1) Strong competition
2) Survival
… Six current members of the U.S. national team will compete this week at the NCAA meet, where six teams will advance from Thursday night’s qualifying round for a shot at the national title on Friday.
For a few nights, that group — Michigan’s Sam Mikulak and Adrian De Los Angeles, Illinois’ C.J. Maestas and Paul Ruggeri III, Oklahoma’s Jake Dalton and California’s Glen Ishino — won’t be focused on Team USA but on the NCAA trophy. …
… And yet, the college side of the sport is struggling. Still a prime-time draw during the Olympics, there are only 17 NCAA teams in the country in all divisions — 16 at the highest level and one Division III team.
Ruggeri won the Nissen-Emery Award, a gymnastics equivalent of Football’s Heisman.
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