Category: NCAA

NCAA Power Rankings Week 7

If you have trouble following ALL the action in NCAA every weekend, MCSMaria’s Power Rankings are nice highlight summaries.

I am basing my “rankings” on news events, stories, people that are gaining attention and other random things that I find interesting or worth mentioning. …

# 1 RQS
# 2 Southern Utah & Upsets in General
# 3 Joslyn Goings & Myia Hambrick & all underrated athletes
# 4 LSU’s Floor Line-Up
# 5 Ebee Price’s Back-Up Dancers

Southern Utah upset one of the top teams in the NCAA this weekend at their home tri-meet, Michigan. …

Southern Utah posted a bunch of 9.9 +’s on floor and next thing you, know, Southern Utah had a 196.300 to Michigan’s 195.750.

There have been so many upsets this season, and I enjoy seeing upsets. It’s nice to see new talent breaking through. At home, Washington almost upset UCLA …

read more …

SUU Athletics – Southern Utah gymnasts stun No. 3 Michigan

Southern Utah

Georgia WINS the NCAA …

… poster contest.
LIKE the Georgia poster on Twitter.

Click over to NCAA Gym News to see the rest of their winners. I’m expecting many will take exception to the ranking. 🙂

on Kyla Ross’ retirement from Elite

Reflections are still being posted. Kyla is very popular with fans, gymnasts and teammates.

Lauren Hopkins:

I started writing this but kept procrastinating and putting it off. Somehow, me not writing my goodbye will mean she never left. Right?

If you haven’t heard, it was yesterday afternoon that Kyla Ross – the 19-year-old who made her elite debut in 2009, won an Olympic gold medal three years later, and went on to win five world medals without taking more than a few weeks off – announced her retirement on social media. ..

Saying Goodbye to Kyla Ross

Kyla

Arabian Punch Front:

What is there to say about Kyla?

Kyla is beautiful.

Her gymnastics is beautiful.

I will always miss her beautiful double twisting Yurchenko where she had a cat like sense of finding the landing. Uneven bars always served as Kyla’s claim to fame where a beautiful Jaeger and floaty double layout earned her a spot in multiple international event finals and even a silver medal at the 2013 World Championships. With Kyla fully extending through her shoulders, I suddenly was able to appreciate a bail to handstand. Something I never thought was humanly possible. …

An Ode to Kyla Ross

We can pretty much assume that Kyla will make more history as a UCLA Bruin. 🙂

related – High Profile Gymnasts React To Kyla Ross’ Retirement

International Collegiate Challenge at Stanford

On Saturday February 27, 2016 Stanford Men’s Gymnastics will take on gymnasts from Finland, Japan, Canada, and South Africa. …

… free admission, free pizza for loud fans, and free t-shirts for stuck landings from Stanford gymnasts.

Click PLAY or watch a preview on YouTube.

LSU goes 197.825

Peaking for the playoffs? 🙂

Coming off a season-high road scoring performance against then-No. 11 Georgia, the Tigers (8-2, 4-1 Southeastern Conference) were ecstatic to see their momentum carrying over …

Gnat showed the third-largest crowd in program history of 10,177 why you never leave before it’s over. Finishing her anchoring floor routine with not a single error, Gnat closed the meet a perfect 10, posting the final LSU new career-high.

Gnat is the nation’s only gymnast to have earned a perfect score three times this season. …

Gnat’s perfect score and Hambrick, Savona power LSU past No. 8 Auburn

Click PLAY or watch highlights on YouTube.

Kyla Ross retires from Elite

2012 Olympic team champion Kyla Ross of Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max, who in the last three years has won five World medals, has announced her retirement from elite gymnastics and the U.S. Women’s National Team.

The youngest member of the Fierce Five that won the team title at the 2012 Olympic Games, Ross continued to compete after the Games and garnered five World, five Pac Rim and six U.S. national medals from 2013-15. …

USAG via email

With World and Olympic golds, Ross ready to follow her heart to UCLA
 

Read an elite career recap. Thanks Cordelia.

NCAA Regional Qualifying Scores

Regional Qualifying Score (RQS) is based on a team’s 6 best regular-season-meet scores, 3 of which must be away. Here are the top 12, so far.

1 Oklahoma 197.595
2 Florida 197.355
3 Alabama 197.195
4 Michigan 196.920
5 Utah 196.850
6 UCLA 196.810
7 LSU 196.750
8 Auburn 196.495
9 Arkansas 196.315
10 Georgia 196.310
11 Boise State 196.185
12 Stanford 196.045
full rankings

Road to Nationals is updating a chart on which teams are most likely to qualify to Regionals.

Regionals will all be hosted April 2, 2016 at these sites:

Athens, Georgia
Jon M. Huntsman Center / Salt Lake City, UT
Crisler Arena / Ann Arbor, MI
Carver-Hawkeye Arena / Iowa City, IA
Sports Pavilion / Minneapolis, MN

GYMWNR

Championships go again (for the 2nd year) at Fort Worth Convention Center Arena, Texas on April 15-17, 2016.

Making Gators Dance – An Interview With Jeremy Miranda

Gym Blog Central posted an informative and entertaining chat with the Florida choreographer.

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