Alabama gymnastics senior Kayla Williams and sophomore Katie Bailey both posted top-five finishes in the NCAA Championships Individual Event Finals here in the Fort Worth Convention Center Sunday afternoon.

Williams took the bronze on the vault with a score 9.89175 while Stanford’s Elizabeth Price took top honors with a 9.9333.

“To come back from a torn Achilles last year and then go between the full and the one and a half all season, for her to come in and hit like that today was very special,” UA head coach Dana Duckworth said.

It was the last vault a storied career for the 2009 World Vault Champion. Williams also finished 13th on the balance beam.

“It was really special for me,” Williams said of her last vault. “I think the best part of it was that the coaches trusted me enough to do a vault I hadn’t used yet in the postseason. To be able to go out there and do a more difficult vault and to represent my team and university one more time was pretty amazing.”

On the uneven bars, Bailey took fifth with a soaring routine that scored a 9.9. It was her first time in the individual event finals and her third consecutive 9.9 on the uneven bars at this year’s NCAA Championships.

“It was fun,” Bailey said of the last routine of her sophomore year. “It’s an honor to be up there representing my team, but at the same time it’s kind of weird to be up there without them.”

The 2015 Southeastern Conference and NCAA Auburn Regional champion Crimson Tide finished fourth at the NCAA Championships Saturday night, marking the program’s seventh consecutive top-four finish. Alabama is also the only school in the nation to advance to the NCAA Super Six Team Finals each of the last seven years. The Tide also leads the nation with 21 Super Six appearances.

“It means a lot to me and the rest of the team to be able to finish like we did,” Williams said. “We’ve talked about protecting the legacy a lot and I’ve carried that close to my heart. To have been coached by Sarah and David (Patterson) through my first three years and then be a part of Dana’s first senior class, and be able protect and continue that legacy means so much to us.”

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