Alia Leat – Beam

2018 British Espoir Champion.

1. Alia Leat 51.200
2. Ruby Stacey 50.200
3. Maddie Roberts 48.950

full results (bonus)

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Muldauer, Bower American Cup highlights

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Nissen-Emery Award Finalists

Joel Gagnon, Minnesota
Austin Hodges, Iowa
Hunter Justus, Oklahoma
Kyle King, Nebraska
Sean Melton, Ohio State
Robert Neff, Stanford
Brandon Ngai, Illinois

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2018 Nissen-Emery Award Finalists

Joel Gagnon

NCAA Fantasy Gymnastics

Kristen Watkins:

I competed in NCAA gymnastics for two years at MIT before both the men’s and women’s gymnastics program was cut, along with six other sports. This was not the first nor the last NCAA gymnastics program to be cut.

Being part of a gymnastics program that was cut was devastating; NCAA gymnastics is an incredibly fun, supportive, and exciting culmination to a lifetime of work to get there.

As I started conceptualizing College Fantasy Gymnastics, I started to think of it not only as a way for people to have more fun following college gymnastics, but also as a tool to help increase the popularity of college gymnastics teams. …

Fantasy Gym Blog

1,643 fans are registered right now. Noel was winning as of Mar 7, 2018.

The website does crash when too many of those folks try to log-in at the same time.

In case you want to try it next season, here’s the link:

CollegeFantasyGymnastics.com

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related – Kristen Watkins – How I Learned to Program by Creating Fantasy Gymnastics (2014)

Aly Raisman interview

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Hamm, Liukin, Raducan to IG Hall of Fame

Olympic Champions all. 😊

Paul Hamm and fellow American Nastia Liukin will be inducted along with Romanian Andreea Raducan.

Alexei Nemov entered the Hall of Fame last year, but could not travel at the last minute. He plans come this year, however. …

International Gymnast Magazine

on coaching favouritism

Why the favoritsm?

I’m fully aware that some kids are more coachable than others; some kids work harder than others; some kids are more driven and determined; some kids fear nothing; some kids have a better attitude and work ethic. And some are just easier to get along with. But why alienate parents in favor of other parents?

I want to believe this is not intentional, but having sat back and watched for a number of years, I’m not so sure it is. …

It is not just the parents who notice this–kids are incredibly observant and they know when someone is receiving preferential treatment. …

An Open Letter to My Daughter’s Coach . . .

mocking Beam judges

Since the judges at Montreal Worlds were unable to put much range between best and worst, FIG deserves this kind of critique. 😀

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(via Irish Daniel)