Category: history

College Gymnastics Association Hall of Fame

We are thrilled to announce the establishment of the first-ever College Gymnastics Association Hall of Fame, celebrating the outstanding achievements and contributions of athletes, coaches, and teams during their time in the NCAA. …

Inductees into the Hall of Fame will include athletes who have achieved unparalleled success on the gymnastics floor, coaches who have inspired and mentored their teams to greatness, and teams who have celebrated unprecedented success. ….

DETAILS

Join us on April 20th at The Ohio State University’s Fawcett Center for the induction ceremony. Those already named to the class include Steve Hug (Stanford), Jonathan Horton (University of Oklahoma), John Roethlisberger (University of Minnesota), and Blaine Wilson (The Ohio State University).

Haleigh Bryant’s Historic 39.925 

Here are the full routines of Haleigh Bryant’s 39.925 all-around performance at the Purple & Gold Podium Challenge on March 8, 2024.

… highest all-around score in LSU Gymnastics history and tied for the 4th best all-around in the history of NCAA Gymnastics.

  • VT – 10.0
  • Bars – 10.0
  • Beam – 10.0
  • FX – 9.95

Credit to Ben Schluter, writer for And The Valley Shook, for all the video footage, since this was not a televised competition.

Check out his (subscription) website Chalk Talk, which includes features and podcasts with NCAA Gymnasts here: https://benschluter.substack.com/

X/Twitter: @BenSLASports

You can see all the LSU routines on that Twitter account.

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LSU also posted all routines, including demonstration sets.

Highest road score in program history with their 198.425. We do need this video.

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50 years of Gymnastics on YouTube

Want to check 1985 World Championships, Montreal? — for example.

Click through to see an amazing list of competitions.

Kathy Johnson threatens to retire

Our favourite broadcaster SAYS she wants to stay home and watch Gymnastics on TV.

2024 would be her last season.

I ASSuME this is a negotiating tactic to force the NCAA to improve their embarrassing judging rules. 😀

Kaylia Nemour 15,433 Bars

2024 Cottbus World Cup.

All hail. The greatest Bars routine of all time.

Representing Algeria.

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the “Lee” on Bars

What motivates an Olympic Champion?

Getting her name in the code.

Ed Vincent Invitational 2024

The Altadore Invitational has been an important competition in Alberta, Canada for decades.

It was renamed the “Ed Vincent Invitational” in honour of the legendary coach.

Here’s “Physical” Ed Vincent with some of the competitors in 2024. 

Do not ask his age. Ed doesn’t believe in getting old. 😀

Claudia Fragapane retired

Fantastic gymnast. Wonderful personality. An inspiration.

G.O.A.T. Mikaël Kingsbury

With his 87th career World Cup victory, Kingsbury has the most men’s World Cup wins in any FIS Olympic discipline.

Mikaël Kingsbury is a freestyle skier from Quebec. He is the most accomplished mogul skier of all time. …

He is the first man to have won both the moguls and dual moguls World Championship events (sweeping the two events three times), and has won the most medals at the Freestyle World Championships of any male competitor in history …

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