Category: NCAA

Larisa wins FISU

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. …

theGymter.net

8 NCAA superstars

Lucy Wener
Missy Marlowe
Karen Lichey
Mohini Bhardwaj
Jamie Dantzcher
Jenny Hansen
Courtney Kupets
Mykayla Skinner

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Click PLAY or watch Lucy Werner’s 1988 Bars on YouTube. Check that release.

Kristen Smyth is stepping down

I didn’t see this coming.

Kristen Smyth is stepping down as head coach of the Stanford women’s gymnastics team …

Smyth led the Cardinal to unprecedented success in the gym during her tenure, including seven NCAA Super Six appearances and four top-four finishes. Of Stanford’s 115 All-America honors, 95 have come under Smyth’s leadership. …

Stanford will immediately launch a search for Smyth’s replacement.

Go Stanford

I’m surprised this announcement did not come immediately after last season.

via College Gymnastics fans are HERE!

R.I.P. Roger Counsil

Roger L. Counsil (born January 11, 1935 in Wood River, Illinois died August 8, 2017) was one of the most successful gymnastics coaches in the United States and headed the United States Gymnastics Federation, now known as USA Gymnastics.

In his 17 years of coaching at Indiana State University, Counsil’s teams produced 46 All-Americans and his team won the 1977 NCAA Division I championship.

Among the outstanding individuals Counsil coached were former Sycamore great Kurt Thomas and Dave Seal, another ISU Hall of Fame member.

The Meader – layout Gaylord 1

Here’s a skill I’d never dreamed was possible.

Washington Men’s Gymnastics’ Karl Meader. #respect

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

Hey. Karl is 5’8-1/2″. That’s a big guy doing a BIG new skill.

related – Karl’s Quad back dismount.

(via College Gymnastics Association)

1958 NCAA Championships

Hosted at Michigan State.

Ernestine “Ernie” Russell, Stan Tarshis, … Abie Grossfeld won the AA.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via NCAA MEN’S GYMNASTICS ALUMNI)