Author: Rick Mc

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

ACL surgery for young athletes

Dr. Shea explains why ACL surgery is more challenging for young people who are still growing.

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(Via Positive Coaching Alliance)

Canada’s A-teams to PanAms

Zach Clay (Chilliwack, B.C.)
René Cournoyer (Repentigny, Que.)
Justin Karstadt (Etobicoke, Ont.)
Cory Paterson (Oakville, Ont.)
Sam Zakutney (Ottawa, Ont.)
Ed Van Hoof (Luton, Great Britain) – Head Coach
Jean-Sebastien Tougas (Montreal, Que.) – Team Coach

Ellie Black (Halifax, N.S.)
Shallon Olsen (Surrey, B.C.)
Brooklyn Moors (Cambridge, Ont.)
Ana Padurariu (Whitby, Ont.)
Victoria Woo (Brossard, Que.)
David Kikuchi (Truro, N.S.) – Team Coach
Lorie Henderson (Winnipeg, Man.) – Team Coach
Elvira Saadi (Cambridge, Ont.) – Personal Coach

via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics

everything you want to know about GymCastic

If you don’t listen religiously, the BIG news is that GymCastic has gone from once a week to twice a week. 

Awesome.

Episode 374 provides a history of the audiocast — how Jessica O’Beirne launched it with zero podcasting experience. Recall that Tim Daggett was the first guest, an excellent interview.

We learned that Spencer watches Gymnastics routines all day every day. So we don’t have to. He’ll find the highlights.

We learned that Uncle Tim is still involved with social media for @GymCastic.

Listen here.

 

 

 

Chris Riegel accuses coach Larry Moyer

“I was sexually abused by my personal coach from 1973 to 1981, and due to the absolute failures of the USGF (USAG) and USOC, it wiped away my youth, cut short my career, and left me with wounds that never heal,” Riegel wrote in a letter to USA Gymnastics and SafeSport last October. …

Riegel is going public now out of frustration over the way USA Gymnastics handled his case both when he was a teenager and since he filed a complaint with the sport’s national governing body last fall. …

Moyer was forced out of the sport in 1993 by Mike Jacki, president of what was then called the U.S. Gymnastics Federation. Jacki confirmed the move, but the expulsion was not an official act and was never formally announced or made public, and Moyer is not listed on USA Gymnastics or the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s banned lists, something Riegel wants to change. …

Moyer recently turned 77. He lives in a red brick row house on a quiet tree-lined street next to a cemetery in Allentown, 35 miles from Reading. …

BEHIND THE WALLS: Sexual abuse in American men’s gymnastics

roll progressions at GAGE

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gender parity in the NCAA

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