On Wednesday, it was announced that Pitt’s gymnastics coach Debbie Yohman was retiring.
Yohman was by far and away the longest-tenured active coach at Pitt. She was only the school’s second head coach in that program and had been here for 31 years. Yohman actually even was one of the founders of the gymnastics team’s conference, the EAGL. …
Pitt gymnastics coach Debbie Yohman retires
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J.T. Okada will coach Cal
J.T. Okada, who has served as an assistant coach for the Golden Bears the past five seasons, has been named head men’s gymnastics coach at California.
A Cal alumnus, Okada replaces Brett McClure, Cal’s head coach the past four years who announced in February he would step down at the end of the 2017 season to become high performance director for USA Gymnastics. …
I’m missing Peng’s Bhardwaj already
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Balance Beam Situation – NCAA proposals
The best and funniest coverage of College Gymnastics is from Spencer on Balance Beam Situation.
He posted his BIG PICTURE recommendations for improvements to the system. Read those as well as the comments —
SPENCER FIXES COLLEGE GYMNASTICS
My favourite part is a four-on-the-Floor Team final with 6 gymnasts / apparatus and 6 gymnasts counting. That would be excitement.
NCAA Vault repeat Champ Anthony McCallum
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2017 Men’s NCAA Championships
Coverage of men’s College Gymnastics online is not nearly as good as women’s NCAA. But Logan Bradley’s weekly summary reports have been a Godsend.
Oklahoma has won 3 in a row. But can they keep the dynasty rolling in 2018?
2017 NCAA Championships Recap
1. Akash Modi, STAN – 87.9
2. Yul Moldauer, OU – 87.6
3. Allan Bower, OU – 87.3
4. Sean Melton, OSU – 86.4
5. Colin Van Wicklen, OU – 85.05
6. Alec Yoder, OSU – 84.95
7. Robert Neff, STAN – 84.8
8. Tim Wang, AF – 84.6
USA Men to World University Games
The five men chosen by the World University Games Selection Committee are: Levi Anderson of Houston/University of Oklahoma; Alex Diab of Glen Ellyn, Ill./University of Illinois; Tristan Duran of Franklin Lakes, N.J./University of Minnesota; Vitali Kan of West Allis, Wis./University of Minnesota; and Robert Neff of Brookfield, Wis./Stanford University, who is also a member of the U.S. Men’s Senior National Team.
An alternate will be named in the near future. Stanford’s Karl Ziehn will coach the team. …
Robert is the NCAA H Bar National Champion. Watch one of his routines.
Alex McMurtry wins the Honda
Florida keeps winning this award. 🙂
Georgia fires Danna Durante
Georgia gymnastics has won more national titles than any other team in the nation, but it has not won one since 2009, which was Suzanne Yoculan’s last year leading the program.
The week after Georgia returned home from this year’s national championship, three gymnasts — Natalie Vaculik, Caroline Bradford and Jasmine Arnold — were dismissed from the team. That’s just about all we know and probably all we’ll ever know. …
Column: Dismissal of gymnasts not the right solution, handled poorly by Georgia
Her daughter Samantha had planned to join the Gym Dogs next season.
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