Author: Rick Mc

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An amazing meet. Congratulations to all competitors and coaches.

Floor
1 Jacob Dalton Univ. Of Oklahoma 16.200
2 Steven Legendre Univ. Of Oklahoma 16.000
3 Sam Mikulak Univ. Of Michigan 15.700

H Bar
1 Alex Buscaglia Stanford Univ. 15.750
2 Ian Makowske Univ. Of Michigan 15.350
3 Kyle Bunthuwong U.C. Berkeley – California 15.100

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Date: April 16, 2011
Location: St. John Arena — Columbus, OH

Official results.

1 University of Alabama 197.650

2 UCLA 197.375
3 University of Oklahoma 197.250
4 University of Nebraska 196.725
5 University of Utah 196.500
6 University of Michigan 196.425

A terrific victory for the Crimson Tide. Congratulations.

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Women’s Gymnastics Meet Results
NCAA Championship Team Finals
Date: April 16, 2011
Location: Wolstein Center, Cleveland, Ohio

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LIVE scores. You could try the LIVE video, too.

LIVE jots …

Rotation 1 – Nebraska probably has the least difficulty on Bars of the 6 teams. But they HIT. Good landings. 49.300.

Utah hits beam. Respect. They won’t be 6th of 6 as they were in 2010. Smart – gainer dismounts are easy to stick. Canadian Gael Mackie anchored the team with an entertaining, interesting set … 9.825 seems low.

Rotation 2 – Oklahoma’s Floor was entertaining. But UCLA is the class of the NCAA when it comes to choreography. Nice job, Syd. MucCullough’s is still my favourite routine of the year. … Courtney anchors for 9.825, my least favourite routine in their line-up. She’s taped for hamstring.

Scores for Alabama’s Vault in the first rotation some thought high 49.575. To me it looked like Oklahoma was better, but only scored 49.350. Review the video.

LOVE those Michigan monster Tkachevs. Great Bars rotation 49.375.

Nebraska tough on Beam for 48.875 after Maddie Steinauer falls.

Rotation 3 – UCLA towels down the Yurchenko mat, board and horse after each competitor. Good job on this apparatus today. GREAT landings. 49.50 … lower than Alabama. hmm

Michigan fall on Beam for Sexton. (Front tuck.) And a fall for Zurales. … They cannot win counting a fall.

Utah has the least tumbling difficulty of the Super 6, but showed nice, clean routines. 49.050

Half way through the meet Alabama and UCLA tied …

Rotation 4 – Nebraska impressive tumbling. I always expect good tumbling and vault from the Huskers. Evanstad gorgeous 9.90.

Alabama rockin’ Beam. … 9.95 for Kim Jacob the high score of the meet on that apparatus. Deserved? … Kayla Hoffman falls. Pressure is on the last 2 competitors for the Tide. … Wow – double pike dismount DeMeo. And Stack-Eaton hits. Whew. … Both Alabama and UCLA have had one fall, but it didn’t hurt the team score too badly.

Rotation 4 – Since Alabama got through Beam with a 49.350, I’m guessing (and tweeting) they will win. … UCLA still has Bars and Beam to compete.

UCLA Bars EHH early release on double layout dismount = big step.

MIchigan Round-off double pike, you don’t see that often. … many variations of headspring on Floor at this meet. I like them. Fall Sexton. Botterman wonderful routine to anchor.

Oklahoma killing it on Beam, the best team so far. … 49.425. What’s happening with all those relatively poor Sheep Jumps? … Getting deducted, or not?

Oklahoma finishes with 197.250. Enough to win? … Nebraska 196.725

Rotation 6 – A thriller.

Sweet Home Alabama … XLNT first routine on Floor for Jacob. Sweet double layout for Gutierrez. ‘Bama scores seem low to me.

UCLA on Beam. EHH shaky 9.825. McCullough saves a fall. Peszek big wobble … STUCK dismount though.

Michigan not strong on Vault landings. Doesn’t hurt the team score much.

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1. Racea 54.566
2. Lopez 53.931
3. Haidu 52.432

full results (PDF)

Full Twist – LIVE blog

I had my fingers crossed for Jessica López, age-25.

Between the Olympics has posted some videos.

… There were falls all over the place, along with watered down routines. The only two gymnasts who did not fall were Amelia Racea and Jessica Lopez …

The highlight of the meet was Giulia Steingruber’s Rudi in the first rotation …

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Daniel Purvis does his homeland proud at the World Cup.

Full Twist – Glasgow World Cup: Men’s Competition LIVE

Kylee won more than the NCAA All-around title.

University of Michigan women’s gymnastics senior Kylee Botterman was named Michigan’s first-ever recipient of the AAI Award at the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships awards banquet Thursday night (April 14) at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Considered the sport’s equivalent of the Heisman Trophy, Botterman was chosen for the award as the top senior student-athlete in NCAA Division I women’s gymnastics. …

Michigan Wolverines

In yet another Men’s gymnastics thriller, freshman Sam Mikulak from Michigan wins the all-around with 90.75. … That means both NCAA champions are from the same school.

Photos of Sam.

Tyler Mizoguchi from Illinois hit some killer routines to finish 2nd with 90.15.

All-around finals
1. Sam Mikulak, University of Michigan, 90.750
2. Tyler Mizoguchi, University of Illinois, 90.150
3. Alex Naddour, University of Oklahoma, 89.750
4. Steven Legendre, University of Oklahoma, 89.700
5. Brandon Wynn, Ohio State University, 89.350
5. Bryan del Castillo, University of California-Berkeley, 89.350
7. Ryan Lieberman, Stanford University, 88.950
8. Josh Dixon, Stanford University, 88.750
9. Glen Ishino, University of California-Berkeley, 88.650
10. Donothan Bailey, University of California-Berkeley, 87.600

Stanford won Team.

1. Stanford University, 363.450

2. University of Oklahoma, 361.600
3. University of Illinois, 360.150
4. University of California-Berkeley, 358.700
5. University of Michigan, 356.200
6. Pennsylvania State University, 355.7

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Coach Brett McClure posted the celebration on Facebook.

Read commentary on Stick It Media. And International Gymnast.

AJ suggests the Super 6 team final will be a dual meet between Alabama and UCLA.

I’m not so sure.

It’s easy to lose the title. But how do you win it?

Quentin in the comments:

Beam was the story of the day in both sessions. Alabama I think had the best beam rotation. Whomever is going to contend for the title is going to have to hit beam 6 for 6 tomorrow.

Miss Val:

“I don’t think a team can make a mistake and win a national championship. I think the field is too deep. It’s whoever is on and hits lights-out. I think that’s what it’s going to take to win this year, which is great. You don’t want to have a champion being able to win with making a mistake.”

Bev Plocki:

… “So much of our sport comes down to sticking the landings. And from a judging standpoint that seems to be the most important thing to getting a good score is sticking the landing. …”

K.J. Kindler:

“… the team that has that magic is probably the team that is going to walk out the winner.”

(via USAG – Press Conference Quotes)

Super Six Rotation Draw – Bama on VT, Michigan bye b4 UB, Nebraska on UB, Utah on BB, UCLA on bye b4 FX, OU on FX.

9.90

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