tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
SAM PESZEK, JAKE DALTON, BRIDGET SLOAN, DANUSIA FRANCIS, AND DAVE DURANTE
– Sleep
– Nutrition Education and Fueling for Training / Performance
– Know yourself well, don’t assume you will respond to training or recover like your teammates
– Don’t be afraid to speak up
– Be a master of your schedule
– Be proactive and make choices to support your goals
– Don’t dwell on failures
– Lean on your teammates and available resources
“The athletic administration has given us a number to raise in order to fully endow the men’s and women’s programs with full scholarships and that number is $25.2 million,” Marden said. …
Will train elite through 2020 Olympics. Then grace the NCAA.
Heart this.
Expecting to enjoy this book, it was even better than anticipated.
This book is must read for any Beam / Floor coach.
Life Is Short, Don’t Wait to Dance is a thankful celebration of Gymnastics, a refreshing respite in an era where conversations are often dominated by the crimes of an evil doctor.
Miss Val is one of the most successful College coaches all time. Yet, as a dancer, she doesn’t pretend to be a technical expert or biomechanist. Her specialities are artistry, musicality, dance and choreography. A non-gymnast, she became one of the greatest NCAA Beam coaches in history learning on the job.
Even more interesting to me is her skills set of all those MANY things that coaches need outside Gymnastics.
Miss Val is a case study on those MANY other things.
Surprisingly, I also recommend the book to non-Gymnastics readers. Life lessons for all. I learned a lot.
She discusses one issue I hadn’t seen addressed before: the awkward words ‘victim’ and ‘survivor’. She tells of Jordyn Wieber’s dislike of both words. I use victim as much as possible over survivor.
I loved the section on face tattoos. UCLA does NOT wear face tattoos. As an old dinosaur, I agree with Miss Val on this. Can we start phasing those out? Please.
For once an author openly admits her ghost writer is a contributor. That’s Steve Cooper, one of the GymCastic team.
Aly Raisman doesn’t do that, for example. Her co-author is journalist Blythe Lawrence.
I enjoyed hearing her team rules at UCLA. It’s a challenge to motivate young women away from home for the first time.
Miss Val didn’t talk enough about the high rate of injury in College Gymnastics, in my opinion. UCLA has had more than their share. I’ve always attributed that to her tendency to recruit Elite gymnasts over Level 10s. Elites tend to arrive with more injuries, I suspect.
Miss Val reads the audio book. It makes the content more personal. Get the audio version if you can.
Gymnastics coaches are obviously well remunerated. 😀
Athletic personnel dominate LSU’s highest salaries
Aside from the Football head coach, six of his assistants make more than $400k.
College Gym News put together a partial list including Canadian teams:
Adams State University, Colo. (women)
Alberta, University of, Canada (men and women)
Appalachian State University, N.C. (women)
Arizona, University of, Ariz. (men)
Athens College, Ala. (women)
Augustana University, S.D. (women)
Ball State University, Ind. (men)
Bemidji State University, Minn. (women)
British Columbia, University of, Canada (men and women)
BYU, Utah (men)
Cal Poly-Pomona, Calif. (men)
Cal Poly-San Louis Obispo, Calif. (women)
Cal State-Chico, Calif. (men and women)
Cal State-Fresno,Calif. (men and women)
Cal State-Hayward, Calif. (women) [Now Cal State-East Bay]
Cal State-Long Beach, Calif. (women)
Cal State-Los Angeles, Calif. (men)
Cal State-Northridge, Calif. (men and women)
Calgary, University of Canada, (men and women)
College Gym Graveyard: Eulogies for the Teams We’ve Lost
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He was interviewed by police for two and a half hours. And talked his way out of it.
Amanda’s complaint also triggered a Title IX investigation.
After less than three months on leave from his job at Michigan State University, Larry was allowed back to work. With conditions. He’d have to follow basic medical guidelines: wear gloves, get consent, have a chaperone in the room. In other words, really basic things that any doctor working with minors in their private areas should do.
But nobody at MSU ever actually checked to see if Larry’s doing any of those things.
That means young girls and women kept streaming into Larry’s treatment rooms…not just at MSU, but at USA Gymnastics and local gyms, and a nearby high school. Even at his home, where Larry “treated” patients on a massage table in his basement.
Some 70 survivors say they were abused by Larry after MSU cleared him to go back to work.
NPR BELIEVED – Gaslighting Season 1, Episode 4
The criminal doctor did not contradict what Amanda said. Rather he stuck to the story that it was valid medical treatment.
via GymCastic
The proposed settlement would compensate students who saw gynaecologist George Tyndall, whom hundreds of women have accused.
It comes a day after 93 women filed a lawsuit against the school, alleging it ignored complaints for decades.
Mr Tyndall has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime. …
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