… means conditioning on the Beach. 😎
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Category: NCAA
Brenna Dowell interview
The fan favourite is retired retired. No more Elite. Graduated from College.
Storybook finish to her long career. Nailed Vault to help seal the 2019 team Championship for Oklahoma.
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Like Peng Peng Lee the previous year, this was an ending fit for film.
In fact, Full Out 2: You Got This! is inspired by Brenna’s story. The movie should be released 2020.
Fun fact – Brenna’s sister auditioned to play Brenna in the film.
Click through to listen to the long, entertaining interview on GymCastic.
Minnesota Men’s Gymnastics 2020
Auburn defeats Alabama
196.625-196.025
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Stephen Nedoroscik – 2020 Pommels
Stephen is the man to beat on Horse the NCAA this season.
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related – PREDICTIONS – more of the top Men’s College Apparatus scores 2020
Taylor Houchin – Vault
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Michigan’s Sierra Brooks
There’s much for Michigan to be proud of from its 2019 season. The team came back from missing nationals entirely in 2018 to finish 2019 in 5th place, which quietly ranks as Michigan’s best result of the decade. In fact, Michigan hasn’t done better than 5th since Elise Ray was a freshman. …
Michigan has brought in two of the nation’s top L10 recruits in Sierra Brooks and Gabby Wilson …
“I felt like I had accomplished everything I wanted to do in my J.O. (Junior Olympics) career and was looking forward to coming to Michigan.
Leaving home and my club gym family were heavy factors that weighed on my decision, but the pros and cons led me here. I am glad it did.” …
How a Junior Olympic Standout Wound Up at Michigan a Year Early
The Routine Podcast interviewed Sierra.
Men’s NCAA Gymnastics preview
CGA (College Gymnastics Association) posted a preview of the coming season with predictions:
- Stanford
- Michigan
- Oklahoma
- Nebraska
- Illinois
- Minnesota
- Penn State
- Iowa
- Ohio State
- Navy
Elise Ray and Bev Plocki
Great story.
… Elise Ray was at a crossroads.
After finishing her career as a gymnast at Michigan, she’d performed for Cirque du Soleil for three years, then worked briefly as a trainer and broadcaster.
Like many athletes whose careers had come to an end, Ray wasn’t sure what was next. So she called Bev Plocki, her college coach, and asked for advice.
“I haven’t really found that thing that I love,” Ray told her.
Plocki responded: “Elise, in my opinion, you were born to coach gymnastics.”
It was the first of three phone calls that came to define Ray’s career. …
How Elise Ray-Statz found a new path in gymnastics through Bev Plocki’s mentorship
Gymnastics Coaching.com 