Category: beam

Kato, Douglas American Cup Champions

1. Douglas USA 60.165
2. Nichols USA 59.699
3. Black CAN 57.132

1. Kato JPN 88.931
2. Whittenburg USA 88.565
3. Wei Sun CHN 87.665
full results

Nick Zaccardi:

Just like four years ago, Gabby Douglas posted the highest all-around score at the American Cup. There was just one significant difference on Saturday.

“My scores counted!” Douglas said.

NBC

Lauren was there. Here’s her LIVE commentary.

Ryohei is the first Japanese man to win this meet since Tsukahara the 1st did so in 1977.

Personally I don’t like meets with so few competitors. When things go badly, as they did today, fans start to ask … “What’s the point?”

Marta says Gabby performs best under pressure. Our Olympic Champion has never looked better on Beam.

Click PLAY or watch Gabby’s Beam on YouTube.

Yes. That’s a “Thing Leap” not a “Ring Leap”. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch Kato’s FX on YouTube.

Bridget Sloan 10.0 Beam

A 10.0 from Florida’s Bridget Sloan finished a solid road performance for the Gators Friday in front of 6,660 at the University of Kentucky Memorial Coliseum. The Florida gymnastics team took a 197.525 – 196.65 win …

Sloan now has seven perfect marks in her collegiate career (three beam, two bars, one vault, floor), making her the Gators’ career leader for 10.0s. …

It is Florida Senior Day and the careers of Gators Bridgette Caquatto, Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto, Morgan Frazier and Bridget Sloan will be celebrated in a post-meet ceremony.

Gator Country

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Eythora Thorsdottir & Tisha Volleman

… of the Netherlands talk about making history with their team at 2015 Worlds in Glasgow, qualifying the Netherlands to the Olympics games for the first time in 40 years in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics.

The Dutch have blown us all away with their fresh outlook on artistry and both Thorsdottir and Volleman talk about the emphasis on performance quality and entertainment value within the Dutch program.

Inside Look: Journey to the Games – Episode 3: Eythora Thorsdottir and Tisha Volleman

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

NCAA Power Rankings Week 8

These are not any kind official rankings, but rather the stories, people, topics and/or events of interest from last week according to MCSMaria. 🙂

# 1 LSU at Florida – Florida’s home scoring benefits the visiting team, LSU

# 2 Oklahoma meet commentary by Kelly Garrison

# 3 OSU’s Maddie Gardiner

# 4 Epic Beam Saves

# 5 OSU’s Risa Perez

# 6 Denver’s Julia Ross

# 7 Push to the Post Season

NCAA Power Rankings Week 8

Click through for the details. 🙂

Here are those epic Beam saves.

Click PLAY or watch Nicki Shapiro on twitter.

Click PLAY or watch Risa Perez on Facebook.

new Beam skill – the Shapiro

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. 🙂

Marique – wolf turn on Beam

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram. 🙂

@simonebiles???

A video posted by Manrique Larduet Bicet (@manrique_larduet) on Jan 16, 2016 at 12:57pm PST

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Catalina Ponor – Beam double layout

A good drill for generating rotation for other dismounts, including double pike.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I’m not sure when that video was taken. A long time ago, I believe.

Georgia upsets LSU

“We talked about gaining momentum and building on the win over Florida last week,” Georgia head coach Danna Durante said. “We wanted to put four complete events together where it was just consistent across the board. …

On bars, Brittany Rogers scored a season high 9.95 competing in the anchor spot. …

The Georgia-LSU meet will air on the SEC Network on Monday at 9 p.m. …

No. 11 Georgia edges No. 5 LSU

Brittany wanted to compete the DTY for the first time in College against Ashleigh Gnat’s DTY. 🙂

Ashleigh won the vault and floor titles with a 9.95 and 9.925, respectively, to increase her team lead to 11 individual titles this season.

related – Former Georgia coach Jay Clark where he wants to be at LSU

Eastern Michigan goes 196.6

These ladies have been killin’ it. Congratulations on making history. 🙂

The Eastern Michigan University women’s gymnastics team kept up their record-breaking ways today, Feb. 13, in a tri-meet win over Bowling Green and Southeast Missouri State. The Eagles were able to break into the 196’s for the first time in program history, finishing with a huge 196.6 to shatter the old record set Monday, Feb. 8, at Michigan.

“I’m obviously thrilled and extremely proud of the team,” remarked Head Coach Jay Santos. …

“We had a lot of great individual performances, but I think the highlight would have to be Natalie (Gervais) going 9.925 on beam with a gorgeous routine, and Lacey (Rubin) going right after her with a 9.9,” said Santos. …

EMU Eagles