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College Gym News posts a weekly highlights summary called The Dismount during season.
Looks NCAA perfect to me.
We’ll be enjoying her excellent form for the next 4 years.
Here’s her 1st College routine.
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Despite an incredibly busy autumn 2025, Jordan is already established as the AA gymnast to beat in the NCAA. #respect
By the time they left the University of California at Berkeley, Justin Howell and Liz Crandall-Howell had come to define the school’s women’s gymnastics team.
The husband-and-wife coaching team had taken the squad from the brink of being cut in 2012 to a perennial national power, including a runner-up finish at the 2024 NCAA Championships. …
So, when the co-head coaches announced they were leaving northern California to take the helm of Clemson University’s women’s gymnastics team, the move turned heads. …
But something shifted on their visit to the campus as part of the interview process, and by the time they were heading back home, Howell says he knew it was the right move.
“We were headed to the airport, and I remember turning to Liz and saying, ‘We gotta do this,’” he recalled. …
I watched the 1st NCAA College Gymnastics meet of 2026 on ESPN+.
TV coverage was quite good.
FINAL:
Utah 196.625
Minnesota 195.475
Iowa 194.825
Spencer posted a LIVE blog:
I feel like the lesson of this meet about having competitions on January 2nd was…don’t?
A lot of shaky routines, but on the plus side, the scoring wasn’t all that stupid.
I’m thinking all three teams will want to drop that score. BUT with the new rule in 2026, there are fewer team scores to drop.
Zoe Johnson’s Vault was one highlight for me. 9.925 — would have been higher later in the season.
No. 5 Red Rocks Packed Jon M. Huntsman Center to Open 2026 Season
Heather Parker, entering her second season as a gymnast at Central Michigan after transferring from Georgia, posted an important article on College Gym News:
College gymnastics can project an image of perfection–skills look effortless, and the athletes finish successful routines with glowing smiles. Teams broadcast the wins, celebrations, recruits, and rankings on social media.
Less often discussed is what goes into making a team successful and what happens behind the scenes to make those exciting competitions happen.
Jason Vonk, a former assistant coach at George Washington, Yale, and Georgia, had 12 years of experience across the three universities when he moved on from college coaching.
According to Vonk, a lot of what defined his time in college gymnastics wasn’t reflected in the polished version of the sport that fans and recruits see. For him, it was a system marked by fear, silence, and a culture where, as he puts it, “head coaches get complete leeway, and the assistants can’t report them, or they will lose their job.” …
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