Nadalie Walsh moves to Champaign-Urbana after four years at the helm of Utah State, where she guided the Aggies to four-consecutive NCAA Regional appearances. …
Category: NCAA
Samantha Snider to Pitt
Samantha Snider has been named the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh gymnastics team …
Snider becomes the third head coach in the history of the gymnastics program at Pitt, stepping into her first head coaching role after spending the previous nine seasons at the University of Arkansas. …
NCAA still hiring coaches
Terri Laymon posted an update.
Josh Nilson to EMU
Eastern Michigan University … announced today, June 9, the hiring of Josh Nilson as the new women’s gymnastics head coach at EMU.
Nilson spent the past year working at Pennsylvania State University as both an assistant coach and the co-interim head coach, and has a total of 12 years of coaching experience. …
Additionally, Nilson served as the recruiting coordinator for Penn State …
Recall that former Head Coast Sarah Brown left EMU for Penn State.
The two teams have swapped coaches. I hope it works out well for both.
Paul Stoklos retires after 33 years
Stoklos, who has led the gymnastics program since its founding, leaves University of Alaska Anchorage after 33 seasons, completing the longest tenure of any coach in Seawolf history.
The Wisconsin native coached more than 130 letterwinners from 1985 through 2017, while guiding the Seawolf program from the NCAA Div. II independent ranks to NCAA Div. I status …
Robert Ladanyi to Utah
… a 12-year veteran of NCAA women’s gymnastics coaching and former coach of the Romanian Junior National Team, has accepted a position as assistant coach of the Utah gymnastics team.
Ladanyi, an assistant coach at Florida from 2006-15, has spent the last two years as a Denver assistant. He replaces Meredith Paulicivic, who was hired as the head coach at Ohio State. …
decline in the number of NCAA Gymnastics teams
Shelli Koszdin:
Up until about 1992, the NCAA sponsorship of both men’s and women’s teams was declining at almost identical rate …
Around 1992, something happened to cause the fortunes of men’s and women’s teams to diverge. The decline of the women’s was slowed (but not halted) and that of the men accelerated. What happened? …
Stick it Media – Another Look at the Decline in NCAA Sponsorship of Men’s and Women’s Gymnastics
Josh Overton to Georgia
Josh Overton, a 19-year coaching veteran most recently overseeing the women’s team at Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in Iowa, has been named an assistant for the Georgia Gym Dogs, according to an announcement Wednesday by Coach Courtney Kupets Carter. …
With Charlie Tamayo and volunteer Suzanne Yoculan Leebern, I think the team is in great shape for next season.
Some are a little worried:
… the Gym Dogs’ entire paid coaching staff has a combined 1 year of college coaching experience, and exactly 0 (zero, zip, nil) years of women’s college coaching experience. …
Meredith Paulicivic to Ohio
Meredith Paulicivic, who spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Utah, has been named women’s gymnastics head coach at Ohio State …
Buckeyes
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Canadian Champ Zachary Clay
1. Zachary Clay BC 81.750
2. Jackson Payne AB 79.400
3. Sam Zakutney ON 78.900
4. René Cournoyer QC 77.800
5. Aaron Mah BC 77.350
full results
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUnmJIvhplk/
“This is the best feeling ever, no words can describe how I feel right now,” Clay said in a release. “I wasn’t expecting to come first, I was just aiming for the podium but everything just came together today. I was in the zone and focused on what I had to do to win and am happy with the results.”
Clay was 1st on Pommels with 5.80 / 14.650.
For Worlds Canada will most likely name one or two AA gymnasts as well as the top contenders to qualify for an apparatus final.
Chinese gymnast Xuon (James) Luo representing B.C. was first on Rings 6.10 / 14.500.
Olympian Scott Morgan, back from injury, was 4th on Floor, 2nd on Vault.
Kevin Lytwyn, back from surgery, won H Bar with 5.90 / 13.850. He’s training a much bigger routine, however.
All in all it was a thrilling competition with 42 seniors. I have to say it was more entertaining than the FIG women’s meet running concurrently. 🙂
Of the many NCAA gymnasts, past and present, the guy who hit best was Iowa’s Cory Paterson.
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