We don’t hear enough about the NAIGC (National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs)
Started 1988, it’s open to any American gymnastics club with college-aged participants. Here’s a full list of members in case you want to check if there’s one close to you.
Their annual championships just concluded.
The Texas A&M men & MIT women captured National Championship titles for the second year in a row in Salt Lake City. …
Pommel horse turnaround propels Illini to national championship by Emily Bayci :
… The Illini had been struggling on the pommel horse all season. They were ranked sixth in the country on pommel horse — lower than any other event. …
… “Pommel horse is not an event you want to count on to have a perfect meet, let alone to make up ground.” …
… To anchor the squad was freshman C.J. Maestas, a strong pommel horse contender who had fallen on high bar and was worried he let his team down.
“I knew I had to hit,” Maestas said. “For my brothers. Here they were having my back, shout-out to the pommel horse squad. They were throwing 15’s. I needed to do it too.”
Hit he did, tallying his own career-high of a 15.100 to propel Illinois to a 60.750, its highest pommel horse score in school history. …
… “The turnaround on pommel horse was the best moment of my entire college career,” said veteran senior Paul Ruggeri …
But of the 6 teams that showed so well, I’d say Stanford had the best competition to finish 4th. Particularly on Vault, traditionally a weak apparatus, where they killed.
Those are from the Ohio State Women’s Gymnastics Team’s YouTube channel. I’m now subscribed.
Congratulations to Carey Fagan, Ohio State women’s gymnastics head coach, named National Coach of the Year. In addition, assistant coaches Bill Lorenz and Meredith Yonushonis earned Co-Assistant Coach of the Year honors.
The awards are the first for the Ohio State women’s gymnastics program.
This was the best season ever for Florida Head Coach Rhonda Faehn. They truly did everything right this year. But it turned out to be the toughest, tightest Team finish ever.
I’m betting that Florida will be the team to beat again next season.
EHH – FX – Didn’t upgrade the mount, so she won’t have enough difficulty, but this is excellent. Beautiful hit routine. Can we give this to her? Performance-wise it was no contest, and that should count in EFs. She goes ahead of Hunter. Could we really see a win here? I’d love that.
Ding – FX – Good first pass with a straddle + punch, drills double pike middle pass, lovely landings on everything in this routine. Best she’s done? Probably. She goes ahead of EHH, which is not appropriate, but this day is all about Kat Ding, and it’s hard to argue with that. Kat Ding NCAA FX Champion?
Neither routine was up to the standards of the greatest routines of the past. I can live with this result.
