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Jason MacDonald for the past 2yrs has been helping Illinois and Region 5 kids with their NCAA applications.

As a sample, check out Megan Greenfield from Trinity GEMS, coached by Chris Riegel.

This website was designed for me to put all my recruiting information in one place for college coaches to assess. I will be updating this site regularly to give the most current video footage, competition results, and any other important recruiting information

MeganGreenfield.com

If you want to know more, click through to Jason’s Lights On Recruiting site. Or call him at (630)715-3548.

He’s expanding his “recruit marketing” to gymnasts worldwide and to all NCAA sports. This kind of service is ideal for gymnasts from outside the USA, I feel.

Goal = two golds, two silvers, two bronzes

The Rewriting Russian Gymnastics English summary makes sense of the confusing Google translated Sovietski Sport interview with Valentina and Andrei Rodienenko (Russian).

In addition:

• they can’t rely on the judges to get the medals right
• rebuilding the Men’s program is taking longer than WAG

Click through for an interesting, if daunting, read.

After an exciting finish in our YOG mascot online voting, we want to congratulate the winner: the GOAT designed by Florencia Demaria & Luis Abbiati!

Innsbruck 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games on Facebook.

Does this look familiar?

See more baby Nabieva videos and photos via Stoi!.

Click though to Couch Gymnast for baby Mustafina.

Anyone care to explain the biomechanical advantages of Paul Ruggeri’s weird round-off?

Paul placed 3rd at the 2010 Toyota Cup …. This was his first time competing this new routine!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Love the Tamayo (layout double Arabian).

But more than anything else, this is a perfect example of why Men’s gymnastics is so un-artistic. It’s more advantageous to add a cheap C-part than to do any corner parts, … or even hold a V-sit.

What do you call a jump backwards to land on your neck and shoulders … ?

A ‘cradle’. Thanks TP.

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube. (30sec)

Sounds like a number of other Soviets included this skill in the past.

Thanks betweentheolympics.

Third place Beam in Elite Canada Finals.

Click PLAY or watch Miranda on YouTube.

Canada has some strong Beam and Floor. But needs to improve Vault and Bars to qualify as a team for London.

This excellent update was written by Hilary Findlay, Ph.D. LLB, and pertains to the Canadian context.

I got it via email as I subscribe to the Canadian Centre for Sport and Law – Newsletter.

In many service sectors, some form of police record check is now common. Obtaining police record checks for volunteers is part of an organization’s due diligence and part of their standard of care to ensure that risks within the organization are reasonably managed.

… there are some new updates and it is time to revisit the issue. For organizations, it is increasingly important to have a good handle on the nature of police record checks – what they are, what they can and cannot do, and what degree of check that you need for your volunteers.

‘Police record check’ is a blanket phrase that can refer to investigating the criminal history of a volunteer. But all police record checks are not created equal. In fact, there are two basic types of police record checks – a CPIC check and a local police record check. The source for each of these checks provides different information and gives you a different ‘product’. Which should you use? Why? …

Check the comments for the rest of that article.

The question I’ve had as a Head Coach is … “Who PAYS for the Police Check?”

I feel the club should pay, not the coach.

After deciding that Nadia was the most boring gymnastics tweeter I followed, … I unfollowed.

Luckily, Full Twist still follows her. And flagged this tweet:

… Actually, I’ve unfollowed MIOBI, as well. When does it start up again?

For Canadian coaches …

I’m headed up to Prince George, B.C., soon, host of the 2015 Canada Games.

I’ll be running a MAG and WAG L2 Technical, December 19-23, 2010. (The L2 in Vancouver over the same dates is already full.)

details . … There’s still space in that course. If you’re desperate to get away from Christmas mayhem at your house, leave a comment.