Author: Rick Mc

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

why Kenzo is superhuman

🙂

See it on twitter.

Nastia DWTS – week 2

Dancing With The Stars – Nastia And Derek Dance Rumba.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Looks to me like she’s the favourite to win it all.

NCAA Regionals set

All 6 competitions are scheduled for April 4th.

Teams in bold are expected to get through to Nationals. We can expect at least one upset. Perhaps 2 or 3 this season.

SEMIFINAL 1
OKLAHOMA REGIONAL:
[1] Oklahoma
[12] Oregon State
[13] Penn State
Southern Utah
Missouri
NC State

AUBURN REGIONAL:
[5] Alabama
[8] Auburn
[17] Minnesota
Iowa
Maryland
George Washington

IOWA STATE:
[4] LSU
[9] Nebraska
[16] Denver
Washington
Michigan State
Iowa State

SEMIFINAL 2
WEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL:
[2] Florida
[11] Stanford
[14] Illinois
Arkansas
New Hampshire
West Virginia

OHIO STATE REGIONAL:
[6] Michigan
[7] UCLA
[18] Arizona
Central Michigan
Kentucky
Ohio State

CAL REGIONAL:
[3] Utah
[10] Georgia
[15] Boise State
Cal
Utah State
BYU

Balance Beam Situation has commentary.

Here’s the official NCAA announcement which includes Individual Event specialists and All-Around competitors from the rest of the NCAA teams.

Finally, here’s the “bracket“. The Road to Nationals. 🙂

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Andreea Munteanu – Beam

The winner in Cottbus.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (1st 6.1 + 8.300 = 14.400)

Andreea qualified in 2nd spot (5.5 + 8.200 = 13.700) behind Marta Pihan-Kulesza.

Florida – what went wrong?

Check out highlights and postmeet interviews from the 2015 SEC Championship. The Gators finished in 3rd place and Bridget Sloan had a perfect 10.0 score on bars!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via College Gymnastics Board)

gymnast Trinity Thomas

Trinity Thomas (born 2001) trains at Prestige Gymnastics. She’ll graduate High School in 2019.

Click PLAY or watch some training footage on Facebook.

related – her My Meet Scores page

(via US Rising Stars)

Eythora Thorsdittor – Beam

Eef van Leeuwen:

… the second Dutch women qualification match for the European Championships 2015 in Montpellier. As in the first qualification, Eythora Thorsdittor won the All-Around.

Thorsdottir scored a massive 57.300 AA after a good competition without any big mistakes. She exhibited some beautifully performed and steady routines for Europeans. …

Couch Gymnast – Dutch Euro Qualification (Part 2)

Eythora shows some fantastic amplitude. 🙂 Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

Chusovitina – Cottbus Vault

Cleaner than ever. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She won this World Cup meet. To qualify to one more Olympics Oksana will need to finish top 3 at Worlds 2015. Not easy. But that’s how she did it for London. Oksana finished 2nd at the 2011 Worlds.

Oksana was 2nd on Vault, but qualified as part of Team Germany. IF Germany had not qualified a Team, she should have been named for Vault. Thanks for clarifying that, Jacob.

Volker points out there are other ways she could qualify, including the Tripartite Commission Invitation. It’s not clear that Uzbekistan is eligible for “Wild Card” selection, however. The rules seem to indicate that Uzbekistan is NOT eligible.

Hopefully FIG and IOC will find a way to get Oksana to Rio. She’s one of the very best stories in our sport.