Superb execution. But I don’t like such an imbalance of front tumbling over back tumbling.
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(via Irish Daniel)
Category: NCAA
8 Canadians in Men’s NCAA
The most in many years, I believe.
Stick it Media has a rundown – Canada’s Big Impact on NCAA Men’s Gymnastics
- Sam Zakutney (Penn)
- Corey Paterson (Iowa)
- Aaron Mah (Cal)
- Justin Karstadt (Minnesota)
- Joel Gagnon (Minnesota)
- Wyatt Tyndall (Penn)
- Sam Ito (Oklahoma)
- Jake Bonnay (Nebraska)
The former Canadian Men’s National Coach Edouard Iarov was very negative about College Gymnastics. He preferred gymnasts stay home training with their clubs.
The new National Team Director Tony Smith is much more encouraging of the guys taking advantage of College training in the States. They are welcomed back to attend national team training camps & qualifiers.
In fact, Canada has a team headed to compete at Stanford this weekend — the International Collegiate Challenge (Stanford, Minnesota, Japan, Canada).
I’m hoping scores for Justin Karstadt & Joel Gagnon will count for both teams. 🙂
Boise killing it
Lauren Green:
Boise State may have climbed to its highest ranking in program history last week, but it isn’t something that the Broncos are focused on. Head coaches Neil Resnick and Tina Bird have instilled a mentality that is progress-driven rather than outcome-driven. …
“Beam is such a key to a team,” Bird said. “If you’ve got a good beam score, it’s easier to have a good team score obviously. These guys did a lot of beam this summer. I think it’s the most beam I’ve ever had a team do in the summertime. I think that really is instrumental in putting us in the position we’re in now.” …
The Broncos have not had to count a fall on balance beam all season.
The real strength for BSU has been the uneven bars. Senior Diana Mejia has been a key piece for the Broncos on the event, contributing a 9.900 or better four times this season. …
UCLA v Utah Gymnastics documentary
Pac-12 Networks announced today the debut of a behind-the-scenes documentary featuring two of the nation’s top collegiate women’s gymnastics programs, UCLA and Utah. The special 30-minute documentary, Pac-12 All Access: UCLA & Utah Gymnastics, will premiere on Saturday, February 25 …
Pac-12 filmmakers were given exclusive access with both UCLA and Utah gymnastics, as both teams prepared for their head-to-head matchup on February 18. …
Fans can’t get enough of Utah and UCLA’s exciting brand of gymnastics. The meet between the two on Saturday drew an in-person crowd of 15,558 …
(via @GymCastic)
U.S. Men’s National Team selection?
There are a few issues. I hadn’t thought about this one … until now.
Kensley Behel poses a good question. Leave a comment if you know the answer.
… What is slightly more unclear is how some of the national team members were chosen, as both Anthony McCallum and Emyre Cole of the University of Michigan totaled 22 points apiece, tying Olympian Chris Brooks and beating out Kanji Oyama, who totaled 18. Oyama was added to the team, but McCallum and Cole were not.
What’s more, McCallum won the vault title outright and would seem to be an obvious choice for the national team, but alas, the mystery that is the men’s team point system.
The totaled points can be seen here. …
Click PLAY or watch Anthony McCallum’s Vault on YouTube.
Tsuk double pike. Finals: 14.950 (5.6, 9.350)
Response from Daniel Steiner:
After Mouldar, modi, bower and whittenburg were selected via all around scores, the committee decides the rest of the team based on the strengths and weaknesses of the team as whole. While Mcallum clearly has one of the best vaults in the country, that is all he really offers in the grand scheme of things. Penev, naddour and whittenburg all perform similar valued vaults but it’s their strengths on other events, such as naddour on PH, that makes their perceived value higher than single event specialists. The same issue arose in 2013 when Michael Newburger won the PH title at winter cup outright, yet wasn’t selected to the team. One trick ponies don’t have much of a place on the national team anymore.
Balance Beam Situation – RQS
BBS posts the most detailed review each week. Check whether your favourite top teams are up or down.
The introduction of RQS this week didn’t change much at the very top of the rankings, but it did produce quite a few shakeups lower down. Benefiting were teams that have competed in more than six meets so far and can drop their weak scores, like Georgia, as well as teams with relatively even home and away totals, like Missouri and Iowa.
By contrast, switching to RQS was trouble for teams that haven’t competed in as many meets so far—most notably Southern Utah because of not being in the rankings at all, but also teams like Boise State that are still beset by one low score hanging around. Also hurt were Washington and Cal, whose reliance on home scores to bump up those totals was exposed by the switch to RQS. Road work to do there. …
Maggie Nichols went 39.925 in the all-around. … As far as I can tell, it’s the highest AA score since Mohini Bhardwaj went 39.975 in 2001 …. Nichols received a 10 on each event from at least one judge, which brings about a little germ of a thought about whether she can match Karin Lichey’s 40 at some point in the four years …
Gymnasts from schools outside the top 25 who scored over 9.900 …
- Caroline Morant, Brown – 9.925, FX
- Morgan Lane, North Carolina – 9.925, FX
- Chloe Cluchey, West Virginia – 9.925, FX
- Katy Clements, Central Michigan – 9.925, BB
- Rachel Stypinski, Kent State – 9.925, FX
BriannaBriannah Tsang, Penn State – 9.925, BB- Kendall Valentin, Eastern Michigan – 9.925. UB
- Alexis Brown, UC Davis – 9.925, FX
read more – WEEK 7 RANKINGS, NOTES, RQS UPDATE
Hailey Burleson 39.575 for Washington
Do you know the name? Hailey’s a College superstar.
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Kyla’s 2nd 10.0 on Beam this weekend
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On the downside, they nearly lost to Utah State.
Peng-Peng, Hallie and Alex sung the National Anthem. (VIDEO)
NCAA RQS rankings
The Regional Qualifying Score ranking is up. Greg Marsden is already speculating on who would compete where at Regionals if this was the final list.
1. Oklahoma 197.89
2. LSU 197.655
3. Florida 197.435
4. Alabama 197.085
5. Utah 196.965
6. UCLA 196.900
7. Georgia 196.735
8. Denver 196.550
9. Michigan 196.500
10. Oregon State 196.370
11. Kentucky 196.360
12. Boise State 196.330
Road to Nationals
Stanford 31st.
Lindenwood is the highest ranked Division II team at 46th.
Kyla Ross 10.0 Bars
I can live with this 10. Assuming the judges can’t see the form break on Maloney.
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It was a very competitive meet, the best of the season for Utah. Scores were crazy high for both teams.
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