Men’s NCAA Individual Finals

If you can’t watch the women’s finals you want, check out the men’s competition.

Michigan

2014 Men’s Gymnastics National Championship: Individual FinalsFull VIDEO Replay. Free. 🙂

Scott Bregman, Director Of Content And Communications at USAG, was there. He felt it was one of the best Championships ever. On podium. Very impressive.

Bars – who do you love?

NCAA Final 2014.

Click PLAY or watch Bridget Sloan on YouTube. 9.9375 (1st)

I swear Bridget took a big form break on overshoot every turn except for that routine. Coaches should study her huge, late tap for dismount.

Click PLAY or watch Samantha Shapiro on YouTube. 9.925 (2nd) Dreamy Pak.

Click PLAY or watch Kristina Vaculik on YouTube. 9.900 (3rd)

Floor – who do you love?

NCAA Final 2014.

Click PLAY or watch Haley Scaman on YouTube. 9.950 (T-2nd)

Click PLAY or watch Joanna Sampson on YouTube. 9.950 (T-2nd) Last year’s FX Champion.

Click PLAY or watch Katherine Grable on YouTube. 9.9625 (1st)

Not much debate on this one. Grable definitely was the most popular routine.

Razorback Gymnast Katherine Grable Makes History; Takes Titles

Though done with College gym, I’ve heard Katherine is considering a try at elite. She’s certainly ripped enough. 🙂

congratulations LSU coaches

LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux was named National Coach of the Year and Jay Clark and Bob Moore shared National Assistant Coach of the Year honors, the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women (NACGC/W) announced Monday.

It is the first time in Breaux’s distinguished career that she earned the National Coach of the Year Award. It is also the first national award for Moore. …

The awards were voted upon by the head coaches of all Division I women’s collegiate gymnastics teams. …

Breaux, Assistants Receive National Awards

LSU coaches

D-D also won “feistiest coach of the year” … for the 37th year in a row. 🙂

Jordan Rae to Bowling Green

Bowling Green State University Gymnastics Coach Kerrie Turner has announced that Jordan Rae has signed her letter of intent to compete for BGSU Gymnastics beginning in the fall of 2014. …

She was selected to compete for the 2010 senior international New Zealand Pacific Rim Team and competed for New Zealand’s Commonwealth Games Team in Delhi, India. At the Commonwealth games, Rae placed fifth on vault and 12th in the all-around. Her ability took her to Rotterdam, the Netherlands for the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2010 and to Tokyo, Japan for the same event in 2011. Rae was selected as a first reserve for the 2012 Olympic Games in Artistic Gymnastics. …

The Bowling Green Gymnastics program is coming off of its best season in 22 years …

Jordan Rae Signs Letter Of Intent For BGSU Gymnastics

Jordan

related – 2013 –

263 days?!

How depressing. 😦

263 days

Fans will have to keep watching 2014 Apparatus Finals for the rest of the year.

via @UKGymnastics

Joshua Nathan – Pommels

Yet another prodigy from the UK. 🙂

Born 1999.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Louis Smith @louissmith1989:

Finished my competition @ the Korea world cup I’m happy to say I finished in 1st place with 15.850 just in front of my Olympic nemesis Berki

That strengthens Louis’ chances to qualify to Commonwealth Games.

Keatings, meanwhile, won Pommels & P Bars at a competition in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

via @LEEWOOLLS

Beam – who do you love?

Click PLAY or watch Lindsey Cheek on YouTube. (9.90 – tied for 2nd)

Click PLAY or watch Taylor Spears on YouTube. 9.925 (1st)

related – Balance Beam Situation LIVE blog

Vault – who do you love?

NCAA Vault Final 2014.

Click PLAY or watch Rheagan Courville on YouTube. 9.975 (T-1st)

Click PLAY or watch Katherine Grable on YouTube. 9.975 (T-1st)

LIVE I preferred Haley Scaman. Insanely great early opening.

Click PLAY or watch Haley on YouTube. 9.9667 (3rd)

You could wake Haley up in the middle of the night. She’d stick this vault first time, no warm-up.

I blame the ONE Judge who threw a 9.0 on that vault, going low, dropping Haley to 3rd. Same score as that judge gave many inferior vaults in the final. 😦

Best vault?

Haley or Katherine?