Via KEEPING UP WITH THE COOL GIFS – WEEK 8
Category: NCAA
Men’s NCAA week 8
You can always check updated NCAA rankings on Road to Nationals.
Instead, here’s the weekly “Power Rankings“ as decided by a panel of experts from the College Gymnastics Association:
1. STANFORD CARDINAL
2. MICHIGAN WOLVERINES
3. OKLAHOMA SOONERS
4. ILLINOIS FIGHTING ILLINI
5. NEBRASKA CORNHUSKERS
6. OHIO STATE BUCKEYES
Emily Muhlenhaupt – Bars
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
(via BBS 10s of Week 8)
Hamline’s Doug Byrnes
Hamline is an NCAA Division III team that doesn’t get much Press.
But their coach, Doug Byrnes, is one of my favourite clinicians. Great guy. Excellent people skills.
A local paper posted a feature on his 20 year career.
In 1989 Hamline Gymnastics founder Mary Jane Olson asked Coach Byrnes if he wanted to work at Hamline. Byrnes declined. After Olson asked him four more times, Byrnes agreed to work Saturdays as a spotter for the team.
He’s never left. …
U.S. Acrobatics and Tumbling
The American National Collegiate Acrobatics and Tumbling Association runs a rapidly expanding College and University sport for women.
can #NCAAGym judging be improved?
Greg Marsden asks that question on Twitter. And got PLENTY of feedback.
It was inspired by the scores last weekend of Utah at UCLA.
Spencer felt it was the most over-scored rotation of the year so far. A high bar.
Here are the judges. It seems there is no oversight for College officials.
Maya Reimers – Floor
Maya from Division II Bridgeport is PLANNING a routine with both double layout and full-in.
Click PLAY or watch her HUGE double layout on YouTube.
Right now Bridgeport is ranked ahead of many Division I teams.
Maya trained club at Chelsea Piers (NY).
Related – Bridgeport has a fundraiser underway: Team Travel, Locker Room Improvements, Team Apparel.
Via the Rebecca Scally interview on The Routine Podcast.
Oklahoma, Florida, UCLA, Utah
NQS rankings.
1. Oklahoma Sooners
2. Florida Gators
3. UCLA Bruins
4. Utah Utes
5. LSU Tigers
6. Denver Pioneers
7. Michigan Wolverines
8. Cal Bears
9. Alabama Crimson Tide
10. Georgia Bulldogs
Denver’s Lynnzee Brown is out for the season.
OU’s Maggie Nichols has an ankle injury. Might not be back soon.
Read Spencer’s commentary.
Click PLAY or watch Cal highlights on Twitter.
Grace Glenn – Beam
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
Nebraska’s new Gym is open
Congratulations.
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
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