Great idea. Gymnastike is going to post an NCAA routine of the week, each week.
Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs of UCLA, … With this routine, Elyse is tied with Courtney McCool for the highest floor routine score in the NCAA after week 1 with a 9.925.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/assets/portal/add_ons/mediaplayer-4.2/player.swf
A real crowd pleaser. This is much stronger than McCool’s.
Elyse is a member of the 2008 Canadian Olympic team and placed 16th in the Olympic All-Around. … She was the first Canadian woman ever to win a World Championship medal when she placed third on beam at the 2006 Worlds in Denmark.
Andrew Thornton links to Elyse’s Olympic routine (video) from Beijing as an example of how much less entertaining are the FIG routines these days.
Andy also links to Brittany McCullough’s Floor from that first UCLA meet of the year. Even with watered down tumbling, you can see that Brittany may be the gymnast to beat on this apparatus come Nationals.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Miss Val is feeling the love.
UPDATE: Good comment: “What about Anna Li?”
Compare that Floor routine with her 2 teammates.
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