 2024: Floor, Vault; 2023: Floor, Vault, All-Around; 2021: Vault)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Year (2023, 2025)
• Big Ten Freshman of the Year (2021) 
• Big Ten Vault Silver Medalist (2021)
• Big Ten High Bar Silver Medalist (2025)
• Big Ten All-Around Bronze Medalist (2025)
• First-Team All-Big Ten (2023, 2024, 2025)
• Second-Team All-Big Ten (2021)  
• CGA Gymnast of the Week ( 2/24/25, 4/03/24)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (3/11/25, 4/1/24)
• Big Ten Specialist of the Week (3/11/25)
• NCAA Rookie of the Week (4/20/21, 3/22/21, 3/7/21, 2/13/21)
• Big Ten Freshman of the Week (3/7/21, 2/21/21, 2/13/21)
• Individual Titles
  (Floor: 3/16/25; 2/17/24; 3/17/23, 3/12/23,1/28/23,1/21/23; Pommel Horse: 2/15/25, 3/8/25; Vault: 4/1/23, 3/17/23, 2/17/23,1/14/23,1/13/23; 3/20/22, 1/29/22; 3/6/21, 2/21/21, 2/13/21, 2/7/21; Parallel Bars: 3/17/23; Rings: 2/13/21; High Bar: 1/18/25, 2/28/25; All-Around: 3/12/23, 2/17/23, 2/4/23)
• Team Captain (2023, 2024, 2025)
• Nebraska Athletics Outstanding Male Newcomer (All Sports, 2021)
• Sam Foltz 27 Hero Leadership Award (2024)

National/International Awards 

• Senior Men's National Team Member (2023, 2025)
• 2025 Winter Cup Bronze Medalist (All-Around)
• Pan American Games - First-Place Team Finish (2023, 2025)
• DTB Pokal Team Cup- Second-Place Team Finish, Silver medalist in All-Around 

Academic Awards

• CSC Academic All-District (2023, 2024)
• CGA All-America Scholar-Athlete (2021,2024)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
• Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll
  (Fall 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024**; Spring 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• Nebraska Silver Academic Medallion (2022) 
• Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

**Indicates 4.0 Semester GPA

Career & Season Highs 

	FX	PH	SR	V	PB	HB	AA
Career Best*	14.75	14.25	13.80	14.30	13.80	14.10	80.863
2025*	14.75	14.25	13.80	14.30	13.80	14.10	80.863
Career Best (2021-2024)**	14.75	14.00	13.80	15.00	14.15	14.125	84.16
2024	14.75	14.00	13.45	15.00	14.15	14.125	83.10
2023	14.65	13.60	13.55	14.95	13.95	13.95	84.16
2022	13.95	13.80	--	14.65	13.23	13.73	--
2021	14.30	12.55	13.80	14.95	13.06	13.55	80.75

*Indicates new NCAA Gymnastics scoring code
**Indicates previous NCAA Gymnastics scoring code

 2025 (Graduate Student) 
The Nissen-Emery award recipient, Taylor Christopulos, nabbed two more All-America accolades on pommel horse and in the all-around, placing fifth and eighth at the NCAA Championships. He was also named the 2025 Big Ten Gymnast of the Year for the second time.

During the Big Ten Championships, the graduate earned a bronze medal in the all-around portion of the competition. He also placed sixth on the floor, ninth on the high bar and fourth on the still rings. The team captain won four individual titles this season, tying his career high on floor (14.75) and still rings (13.80) and posting a new career high on pommel horse with a 14.25. With these honors, Christopulos was a regular season All-American on high bar and floor after being ranked in the top-10 nationally. Christopulos earned his first high bar title at the Rocky Mountain Open with a score of 14.10. With the high bar title, Christopulos won a title in every event.

The Utah native competed in the U.S. Gymnastics Winter Cup and shined, earning the bronze medal in the All-Around with a score of 158.400. This performance led Christopulos’s selection to the 2025 Senior U.S. Men’s National Team. 

As a U.S. Senior National team member, he competed at the DTB Pokal Team Challenge in Germany. While competing during the team challenge, the graduate student took home second place in the all-around competition. 

Outside the gym, he was an Academic All-Big Ten honoree and a member of the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll and the Tom Osborne Citizenship team.

