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Assistant coaches Kera Molinaro and Josh Nilson will serve as interim co-head coaches for the remainder of the season. A national search for a new head coach will begin immediately
Consistent with University policy, this is a personnel matter and Intercollegiate Athletics will not have any further comment.
Terrible timing for the gymnasts. Mid-season?
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Balance Beam Situation:
Congratulations to our week 6 champion, Peng Peng Lee’s bars, which won by a billion votes to zero. It was a close-run thing for the remaining spots …
BEST ROUTINE OF WEEK 7 POLL
Click through to watch and vote for your favourite routine of last weekend:
1. Kyla Ross, Bars
2. Joslyn Goings, Beam
3. Maddie Karr, Vault
4. Sarah Finnegan, Beam
5. Elizabeth Price, Bars
6. MyKayla Skinner, Floor
7. Kyla Ross, Beam
8. Kennedi Edney, Vault
9. Nickie Guerrero, Beam
10. Emma McLean, Vault
Tough decision. But I voted for Joslyn Goings. Love the Gainer layout.
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If you’ve not been following this contest, here are the BBS winners so far.
| ROUTINE OF THE WEEK | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Week 1 | Skinner, FX | Edney, VT | Nichols, UB |
| Week 2 | Ward, VT | PP Lee, BB | Hambrick, FX |
| Week 3 | Artz, FX | Childers, BB | Skinner, VT |
| Week 4 | Ross, UB | McMurtry, VT | PP Lee, UB |
| Week 5 | Gardiner, BB | Ward, VT | Winston, FX |
| Week 6 | PP Lee, UB | Slocum, VT | Jackson, FX |
Beautiful extension and amplitude.
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D 5.9 + E 8.533 = 14.433
I would have expected an E score closer to 9.0. Hmm ??
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Superb execution. But I don’t like such an imbalance of front tumbling over back tumbling.
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It’s not easy to beat the big man when he hits.
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook. Prelims World Cup Melbourne.
The annual Inside Gymnastics special edition is available.
The most in many years, I believe.
Stick it Media has a rundown – Canada’s Big Impact on NCAA Men’s Gymnastics
The former Canadian Men’s National Coach Edouard Iarov was very negative about College Gymnastics. He preferred gymnasts stay home training with their clubs.
The new National Team Director Tony Smith is much more encouraging of the guys taking advantage of College training in the States. They are welcomed back to attend national team training camps & qualifiers.
In fact, Canada has a team headed to compete at Stanford this weekend — the International Collegiate Challenge (Stanford, Minnesota, Japan, Canada).
I’m hoping scores for Justin Karstadt & Joel Gagnon will count for both teams. 🙂
Click through to listen to Alaina Legendre (née Williams) tell the story in her own words.
On Sunday, August 24, 2014 after the P&G Championships in Pittsburgh, Olympic hopeful Steven Legendre and his wife Alaina went to the hotel bar. It was there that Alaina alleges U.S. Olympic Training Center men’s coach, Vitaly Marinitch sexually assaulted her.
Since the incident isn’t mentioned as a catalyst for Vitaly’s stated voluntary resignation, the Legendres have decided to publicly share their story …
related – USA Today – Couple unhappy with USA Gymnastics handling of groping complaint
I’ve not seen any official response from USAG.
Thanks to GymCastic for their investigation on this: 1) Orange County Register, 2) Indy Star, 3 GymCastic.
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