Category: NCAA

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. …

Meet Format

USAG posts a weekly wrap-up of College Gymnastics that includes ACROBATICS AND TUMBLING.

BYU Cosmo The Cougar – SLAM DUNK

The mascot at Brigham Young University.

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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

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Taylor Lawson – Beam Arabian

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College gymnasts should be paid for name, image, likeness

Nancy Armour: 

“You either get to go pro or you get to go to NCAA,” said Morgan Hurd, who has retained her eligibility despite winning the world all-around title in 2017.

“There’s no in-between, you get one or the other. But football players, they get to go to NCAA and then they get to go pro, too, and get paid.” …

Katelyn Ohashi was featured on talk shows and news programs after one of her floor routines went viral in January 2019. Politicians tweeted about her. She was featured in Rolling Stone’s “Women Shaping the Future” issue, and asked to do op-eds.

She didn’t get a dime from any of it. …

Opinion: Allow gymnasts, like football players, to cash in on name, image, likeness

Derrian Gobourne – Floor

A QUEEN 👑 wears a crown.

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Week 6 Oklahoma still #1

Oklahoma
Florida
Utah
UCLA
Denver
Alabama
Michigan
Minnesota
LSU
California

Full rankings.

Lesson of the week: if you’re a team at home expecting to be ranked in the single digits, you need to be going mid-197s …

Balance Beam Situation recap

I’m impressed with Utah this season. Even without MyKayla Skinner they are looking Final 4 worthy.

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Stanford leads Men’s NCAA

Stanford 415.917
Oklahoma 411.233
Michigan 407.667
Ohio State 407.217
Illinois 406.733
Navy 406.633

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