Category: NCAA

2025 College Gym News Awards

In case you are not already overwhelmed with hundreds of NCAA Awards announcements, check the picks of College Gym News.

  • Gymnast of the Year ➙ Jade Carey (Oregon State)
  • NCGA Gymnast of the Year ➙ Olivia Keyes (Rhode Island College)
  • WCGNIC Gymnast of the Year ➙ Morgan Price (Fisk)
  • Freshman of the Year ➙ Kailin Chio (LSU)
  • Coaching Staffs of the Year ➙ Arizona & Missouri
  • NCGA Coaching Staff of the Year ➙ Rhode Island College
  • WCGNIC Coaching Staff of the Year ➙ Texas Woman’s
  • Breakout Performers of the Year ➙ Brooklyn Moors (UCLA) & Kayli Boozer (Michigan)
  • Comeback Gymnast of the Year ➙ Helen Hu (Missouri)
  • Most Valuable Gymnast ➙ Maggie Slife (Air Force)
  • Sports Information Director of the Year ➙ Lindsey Magness (Oklahoma)

Click through to see the rest of the nominees and rationale for their choices:

2025 College Gym News Awards Announced

summing up Men’s NCAA Gymnastics ’25

Shelli Koszdin has a good post linking to results and commentary:

2025 Men’s NCAA Championship By The Numbers

1.  Michigan (+1)

2.  Stanford  (+1)

3. Oklahoma (-2)

4.  Nebraska (-)

5. Penn State (-)

6. Illinois (-)

Michigan’s Paul Juda needed to complete a vault that would score above a 13.803 to dethrone Stanford and end the Cardinal’s streak of 5 straight NCAA team titles.

Juda scored a 13.966 in his final routine as a Michigan gymnast, just enough to claim the title for his university for the first time in 11 years. …

The Nissen Emery Award went to Nebraska’s Taylor Christopulos who ended his career as a 10 time All-American with at least one All-American honor on every event but rings.

The 2025 CGA MVP was awarded to Stanford’s Taylor Burkhart

The 2025 CGA Specialist of the year is Illinois’ Brandon Dang

The 2025 CGA Rookie of the year is Illinois’ Ian Snadoval

2025 NCAA SEASON WRAP UP

Data Deep Dive: Reliving National Finals

College Gym News crunched the numbers routine-by-routine at Nationals.

Especially interesting was the timeline for 2nd place between UCLA, UTAH, and Missouri.

Click through for details:

Data Deep Dive: Reliving National Finals

WHICH gymnast would you add to your Gymnastics team? 😀

❓We asked: If you could steal any gymnast and put them on your team, who would you steal? Also, the Mizzou girls naming every gymnast under the sun 😭💛

— All Things Gym Pod (@allthingsgympod.bsky.social) 2025-04-19T01:03:26.949Z

Will Graves – NAIGC interview

The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE GYMNASTICS CLUBS (NAIGC) wants to “serve and expand opportunities for all levels of collegiate and adult gymnastics by providing structure for competition on local, regional, and national levels; facilitating communication; and building a community of support and camaraderie that encourages sportsmanship, leadership, teamwork, and fun.”

One part of that is offering the chance for anyone 18 and older to compete the Women’s Artistic apparatus. Anyone can compete the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics apparatus. Or both, if you choose.

Freedom.

Top sports journalist, Will Graves, covered their 2025 Nationals in Pittsburgh, PA from April 2-5.

He wrote an important article for the Associated Press. It’s important because Americans are living under a Presidency that attacks minorities to gain votes from the intolerant. The GOP hopes to motivate people to show up to vote by encouraging them to HATE.

Trans athletes are under more scrutiny than ever. Some have found a safe space in gymnastics

Click PLAY or watch an interview on YouTube.

history of Women’s NCAA Gymnastics

Nobody was a more important builder of the super successful College program than former Utah Coach Greg Marsden.

The inaugural Women’s College Gymnastics Championships were organized by the Division for Girls’ and Women’s Sports (DGWS) in 1969. The NCAA didn't sponsor WAG Champs until 1982. Over the years, there have been significant format changes.

— Greg Marsden (@utahmarz.bsky.social) 2025-04-13T20:02:26.559Z

Taylor Christopolus wins ’25 Nissen-Emery

Presented at a ceremony before the start of the NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships … the nation’s top senior male gymnast who exemplifies excellence in athletic performance, scholarship, and sportsmanship.

Nebraska men’s gymnast Taylor Christopulos was named the recipient of the Nissan-Emery Award, Nebraska’s fourth all-time and first in 37 years as Tom Schlesinger won the award for NU in 1988 under head coach Francis Allen.  …

Christopulos is an eight time All-American recently winning his second Big Ten Gymnast of the Year honor. He has won 27 individual titles including one in every event. Off the mat, he is a five-time member of the Tom Osborne Citizenship team and has been named to the scholar-athlete honor roll every semester at Nebraska.  

Huskers.com

Missouri 3rd at NCAA Championships ’25

Following a scoring inquiry, Amy Wier’s balance beam score was changed to 9.850, earning Mizzou a third-place finish over Utah.

Michigan unthrones Stanford

As Stanford had won the last 5 championships, I ASSuMEd they’d pull off victory #6 in 2025.

BUT Fred Richard and Michigan Men’s Gymnastics took the victory. At home.

Congratulations.