Author: Rick Mc

Jake Dalton Wins 2 Event Titles at NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships

Oklahoma’s Jake Dalton won his two specialty events, floor (16.20) and vault (16.55), a day after his team fell just shy of the team title. …

FX – Jake Dalton (Oklahoma) – 16.20
PH – Alex Naddour (Oklahoma) – 15.55 & Daniel Ribeiro (Illinois) – 15.55
SR – Brandon Wynn (Ohio State) – 16.00
VT – Dalton – 16.55
PB – Tyler Mizoguchi (Illinois) – 15.20
HB – Alex Buscaglia (Stanford) – 15.75

It was fantastic to see some great performances put in by several outstanding freshmen who qualified for event finals. As you can see, they all earned All-American honors! Here is the list:

FX: Sam Mikulak (Michigan) – 15.70 (3rd)
PH: Chris Turner (Stanford) – 15.00 (4th)
VT: Jeff Treleaven (Ohio State) – 16.10 (3rd); Mikulak – 15.50 (7th)
PB: Mikulak – 14.70 (4th)
HB: Kris Done (Ohio State) – 15.00 (5th); Wasef Burbar (Penn State) – 14.80 (6th)

… Michigan’s Sam Mikulak has had quite a year, going back to last May. He won the JO Nationals all-around championship, VISA U.S.A. all-around championship, Big 10 all-around championship and the NCAA all-around championship. Can’t think of any other athlete who has accomplished the “grand slam” of gymnastics. …

That’s from the best coverage of the Men’s NCAA Gymnastics – Stick It Media.

Here’s the Gymnastics Examiner wrap-up – Jake Dalton doubles down as men’s NCAA Championships conclude

Blythe also linked to some of Greg Long’s photos from the meet.

Stephen, the Nissen-Emery Award winner, was expected to win the all-around, but problems with his Dragalescu vault took him out.

One more thing:

… The Men’s programs themselves do a fairly poor job promoting their own cause. That may hurt chances of survival, long term.

It’s a shame, too, that they schedule Championships concurrent with the women’s meet. Most media go to the girls competition, if they must choose. Best for the Men and for fans would be a combined NCAA MAG and WAG meet.

Wow.

My congratulations to Marissa on this win. These are HUGE vaults.

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

Note that she does not use the easier Kasamatsu technique. These are true Tsuk 1 1/2 and 1/1.

College girls need show 2 different vaults in finals, not 2 different families.

Vault was the weakest final, however. Most of the girls only train 1 vault, winging it on the second, if they make the final. I feel that’s dangerous … though it wasn’t today (happily). If there was an injury on the second (untrained) vault, I’d argue that the NCAA rules partially contributed.

final scores

Update …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Kat Ding hits and sticks Bars. No obvious NCAA deductions, yet scores only 9.9125. … I feared that, as an early competitor, this score wouldn’t hold up.

It did.

A wonderful Bars champion.

… Marissa King won Vault with 9.8750. … Congrats. But it was not a strong final.

… I’ll post videos when they become available.

hmm …

Sam added the standing 1/1 twist for Finals. (Anne thinks she’s only the 2nd NCAA gymnast to compete it.)

But many coaches will still feel her routine is too ‘easy‘ to be the best in College gymnastics. … Debatable.

Click PLAY or watch some of her routine from Super 6 on YouTube.

I would have been happier to see Aisha Gerber as Champion. … Kayla Hoffman 2nd.

I’ll post all of those routines later.

Wow.

What a wonderful final. Congratulations Geralen.

You could argue that Jaime Pisani, Brittani McCullough, Kylee Botterman or Maranda Smith should have won. … Who else?

Great tumbling. Some very good bits of choreography, though I still like Brittani best there.

I’ll link to the entire Floor final when the video appears.

In the meantime, here’s her routine from Super 6. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

final results

(WiFi at the venue crapped out today. A terribly unreliable technology.)

Olivia is the second Australian gymnast to qualify for an NCAA Final, after Stephanie LoPiccolo.

Olivia scored 9.85 … with one arched handstand, STUCK dismount.

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube (from a previous day).

(via Australian Gymnastics Blog)

… at 1pm ET.

Everyone looks quite relaxed. … aside from Sam.

@gymnastike:

Sam Peszek just did her standing full up on beam! She actually looked nervous beforehand. But it looks great!

Apparatus finals are a bit of an afterthought to the team competition.

The girls are not used to having so much warm-up time.

Here are the 2011 NCAA Individual Event Finals Qualifiers and the competition order which they drew to compete. By qualifying to event finals all of the girls listed below have also earned first team All American honors.

