Category: NCAA

… “If you back the last few quadrenniums, half the team has always had guys from the NCAA programs, almost always at least half,” Williams pointed out to me before the start of the competition. “Sometimes half of them have been from Oklahoma,” he said with a laugh.

Collegiate gymnastics has managed to pull off this feat despite few scholarships and just fifteen remaining Division I programs. “There’s maybe in the neighborhood of 25-30 guys that are getting scholarships across the country and that’s it,” Williams pointed out. That means there are more athletes getting scholarships on a single Division I football team than there are for all of the collegiate male gymnasts in the United States. …

Oklahoma Proved Once Again How Important NCAA Gymnastics Is To The U.S. Gymnastics Team

As usual there was not nearly as much press for the MAG competition as WAG. That’s sad since the Men’s competition is so much stronger at the University level.

1. Japan 260.225
2. Ukraine 257.900
3. Russia 253.150
4. Korea 249.900
5. Chinese Taipei 245.125
6. France 244.950
full team results

AA
1. VERNIAIEV Oleg UKR
2. NONOMURA Shogo JPN
3. TANIGAWA Wataru JPN

Olympic silver medallist Verniaiev defends individual all-round title at Taipei 2017

Veteran Arizona gymnastics assistant coach John Court has been named interim head coach for the 2017-18 season ….  Court has been on the Wildcats’ staff for the past 19 seasons under previous head coaches Bill Ryden and Tabitha Yim. …

Arizona Wildcats

Vault
1. ROGERS Brittany CAN 14.250 (VIDEO)
2. AKHAIMOVA Liliia RUS 13.983
3. PASEKA Maria RUS 13.916

Bars
1. SPIRIDONOVA Daria RUS 14.233 (VIDEO)
2. BUI Kim Ngan GER 14.066
3. Ellie BLACK CAN 13.966

Beam
1. Ellie BLACK CAN 14.133
2. SASADA Natsumi JPN 13.833
3. IORDACHE Larisa ROM 13.666

Floor
1. IORDACHE Larisa ROM 13.800 (VIDEO)
2. TERAMOTO Asuka JPN 13.766
3. AKHAIMOVA Liliia RUS 13.533

full results

Lauren Hopkins – Canada Grabs Two Golds in Event Finals

related:

• Canada’s Ellie Black, Brittany Rogers grab gymnastic gold at Universiade

• Canada Shines In Event Finals At 2017 Summer Universiade

Former Stanford standout Tabitha Yim has been named head coach of the Cardinal women’s gymnastics team …

Yim, a former Cardinal assistant coach, spent the past two seasons at Arizona as head coach of the Wildcats’ program. …

Go Stanford

1 RUSSIA
2 CANADA
3 JAPAN

1 Larisa Iordache Romania 56.750
2 Asuka Teramoto Japan 55.650
3 Ellie Black Canada 54.950
4 Evgeniya Shelgunova Russia 54.200
5 Natsumi Sasada Japan 53.250
6 Filipa Martins Portugal 52.400
full results

Despite not competing on all four events since last summer, Larisa Iordache showed up at Universiade in Taipei this week to win the all-around gold medal while also qualifying in the top three on every event but vault. …

Ellie Black of Canada led all-around qualifications with a 56.050 with her best competition of the year, hands down, but a missed catch at the end of her Maloney to Hindorff combo on bars and a muscled hop change into her piked Jaeger led to just a 12.9 on bars and a 54.950 in the all-around. …

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