Via KEEPING UP WITH THE COOL GIFS – WEEK 8
Category: Gymnastics
Men’s NCAA week 8
You can always check updated NCAA rankings on Road to Nationals.
Instead, here’s the weekly “Power Rankings“ as decided by a panel of experts from the College Gymnastics Association:
1. STANFORD CARDINAL
2. MICHIGAN WOLVERINES
3. OKLAHOMA SOONERS
4. ILLINOIS FIGHTING ILLINI
5. NEBRASKA CORNHUSKERS
6. OHIO STATE BUCKEYES
Emily Muhlenhaupt – Bars
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
(via BBS 10s of Week 8)
Hamline’s Doug Byrnes
Hamline is an NCAA Division III team that doesn’t get much Press.
But their coach, Doug Byrnes, is one of my favourite clinicians. Great guy. Excellent people skills.
A local paper posted a feature on his 20 year career.
In 1989 Hamline Gymnastics founder Mary Jane Olson asked Coach Byrnes if he wanted to work at Hamline. Byrnes declined. After Olson asked him four more times, Byrnes agreed to work Saturdays as a spotter for the team.
He’s never left. …
National Team Selection policy
Seems USAG MPC bungled the selection process for upcoming World Cups.
Yul’s coach Mark Williams responds.
Click through to read the 5 tweets in that thread.
Here’s what they recommend in Canada.
Responsible NSOs (National Sports Organizations) recognize the importance of a sound team selection policy to ensure that the best athletes are indeed selected for optimal performance of the team, and also to avoid disputes leading up to a major competition.
The criteria must also be communicated to the athletes long before the start of the qualification period.
The entire training program of athletes will be based on meeting these criteria to secure their selection to the team, so it would be unreasonable to communicate these criteria only a few weeks or a few days before.
Of course, once a team selection policy approved and published, the NSO must ensure that it is implemented as intended.
read more … Team Selection
some GOOD news from Winter Cup
Though the gymternet mainly heard about the screw-ups at the annual U.S. Men’s selection meet during the Olympic year, Kensley was there — as usual — and found the competition much improved in many ways.
Click through to this Twitter thread to read her positive comments.
can #NCAAGym judging be improved?
Greg Marsden asks that question on Twitter. And got PLENTY of feedback.
It was inspired by the scores last weekend of Utah at UCLA.
Spencer felt it was the most over-scored rotation of the year so far. A high bar.
Here are the judges. It seems there is no oversight for College officials.
World’s Strongest Man – back flip
Maya Reimers – Floor
Maya from Division II Bridgeport is PLANNING a routine with both double layout and full-in.
Click PLAY or watch her HUGE double layout on YouTube.
Right now Bridgeport is ranked ahead of many Division I teams.
Maya trained club at Chelsea Piers (NY).
Related – Bridgeport has a fundraiser underway: Team Travel, Locker Room Improvements, Team Apparel.
Via the Rebecca Scally interview on The Routine Podcast.
Ri Se-Gwang retired
Ri, now age 35, has been one of the top vaulters in history.
World Champion 2014, 2015 and 2018.
The Olympic Gold medalist in Rio.
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