Michigan gymnastics coach Bev Plocki watched intently as junior Sarah Curtis danced through her floor exercise routine. Absentmindedly, Plocki joined her team in clapping along with the up-tempo music blasting through Crisler Arena.

As Curtis finished her routine and nailed her final jumps, Plocki’s clapping escalated into a round of applause.

For Curtis and the Michigan women's gymnastics team, the ovation was well-deserved. The 20th-ranked Wolverines turned in their most complete performance of the season, to beat No. 18 Iowa State 195.875-193.900 on Saturday. Curtis finished first in the all-around with a score of 39.4.

“This is the first meet this season that we put together all four events,” Plocki said. “Up to this point, we’d have three good events and then one event where we counted a fall or some other mistakes.”

The all-arounders who have carried Michigan (3-0 Big Ten, 8-2 overall) through the early part of the season stepped up once again. Sophomore Kylee Botterman and senior Tatjana Thuener-Rego tied for second in the all-around. Botterman, who won her third titles of the year in both floor and vault, has two podium appearances in her first two all-around competitions.

Thuener-Rego attributed the solid overall performance to increased focus in practice, especially on the balance beam.

“We’re just getting used to doing beam under pressure,” she said. “We’ve been doing a lot of pressure sets.”

After suffering two falls on the apparatus at Minnesota last weekend, the extra work paid off. Of the five gymnasts who competed on the beam in both meets, four improved their scores.

“I have said from the beginning that we weren't a team that was going to come out of the gate on fire,” Plocki said, referring to the injuries that have hurt Michigan's depth. "This team will only get better if we stay as healthy as we are and get the other people in our lineups."

Saturday’s meet also marked a step in the right direction on the vault, the other event Michigan has struggled with this year. Though junior Jaclyn Kramer couldn’t stick her landing and sophomore Taylor Zondervan scored just a 9.55, Thuener-Rego, Botterman and Curtis each notched routines of at least 9.825 to salvage a team score of 39.5.

Iowa State (0-2 Big 12, 0-4) finished with just 39 points on vault, and Michigan outscored the Cyclones by .125 on the uneven bars to take a commanding .625 lead after the first two rotations.

By the time the third rotation ended, Michigan’s beam performance had increased the lead to 1.525, making the floor exercise only a formality for the win. But that didn’t stop the Wolverines from excelling there, too. Kramer began the rotation with a 9.7, and each of the next four Wolverines improved on that score.

And by the time the last Wolverine finished her floor routine, more than 2,000 fans in Crisler were applauding along with Plocki.