Category: Gymnastics

Aerial Walkover to 2 feet

Gabi Stephen (Michigan State).

Wow.  9.925.

Gabi trained at Midwest Elite Gymnastics Academy in Elgin, Illinois.

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Canadian Championships 2022

Gymnastics Canada (GymCan) is happy to announce that, for the first time in two years, the Artistic Gymnastics National Championships will be held as an “in-person” competition at the Richmond Oval facility, May 26-31, 2022.

The Richmond Olympic Oval was built for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Missouri goes 197.350

Arkansas 196.800 & LSU 197.200.

Mizzou Gymnastics is having a GREAT season.

Also … Helen Hu is back on Beam. (9.950)

Sari Thaler – Floor

The senior finally gets to show off her beautiful Floor routine.

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Canada’s Cory Paterson retired

Super competitor and dependable teammate for so many years on Team Canada and Iowa in the NCAA.

Quebec put together a career retrospective video. Cory will stay involved in the sport in leadership roles.

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Suni DID compete 1/2-on, Fwd Layout

As a competitive Vault, that’s crazy. SO difficult to land consistently.

I’d argue it’s even tougher than the Handspring Fwd Layouts we’ve seen a few times in NCAA.

When I saw it in training online I ASSuMEd she was using it as a “timer” — and would add twists later.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. Spencer would have given  9.8 though she was scored 9.925.

NCAA Divison III teams scored lower

As we’ve always known, NCAA judges apply the rules more accurately when at Div III competitions. It’s one of the worst aspects of the silly College judging scheme.

Spencer crunched the numbers on the recent GymCastic podcast:

  • Using data from every meet for the DIII WIAC teams (the 8 teams in Wisconsin/Minnesota) for the last 10 years—679 team scores—the average score when they compete away at a DI or DII school is 186.104. 
  • Compared to when they compete at home or at other DIII schools or neutral venues, when the average score is 183.776. 
  • That’s a difference of 2.328 in the team score—or greater than four falls—maintained across an entire decade of meets for an entire division of teams.
  • Far from being an urban myth, DIII teams scoring far higher at DI and DII schools is a long-standing and verifiable reality.