The Men’s team has been selected:
Jonathan Horton – All-around
Tim McNeill – All-around
Danell Leyva – Parallel bars & high bar
Steven Legendre – Floor
Jake Dalton – Vault
Wes Haagensen – Pommel horse & rings
details and commentary on Stick It Media.
Great to see Tim McNeill from Cal Berkleley still training and on the team. He can contend on PH and PB.
I don’t know much about Jake Dalton. He does a Lopez vault, I know. Leave a comment if you know of a video of it posted to YouTube.
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The final Women’s team will be picked after a final selection camp starting September 30 at the Karolyi Ranch in Texas.
Round two invitees include: Jana Bieger, Rebecca Bross, MacKenzie Caquatto, Ivana Hong, Kytra Hunter, Chellsie Memmel, Samantha Peszek, Bridget Sloan, Cassie Whitcomb and Kayla Williams. (Kaitlyn Clark and Alaina Johnson were the two athletes not invited to the final camp.)
…For several injured athletes, time has run out. Petitioned National Team members Olivia Courtney (broken ankle in August), Mattie Larson (double ankle sprain in July) and Sam Shapiro (ankle surgery in June) did not attend last week’s first selection camp and are therefore, per the World Selection procedures, ineligible to advance to the second camp.
read more on Inside Gymnastics
National Team
UPDATE:
On Twitter, Samantha Pezek linked to the official announcement that she has withdrawn from the women’s 2009 World Championships Team selection process so she can undergo shoulder surgery.
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There’s a video of Jake Dalton’s Lopez vault on gymnastike.org. Here’s the link. http://www.gymnastike.org/videos/coverage/view_video/235347-2009-visa-championships/198263-jake-dalton-kasamatsu-double-full
I don’t know of any youtube videos of Jake Dalton’s vault but here is a video from gymnastike: Kasamatsu Double Full
Oh, man, I saw Dalton at NatQuals, and he was unbelievable. He made that Lopez look like it was nothing. His floor was pretty spectacular as well.
Here’s Dalton valuting (via Gymnastike). He didn’t get any coverage on NBC/Universal sports due to the David Sender/Jon Horton/Danell Leyva lovefest.
http://www.gymnastike.org/videos/coverage/view_video/235347-2009-visa-championships/198263-jake-dalton-kasamatsu-double-full
Thanks Matthew. Thanks Jeremiah. I will like to the video.
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