I predict that, once again, a little known Canadian gymnast will be the man to beat in College All-around. This is Casey’s final year of College gymnastics.
He’s a machine at knocking out routines consistently. This past weekend Casey needed a buzzer beater to pull out the team competition:
Casey Sandy earns his seventh career weekly accolade, tying Minnesota’s Guillermo Alvarez (2002-05) for the most Gymnast of the Week honors in Big Ten history, after claiming top honors in four events while aiding No. 3 Penn State to a 348.900-348.350 victory over conference rival No. 2 Michigan on Saturday.
The defending Big Ten and NCAA All-Around Champion won individual event titles in the vault (15.950), parallel bars (14.700) and high bar (15.450) en route to claiming the all-around crown with a score of 90.000, the highest total in the nation thus far this season. Down to the final competitor of the meet and needing a monumental high bar effort to overtake Michigan, Sandy came through in the clutch for Penn State, posting a career-high score to will the Nittany Lions to victory.
I’m still disappointed Casey did not compete for Canada at the Beijing Olympics. I wish he had been there, at least as an alternate.
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Nice
Hope to see more of him en route to 2012
Just what would it take for Canada to use him? I still don’t get the selection for 2008. Didn’t he BEAT some of the americans who went to the Olympics while competing NCAA?
Maybe I’m wrong…
“Just what would it take for Canada to use him?” A selection process that makes sense.
I never did understand the problem.
Seems Canada would not fund him to the final qualification training camps. And that if he did attend, self funded, that — if the decision was close on who to select — that Canada would pick the gymnasts who trained in Canada over those who train in the States.
Also, if all the Canadians had been healthy, Casey still might not have made the team. He is a better all-arounder than specialist on apparatus.
Wouldn’t it have been nice for Canada to have someone place well in AA? I hate to say it, I’m a die hard Canadian fan, but the selection process for Beijing has really put me “off” Canadian gym for a while.
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