tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Crazy good meet.
1 Florida 197.775
2 Alabama 197.750
3 LSU 197.500
4 Auburn 196.975
full results
Georgia finished 5th with 196.850.
Balance Beam Situation unconvinced that Florida actually won that meet. Alabama had a fantastic day.
Alabama misses 3rd straight SEC gymnastics title by thinnest of margins
Balance Beam Situation is watching the TV coverage and simultaneously checking the LIVE stream online.
related – College Gymnastics Board shout out
The Bruins may not win the team Championships 2016. But I’d say they had the best social media / public relations over this season.
Click PLAY or watch their Senior video on Facebook. A fantastic edit. 🙂
(via College Gymnastics Board)
My morals, values and mental health were a million times more important to me than seeing my name on the wall in the locker room
… I was practically raised by my Russian coaches and knew nothing but tough love and endless yelling. “Eat, sleep, breathe gymnastics” was what we used to say to make fun of ourselves but it was accurate. I couldn’t count the amount of unattended school activities because of practice, the long weekends spent in hotels for competitions and the quarter-sized rips on my hands. However, with all those hardships came the rewards and the gratitude of winning a competition or perfecting a new skill. It was the highs and adrenaline that kept me going – I loved it.
It’s very clear that sports are physically exhausting and injuries happen all the time – I’ve been aware of this since I was maybe seven. When I walked-on for the Penn State Women’s Gymnastics team, injuries became a whole different story. …
Leave a comment if you’ve seen any response from the Team.
“How do you capture Ivana in words?” wondered Chris Swircek, Stanford’s women’s gymnastics associate head coach. “Her movement is so fluid and graceful, all the way down to her hands and her fingertips and the way she holds her head.
“It’s art, right?” …
Hong doesn’t compete to win, she said. She never has. She competes for perfection, or at least the pursuit of it.
Click PLAY or watch her Beam in Finals at Championships 2015 on YouTube.
Ivana’s Mom was one of the Vietnamese Boat People who fled the war as refugees.
Click through to read a fantastic profile on Go Stanford – The Artist
Thanks Cordelia.
Morgan is one of the highlights from last week as selected by the NCAA Power Rankings Week 10.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (9.85 @W&M)
Or watch her 9.95 at Florida on Twitter. (VIDEO)
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