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Wow!

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Before we forget the Men’s NCAA Championships 2014 in an onslaught of Super 6 WAG coverage, let’s celebrate Sam and his team one more time.

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5-up, 5-count

That’s a lot of pressure at home. 🙂

Our Olympic Champion lands his NEW Vault at home in Korea.

Matt Beck on GymFever:

Fell on the handspring triple but threw the Kaz 2 1/2 (Tsuk 3 1/2)…madness

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You need slow-mo to count the twists.

Of course those two vaults are almost identical. FIG needs to change the rules to require two true different vault families.

Watch just the new vault starting here.

Vault
Brandie Jay (UGA)
Lindsay Mable (Minnesota)
Lindsey Cheek (UGA)
Ashleigh Gnat (LSU)
Rheagan Courville (LSU)
Sachi Sugiyama (Michigan)
Maileana Kanewa (OU)
Haley Scaman (OU)
Kat Grable (Arkansas)
Olivia Courtney (UCLA)
Bridget Sloan (Florida)
Georgia Dabritz (Utah)

Bars
Lindsey Cheek (UGA)
Kristina Vaculik (Stanford)
Rheagan Courville (LSU)
Joanna Sampson (Michigan)
Taylor Spears (OU)
Shona Morgan (Stanford)
Samantha Shapiro (Stanford)
Bridget Sloan (Florida)
Kim Jacob (Bama)
Macko Caquatto (Florida)
Alaina Johnson (Florida)
Sam Peszek (UCLA)

Beam
Taylor Spears (OU)
Hanna Nordquist (Minnesota)
Maddie Gardiner (OSU)
May Beth Box (UGA)
Lindsey Cheek (UGA)
Sydney Ewing (LSU)
Chayse Capps (OU)
Kristina Vaculik (Stanford)
Kim Jacob (Bama)
Sarah DeMeo (Bama)
Alaina Johnson (Florida)
Macko Caquatto (Florida)
Hollie Blanske (Nebraska)
Jamie Schleppenbach (Nebraska)
Jessie DeZiel (Nebraska)
Emily Wong (Nebraska)

Floor
Joanna Sampson (Michigan)
Maileana Kanewa (OU)
Haley Scaman (OU)
Brandie Jay (UGA)
Jessica Savona (LSU)
Lara Albright (OU)
Kat Grable (Arkansas)
Kim Jacob (Bama)
Emily Wong (Nebraska)
Lauren Beers (Bama)
Diandra Milliner (Bama)
Becky Tutka (Utah)
Nansy Damianova (Utah)

The surprises:

VT – no Milliner, Mable, Delaney or Wilson
UB – no Davis or Dabritz
BB – no Nush, Peszek, Sloan
FX – no Hall, Mable, Dabritz, Hunter, Peszek or even Sawa.

ohalia on College Gymnastics Board

It’s time for the annual moaning about idiotic NCAA judging that tries to rank hit routines between 9.80 and 10.00.

John Roethlisberger on Facebook:

No one loves collegiate gymnastics more than I do, but until collegiate women’s gymnastics starts using legitimate scoring, you all are going to be beating your head against the wall. Don’t get me wrong, I am still a fan and I enjoy watching but if I had a vested interest I would be frustrated. For example, on Floor, there is .2 separating 1st and 41st.

Really?

In real gymnastics terms, with real deductions, do any of you think there is really only .2 separately 41 people? I like seeing 9.9’s and 10.0’s as much as the next guy, but there needs to me more separation. And I’m not even saying the results are wrong, I honestly have no idea, but if real deductions were taken, it would be more clear. …

I’m less unhappy with the final rankings than usual. I’d say Nebraska truly did deserve to move on ahead of Utah and UCLA. That was one incredible Beam rotation for them. Utah gave it away on Vault.

Biggest problems I saw in prelims:

• Vault judging does not reward the best vaults.
• Home court advantage makes a big difference. Alabama should not have matched Florida.
• Big name gymnasts gain as much as 0.05 / routine
• “safe” routine construction is too much rewarded. e.g. Oklahoma

With so much parity now between the top teams, it is time to make more differentiation between the highest scores.

Vault should have (relative to gymnast size) increased height and distance requirements. Yurchenko 1/1 scores should be lowered, perhaps lowered to a 9.95 start.

On Bars, overshoot not taken to handstand should be deducted 0.05 as should a squat-on, jump to high. Those transitions look out of place.

I’d like them to continue the emphasis on landing, actually. These young women are at high risk of Achilles and ACL injury. The more attention paid to landing, the safer.

For some reason even the very best WAG “landers: are less skilled at it than any average MAG.

A more realistic solution would be to allow judges to award increments of 0.05 at major competitions like Regionals and Championships.

Ganba Gymnastics linked to this Jr routine from Pacific Rim.

His Peach flies.

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This kid makes Leyva’s peaches look laboured. (VIDEO)

Jr Pacific Alliance

Handspring front.

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(via GymCastic Episode 89)

Alabama senior Kim Jacob won the 2014 all-around championship and the Crimson Tide finished in a tie for first at Friday’s NCAA gymnastics championship semifinal. …

Al Sports

Jacob’s all-around score of 39.625 took the title. Florida’s Alaina Johnson and Arkansas’ Katherine Grable tied for second with 39.600.

Sweet Super 6 qualification during NCAA Semifinal 2.

With Utah finishing on Vault, Nebraska on Beam, UCLA on Bars … I was quite sure it would be Utah moving on to the Super 6.

But the Utes atypically had poor landings on Vault. The Huskers owned Beam. … I’m saying Dan Kendig should purchase that Beam after this competition. 🙂

Congratulations. Dan and the Nebraska program are universally liked and respected. Nice guys sometimes do finish first.

Super 6 2014:

FLORIDA 197.65
ALABAMA 197.65
NEBRASKA 197.10

Oklahoma 197.50
Georgia 197.30
LSU 197.10

April 18th, 2014 — floor (women), Gymnastics, NCAA

Oh, the drama.

NCAA Semifinal 2

FLORIDA 197.65
ALABAMA 197.65
NEBRASKA 197.10

UTAH 197.025
UCLA 197.00
PENN STATE

Alabama was a fledgling program with a tiny fan base when Sarah Patterson took over as a 22-year-old in 1978.

The bleachers at Foster Auditorium were sprinkled with a few dozen fans. NCAA championships were but a dream for Patterson, then Sarah Campbell.

Some 36 years later, Patterson, along with husband and assistant David, has led Alabama to six NCAA titles, 1,000 victories and a 32nd consecutive berth in the national championships April 18-20 in Birmingham, an hour away from campus. …

Coach Sarah Patterson is Alabama’s queen of championships

And now a chance for Championships #7. 🙂

ALSUgym:

Super Six rotations: Florida starts on VT, Oklahoma on bye b/f UB, #LSU on UB, Georgia on BB, Alabama on bye b/f FX, Nebraska on FX.

7pm Central – Florida, Alabama, Utah, UCLA, Nebraska, Penn State.

Only 3 will advance to the Super 6.