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Category: Gymnastics
understanding College Bars scoring
Less science. More a magic black art.
Spencer:
Handstands are THE THING on bars.
When gymnasts cast to handstand in NCAA, we’re told the judges are expecting them to be within 10 degrees of vertical to receive no deduction. This “degree” stuff is super ambiguous (the human eye cannot tell the difference between 9 degrees and 11 degrees on a handstand), so the rule basically ends up as “y’all better be vertical.” …
WTF IS NCAA SCORING – BARS EDITION
Nina Derwael DREAM Bars
Andrea Li finds Jaeger easy
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NCAA Vault judging is stupid
NCAA judging is stupid. But some of the craziest injustices occur on Vault.
Spencer tells us the REAL rules:
NCAA pretends that it follows the JO code of points, except it obviously doesn’t. Not even a little.
There’s a tremendous amount of subjectivity remaining in NCAA scoring, including an unwritten understanding regarding which deductions from the JO code actually count and which ones magically don’t for the purpose of scoring NCAA routines. …
WTF IS NCAA SCORING – VAULT EDITION
Bonus
Alicia agrees.
adding a twist to double layout
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our inspiration – Maggie Nichols
On Jan. 9, 2018, Nichols, then a sophomore gymnast at Oklahoma, released an 898-word statement informing the world that she, too, had been sexually assaulted by former USA Gymnastics team physician Larry Nassar.
She let the world know that, in 2015, she and her coach were the first to report his abuse to USA Gymnastics, that she was the one who had been identified only as “Athlete A” in the reports of Nassar’s actions, which he inflicted under the guise of medical treatment on more than 300 victims. …
“I want everyone to know that he did not do this to Athlete A, he did it to Maggie Nichols,” Nichols wrote in the statement. …
2019 NCAA Inspiration Award: Maggie Nichols
Oklahoma gymnast hopes reporting abuse by USA Gymnastics doctor helps others feel empowered
international gymnasts in the NCAA
College Gym News crunched the numbers for MAG and WAG:
… The vast majority of international gymnasts have been Canadian; gymnasts from Canada total 276, or 61.6 percent of all international athletes. The United Kingdom comes in at No. 2 with 24, and Australia is third with 20.
For the women, UCLA leads the way, with 22 international gymnasts on rosters; UIC and Eastern Michigan come in second with 18 each. UCLA also tops the charts for non-Canadian internationals, tied with Towson at eight. …
In 2018, there were 88 non-American male and female gymnasts on rosters …
Mélanie – van Leeuwen to Marinitch
Oh WOW.
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Gymnastics Ireland fantastic in 2018
I can’t think of a nation that is more improved.
They won the National Governing Body of the Year award for all sports.
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Membership grew by 3000 from the previous year to hit over 30,000.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 