2024 (Senior)
After being named to the First-Team All-Big Ten Team for a second-consecutive year,  Christopulos brought home four All-American awards at the NCAA Championships.

Coming in second on floor exercise, Christopulos also added a third-place finish on high bar, a fourth-place finish on vault and a sixth-place finish all-around. He managed to score a personal best on vault at the NCAA Championships with a 15.00, and took home the individual title for floor exercise with a 14.500.
Christopulos set a number of other personal bests this season, recording a 14.75 on floor exercise and a 14.00 on pommel horse during Nebraska’s defeat over Illinois. He also had a 14.15 on parallel bars in the Rocky Mountain Open and a 14.125 on high bar during the Big Ten Championships. 

In the classroom, he was an Academic All-Big Ten honoree and a member of the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll and Tom Osborne Citizenship team.

2023 (Junior)
The 2023 Big Ten Gymnast of the Year, Taylor Christopulos captured a trio of All-America awards while helping Nebraska to a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championships. The NCAA runner-up in the all-around, Christopulos added a fifth-place finish on the floor exercise and a seventh-place showing on parallel bars. 

At the 2023 Big Ten Championships, Christopulos captured a gold medal on vault to earn first-team All-Big Ten honors.  A 2023 Husker team captain, Christopopulos claimed 13 individual titles during the season, including five on vault, four on floor, three all-around crowns and one parallel bars title. He capped the regular season by winning vault, floor and parallel bars titles in a win over Ohio State and Greenville at the Devaney Center on March 17. He added all-around and floor titles in a dual with Illinois (March 12), after capturing titles in the all-around and on vault against Oklahoma and Simpson College (Feb. 17). He won his first all-around title of the season in a dual with Michigan (Feb. 4).

A member of the U.S. Senior Men's National Team, Christopulos helped the United States to a team championship at the Pan American Games. In the classroom, he was a College Sports Communicators Academic All-District and Academic All-Big Ten selection in 2023.

2022 (Sophomore)
Christopulos helped the Huskers to a second-place conference finish and fourth-place national finish during the 2021-22 season. Christopulos claimed two individual titles on vault. 

Outside of the gym, Christopulos earned Academic All-Big Ten honors and was named to the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in both the fall and spring semesters. Christopulos was also named to the Tom Osborne Citizenship team for his dedication to serving the Lincoln community. 

2021 (Freshman)
Christopulos had an impressive freshman year and became the first Husker gymnast to earn Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors. A College Gymnastics Association regular season All-American on vault, Christopulos earned four CGA National Rookie of the Week and three Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors. Christopulos finished second on vault at the Big Ten Championships with a score of 14.55. Christopulos competed in every meet during the 2021 season and helped Nebraska to a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Championships. Individually, Christopulos earned All-America honors after finishing fifth on vault during the NCAA Finals. He went on to be named Nebraska's Outstanding Male Newcomer of the Year across all sports in 2021.

Outside of the classroom, Christopulos also earned spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in both the fall and spring semesters of 2020-21. 

Before Nebraska
Christopulos joined the Huskers after training at USA Gymnastics World in Woods Cross, Utah. He was coached by Adam Jacobs and Gabe Connor. Christopulos, a 4.5 star recruit according to the College Gymnastics Association, was ranked eighth overall and fifth on floor for the 2020 recruiting class by CGA. 

Personal
Taylor is son of Troy and Jennifer Christopulos. He has four siblings, Tony, Tess, Tia and Tana. He married Kayzha Madsen in August 2024. An agribusiness major, Taylor is a two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection. He is a six-time member of the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll.

“I chose Nebraska because the coaching staff and team members. I honestly wasn’t even considering going to Nebraska at all until I took my trip out there and saw it for myself. Chuck, John and Jim were very welcoming and supportive of who I was as a person and I appreciated that. They showed that they cared before they even got to know me. They stood out from any other University I had visited. Then I met the team and they were the exact same. I felt and saw an environment where a brotherhood was present and I wanted to be a part of that. The campus was just an add on bonus, the small little hometown feel was just what I was looking for.” 

Christopulos chose Nebraska over Penn State, Iowa and Oklahoma. Taylor attended Layton High School in Utah. In his free time, he likes to be active and social as well as play the guitar.