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Oklahoma Coach Mark Williams

5 time Oklahoma Sportswriter of the Year John Rohde wrote the definitive profile:

… OU men’s gymnastics has had just four coaches since its inception – Russ Porterfield (1966-73); Paul Ziert (1974-83); Buwick (1984-99) and Williams (2000-present). Two-time Olympian Bart Conner put the program on the map, leading the Sooners to back-to-back national crowns in 1977-78 while being coached by Ziert, but no coach’s success is in the same stratosphere as Williams’. …

Williams personally has won nine NCAA team titles – six with the Sooners (one as an assistant in 1991) and three straight (1979-81) as an athlete and assistant coach with the Nebraska Cornhuskers. “I’m trying to win one for the (second) thumb at this point,” joked Williams …

Williams’ Winning Ways

Everyone is predicting Mark will win Championships #10 in 2015.

to be a Men’s all-arounder

The Olympics YouTube channel posted a feature with John Orozco and Paul Ruggeri explaining Gymnastics to the general public.

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NAIGC Championships 2015

National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs

Dates: April 9–11, 2015

Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19107

On April 9-11, more than 1,100 gymnasts will perform 3,000 routines …

This year’s championships, in Philadelphia, PA, will be the largest one yet, bringing together male and female gymnasts from over 80 collegiate clubs. …

USAG – NAIGC National Championships begin April 9th

Nationals 2015 Information

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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. …

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 United States. Individual membership is open to anyone with an interest in club gymnastics. For more information, visit naigc.net.

Stanford MEN’S Gymnastics promo

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Dove: Choose Beautiful

Sport can build self-confidence of girls and young women.

According to a study connected by Dove, most women (96%) said they wouldn’t choose the word beautiful to describe themselves — although about 80% said there is something beautiful about them.

Mashable – Powerful Dove experiment shows how women can choose to feel beautiful

Feeling beautiful is a personal choice women should feel empowered to make for themselves, every day. This new short film, Dove: Choose Beautiful, shot in 5 international cities (San Francisco, Shanghai, Delhi, London, São Paolo), takes a look at women around the world thinking about their own beauty.

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Utah to 40th Championships

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NCAA LIVE video improving

In the past I’ve been disappointed. Slow streaming Flash feeds. (Why don’t Collegiate teams use YouTube? USAG, FIG and GBR all use YouTube.)

But the Morgantown Regional had multiple panes of different size open in their LIVE stream. At times with all 4 apparatus. Other times with results showing.

Morgantown Regional pane

It was excellent.

@GymCastic:

We have standardized rules for everything but NOT live coverage of the 1st round of NCAAs?! So far only @WVUGymnastics is doing it right.

That feed would not work on wifi. But as soon as I plugged into ethernet, every pane was sharp and clear. It was free. And I was watching in Canada so not geo-blocked.

The host team was happy too.

“This whole day was incredible,” said fourth-year coach Jason Butts. “We ended the season as well as we could end a season. I’m thrilled with today’s overall effort and the way the 2015 year as a whole went. I’m glad this program is back on track.” …

West Virgina University Sports

I’d watch more LIVE streaming if everyone did it as well as West Virgina University Sports. 🙂