Category: NCAA

Anaya Smith – Vault

UCLA Coach Janelle McDonald interview

I enjoyed this podcast.

Former University of California assistant coach Janelle McDonald, who holds two decades of coaching experience, was named the new head coach of the UCLA Gymnastics team on May 9, 2022. She’s off to a great start.

Listen online.

unofficial NQS rankings

National Qualifying Score will decide which 36 teams advance to the regional championships.

While NQS won’t officially take effect in the rankings until next Monday, most teams have now completed enough meets to have a prospective NQS …

  1. Oklahoma – 198.038
  2. Florida – 197.838
  3. Michigan – 197.792
  4. Utah – 197.679
  5. Auburn – 197.446
  6. UCLA – 197.425

See the full list on Balance Beam Situation:

WEEK 6 RANKINGS & FIRST NQS UPDATE

Fighting Illini for Mental Health

Team is dedicating the 2023 season to promoting mental health. Some problems can be helped by having some kind of support group.

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Denelle Pedrick interview

It’s been a long, strange journey for Denelle Pedrick from age-14 little-bit-of-a-train-wreck to Worlds medalist for Canada, qualifying the team to the Paris Olympics.

Listen to part 1 of the interview on Nicole Langevin’s podcast – What Makes DENELLE PEDRICK Think…” pt. 1

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She details how she learned the Pedrick by accident when Ellie and her coach were at the Tokyo Olympics. It started by working the Hecht back tuck dismount.

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LSU – NCAA Champs @ social media

These LSU videos are best in College Gymnastics right now.

Alabama season high 198

impossible Judging scores

Yurchenko 1/1 is out of 9.5 in NCAA.

When a judge deems that vault has no deductions — with this landing — that judge should be reprimanded and lose future assignments.

Oklahoma upsets #1 Stanford

Game on.

Oklahoma 418.900 – Stanford 413.800

In a year where Stanford could compete as their own nation — and be competitive — they got beat by Oklahoma.

Mark Williams credits his Pommels and H Bar line-ups.