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NAIGC – 4 National Team Champions

Here’s the official press release via NAIGC’s Karen Heilman:

The NAIGC (National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs) concluded their 27th annual National Championships in Philadelphia, PA on April 11, 2015. Nearly 1,100 competitors, representing 87 clubs from across the country, participated in the three-day competition.

There were two divisions this year in the men’s competition: Classic and Collegiate.

The Classic Division was dominated by the University of California, Berkeley, which claimed 1st place all-around and the team title.

Jamie Corona finished with an 82.6, while the team easily outpaced their competition with a score of 237.3.

In the men’s Collegiate division, Tommy Trompeter, a senior from the University of Texas at Dallas, won the all-around title with a score of 83.65. University of Oklahoma placed 1st in the team competition (245.0).

The women’s competition featured two levels this year: Level 8 and Level 9.

For the Level 9 competition, Maria Hayden (James Madison University) successfully defended her all-around title with a 38.15. JMU also won the team title for a second year in a row with a 147.05.

In the Level 8 competition, Lindsay Sanneman from Massachusetts Institute of Technology claimed the all-around title (37.75). Virginia Tech narrowly won the team competition by less than 0.1 with a score of 140.45.

full results

About the NAIGC:

The National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs (NAIGC) is dedicated to the promotion and support of collegiate and adult club gymnastics “for the love of the sport.” The NAIGC hosted its first annual national championships in 1989. In 2006, the NAIGC incorporated as a non-profit and elected its first Board of Directors. The NAIGC was recognized as a tax-exempt public charity in 2008.

Today, an elected Board of Directors, alongside its advisors, runs the NAIGC. Most of these dedicated volunteers are current and former college club gymnasts. The NAIGC hosts this annual national championship meet, as well as other gymnastics events throughout the year and supports its member clubs with a variety of technological and administrative services.

Club membership in the NAIGC is open to any collegiate and/or adult gymnastics club in the UnitedStates. Individual membership is open to anyone with an interest in club gymnastics. For more information, visit naigc.net.

– 4th Annual NAIGC FlipFest Camp Retreat, Tennessee, August 14-16th
– Nationals 2016 – Sacramento, California April 13-17th
– Nationals 2017 – Columbus, OH April 5-9th

WAG CODE of POINTS updates

FIG WTC Newsletter N° 37 – April 2015:

ripped grips

BARS:

d) Repeat their entire exercise (without deduction) with approval by the Superior Jury:

– if the exercise has been interrupted for reasons beyond their control or responsibility,

– if a handguard (grip) is significantly torn causing a fall, or interruption. The gymnast must immediately show the broken handguard (grip) to the D1 judge before leaving the podium in order to receive permission to repeat the exercise

Note: A gymnast may repeat the entire exercise at the end of the rotation, or if she is the last gymnast in the rotation, at a time at the discretion of the SJ.

BARS Fall Timing:

During a fall from the apparatus, an interruption of 30 seconds is allowed before the gymnast must remount the uneven bars to continue the exercise.

– If the gymnast exceeds the allowable time to resume her exercise, a – 0.30 P. neutral deduction for excessive time will be applied if the gymnast continues her exercise. …

– If the gymnast has not resumed within 60 seconds, the exercise will be terminated …

BEAM Fall Timing:

For interruption of the exercise due to a fall from the apparatus, an intermediate time period of 10 seconds is allowed.

– If the gymnast exceeds the allowable time to resume her exercise a -0.30 P. neutral deduction for excessive time will be applied if the gymnast continues her exercise …

– If the gymnast has not resumed within 60 seconds, the exercise will be terminated.

Daria Spiridonova – Bars

European Champion.

One variation to the Russian near-compulsory I like is the toe-on immediately after the pirouette on high.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Only one giant for potential form deduction on the tap over the low rail. Smart.

Couch Gymnast has links to videos for the Silver and Bronze medalists.

2 DOWNIE Rebecca GBR 6.700 8.533 15.233
3 WEVERS Sanne NED 5.600 8.600 14.200

Claire Martin – Floor

Host nation and fan favourite. Very precise. 😉

Europeans AA.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

ethics in sport

See Iván Fernández Anaya on Facebook. Respect.

Ebbe Price – Vault

Our NCAA Champion.

Click PLAY or watch her on instagram.

