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Here’s the winning routine, Geralen Stack-Eaton.

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Very precise.

Click PLAY or watch Jaime Pisani on YouTube. 5th- 9.8875

Click PLAY or watch Brittani McCullough on YouTube. 2nd- 9.9

Click PLAY or watch Maranda Smith on YouTube. 2nd- 9.9

Click PLAY or watch Kylee Botterman on YouTube. 2nd- 9.9

Those are just a few of the top routines. Leave a comment if you have a favourite.

full results

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2008 Olympian Sam Peszek adds a standing 1/1 … and wins Beam.

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Not bad. But she’s no Courtney McCool …

I prefer Aisha Gerber.

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Rodney likes Kayla Hoffman best.

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Which should have won? … Or do you have another routine to nominate?

Certainly Beam was the weakest apparatus in Cleveland, Bars the strongest.

If any of your gymnasts give you that response, show them Courtney McCool (2004)

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Leave a comment if you know of any other gymnasts this ‘clean’ on twisting.

Jake Dalton Wins 2 Event Titles at NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships

Oklahoma’s Jake Dalton won his two specialty events, floor (16.20) and vault (16.55), a day after his team fell just shy of the team title. …

FX – Jake Dalton (Oklahoma) – 16.20
PH – Alex Naddour (Oklahoma) – 15.55 & Daniel Ribeiro (Illinois) – 15.55
SR – Brandon Wynn (Ohio State) – 16.00
VT – Dalton – 16.55
PB – Tyler Mizoguchi (Illinois) – 15.20
HB – Alex Buscaglia (Stanford) – 15.75

It was fantastic to see some great performances put in by several outstanding freshmen who qualified for event finals. As you can see, they all earned All-American honors! Here is the list:

FX: Sam Mikulak (Michigan) – 15.70 (3rd)
PH: Chris Turner (Stanford) – 15.00 (4th)
VT: Jeff Treleaven (Ohio State) – 16.10 (3rd); Mikulak – 15.50 (7th)
PB: Mikulak – 14.70 (4th)
HB: Kris Done (Ohio State) – 15.00 (5th); Wasef Burbar (Penn State) – 14.80 (6th)

… Michigan’s Sam Mikulak has had quite a year, going back to last May. He won the JO Nationals all-around championship, VISA U.S.A. all-around championship, Big 10 all-around championship and the NCAA all-around championship. Can’t think of any other athlete who has accomplished the “grand slam” of gymnastics. …

That’s from the best coverage of the Men’s NCAA Gymnastics – Stick It Media.

Here’s the Gymnastics Examiner wrap-up – Jake Dalton doubles down as men’s NCAA Championships conclude

Blythe also linked to some of Greg Long’s photos from the meet.

Stephen, the Nissen-Emery Award winner, was expected to win the all-around, but problems with his Dragalescu vault took him out.

One more thing:

… The Men’s programs themselves do a fairly poor job promoting their own cause. That may hurt chances of survival, long term.

It’s a shame, too, that they schedule Championships concurrent with the women’s meet. Most media go to the girls competition, if they must choose. Best for the Men and for fans would be a combined NCAA MAG and WAG meet.

Wow.

My congratulations to Marissa on this win. These are HUGE vaults.

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Note that she does not use the easier Kasamatsu technique. These are true Tsuk 1 1/2 and 1/1.

College girls need show 2 different vaults in finals, not 2 different families.

Vault was the weakest final, however. Most of the girls only train 1 vault, winging it on the second, if they make the final. I feel that’s dangerous … though it wasn’t today (happily). If there was an injury on the second (untrained) vault, I’d argue that the NCAA rules partially contributed.

final scores

Update …

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Kat Ding hits and sticks Bars. No obvious NCAA deductions, yet scores only 9.9125. … I feared that, as an early competitor, this score wouldn’t hold up.

It did.

A wonderful Bars champion.

… Marissa King won Vault with 9.8750. … Congrats. But it was not a strong final.

… I’ll post videos when they become available.

hmm …

Sam added the standing 1/1 twist for Finals. (Anne thinks she’s only the 2nd NCAA gymnast to compete it.)

But many coaches will still feel her routine is too ‘easy‘ to be the best in College gymnastics. … Debatable.

Click PLAY or watch some of her routine from Super 6 on YouTube.

I would have been happier to see Aisha Gerber as Champion. … Kayla Hoffman 2nd.

I’ll post all of those routines later.

Wow.

What a wonderful final. Congratulations Geralen.

You could argue that Jaime Pisani, Brittani McCullough, Kylee Botterman or Maranda Smith should have won. … Who else?

Great tumbling. Some very good bits of choreography, though I still like Brittani best there.

I’ll link to the entire Floor final when the video appears.

In the meantime, here’s her routine from Super 6. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

final results

(WiFi at the venue crapped out today. A terribly unreliable technology.)

Olivia is the second Australian gymnast to qualify for an NCAA Final, after Stephanie LoPiccolo.

Olivia scored 9.85 … with one arched handstand, STUCK dismount.

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube (from a previous day).

(via Australian Gymnastics Blog)