NIT Gymnastics Results

Eight all-around champions were crowned at the 2011 Junior Olympic National Invitational Tournament (NIT), held in conjunction with the Women’s National Junior Olympic Championships, at the Long Beach Sports Arena.

The Junior Olympic NIT was developed to allow an additional 192 athletes an opportunity to compete at the national level and features gymnasts who ranked eighth and ninth in the all-around in each of the eight age divisions at the Level 10 Regional Championships (provided they achieved a minimum all-around score of 34.00), plus any Regional individual event champions who did not qualify to the Junior Olympic Nationals or the Junior Olympic NIT in the all-around qualify for that event.

The competition features eight age divisions (Junior A, Junior B, Junior C, Junior D, Senior A, Senior B, Senior C and Senior D), which are determined by age and birth date. …

  • Complete Results

    • USAG

    Chelsea Averna

    Many NCAA coaches attended this meet, including some of the top schools. They know there are good gymnasts in this pool of athletes.

    Kayla Hoffman survives Tornado

    Alabama senior and 2011 Honda Award winner for gymnastics, Kayla Hoffman, led the Crimson Tide to the National Championship on April 16th.

    Less than two weeks later she was trapped outside her apartment on 15th street and 6th Avenue in Tuscaloosa when the tornado hit.

    Here’s that apartment …

    Watch an interview on Gymnastike.

    I talked to a couple of the Alabama coaches at JOs. It was awful. … But there’s a bit of an upside in rebuilding Tuscaloosa. Better than ever, they say.

    Kayla’s story made Sports Illustrated – Terror, Tragedy And Hope In Tuscaloosa.

    (via College Gym Board)

    Family Guy – Peter the Gymnast

    Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Hurry. It will be taken down soon.

    (via Unorthodox Gymnastics – Somebody Should Look Into This Sport)

    Click PLAY or watch Stewie’s Vault on YouTube.

    Homer Simpson was a High School gymnast, too. 🙂

    new show – Zarkana by Cirque

    Opens June 9th at Radio City Music Hall, NY.

    Then on to Madrid and Moscow.

    An 80-second look at Zarkana by Cirque du Soleil, coming to Radio City Music Hall this summer! For more info, visit: cirquedusoleil.com/zarkana

    Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

    Thanks Megan.

    paralyzed gymnast Sang Lan

    This just gets worse and worse.

    A paralyzed Chinese gymnast has added sexual abuse claims against her caretakers to her $2 billion lawsuit over Ted Turner’s allegedly broken promise to provide her with lifetime medical coverage. …

    Chinese gymnast Sang Lan suffered spinal cord injuries when her head hit the ground during a training exercise at the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York, organized by Turner. She was permanently disabled from the chest down. …

    The amended complaint adds claims that Liu and his stepson, Wilson Xue, sexually abused Lan. They unnecessarily bathed her nude and touched her inappropriately, according to a report she says she filed with the Westchester County, N.Y., district attorney’s office. …

    read more – Paralyzed Chinese gymnast adds sex abuse claims to $2 billion suit

    The Science of Gymnastics

    A new text for coaches from Routledge Sport Science is now available everywhere, contributors including Bill Sands and John Salmela, titled The Science of Gymnastics.

    Several people have told me it’s good.

    • energetic, physical and physiological assessment
    • training principles
    • diet, nutrition and supplementation
    • growth and development issues
    • kinetics and kinematics
    • angular and linear motion
    • angular momentum
    • stress, anxiety and coping
    • motivation and goal setting
    • mental skills training for practice and competition
    • the psychology of learning and performance.

    Amazon

    It’s available in paperback or ebook for $54.95. From that same Routledge link you can preview some pages free. University instructors can request a Complimentary Exam Copy.

    FIG World Cup Champions

    Moscow, having concluded the 2011 FIG World Cup Series with Individual Apparatus Finals, also awarded the following winners of the overall series.

    Men
    Floor: BOUHAIL Thomas (FRA)
    Pommel Horse: SELLATHURAI Prashanth (AUS)
    Still Rings: BALANDIN Aleksandr (RUS) and PLUZHNIKOV Konstantin (RUS)
    Vault: BOUHAIL Thomas (FRA)
    Parallel Bars: PETKOVSEK MITJA (SLO)
    Horizontal Bar: ZONDERLAND Epke (NED)

    Women
    Vault: MUSTAFINA Alina (RUS) and TKALCEC Tijana (CRO)
    Uneven Bars: SEITZ Elisabeth (GER)
    Balance Beam: DEMENTYEVA Anna (RUS)
    Floor: DEMENTYEVA Anna (RUS)

    FIG

    I don’t think we can call the new World Cup format a success. The main story at each meet was how many of the qualified gymnasts failed to show up.

    … But I’d be interested to know how much prize money Prashanth won, for example. It was a success for him.

    (via Full Twist)

    Global Planking Day – May 25th

    Are you getting pumped for the first ever Global Planking Day? More than 10,000 people who like to lie face down straight as a board sure are.

    Planking, a phenomenon that started in Australia, is simple enough: “You must always lay face down, ensuring your face remains expressionless for the duration of the plank. Your legs must remain straight, and together with toes pointed.” …

    Globe and Mail – Let’s get this straight: All the cool kids are ‘planking’?

    Like the official Planking Facebook Page.

    It’s just a laugh. Be careful, though. One bloke fell to his death from a seventh-floor balcony while being photographed.

    Thanks Kate.

    Mary Lee Tracy – part 2

    One of my favourite coach interviews, yet.

    Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

    http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTkxNDg1ODY1?related=1

    Watch more video of Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy on gymnastike.org

    related – part 1 of this interview