Ebee blasts off the table for an amazing yurchenko full! Awesome finals for Price! #DIBS

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Vault was the least impressive final. Almost every competitor hat done better in the prelims to qualify.

Ebee was by far the HIGHEST, however. 🙂

(via Go Stanford)

Shannon Miller’s new book – a review

#ItsNotAboutPerfect

St. Martin’s Press sent me a review copy of It’s Not About Perfect: Competing For My Country and Fighting For My Life by Shannon Miller with Danny Peary.

It’s available today – April 21, 2015 – in hard cover, Kindle, audio and MP3 CD.

It’s Shannon’s life story, so far. An autobiography. Inspirational. Ideal for teenage gymnasts and fans of women’s Gymnastics.

Shannon Miller … the winner of a combined total of 16 World Championships and Olympic medals between 1991 and 1996, Miller ranks as the most decorated gymnast, male or female, in U.S. history. …

Rather than dwell on the many successes, one of the greatest in the history of the sport spends more time detailing when things went wrong. And how she reacted to those setbacks.

“Don’t judge me by my successes but rather how many times I fell and got back up again.”

NELSON MANDELA

I enjoyed reading of her childhood. The used $100 backyard trampoline. Her first coach, Jerry Clavier. How Gary Goodson failed Shannon on her first USAIGC testing. Her first USAIGC and Karolyi camps. The first time Shannon ever flew on a plane. It was to Russia. At age-9.

Steve Nunno was on that trip, as well. Later Shannon moved from her non-competitive gym to Dynamo. Steve later hired Peggy Liddick.

Steve Nunno was a very controversial coach. Loud, arrogant and egotistical. But I’ve never heard Shannon Miller say a bad word about him. For her he was the ideal coach. This book is filled with stories of her many wonderful experiences with him and Peggy.

As an young gymnast, Shannon had very few injuries. But she did dislocate her elbow after hitting her feet on a flyaway full twist.

Astonishingly, Shannon once had a balking problem on flyaway. And later a balking problem on Tkachev. If it can happen to Shannon Miller, it can happen to anyone.

She competed the 1992 Olympics on a broken foot. Yet hit 16/16. Her goal.

After returning to Oklahoma from the Barcelona Games she enjoyed 3 days off. She’d only expected 1 day rest.

“I never considered myself the most talented or exciting gymnast but I could outwork anybody.”

By the 1996 Atlanta Olympics she had grown six inches, gained thirty pounds. Though still a tiny person, the sport was more difficult.

She looks back on her career as having two peaks: 5 medals at the 1992 Olympics and her success at the next two World Championships.

“The other peak was at the 1996 Olympics, when I won gold medals as part of the team and on balance beam. The two peaks corresponded to the two separate parts of my competitive career, based on my having two distinct body types and there being two different Codes of Points.”

Click PLAY or watch her Beam from the 1994 Worlds AA on YouTube.

One day a long retired Shannon Miller walked into Steve’s office at the Dynamo Gym and asked: “Do you want to train me for the 2000 Olympics?”

That third failed Olympic run was perhaps the most interesting of the three for me. She’s proud of the effort. Shannon’s philosophy:

• Set goals.
• Put in the work if you want results.
• Utilize mistakes as a way to learn and grow.
• Eliminate negative thoughts (and, when possible, negative people).
• Search for the positive in the negative.
• Don’t place limits on yourself.
• Accept help from others.
• Never give up and, most of all, believe in yourself.

She only very briefly mentions her failed first marriage in 1999 to Christopher B. Phillips. He was the second man she dated, a medical student at the University of Oklahoma.

Her second husband is John Falconetti. They married August 25, 2008. They have two children.

The Shannon Miller Foundation, dedicated to fighting childhood obesity, launched in 2007.

Shannon Miller Lifestyle: Health and Fitness for Women launched July 4, 2010.

Someone so healthy getting cancer was a shocker for me and everyone who knew Shannon Miller. It was a rare kind of ovarian cyst.

She had surgery in January 2011. In March 2011 began a 9-week regimen of chemotherapy.

In July 2011, her doctor gave a clean bill of health. She was cancer-free.

Like many celebrities over the past few years, Shannon documented her progress fighting cancer online. Her hope is that more people will schedule all their recommended medical treatments.

Bottom line. I recommend this book.

• Shannon’s other books

• Anna Rose Johnson interview with Shannon on the book: “I hope it’s something that will inspire others”