Author: Rick Mc

The Utes won the meet with a 196.65, followed by Boise State (195.85), BYU (194.55) and SUU (192.025) in front of 14,910 at the Huntsman Center.

The night got off to a bad start when standout Kassandra Lopez tore her Achilles tendon during warmups. …

The Utes compared the situation to last year when standout Corrie Lothrop suffered the same injury early in the season.

Utah gymnastics: Utes overcome setback to win opener

It looks like Kassandra is out for the season.

At the Alabama meet, coach Patterson said that Kayla Williams injured her Achilles’ tendon in warm-ups.

What percentage of NCAA women injure their Achilles? 😦

Couch Gymnast’s Bea Gheorghisor put together 3 “So, What Did I Miss” posts.

Click through each to read more.

Sui Lu, Huang Qiushuang and He Kexin retire.

So, What Did I Miss – Part 1

Former Romanian National coach Nicolae Forminte has joined Gym East in Washington State. GO Region 2.

So, What Did I Miss – Part 2

Rowena Needham competes a high to low Bar transition something like Zuchold 1/2.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

So, What Did I Miss – Part 3

Hawaiian Island Twisters gives visiting teams competing at their GYMNASTICS IN PARADISE INVITATIONAL a personalized poster.

That’s cool. 🙂

(via Debbie Broderick Rodriguez)

The happiest Teams so far in this young season might just be LSU and Boise.

The No. 23-ranked Broncos set a school record for the second-straight year, earning the program’s best season-opening score of 195.850 at the Utah Deseret First Duel in Salt Lake City. BSU placed second in the four-team meet behind No. 6 Utah (196.650).

“I am so proud of this team,” said Tina Bird, Boise State co-head coach. “They worked hard to prepare for this and then got out there and made Utah look over their shoulder. This team is destined for greatness!” …

Idaho Statesman

Krystine Jacobsen won Beam.

Check Road to Nationals to see where Boise ranks, so far.

Shout out too to Rutgers highest-ever opening day team score 195.075.

China’s national training center. An amazing facility

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Is this the first time the American National Team has trained in China?

Seven gymnasts are battling for the five spots in the Gymsports New Zealand squad for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July and August. …

The gymnasts attending the training camp were Christchurch-based Courtney McGregor, Hanna Malloch, Mackenzie Slee, Charlotte Sullivan, Anna Tempero, and Jordan Rae … and North Harbour’s Brittany Robertson, who has moved to Canterbury to further her gymnastics. …

The New Zealand squad will compete in Qatar and Canada over the next few months, before attending trials in Auckland and the Australian nationals at the end of May. …

The Press (PDF)

Thanks Avril.

GymCastic:

Looks like Kohei Uchimura is training a triple-twisting Yurchenko again!

Training at the first Japanese Team Camp of 2014.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

He needs Maroney height to finish that. 🙂

At Club Med Cancun, Yucatan.

Last night. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch Danusia Francis’ FX on YouTube.

It looked like UCLA had a bigger crowd than usual. What was the official number?

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(via GymCastic)

Here’s the routine everyone is talking about.

Francis made … history by becoming the first gymnast to compete a unique dismount combination, a standing aerial sideways across the beam right into a back layout with a full twist.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/Nzc2NzI4OTQ1?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2014 NCAA Gymnastics Season Openers on gymnastike.org

The sideways aerial was named by FIG for Silvia Colussi-Pelaez who competed it at Worlds last year. Silvia was there at the UCLA meet with her Florida team.