mad coach – Marlin Murray

Living in Canada, most of our examples of BAD coaching come from Ice Hockey.

Dauphin Kings coach Marlin Murray went ballistic Thursday night during a playoff game at Winnipeg’s St. James Civic Centre.

… Murray threw sticks, water bottles and what appeared to be medical supplies at the referees during a stoppage in play.

The Kings lost the game 5-1 to the Winnipeg Saints and now trail the best-of-seven Sher-Wood Division series 3-1 despite finishing with the second-best regular season record.

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Sounds like Murray had a legitimate grievance with the “judges”.

But losing emotional control only resulted in getting suspended and fined an undisclosed amount by the Manitoba Junior Hockey League.

His team was later eliminated from the playoffs.

Lauren Mitchell – Gymnix Floor

At College meets, Floor is my favourite apparatus. By far.

Not so at FIG meets.

But Gymnix seems to have had dozens of entertaining Floor Exercises.

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Lauren won Floor and Beam in the SENIOR CUP.

Examiner – Event Finals Results

(via Gym Blog Brazil)

U.S. gymnasts to Pac Rim

The host confirms their teams to Seattle after the most recent Ranch training camp.

SENIORS:
Jordyn Wieber
Gabrielle Douglas
Kyla Ross

JUNIORS:
Katelyn Ohashi
Lexie Priessman
Amelia Hundley

Continue reading on Examiner – U.S. women name Pac Rims squads

March 16
Women’s gymnastics, team and all-around finals:
1:30 p.m.: Russia; Canada; Philippines; Panama/Costa Rica, Japan; Colombia/Hong Kong
7 p.m.: USA; Mexico; New Zealand; Australia; China

Obviously, they are the favourites. Looking forward to seeing Ohashi on Beam.

tickets

USAG has the complete schedule including MAG, Trampoline & Rhythmic.

Kristina Baskett for Dick’s Sporting Goods

@gymnewstics:

Remember elite and @UtahGymnastics star @Krisbaskett? Here she is in a great new commercial for Dick’s Sporting Goods

When Mind, Body and Equipment come together, you are Untouchable.

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86yr-old lady gymnast competes

Hey Leyva. Can you do this? 🙂

Johanna QUAAS – Germany’s oldest (86) top senior gymnast on parallel bars at the 89th JAHNTURNFEST, 2011, August in the Jahn City of Freyburg (Saxony-Anhalt)

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Via Rec Gymnastics. Thank Avril Enslow for the link.

Florida, Oklahoma, UCLA … still

The latest rankings are out on Troester GymInfo.

Upsets this past weekend did not result in any major shake-up. The ranking list is fairly stable by this point in the season.

1. Florida
2. Oklahoma
3. UCLA
4. Alabama
5. Georgia
6. Nebraska
7. Utah
8. Oregon State
9. Arkansas
10. LSU
11. Stanford
12. Penn State
13. Ohio State
14. Auburn
15. Boise State
16. Missouri
17. Denver
18. Arizona
19. Minnesota
20. North Carolina State
21. Michigan
22. Illinois-Champaign
23. Kentucky
24. Washington
25. Arizona State

What unexpected school will qualify to Championships in Georgia this season? Last year it was Kent State. They went 196.400 this weekend, by the way.

Championships info

Ferrari – 1/1-in … back tuck

Vanessa Ferrari decided not to compete her double double, instead using full-in punch back tuck.

… It nearly worked.

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Stefanie Merkle – Floor

Stefanie Merkle – Canada – Revolution Gymnastics
Gold Medal Routine
5th All Around Senior

Backhandspring into the 1 1/2.

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Floor was a very entertaining apparatus at Gymnix. Nice to see.

UCLA Seniors defeat Oklahoma

Happy Happy in L.A. tonight.

Bruins get more dangerous the closer you get to SHOW TIME.

… UCLA senior Tauny Frattone earned the first perfect 10 of her career on vault.

… Aisha Gerber scoring a career-high 9.95 to win uneven bars, and Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs tying her career-high of 9.95 to tie for first on floor.

UCLA Wins Top 3 Matchup over Oklahoma, 197.525-196.475

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Samantha Peszek won the all-around with a career-high score of 39.575