Category: NCAA

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.

LSU defeats #2 Florida

Game on. NCAA Gymnastics is super interesting this season. 🙂

#Geaux Tigers

Click PLAY or watch the competition on YouTube.

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