Category: Gymnastics

unheralded NCAA stars of the week

Balance Beam Situation:

Gymnasts from schools outside the top 25 who scored over 9.900

Majesta Valentine, West Chester – Floor, 9.925

Alecia Farina, Maryland – Floor, 9.925

Tyra McKellar, Towson – Floor, 9.925

Kristi Hayashida, Seattle Pacific – Beam, 9.925

Kira Frederick, Michigan State – Floor, 9.925

Sabrina Garcia, Penn State – Bars, 9.925

Brittni Hawes, BYU – Bars, 9.925

Rachel Stypinski, Kent State – Floor, 9.975 & Beam, 9.925

Macey Hilliker, Central Michigan – Floor, 9.925

Meaghan Sievers, Iowa State – Vault, 9.925

Penn State without Jeff Thompson

In a week filled with change marked by the firing of head coach Jeff Thompson, Penn State went back to business this weekend.

The women’s team, under their new interim head coaches Kera Molinaro and Josh Nilson, picked up a win at Rec Hall against Pittsburgh, 195.200-193.525. …

“We had a great meet,” interim head coach Kera Molinaro said. “We wanted to come out and celebrate the seniors and have a fun atmosphere, and I think the girls really enjoyed themselves.” …

In midst of coach’s firing, Penn State women’s gymnastics picks up pivotal win

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Sergei Chinkar retires

If you don’t know Sergei’s story, click over to Coaching Life – From Belarus to Brisbane.

how’s that NO Chalkography rule working?

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. 🙂

https://twitter.com/slothanova/status/835961778127384577

USA WAG international assignments


AT&T American Cup, Newark, N.J., March 4
Riley McCusker, Brielle, N.J./MG Elite
Ragan Smith, Lewisville, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics

World Cup, Stuttgart, Germany, March 18
Morgan Hurd, Middletown, Del./First State Gymnastics

Gymnix International, Montreal, Que. Canada, March 10-12
Sunisa Lee, Saint Paul, Minn./Midwest Gymnastics Center
Emma Malabuyo, Flower Mound, Texas/Texas Dreams
Gabby Perea, Geneva, Ill./Legacy Elite
Maile O’Keefe, Las Vegas/Salcianu Elite

The camp began with physical abilities testing, where Maile O’Keefe of Las Vegas/Salcianu Elite, Ragan Smith of Lewisville, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics, and Shilese Jones of Westerville, Ohio/Buckeye Gymnastics, took the top three spots.

The camp also included verifications on each apparatus with athletes vying for international assignments showing full routines on competition surfaces. The top three in senior verification were: Riley McCusker of Brielle, N.J./MG Elite, Smith and Morgan Hurd of Middletown, Del./First State Gymnastics.

The top three in junior verification were Emma Malabuyo of Flower Mound, Texas/Texas Dreams, O’Keefe and Gabby Perea of Geneva, Ill./Legacy Elite. …

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2017 AAI Award Nominees

College coaches submit a nomination. Then vote for the winner.

Last season the winner was Lindsay Mable from Minnesota.

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Riley McCusker to American Cup

The competitors list keeps changing. But Ragan Smith & Riley McCusker were just verified at Camp.

Women
Australia: Emily Whitehead
China: Xie Yufen
France: Melanie De Jesus dos Santos
Great Britain: Rebecca Tunney Amy Tinkler
Germany: Kim Bui
Japan: Asuka Teramoto
Netherlands: Tisha Volleman
USA: Ragan Smith, Lewisville, Texas/Texas Dreams
USA: Wildcard – Riley McCusker

Men
China: Sun Wei
Great Britain: Sam Oldham
Germany: Lukas Dauser
Japan: Ryohei Kato
Netherlands: Bart Deurloo
Switzerland: Eddy Yusof
Ukraine: Oleg Vernaiev
USA: Yul Moldauer, Arvada, Colo./University of Oklahoma
USA: Akash Modi, Morganville, N.J./Stanford University

The 2017 AT&T American Cup, the eighth-annual Nastia Liukin Cup and the Elite Team Cup will take place at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., on March 3-4, 2017.

WHEN: Saturday, March 4, 2017 – Time: 11:30 a.m. ET
WHERE: Prudential Center, Newark, N.J.

(via FloGymnastics)

FIG Intercontinental & International Judges Courses

I’ve seen a memo from Morinari WATANABE, President, dated February 24, 2017.

Dear Presidents,
Dear members of the FIG Authorities,

The FIG President, TC Presidents, the Secretary General and many of you have received numerous complaints from judges who participated at the Intercontinental and International Judges’ courses.

We are alarmed and deeply concerned about the errors, delays and lack of timely information which occurred and sincerely apologise to all member federations and judges who were affected by these issues. These issues are not acceptable and have caused mistrust in our family.

The FIG Executive Committee has therefore unanimously approved the following measures taken immediately by President Watanabe:

After a thorough analysis of:

– what happened,
– the problems encountered and their reasons
– a list of solutions to the problems

and to restore the trust in our organisation while guaranteeing corrections of the judges’ exams, information about exam results and assignment of the Judges’ Categories without any mistakes, the Executive Committee has unanimously decided to employ a procedure to generate and obtain accurate results and assign the correct categories by rechecking all data and results calculation with a complete recheck and verification performed by the Technical Committees as soon as possible. …

Needless to say that such a complete review and the outcome of the meeting mentioned above will lead to a few corrections of results, which could also lead to category changes. …