The good and the bad.
UW gymnastics coach Elise Ray in good place after overcoming Olympic disappointment
Elise is one of my favourite Bar workers all time. And I think of her frequently – every time we talk “Ray” on Bars during workout. 🙂
Category: NCAA
Becky Wing, Danusia Francis on the NCAA
Making the transition from FIG competitors for Great Britain.
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diversity can be unifying
Miss Val:
… (UCLA) is like the United Nations.”
Danusia: Jamaican and Polish, looks Black but has blond hair.
Sadiqua: Black with a mohawk.
Sophina: Puerta Rican and Black with died blue hair.
Peng: Chinese Canadian with her traditional elegant bun.
Angi: Hispanic
Mikaela: One of the few blond Anglo-Saxons.He said, “I’m not talking about how they look. I’m talking about how you encourage them to develop and celebrate their own personal style.”
“Your team proves that celebrating diversity can actually be unifying versus divisive.” …
UCLA was the most entertaining team for me last season. I believe they’ll be even stronger this year.
looking forward to College Gymnastics
LSU will again be one of the most exciting teams.
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D-D Breaux, the school’s longtime gymnastics coach, is getting a 23 percent bump in pay to $240,000 and a two-year contract extension
Breaux is receiving a $45,000 raise from her previous salary of $195,000 — a boost that follows the program’s best finish at the national championships in April when it took second behind Oklahoma.
Breaux, a Donaldsonville native, is entering her 40th season leading the gymnastics program. …
(via College Gymnastics Board)
Savona and Peng
Training together at Manjak’s.
cheering Bela and Ellie in the AA
Ellie Black and Isabela Onyshko will compete the all-around in Rio. Good luck! 🙂
Brittany Rogers:
“Obviously the results of these Games weren’t what we all wanted,” Rogers said about Canada’s near miss on the team finals. “It definitely lit a fire in me to continue on with elite gymnastics.”
In the near future, Rogers will return to Athens at the end of August and finish up her degree. …
Looking further away, Rogers has a plan for wrapping her gymnastics career.
“I’m not sure what competitions I will be assigned to from the Canadian team as those will be discussed after the Games are over,” Rogers said. “I plan to continue training and help out with the team in Georgia any way I can and be ready for whatever competitions I get assigned to by Gymnastics Canada. My goal is to be able to compete in the World Championships in Montreal in 2017 and perhaps retire on home soil.”
Suzanne Yoculan interview
Audiocast with the Skating Lesson:
Losers Make Excuses; Winners Make Adjustments: Suzanne Yoculan on Courtney Kupets and The Final Five (Aug 9, 2016)
Shilese Jones’ gofundme
The rising star’s career is in jeopardy. Her father is the sole breadwinner for the family and is no longer allowed to work for medical reasons.
… Her father’s name is Sylvester Jones and he needs a new kidney and pancreas.
Shilese is well known to gymnastics fans. She competed in the P&G National Gymnastics Championships the past three years and this year she finished 3rd on floor and vault in the junior division on her way to a 7th place finish in the all around. …
Click through for details on the campaign. We’d love to see Shilese compete internationally and in the NCAA one day.
UCLA assistant coach Jordyn Wieber
An in-depth interview with the former World Champion.
JW: … I so wish I could go out there and compete, just because being in gym with them every single day, being a part of the team and watching the triumphs and struggles that they go through every single day, I wish that I could be a part of that physically, actually doing the gymnastics. I know that if I hadn’t gone professional, and I could have done college [gymnastics], I know that I would have wanted to do really, really well.
… Now, I get to coach them, which is really cool. I’m so thankful that Miss Val gave me the opportunity to do that. …
Miss Val interview
Entertaining and informative as always, click through to The Skating Lesson’s interview.
Valorie Kondos Field on the Women of Team USA
Gymnastics Coaching.com 