Category: Gymnastics

NCAA rankings weekend #1

Jan. 5-7th

1. LSU 197.150
2. Utah 197.000
3. Central Michigan 196.375
4. UCLA 196.250
5. Michigan 196.200
6. Kentucky 196.075

1. Sarah Finnegan LSU 39.650
2. Alicia Boren Florida 39.575
3T. Maddie Karr Denver 39.500
3T. Kyla Ross UCLA 39.500
5T. MaKenna Merrell-Giles Utah 39.475
5T. MyKayla Skinner Utah 39.475
full rankings

Across the four events, Utah looked the most prepared team in the NCAA this week, not a particularly surprising development based on what we expect from Utah. It was just a start-value nightmare from McNatt on beam and the OOB from Skinner for the lowest floor score of her NCAA career (9.800) that kept Utah out of the top spot. …

Balance Beam Situation – Week 1 Rankings

Forget peaking at the right time; Utah’s Red Rocks want to start gymnastics season strong and stay there

related – NCAA Gym News – The Dismount

City of Birmingham Boys 2017

A montage of Lee Woolls’ guys.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Dominick Cunningham’s Yurchenko double pike on Instagram.

Kohei in 2018

The king trains alone in a huge gym he keeps at a high temperature. For the first workout of 2018 a film crew was invited.

Click PLAY or watch a few clips on YouTube.

(via twoflips-threetwists)

Ebee 10.0 Bars

Elizabeth “Ebee” Price was finally awarded a 10.0, her first for Stanford.

Long overdue.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Maggie Nichols #MeToo

Maggie Nichols, a member of the 2015 World Championships gold medal-winning team and now an NCAA champion at Oklahoma, said in a statement to SCNG that she was sexually abused by Nassar during a U.S. national team camp in 2015 at the remote Texas ranch owned by U.S. national team directors Bela and Martha Karolyi, a U.S. Olympic Committee Training Site, and elsewhere.

“Up until now, I was identified as Athlete A by USA gymnastics, the US Olympic Committee and Michigan State University,” Nichols said. “I want everyone to know that he did not do this to Athlete A, he did it to Maggie Nichols.” …

Maggie Nichols, first Nassar whistle-blower, goes public

Maggie is the first known gymnast to tell USA Gymnastics chief executive Steve Penny and other top officials.

Why were they so slow to react after that first complaint?

Sami Durante – Bars

First College Bar routine.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

 

Alyssa Baumann comeback 2017

Alyssa tied for 1st on Beam in her debut with Florida. Congratulations.

On June 29, 2016, 10 days before the U.S. Olympic Trials, Baumann was training on uneven bars at WOGA in Plano, Texas, where she began gymnastics at age 3. Baumann didn’t catch the bar completely on a Shaposhnikova and fell hard, landing on her stomach and left arm. …

Her elbow looked good, but she was in so much pain we knew something was wrong, but we had no idea how bad. A day later her mom called and all she said, in tears, was ‘It’s over.'”

Scans had revealed that Baumann had torn several ligaments and muscles in her elbow and needed immediate surgery. Her lifelong dream of competing for a spot on the Olympic team was not going to be realized. She shared the news on Instagram herself the next morning. …

On August 31, Baumann underwent a second surgery on her right wrist to fix an issue that had pained her for some time. The rest of 2016 was spent in rehabilitation …

The new plan was to be 100 percent ready for today, in January 2018, when Florida begins its new season. …

Her younger sister, Rachel Baumann, a former elite who competed Level 10 last year and who has committed to Georgia, also made a montage dedicated to Alyssa’s comeback …

IG Online Interview: Alyssa Baumann

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (Mar 2017)

Nastia on the Nassar scandal

In the wake of the scandal, Liukin is the first to acknowledge that the organization still has a long way to go. “What’s going on in our sport is awful. Change is needed. I’m hoping that this is now the beginning of change and hopefully a brighter future.”

Liukin’s commitment to change is a vision she shares with her father, Valeri Liukin, the current coach of the US National Team …

Nastia Liukin Calls For Change In USA Gymnastics Following Sexual Abuse Scandal

Actually, the Olympic Champion was one of the last prominent American gymnastics spokespersons to call for real change. But it’s nice to see her finally get on board. She wore black at the Golden Globes.

John Orozco, Laurie Hernandez and Nadia were there too.