Month: March 2013

Lauren Hopkins has a superb write-up of Saturday’s Conference Championships.

1. Florida, 198.000
2. Oregon State, 197.850
3. Alabama, 197.800
– Nebraska, 197.800
5. LSU, 197.700
6. UCLA, 197.375
7. Georgia, 197.325
8. Michigan, 197.225
9. Oklahoma, 197.200
10. Utah, 197.075

1. Rheagan Courville (LSU), 39.750
– Bridget Sloan (Florida), 39.750
– Vanessa Zamarripa (UCLA), 39.750
4. Emily Wong (Nebraska), 39.725
5. Jessie DeZiel (Nebraska), 39.625

… In terms of the power conferences – the SEC, the Pac 12, and the Big Ten – there were only a handful of major surprises, with most results seeming to follow the performances of the teams all season.

The biggest shock was Nebraska, who have performed decently throughout 2013 with only a few rough meets. On Saturday, however, they completely came out of their shells for a huge victory over Michigan …

Some may consider Oregon State’s win shocking … they totally owe it to the strength of their bars, where they earned a 49.675. Normally some of the best bar workers in the nation, their loss of Olivia Vivian and Leslie Mak last year left them faltering, but they’ve been picking up steam over the past couple of weeks especially and used the momentum from the home crowd to their advantage. …

LSU saw a heroic performance from Rheagan Courville, who earned a perfect 10 on vault and competed strongly across the board for a 39.75 finish that tied Sloan for the all-around title. …

Also notable…Bridgeport won the ECAC DII Championships with a 195.875, a score that would have given them the ECAC DI Championship title by over two points! …

read more on Couch Gymnast

Click PLAY or watch LSU highlights on YouTube.

Watch Florida routine highlights (VIDEO) from the SEC Championships, as well as after-meet interviews.

Oleg Verniaiev, as it’s often translated in English. I use the wikipedia spelling.

11th AA at Olympics 2012, Oleh is one of the best AA talents for the coming quadrennial.

161cm (5’3″)

Only age-18 or 19 now, he’s going to be a monster on Rings by Rio.

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Though finishing 2nd AA at American Cup, he could have competed much better.

Sadly, the National Team of Ukraine has no money. Coaches and athletes were sent home from the National Training Centre to their own gyms.

via GYMNAST CROSSING

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Gainesville Regional
UF
Minnesota
Auburn
Maryland
Bridgeport
Pittsburgh

Norman Regional
OU
Stanford
Penn State
Washington
Iowa
Southern Utah

Tuscaloosa Regional
Alabama
Utah
Denver
Kent State
BYU
Iowa State

Corvallis Regional
Georgia
OSU
Arkansas
Boise State
Arizona State
California

Morgantown Regional
Michigan
Nebraska
Illinois
Kentucky
West Virginia
North Carolina

Columbus Regional
UCLA
LSU
Arizona
Ohio State
Central Michigan
North Carolina State

College Gym Fans has the apparatus and AA specialists who qualify from other Teams. And a good comment thread.

As a young man, I was on dozens of committees.

At some point, it became obvious that committees are not often very efficient at arriving at good decisions.

Instead of keeping eyes on the prize, committee members are easily distracted by the last “issue”. Most of a parents Board of Directors meeting — for example — will focus on the ill-fitting new leotards, not the club Mission. 😦

Best avoid committees, as much as possible.

Best form of governance is benevolent dictator.

That’s why I prefer privately owned clubs over parent directed non-profits.

Of course a “Malevolent Dictator” is even worse than being directed by a Parent Board.

related – recommended book for trustees on Parent committees – The Strategic Board: The Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Governance

• Legitimacy and Voice (participation, consensus)
• Direction (strategic vision, long term perspective)
• Performance (responsiveness, effectiveness and efficiency)
• Accountability and Transparency
• Fairness (rule of law, equity of power)

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High speed video recorded by the Biomechanics team at Manchester Metropolitan University.

2008

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… Nebraska women’s gymnastics team captured their third-consecutive conference crown with a 197.800 at the 2013 Big Ten Women’s Gymnastics Championships. NU’s score was a conference championship school record and gave Head Coach Dan Kendig his 14th conference title at Nebraska. …

Husker women win conference gymnastics title

Nebraska 197.800
Michigan 197.225
Minnesota 196.775
Illinois 196.475
Ohio State 195.950
Penn State 195.825
Michigan State 195.450
Iowa 193.400

Fifteen-year-old Gabby Jupp (Sapphire) and 20-year-old Max Whitlock (South Essex) won their first senior all-around titles Saturday at the 2013 British Gymnastics Championships, held on podium at the Echo Centre in Liverpool.

… the British championships included competition for both women (junior and senior) and men (hopes, junior and senior).

Jupp looked extremely poised as she comfortably claimed the all-around title over fellow first-year senior Charlie Fellows (Sandbach Gymnastics) and Niamh Rippin (Notts). …

Jupp, the 2012 British junior champion, is coached by Steve Price at Sapphire School of Gymnastics in Hemel Hempstead near London.

… Whitlock grabbed the senior title with a solid 90.650, more than a point above the 89.400 he had scored three weeks ago at the English championships. He took gold medals on floor exercise (3 1/2 punch front full; 2 1/2 to Rudi; Thomas; Randi; triple twist; 15.300) and on vault (Yurchenko 2 1/2; 15.100). The double Olympic bronze medalist also scored 15.700 on pommel horse, his best event.

“I’m well happy!” he said. “To start the year by winning the English title, which has always been one of my main ambitions, and then to win the British is just crazy. I’m happy with all my routines, particularly vault, which I’ve worked hard to improve and it’s paid off. It’s been important to me to prove to people I’m an all-around gymnast, the pommel will always be my strongest piece but I wanted to go out and show I can do all-around …

2008 Olympian Daniel Keatings, who served as a frustrated alternate to Britain’s bronze-medal winning team at the 2012 Olympics in London, competed three events and grabbed gold on each. Keatings, the 2009 world all-around runner-up, scored 158900 on pommel horse, 15.600 on parallel bars and 15.150 on high bar. …

read more on Amanda Turner’s excellent IG wrap-up post – Rising Talent Rules British Championships

As usual, she has full results.

15.90 (9.6 execution)

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Triple would seem to be pretty easy for her. 🙂

Compare against Maroney’s in London. (VIDEO)