Mountaineer gymnastics is a family that goes beyond our four years in Morgantown. It’s a family that fights for each other, perseveres through all circumstances and is there for each other no matter what.
Hope Sloanhoffer
At West Virginia in 2011 • An outstanding three-event specialist who had an immediate impact on the team’s success and produced one of the best freshman seasons in Mountaineer history • Inaugural Linda Burdette-Good Award honoree as the team’s Most Valuable Gymnast • All-EAGL first team Vault, Beam and Floor • EAGL Team MVP • Nine-time EAGL weekly award honoree, including a league-best six EAGL Rookie of the Week honors and three specialist of the week recognitions • Competed in all 13 meets, one as an all-arounder, and earned 392.325 points, the third-best season total • Did not fall all season • Scored 9.8 or better in 30 of 40 routines • Tallied two scores of 9.925 or better on vault • Earned a team-best three scores of 9.9 or better • Scored 9.8 or better on floor in all but one meet • Paced the team on beam nine times, and on vault and floor seven times each • Stellar in Mountaineer debut, scoring 9.925 on vault, her first collegiate routine, against No. 13 Missouri at the Cancun Classic (1/7); also finished first on floor (9.85) and second on beam (9.825) • Finished second on vault at No. 5 Georgia (1/17) with a 9.8 score • Placed first on floor (9.825) and beam (9.85) at No. 10 NC State (1/21) • Finished first on vault (9.8) and beam (9.8) and second on floor with a career-best 9.875 score
against Pitt and Rutgers (1/29) • Won vault at Penn State quad (2/6) with career-best 9.95 score • Tied for first place on beam at No. 15 Ohio State (2/12) with 9.875 score • Placed third on floor and fourth on beam in home quad-meet (2/20) with team-best matching scores of 9.85 • Strong showing in victory over reigning EAGL champion North Carolina (2/26), scoring 9.875 on vault, beam and floor and winning each event; floor mark matched career best • Finished first on vault at Arkansas (3/4) with a 9.85 score; also placed third on floor with a teambest 9.8 • Tallied 9.8 on beam and floor in home meet against Penn State (3/12) to finish third and fourth, respectively • Outstanding at first EAGL Championship (3/19), placing second on beam and vault with 9.9 and 9.875 scores, respectively, and fifth on floor with a 9.85 score; set a career high with beam score • Made career all-around debut at NCAA Southeast Regional Championships (4/2) and finished 10th overall with 38.875 mark; meet included 9.8 floor and team-best 9.725 beam marks • Vault RQS of 9.865 ranked No. 37 nationally, No. 6 in the southeast region and No. 1 in the EAGL • Beam RQS of 9.865 ranked No. 17 nationally, No. 4 regionally and No. 1 in the EAGL • Floor RQS of 9.855 ranked No. 4 in the EAGL, No. 8 in the region and No. 48 in the nation
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2013 Gymnastics
• Season-average marks on vault (9.823), beam (9.794) and floor (9.823) were tops on team • EAGL All-Academic Team • NACGC/W Scholastic All-America Club Gymnastics • Finished seventh out of 56 competitors in allaround at the 2010 level 10 national championships; also placed seventh on vault and floor • Five-year team captain (2005-10) at Gymnastics Revolution in Connecticut under Brian Bakalar and Dawn Arigo • Swept all events, including the all-around, at the 2010 level 10 regional and state championships • Three-time national qualifier • Won 2010 Connecticut state and regional championships • Finished eighth at the 2009 regional championship with a floor title and a third-place finish on vault • Won the 2009 state vault, floor, beam and allaround titles; also finished second on bars • Won vault and finished eighth in all-around at 2009 National Invitational Tournament Personal • Daughter of Cordell Hoffer and Nancy Sloan • Has two brothers and one sister • Birthday is July 8 • Attended Cornwall Central High • Enrolled in exercise physiology • Dean’s List • Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll