Category: NCAA

Men’s NCAA Gymnastics preview

CGA (College Gymnastics Association) posted a preview of the coming season with predictions:

  1. Stanford
  2. Michigan
  3. Oklahoma
  4. Nebraska
  5. Illinois
  6. Minnesota
  7. Penn State
  8. Iowa
  9. Ohio State
  10. 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

how to leap on Beam

Alexis Vasquez

Penn State coach Ashleigh Gnat

Former LSU great Ashleigh Gnat is coaching at Penn State this season.

Click PLAY or watch an interview on Twitter.

first NCAA 10.0 of the season

Denver’s Alexis Vasquez on Beam. She was an Elite with Chow.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Spencer was at the COLLEGIATE CHALLENGE – SESSION 1 LIVE. LIVE as in in person. Mingling with hoi polloi. Directing them to the bathroom, and what not.

Ragan Smith’s first NCAA routine

Ragan gave up on a chance to try to qualify for the Olympics.

She’s going to have a ton of fun with Oklahoma instead.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

GREAT College routines from the last decade

Yes the “perfect 10” scoring system in College women’s Gymnastics is silly.

Yes it works for media and marketing. We should make the best of it.

In fact, I’m more outraged for gymnasts who should have got a perfect 10 than for those who did with errors.

Vault is the apparatus where I can most legitimately respect judges throwing a 10.

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Click over to College Gym News to see some of their favourite 10.0 routines from the last decade.

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