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She’s moving to Indianapolis.

Rhonda Faehn, who last week led Florida to its third straight NCAA gymnastics national championship, is stepping down after 13 years as the Gators’ coach to become senior vice president of USA Gymnastics.

“It was incredibly hard,” said Faehn, who told the team of her decision on Friday. “I absolutely love Florida and what the University of Florida stands for. At the same time, I really feel there is another plan for me. I’m still going to be doing what I love and hopefully making an impact on the lives of a lot of athletes who will be representing our country.” …

Al.com

… In August 2012, Brandon’s goals changed dramatically. He had a bad dismount at gymnastics training and fell on his head and back. He compressed his 6th and 7th vertebra which has left him paralyzed from the chest down.

He is working hard daily to regain some/all of his physical ability.

Walking with Brandon

Click PLAY or watch his story on YouTube. (17min)

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Alabama junior Lauren Beers was named the 2015 NCAA Elite 89 Award winner for the sport of gymnastics at the NCAA Championship Banquet which was held at The Stockyard in Ft. Worth, Texas Wednesday night. It is Beers’ second consecutive Elite 89 Award and the Tide’s sixth in a row. …

Roll Tide

Cassey Ho, creator of Blogilates, has posted a Youtube video that will force you to think about yourself, your thoughts, comments and actions. The video has over 2 million views since it was posted one week ago. The “Perfect” Body makes quite a statement in two minutes. Casey is fit and toned but finds herself second guessing her body after reading negative social media comments. …

Hard Body

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I’d been counting Keatings Pommels the best in the world. When he hits.

But 2013 World Champion Kohei Kameyama, age-26, is even better.

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(via gymnastikfabriken)

So energetic. So atypical for an elite gymnast. This would kill in College gymnastics. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. 14.633 (D:6.3)

Silver medal at Europeans.

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Starting today. #thencata

The top 8 teams will battle it out.

See it on instagram.

@OnoNoKomachi1 posted a graph of the loss of D1 teams since 1982. Green is Division 1 Women’s Gymnastics. Purple is Division 1 Men’s Gymnastics.

She notes that both Men’s and Women’s team numbers were “crashing” until the introduction of Title IX legislation. Title IX did help women’s College sport, including Gymnastics.

Those stats came from an NCAA® document called Sports Sponsorship and Participation Rates Report.

Hopefully both MAG and WAG have bottomed out. And we can dream of new teams being added.

Lindenwood, a new in 2012-2013 Division 2 school, was ranked 50th of 82 teams on Road to Nationals. They scored 195.800 this season!

George Washington University just went from 6 scholarships to 12 scholarships.

There is hope.

Our 2015 NCAA Champion competing Feb 13, 2015.

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Akash was the 2015 NCAA Champion in the all-around.

via @GymWeekly