She announced it on Instagram. End of an era.
She discusses it in this Pac12 interview.
Or listen to her interview with Sam Peszek.
Category: NCAA
Katelyn Ohashi on Player’s Tribune
On GymCastic Miss Val mentioned Katelyn’s documentary. The poster girl who was once beat Simone Biles … then quit elite … only to comeback as a viral media superstar in College Gymnastics.
Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.
Beyond the Routine: Oklahoma (2014)
57 team members on ASU’s Men’s club team
Here’s some excellent news for Men’s College Gymnastics.
The Arizona State Men’s Gymnastics Team is back, and we are BIGGER than ever!
USAG supports University of Illinois-Chicago Gymnastics
… We join the gymnastics community in hoping there are options available to save gymnastics at UIC.
We have been in touch with the gymnastics staff at UIC, and once they have more information, USA Gymnastics stands ready to work with UIC and the men’s and women’s community to do everything we can to help these programs continue after this season.
GymACT (Gymnastics Association of College Teams)
GymACT is an organization fighting to help create, grow and maintain Men’s collegiate gymnastics programs in the USA.
Read their take on the recent announcement that University of Illinois at Chicago will be dropping both their Men’s and Women’s teams at the end of this season.
Focusing on positive development and exposure
Thanks Ono.
Miss Val on elite Gymnastics
Miss Val has been the best and most helpful of all NCAA coaches on the USAG scandals. Mark Williams is another.
Needless to say, Miss Val has got some criticism for being so outspoken.
She responds.
I have also been accused of “hating elite gymnastics and all elite coaches.” And to those people… please know, I have never said that, it is simply not true.
I “hate” the system we all (elite, club and college coaches alike) either embraced, turned a blind eye to or didn’t try hard enough to change. …
… After I wrote my initial “Time’s Up” piece, someone commented that I was as guilty as the people I was calling out because I never did anything about it.
Whomever you were… I hear you, I didn’t do enough. While striving to develop our own athletes from the inside out, I should have done more to address concerns at the elite level. So yes, I am a part of allowing this culture that I vehemently disagreed with to thrive for decades. …
Together We’ll Rise
For the record, I’ve always found UCLA to be one of the College teams most supportive of Elite and former Elite gymnasts.
UIC drops Men’s & Women’s teams
A terrible announcement right before a long weekend in the USA.
Men’s Head Coach Charley Nelson posted the bad news on Facebook.
(via Stick it Media)
Kathie Klages ‘Permanently Ineligible’
Klages was added to USAG’s ‘Permanently Ineligible Members’ list on Tuesday, less than one week after she was charged with two counts of lying to investigators about when she was told of Larry Nassar’s abuse. …
Klages retired as MSU Gymnastics Coach in 2017, after she was suspended for defending Nassar in a meeting.
changes to NCAA recruiting rules
They posted a summary on Facebook.
(via consultant Jill Hicks)
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