VAULT (in the order they will be competing):
1 Janelle Giblin, Nebraska, 9.90
2 Kylee Botterman, Michigan, 9.925
3 Jamie Schleppenbach, Nebraska, 9.90
4 Madison Mooring, Oklahoma, 9.90
5 Brittani McCullough, UCLA, 9.95
6 Amy Borsellino, Arkansas, 9.90
7 Katie Zurales, Michigan, 9.90
8 Alaina Johnson, Florida, 9.90
————-
9 Marissa Gutierrez, Alabama, 9.95
10 Marissa King, Florida, 9.90
11 Geralen Stack-Eaton, Alabama 9.90
12 Erin Davis, Nebraska, 9.95
13 Kayla Hoffman, Alabama, 9.90
14 Lindsey Cheek, Georgia, 9.90
15 Stephanie McAllister, Utah, 9.90
16 Ashley Sledge, Alabama, 9.90

BARS:
1 Trish Wilson, Michigan, 9.925
2 Kat Ding, Georgia, 9.925
3 Sarah DeMeo, Alabama, 9.90
4 Emily Wong, Nebraska, 9.90
5 Olivia Vivian, Oregon State, 9.90
6 Megan Ferguson, Oklahoma, 9.90
7 Maria Scaffidi, Nebraska, 9.90
8 Geralen Stack-Eaton, Alabama, 9.90
——–
9 Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs, UCLA, 9.90
10 Monique De LaTorre, UCLA, 9.90
11 Jen Kesler, Oregon State, 9.90
12 Alaina Johnson, Florida, 9.90
13 Kayla Nowak, Oklahoma, 9.90
14 Makayla Stambaugh, Oregon State, 9.90
15 Brittnee Martinez, Michigan, 9.90

BEAM:
1 Kim Jacob, Alabama, 9.875
2 Kayla Hoffman, Alabama, 9.90
3 Kylee Botterman, Michigan, 9.85
4 Mary Beth Lofgren, Utah, 9.825
5 Megan Ferguson, Oklahoma, 9.925
———-
6 Melissa Fernandez, Illinois, 9.85
7 Sam Peszek, UCLA, 9.875
8 Natasha Kelley, Oklahoma, 9.90
9 Aisha Gerber, UCLA, 9.85
10 Leslie Mak, Oregon State, 9.875

FLOOR:
1 Lora Evenstad, Nebraska, 9.90
2 Erin Davis, Nebraska, 9.90
3 Jaime Pisani, Arkansas, 9.95
4 Geralan Stack-Eaton, Alabama, 9.925
5 Cassidy McComb, Georgia, 9.90
6 Marissa King, Florida, 9.925
———-
7 Makayla Stambaugh, Oregon State, 9.90
8 Kylee Botterman, Michigan, 9.925
9 Brittni McCullough, UCLA, 9.925
10 Alaina Johnson, Florida, 9.90
11 Maranda Smith, Florida, 9.90
12 Katherine Grable, Arkansas, 9.90

Gymnastike

The routine that sealed the deal for Alabama, Kayla Hoffman on floor:

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTI5NDg1MDYy

Watch more video of 2011 NCAA Women’s Gymnastics National Championships on gymnastike.org

USAG – Alabama wins 2011 NCAA Women’s National Championships team title

Kayla Hoffman, who was second in the NCAA all-around yesterday, Kim Jacob and Geralen Stack-Eaton competed on all four events for the Tide. Other members of the championship team are: Becca Alexin, Sarah DeMeo, Marissa Gutierrez, Diandra Milliner and Ashley Sledge. DeMeo, Hoffman and Stack-Eaton are former U.S. National Team members.

Amanda Turner linked this video from Facebook.

Click PLAY or watch them on YouTube.

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GYMNAST CROSSING linked to a 1990s Japanese Anime TV show featuring male gymnasts preparing for the 2000 Olympics.

This is like an animated “American Anthem” meets “Stick It” meets Japanese weirdness.

Click PLAY or watch a segment on YouTube. (12min 35sec)

Watch part 2 linked from this post – Gymnastics Anime TV Series

That post links to details on the series.

Ganba! Fly High … written by Shinji Morisue and illustrated by Hiroyuki Kikuta. It is about high school gymnast Shun Fujimaki as he pursues his goal of competing in the 2000 Olympic Games, and is in part based on Morisue’s experiences as an Olympic champion. …

The series was adapted as a 30-episode anime television series called Ganbarist! Shun … produced by Sunrise. It was broadcast on Yomiuri TV from 1 July 1996 to 10 March 1997.