Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

Michigan State University Gymnastics history

The team’s best ever ranking was 2025 finishing 6th. Congratulations.

consistency in Gymnastics judging

Kathi-Sue Rupp has a website dedicated to gymnastics judging.

It’s called Flipped Decisions.

Coaches will work towards the specific set of rules at their level of competition. It’s critical that judges apply those rules consistently throughout the season.

Summary: What Can be Done

  • Assign judging panels early enough so that judges can calibrate in the time leading up to a competition
  • Make sure the competition schedule permits judges to watch podium training or warm-ups
  • Head judges need to provide detailed feedback to panel judges in a psychologically safe pre-competition setting
  • Organize and participate in pre-competition and pre-season calibration exercises (like the NCAA Challenge) that provide detailed feedback.

Read the entire article:

Calibration in Gymnastics Judging

Will Graves – NAIGC interview

The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE GYMNASTICS CLUBS (NAIGC) wants to “serve and expand opportunities for all levels of collegiate and adult gymnastics by providing structure for competition on local, regional, and national levels; facilitating communication; and building a community of support and camaraderie that encourages sportsmanship, leadership, teamwork, and fun.”

One part of that is offering the chance for anyone 18 and older to compete the Women’s Artistic apparatus. Anyone can compete the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics apparatus. Or both, if you choose.

Freedom.

Top sports journalist, Will Graves, covered their 2025 Nationals in Pittsburgh, PA from April 2-5.

He wrote an important article for the Associated Press. It’s important because Americans are living under a Presidency that attacks minorities to gain votes from the intolerant. The GOP hopes to motivate people to show up to vote by encouraging them to HATE.

Trans athletes are under more scrutiny than ever. Some have found a safe space in gymnastics

Click PLAY or watch an interview on YouTube.

history of Women’s NCAA Gymnastics

Nobody was a more important builder of the super successful College program than former Utah Coach Greg Marsden.

The inaugural Women’s College Gymnastics Championships were organized by the Division for Girls’ and Women’s Sports (DGWS) in 1969. The NCAA didn't sponsor WAG Champs until 1982. Over the years, there have been significant format changes.

— Greg Marsden (@utahmarz.bsky.social) 2025-04-13T20:02:26.559Z

Taylor Christopolus wins ’25 Nissen-Emery

Presented at a ceremony before the start of the NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships … the nation’s top senior male gymnast who exemplifies excellence in athletic performance, scholarship, and sportsmanship.

Nebraska men’s gymnast Taylor Christopulos was named the recipient of the Nissan-Emery Award, Nebraska’s fourth all-time and first in 37 years as Tom Schlesinger won the award for NU in 1988 under head coach Francis Allen.  …

Christopulos is an eight time All-American recently winning his second Big Ten Gymnast of the Year honor. He has won 27 individual titles including one in every event. Off the mat, he is a five-time member of the Tom Osborne Citizenship team and has been named to the scholar-athlete honor roll every semester at Nebraska.  

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HASHIMOTO Daiki wins All Japan ’25

2025 All Japan Championships MAG All Around Results:

  1. HASHIMOTO Daiki 84.231/85.464 169.695
  2. OKA Shinnosuke 84.864/84.231 169.095
  3. TSUNOGAI Tomoharu 82.464/82.932 165.396

Daiki Hashimoto won his fifth straight artistic gymnastics national championships on Sunday after coming out on top in a battle between the last two Olympic men’s individual all-around gold medalists.

Hashimoto, the 23-year-old winner of the 2021 Tokyo Games, was second after Friday’s qualification round behind Paris Olympics gold medalist Shinnosuke Oka. But 85.464 points from six apparatuses in Sunday’s final lifted him to 169.695 in total, edging his 21-year-old rival by 0.600.

He has become the first gymnast to win the title five times in a row since Kohei Uchimura, whose dominance lasted for a decade from 2008 through 2017.

Gymnastics: Daiki Hashimoto edges battle of Olympic gold medalists with Shinnosuke Oka