Year: 2011

I’m liking this trend towards fewer double salto releases.

Difficulty 6.600, Execution 8.850. Second highest score in prelims after Elkind.

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Post-meet interviews with Florida’s Mackenzie Caquatto, Marissa King & Rhonda Faehn after UF’s season high team score vs Alabama.

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http://www.gatorvision.tv/mediaPortal/embed.swf

They are flying high. Not too close to the sun, I hope.

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No. 3 Utes Down ASU 196.525-194.125
Corrie Lothrop wins the all-around to lead Utah.

Before a pink-clad crowd of 12,836 that included guest of honor Annabeth Eberle …

Utah Utes

Arkansas’ 11th-ranked gymnastics team recorded a season-high for the second straight week and recorded its first-ever victory over Georgia with a 195.775-195.40 decision over the No. 4 Gym Dogs Friday in Barnhill Arena. …

Arkansas Razorbacks

… The 10th-ranked Nebraska women’s gymnastics team posted a season-best score to top Missouri 196.075-195.40 …

Huskers

via Aunt Joyce:

Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin both had good showings at last week’s training camp at the Karolyi Ranch. Shawn’s natural strength is allowing her to do almost all of her skills already. While Shawn said she mostly did conditioning and limited skills, other coaches were impressed.

Nastia did bars and beam at camp and her body is slimming down into form. …

read more – This and That

Watch the video on Myabc5.com.

I’m getting slightly more excited that one or both might qualify for Worlds in Tokyo. That would be a GREAT story line.

Shawn’s still not wearing a leotard, though. Not a good sign that she’s psychologically comfortable with her adult size.

Has Marta ever allowed any other athlete to train without a leo? … I doubt it.

Charming Kat Ding (Major: Advertising; Minor: Fashion Merchandising) is helping design Georgia’s competition leotards.

Yep. You’ll like them if you like over-the-top Collegiate rah rah.

Watch a Georgia Dogs TV feature about Kat’s designs.

The Tide were crushed at Florida.

Macko scored 39.575 in her AA debut.

littlequaker48 is there:

… Florida looks awesome. I think the team looks so much calmer than last year (I’m not as nervous watching them). However, they have only had one away meet so it will be interesting to see whether they can keep up this performance level on the road (and throughout the season). Also, if they go into Nationals as a big favorite it will create a big pressure situation that this young team will have to handle.

Alabama:

This is the first time I’ve seen them this year. I thought they would be more polished, but I think they have a lot of potential, especially when Priess gets back into the lineup. Priess, Hoffman, and Stack-Eaton anchoring the lineups can bring in big scores, and the freshmen have a lot of potential as well. …

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Not nearly the tight competition we were hoping for from these SEC rivals.

Gymnastike, Couch Gymnast, Aunt Joyce, Wild/Precious and Gymnastics Examiner weigh in.

The latest Discussion:

Examiner.com: Which NCAA school is going to be the story of the 2011 season?

Greg Marsden on Facebook posted this cool pic …

4,000 pink t-shirts on the seats in rows 1-20. Gettin ready to “pink out” the JMHC for the Annabeth Eberle Cancer Awareness meet. GO UTES!

If you are attending the meet tonight, don’t forget your pink gloves.

Carly was born February 4, 1988 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

We are reminded of the 2004 Olympic champion every time we see the dismount named after her.

That was posted by WOGA on Facebook.

Here’s who qualified for the Winter Cup Final, to be held Saturday night:

Jake Dalton
Danell Leyva
Glen Ishino
Steven Legendre
Andrew Elkind
Paul Ruggeri
Wes Haagensen
Tyler Mizoguchi
CJ Maestas
Alex Naddour
Cale Robsinson
Jesse Silverstein
Josh Dixon
Joseph Hagerty
Jesse Glenn
Sho Nakamori
Daniel Ribeiro
Ian Makowske
Luke Stannard
RJ Heflin
Donathan Bailey
Mel Anton Santander
Sam Mikulak
Chad Wiest
Stacey Ervin
Alex Buscaglia
Ty Echard
Tim Gentry
Max Mayr
Jeffrey Treleaven
Alexei Bilozertchev
Dylan Akers
Jordan Valdez
Jon Martin
Jonathan Horton
Eddie Umphrey
Jake Martin
Sean Regan
Chris Turner
Steven Lacombe
Chris Stehl
Adam Hamers
Craig Hernandez

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Dalton dominates day one at Winter Cup

Big names missing for one reason or another include: Jon Horton, Chris Brooks, Brandon Wynn, Tim McNeill and Sasha Artemev. Actually, Jon is listed for Finals though he competed only Rings in prelims. Sasha sort of competed 3 apparatus in prelims.

It’s great to see Sho Nakamori back in mix, coming back from injury.

Stick it Media has commentary – 2011 Winter Cup: Notes on a Scorecard as does International Gymnast.