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Suzanne has not updated her own blog since July.

But Aunt Joyce posted an update:

… Suzanne Yoculan is returning to gymnastics. This time she is going to be a commentator. Yoculan is scheduled to make her commentary debut on ESPN/ESPN2 for the UGA vs. Alabama meet as a guest commentator with Bart Conner and Kathy Johnson Clarke.

Yoculan is also expected to be a guest commentator for Universal Sports, CBS and may commentate on the local southern sports networks. …

I’m looking forward to it. She a very interesting and entertaining person.

Gymnastike posted this on Halloween. Funny.

From Temple University.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

Gymnastics Videos on Gymnastike

More Canadian gymnastics news.

Kristina Vaculik has verbally committed to Stanford University. This is a big gain for Stanford. Vaculik is currently back in the gym working basic skills. Peng Peng Lee has just returned to the gym and is starting conditioning again. …

Aunt Joyce’s Ice Cream Stand – This and That

little Peng Peng (Sport Seneca) from 2005 – Gymn.ca

I’m from Canada. Yet the first I hear of this good news is from Aunt Joyce.

That blog breaks more news than any other of late. Gymnastics and Figure Skating.

Profanity warning if you click through to Aunt Joyce’s Ice Cream Stand.

But there’s no profanity on the Dominique Moceanu on Dr. Phil post.

You can watch the Dr. Phil interview online – Pressure for PERFECTION

The easiest way I found to actually read this article was to click through (on the image below), then ZOOM my browser window. Good luck.

NCAA Champion magazine caught up with former Ute Kristina Baskett recently and profiles her in its latest edition.

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Kristina is performing in Vegas in the Wynn show Le Rêve.

Here’s the promo video for the Springfield College Gymnastics 100th annual show.

I wish I could be there. It looks great.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

NCAA Gymnastics
2010 GymInfo Preseason Coaches Poll
First-Place votes in parentheses

The defending National Champion Cardinal are again ranked best of the rest.

1. Stanford (8)
2. California (4)
3. Oklahoma (3)
4. Michigan (1)
5. ILLINOIS
6. Penn State
7. Ohio State
8. Minnesota
9. Nebraska
10. Iowa

see the full list on troester

The Women’s list is not available yet.

Can Shayla replace Courtney Kupets as the star in the Georgia line-up?

Shayla Worley is a great gymnast. But Courtney was the greatest College gymnast of all time.

There’s a terrific interview with Shayla on the Georgia Dogs website. Click through to watch it.

Or, if you are already nostalgic for the OLD GymDogs, click PLAY or watch a cool edit from last season on YouTube.

This year will be the 100th annual gymnastics show, making it, perhaps, the oldest gymnastics exhibition in the world.

The show’s theme this year is “The Wonderful World of Gymnastics”.

Springfield College Men’s Gymnastics and Women’s Gymnastics home pages.

Via Sports Girls Play:

Former Olympian and NCAA Champion Gymnast Courtney Kupets was awarded the 2009 Sportswoman of the Year award for an individual sport. Courtney’s list of achievements over the past 4 years while she was competing for University of Georgia are just staggering. Courtney came back from a torn Achilles tendon in her junior year to lead the Gymdogs to a fifth straight NCAA team title and she won the all around, bars, beam and floor titles as well. Throughout her collegiate career, she earned nin individual NCAA championship titles – more than any other gymnast – ever. …

Congratulations. Well deserved.

NEW YORK – OCTOBER 13: Gymnasts Shawn Johnson (L) and Courtney Kupets attend the 30th Annual Salute To Women In Sports Awards at The Waldorf=Astoria on October 13, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Weird.

One of my favourite College gymnasts.

… Two Florida media sources are reporting that the goods, nine rifles and shotguns, as well as two computers, were stolen in a series of burglaries connected with Sinclair’s boyfriend Leonard “Bud” Williams. …

Gymnastics Examiner

Team bio – Melanie Sinclair

Just a bad boyfriend?

Tom Kovic of Victory Collegiate Consulting posted a nice summary article on College Gym Fans. He’s one of the top consultants for gymnasts, parents and coaches.

Click through if you have athletes who might want to try for a College Gymnastics Scholarship in the NCAA one day.

Initiating Phone Calls to the Coach

I think one of the toughest challenges prospects face in the recruiting process is initiating that first phone call to the college coach, and for good reason: they are scared! Somehow, many young athletes envision an unapproachable coach on the other end of the line and view the task of calling the coach with fear. …

read more – Navigating the College Recruiting Process

related: Kovic on The Role of Parents in College Athletics Recruiting

Head Coach Jay Clark gives a video tour of their amazing gym. Click through to the Georgia Dogs website to see it.

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A short clip from early season workout of an NCAA team.

I link to it only because it includes a brilliant conditioning drill. Have the kids push your vehicle across the parking lot, while you steer.

That’s my idea of FUN conditioning, … at least for the coach.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.