How exciting when you hit your best routine ever!
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Category: NCAA
College NQS (RQS) rankings right now
RQS stands for Regional Qualifying Score. This score determines which 36 teams advance to the regional championships and which teams are out.
In 2019, college gymnastics tried to get us to change to call it NQS—National Qualifying Score—instead of RQS, and in true NCAA gym fashion, that just created more confusion because NQS makes less sense (and was its own separate thing before this, used to determine a team’s final season ranking) and everyone is used to calling it RQS anyway…so now it’s just kind of both. Another bang-up job. …
RQS/NQS EXPLAINED
Spencer:
The week’s actual rankings can, as always, be found at RTN. But instead of doing a rankings post this week, I’m going to take a prospective look at where the teams currently stand according RQS/NQS which will take over starting next week.
This is where teams would be ranked, if qualifying scores were in place now. …
1. Oklahoma Sooners
2. Florida Gators
3. UCLA Bruins
4. LSU Tigers
4. Denver Pioneers
6. Utah Utes
7. Cal Bears
8. Minnesota Gophers
9. Michigan Wolverines
10. Alabama Crimson Tide
LSU 2020 is the kind of team the qualifying score system exists to serve—a team with a high potential peak that started slowly but can end up dropping all of those low scores because less than half the meets count.
QUALIFYING SCORE OUTLOOK
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20+ NCAA Achilles ruptures so far
There are many every season.
It’s a BIG risk for older, powerful gymnasts.
Georgia freshman Amanda Cashman is out.
Alabama’s Griffin James likely out.
Honouring Megan Marsden
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2020 NCAA AAI award nominees
Thirty-two female athletes are nominated for this year’s award, which is presented to the most outstanding collegiate senior female gymnast in the country. …
Last year’s finalists included Alicia Boren (University of Florida), Brenna Dowell (University of Oklahoma), Sarah Finnegan (LSU), Olivia Karas (University of Michigan), Katelyn Ohashi (UCLA), and Toni-Ann Williams (UC Berkeley).
Finnegan ultimately took home the title …
Click over to Gymnastics Now to see this year’s list.
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Spencer notes ‘significant absences‘ including Jade Degouveia, Kim Tessen, Madison Kocian, and Khazia Hislop.
What is Acrobatics & Tumbling?
The NEW American College sport has elements of Acrobatic Gymnastics, Tumbling and Cheer.
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Each team has up to 28 competitors on their game-day roster and compete in six events throughout the meet, including: Compulsory, Acro, Pyramid, Toss, Tumbling, and Team Event. …
USAG posts a weekly wrap-up of College Gymnastics that includes ACROBATICS AND TUMBLING.
BYU Cosmo The Cougar – SLAM DUNK
ex-MSU coach Kathie Klages convicted
A jury on Friday convicted a former Michigan State University gymnastics coach of lying to police when she denied that two teen athletes told her of sexual abuse by sports doctor Larry Nassar in 1997, nearly 20 years before he was charged.
Kathie Klages, 65, was found guilty of a felony and a misdemeanor in a Lansing courthouse where Nassar was sentenced more than two years ago. Klages faces up to four years in prison at her April 15 sentencing.
She is the second person other than Nassar to be convicted of charges related to his serial molestation of young women and girls under the guise of medical treatment. …
Recall that Klages continued to support Nassar during his investigation — even asking Michigan State gymnasts to sign cards of support.
related – In a parallel story, then assistant wrestling coach Jim Jordan asked his team to deny the sexual abuse of male wrestlers by team doctor Richard Strauss at Ohio State University.
Stauss committed suicide in 2005 after being accused of abusing at least 177 students.
Alyssa Baumann – Floor
Taylor Lawson – Beam Arabian
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