Category: Gymnastics

Cal qualifies for Championships

Recall 2010? Cal Berkeley announced that both Gymnastics teams would be CUT. For budget reasons.

Both team survived. And both teams have thrived. 🙂

Both will be competing with full teams at Nationals 2016.

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related – TONI-ANN WILLIAMS will miss Championships. She’ll be competing for Jamaica at the Olympic Test Meet.

double salto with 2 1/2 twist punch 1/1

Dominick Cunningham. Wow!

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related:

• Dominick training the same pass into double front
• Dominick training triple Arabian

12 teams to Championships

Hosted by Texas Woman’s University at the Fort Worth Convention Center Arena, April 15-16. Same venue as last year.

Oklahoma 197.575
LSU 197.300
Alabama 197.125
Utah 197.125
Georgia 196.850
Florida 196.725
Nebraska 196.550
Auburn 196.525
Stanford 196.525
UCLA 196.375
Minnesota 196.175
California 195.925

Click over to NCAA.com to see the AA and individual apparatus qualifiers.

12 teams to Championships
Road to Nationals

I’ve attended Championships for the last 9 years. But I’ll be in Rio for the Olympic Test Meet this time. The dates conflict.

Yusuke Saito – Bretschneider

The first to compete the skill … after Bretschneider.

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Uncle Tim asks if this wild ass routine counts too many Kovacs variations. Yes, I’d say. Two should be maximum. Bretschneider has competed four.

Taylor Lindsay-Noel audiocast

Canadian gymnast Taylor Lindsay-Noel was paralyzed in 2008 training a toe-on double front dismount from Bars. No pit. No spot.

She’s very eloquent. Very active online.

And now she’s launched a podcast called Tea Time with Tay.

In her first podcast Taylor details the day of her life-changing accident.

Here’s her website.