Category: NCAA

A great update on the new coach at Brigham Young University.

“I’m having the time of my life being back here as a coach for BYU,” Young said.

In his first year as head coach, Young’s focus is getting the most he can out of the varsity team.

“He’s so different from every other coach I’ve ever had,” gymnast Sin To said. “He has so much love and passion for the sport that he wants you to do well.”

Young shares his passion and experience with the team. Young had the team sit in a circle before their first meet, sharing stories of their favorite gymnastics moments to remind them of their own passion for the sport.

“He really believes in us,” gymnast Emily Vidmar said. “He’s always telling us we can do it and he tells us that every day.” …

BYU

The Coog Club Gymnastics Team would like to transform the University of Houston by adding a gymnastics facility to campus. …

We would like to transform the old pool that is in Melcher in to a multipurpose gymnastics facility …

Change.org

Click through to add your name to the petition. Texas needs more Club teams.

And coordinates their competition calendar to help support College Championships.

The NCAA and USA Gymnastics have joined forces to showcase some of the nation’s top gymnastics talent in mid-April. The NCAA hosts its 35th National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championship, April 15-16, at the Fort Worth Convention Center while USA Gymnastics holds its Region 3, Level 8 Championships at nearby Texas Christian University, April 14-16.

The NCAA’s 73rd National Collegiate Men’s Gymnastics Championship is slated for April 15-16, in Columbus, Ohio at St. John Arena, at the same time as USA Gymnastics Region 5 Men’s Junior Olympic Championship at The Ohio State University. …

NCAA Partners with USA Gymnastics to Promote NCAA Men’s and Women’s Championship

The top-ranked Florida gymnastics team inexplicably frayed under pressure, falling flat in the meet’s final rotation and dropping a scintillating tilt on the road to the No. 11 Georgia Bulldogs on Friday by a final score of 196.400-196.350. …

The usually consistent Sloan pulled up lame on her final tumbling pass, stumbling on the landing with an upper thigh cramp. …

Florida gymnastics comes undone, loses thriller to Georgia

Georgia had 4 consecutive career highs on Floor in the comeback win.

From 2005 to 2008, Schwikert was a member of the UCLA Bruins gymnastics team.

As a freshman, Schwikert won the NCAA National all-around title. At the 2008 NCAA National Championships, she won her second all-around title and placed first on uneven bars, second on floor, and eighth on vault.

… In all, Schwikert is a two-time NCAA all-around champion (2005, 2008), 2008 NCAA bars champion and a 12-time All-American (2005 all-around, vault, bars, beam, floor; 2007 all-around, vault, bars; 2008 all-around, vault, bars, floor).

In 2008, she became the first UCLA gymnast and only the seventh woman ever to win multiple NCAA all-around titles. …

Pac-12

Click through to see the rest of the all-stars: Moneymaker, Bhardwaj, Richardson, Zamarripa, etc.

Miss Val named Coach of the Century.