Big upset.
First year Derrian Gobourne won VT, FX and tied for the AA title with LSU’s Sarah Finnegan
Congratulations coach Graba.
Category: Gymnastics
GymACT = Gymnastics Association of College Teams
GymACT, officially formed in January of 2018, is a league of collegiate gymnastics teams that are unaffiliated with the NCAA and not funded by schools yet strive to compete at the same level as the NCAA programs.
Led by president Scott Barclay, head coach at Arizona State, GymACT is hoping to give young gymnasts more opportunities to compete at a high level after competing at the J.O. or high school level, in turn helping grow the sport once again. …
SC United (formed in 2015), NorCal United (formed in 2018) and NY Alliance (who will compete for the first time in 2019) are unique in that they are not affiliated with any specific school but allow for gymnasts enrolled in schools in the area to continue their gymnastics careers.
Those three schools, alongside Temple, ASU and Washington, are the current members of GymACT. …
“Gymnastics is broken down into three tiers right now,” Temple head coach Jesse Kitzen-Abelson said. “Tier one is NCAA varsity status, tier three is the NAIGC (National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs) club level—recreational and fun—and the middle is the hybrid. [GymACT] is the competitiveness and inclusiveness put together.”
… Barclay has been in contact with UIC head coach Charley Nelson about joining GymACT if the team fails to reach the financial goal the university set for it to remain a funded program. He also has been in contact with two club programs, Northern Illinois and Kansas, about joining GymACT for the 2020 season. …
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Handgrips warming-up at Round Lake
Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram. 😀
Peng’s College Weekly Wrap Up Show
I liked the quick cuts. And enjoy seeing gymnasts from all over the nation.
Click PLAY or watch episode 1 for week 1 on Facebook.
USAG priorities ☹️
I’ve not yet seen any response from USA Gymnastics on this.
#disappointed
For example, Alan Bower:
Bower had the financial support he needed to continue training for Tokyo 2020. As a non-NCAA member of the U.S. national senior men’s team, Bower received a $1,875 monthly stipend from USA Gymnastics …
“Allan really relies on that check to pay his rent and continue to train for the Olympics,” Williams said Thursday. “He was deferring medical school until after 2020, but if he doesn’t get paid soon he can’t pay his rent and he’s probably just going to go to medical school because he can’t afford to sit around and expect payments and then not get those.”
USA Gymnastics has also not paid bonuses to coaches for the men’s and women’s U.S. teams that competed at the World Championships last fall.
USA Gymnastics has not paid U.S. men’s national team members this month
Sport’s Illustrated Fittest Female
Simone Biles.
… the world’s most decorated gymnast towers over the competition.
After time away in 2017, the 21-year-old Biles returned to rule the sport again in ’18 with an unmatched mix of muscle and mettle. At the world championships in Doha, Qatar, in November, she set the record for career world titles among men and women, with 14, including four more gold medals—all while suffering from a painful kidney stone. An all-around champion, indeed.
SI – Fittest 50
Simone 😀
Olympian Ágnes Keleti is 98
Ágnes Keleti (born Ágnes Klein, 9 January 1921) is a Hungarian–Israeli retired Olympic and world champion artistic gymnast and coach. While representing Hungary in the Summer Olympics, she won 10 Olympic medals …
Click PLAY or watch Ágnes on Twitter.
Can she still do the splits? 🙂
improving active hip extension flexibility
Over the coming weeks I’ll be posting a number of important progressions for beginners videotaped at Bermuda Gymnastics Association.
Thanks Kim McHardy and Head Coach Adriana Forde.
As always, evaluate the exercise, not the kids demonstrating.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Beginners are often better at passive flexibility (e.g. splits) than active flexibility which is needed for skills.
Our conditioning program should include active flexibility training exercises like this one.
Natalie Wojcik – 10.3 on Vault
That’s my score based on current Carol College judging
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One of the worst scores I can recall was Brittany Rogers at Championships with a superb Yurchenko 1 1/2. … Score 9.85!
Natalie was pretty happy in Cancun in any case. She’s the only First Year near the top of the AA rankings.
Click PLAY or watch the interview on Twitter.
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