Risa Perez – Floor

OSU’s Risa Perez made the Power Rankings this week for her wildly entertaining Floor choreography. She sells it.

Click PLAY or watch her routine in the win over Stanford on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch the Oregon Team Intro on YouTube.

Central Michigan’s Kasey Janowicz

Kasey is one of the top rookies in College Gymnastics. 🙂

… In Janowicz’s first season as a Chippewa, her impact on the team has been immediate.

… won the all-around competition in all eight meets this season entering Sunday while closing on Central Michigan’s all-around record, which has stood for 13 years.

“I’m very proud of her,” said Head Coach Jerry Reighard. “She’s as focused, as determined as the person who’s on that record board right now as a freshman and I love that.”

… When it was time to decide which college to attend, Janowicz said CMU was the obvious choice, having been surrounded by people involved in the program throughout her career.

Chasing Perfection: Freshman and MAC Gymnast of the Week eyes 13 year-old record

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Thursday training at Auburn

Watch it on FloGymnastics. Surprisingly relaxed.

UCLA’s Miss Val

TUANH DAM posted an excellent retrospective on the head coach of UCLA who has won 6 NCAA team championships since 1997.

Gymnastics coach Valorie Kondos Field shapes more than just routines

Miss Val

NCAA Power Rankings Week 8

These are not any kind official rankings, but rather the stories, people, topics and/or events of interest from last week according to MCSMaria. 🙂

# 1 LSU at Florida – Florida’s home scoring benefits the visiting team, LSU

# 2 Oklahoma meet commentary by Kelly Garrison

# 3 OSU’s Maddie Gardiner

# 4 Epic Beam Saves

# 5 OSU’s Risa Perez

# 6 Denver’s Julia Ross

# 7 Push to the Post Season

NCAA Power Rankings Week 8

Click through for the details. 🙂

Here are those epic Beam saves.

Click PLAY or watch Nicki Shapiro on twitter.

Click PLAY or watch Risa Perez on Facebook.

Auburn goes 197.200

“It’s the fourth highest total score in school history, but I think we are still struggling to get things going at times,” head coach Jeff Graba said. “I was happy with how we finished and I thought we finished with a lot of energy. The only drawback tonight was that we were starting slow. If we can get past that, we will be a good team at the end.” …

No. 8 Auburn defeats No. 16 Missouri

Stanford, Japan, Canada

1. Stanford 444.6
2. Japan 444.25
3. Canada 434.7

Second to None #gostanford

Stanford

related – Scott Morgan top Canadian at International Collegiate Challenge gymnastics competition

Denver 197.525, Nina 39.775

Wow. DU POSTS SECOND HIGHEST SCORE IN SCHOOL HISTORY.