Category: NCAA

Texas Woman’s University NCAA Nationals 2019-2022

The NCAA announced Tuesday Texas Woman’s University will partner with the Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau alongside Knight Eady to host the Women’s Gymnastics National Championship at the Fort Worth Convention Center in 2019 and Dickies Arena in 2020, 2021, and 2022. …

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The future venue — 14,000 seat Dickies Arena — will be an improvement.

If those competitions will have LIVE TV broadcast I can live with the decision. But having been to Championships in Fort Worth once I’m less likely, as a fan, to return. Personally I’d rather Nationals rotated around the nation. And be hosted by NCAA teams not in independent cities.

Denver’s best ever season

The No. 7-ranked University of Denver women’s gymnastics team tallied a 196.475 in the NCAA National Championship semifinals on Friday, shattering the program record for highest team score at nationals. The previous high was 195.575, set in 2007. …

“Again, we had another solid, consistent night and didn’t have to count a fall,” head coach Melissa Kutcher-Rinehart said after the meet. “It was difficult being in the first semifinal and starting on beam, and it think the nerves showed a little. But we responded with the same focus and aggressiveness that we’ve had all season. …”

DU BREAKS PROGRAM RECORDS AT NCAA SEMIFINALS

MyKayla Skinner MVP of top NCAA teams

MyKayla competed the AA every meet this season without a fall. With the most difficult tumbling and vault in College Gymnastics.

She was more valuable for Utah than were Maggie Nichols for Oklahoma or Ashleigh Gnat for LSU.

Utah gymnastics: Skinner completes fabulous freshman season

Click PLAY or watch her semi-finals DTY on YouTube. (MUCH improved form & technique.)

Capps, Nichols, Gnat, McMurtry for Honda

Teammates Chayse Capps and Maggie Nichols from Oklahoma University, Ashleigh Gnat of Louisiana State University and Alex McMurtry from the University of Florida are the four nominees for the Honda Sport Award for Gymnastics …

The nominees were chosen by a panel of coaches representing the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women (NACGC). …

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Those four athletes are incredibly deserving. You might argue that MyKayla Skinner should have been on the list, as well.

MyKayla’s past controversial statements online have not endeared her to voting panels. She sounded very respectful of others at Nationals, however. Hopefully she’s learning at Utah.

gymnast Larry Mayer killed in car accident

Sad news.

… former Ohio State University gymnast passed away on Monday after he was stuck by a semi in Columbus, Ohio, according to WSYX.

Larry Mayer, 24, lost control of his car on a highway and crashed down into an embankment on the right side of the roadway. He exited his car and started walking up the ramp when he was hit by a semi, WSYX reports. …

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NCAA recruit Alana Fischer

Surprisingly Canadian Alana Fischer is still looking for a College team for next season.

Click PLAY or watch her Level 10 9.55 Beam on YouTube.

Watch her Recruiting Video. I’ll be cheering her on at Nationals 2017 Montreal.

Alex McMurtry is awesome

Your 2017 NCAA AA Champion.

Click PLAY or watch her semi-finals Vault on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her semi-finals Bars on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her Super Six Beam on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her semi-finals Floor on YouTube.

KJ couldn’t believe Oklahoma’s Super 6

Watch the post-meet interview on FloGymnastics.

“They were just rolling,” Kindler said. “We had just amazing performance after amazing performance. It felt crazy. I almost felt I wasn’t here. …”

The most important routine was Chayse Capps on Bars. Their first HIT of the Super 6.

 

Peng’s 10.0 Beam Final

Tiny foot movement on landing. But nobody is complaining. This is one of the best and most difficult Beam routines in College Gymnastics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch to hear Christine’s reaction on YouTube.

There’s still talk of Peng applying for a 6th year at UCLA due to injury. No talk yet of her trying out for the Canadian team to Worlds 2017 Montreal (though she’d certainly have a good chance on Beam and Bars).

Oklahoma Wins Super Six

If you missed the competition last night, FloGymnastics has a good wrap-up.

Oklahoma Wins 2017 NCAA Super Six With Record-Breaking 198.3875

Or you can read the snarky Balance Beam Situation LIVE blog. He wasn’t impressed with the judging.