After years of competing for her club, Riverside native Haley Scaman is discovering the atmosphere of competing for a college gymnastics team.

The Riverside Brookfield alumna is contributing for Oklahoma, which last week was the top-ranked team in the country, as a freshman. Scaman has been named Big 12 Newcomer of the Week four times this season and is ranked in the top five in the nation on floor exercise

Scaman is a product of the Illinois Gymnastics Institute in Westmont and had her pick of a number of top programs scattered across the country. She chose OU partially because her club teammate, Kayla Nowak of Algonquin, was already a Sooner and is currently a senior.