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MEN’S NCAAS Super 6 FINAL:

1. Stanford 362.7
2. Michigan 361.5
3. Oklahoma 361.2
4. Cal 361.15
5. Illinois 359.3
6. Ohio 355.95

MEN’S NCAA AA:

1. Steve Legendre, 90.05
2. Glen Ishino
3. Paul Ruggeri

Performances tonight were much better than preliminaries, in general. The girls looked more relaxed.

Qualifying for the Super 6 Team final is the biggest pressure cooker of all. (Ask Oregon, Stanford, UCLA and the other 3 teams that did not make it in the preliminary round yesterday.)

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Congratulations to the Super 6 Gymnastics Teams 2009.

Georgia 197.825
Alabama 197.575
Utah 197.425
Florida 196.725
Arkansas 196.475
LSU 196.375

You are all awesome!

It’s amazing Florida was able to finish 4th despite all their injuries to key gymnasts. And Arkansas can be very, very proud of what they’ve done this year.

And they deserved it rocking Floor and Vault in the last 2 rotations.

It was obvious that Georgia was the best team.

All hail.

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It was a perfect start and finish for Courtney Kupets, and a perfect ending to Suzanne Yoculan’s 26-year career at Georgia.

The Gym Dogs sent out their retiring coach with a fifth straight national title and record 10th overall at the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships on Friday night.

Kupets, who won her third all-around title in four years on Thursday, opened the evening with a 10 on the uneven bars and wrapped up her collegiate career with a 10 on the vault. …

Georgia finished with a four-event score of 197.825, easily beating the 197.450 it posted at last year’s national meet. Alabama, which upset Georgia at the Southeastern Conference meet, was runner-up with 197.575. Utah, runner-up the last three years, was third with 197.425.

Florida (196.725), Arkansas (196.475) and LSU (196.375) followed as the SEC sent five of its seven gymnastics programs to the Super Six, an unprecedented feat for a conference.

NY Times – Georgia Sends Yoculan Out With 10th Gym Title

Some day someone will beat Georgia at Championships.

But don’t count on it next year. They are very deep.

He tied the highest score in the NCAA this season with a 16.0 on the pommel horse at NCAA Men’s Championships preliminaries.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Stick it Media)

Team Finals go tonight in Minnesota.

… Featuring five teams from the SEC, the women’s championship in Lincoln, Nebraska will also feature Utah, who won a tiebreaker against UCLA in the second session to advance. Led by second-overall finished Kristina Baskett, with an all-around of 39.60, Utah won an individual tiebreaker over UCLA, who also scored 196.625 overall. The final teams joining the Utes include Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida and LSU. …

College Apparel – Competition Heats up in NCAA Gymnastics Championships

Here’s a promo for the competition.

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It’s going to be thrilling.

Kylie, from Calgary, Canada, had a fantastic season. But her team did not qualify for Championships … even though they are hosting.

She was the only Husker to qualify to the meet, in the all-around.

… Junior Kylie Stone, Nebraska’s lone qualifier for the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships, injured her calf four days ago. She was supposed to compete as an all-arounder, but decided Thursday that she would only be able to compete in the uneven bars.

“Yesterday at practice, I couldn’t really do anything,” Stone said. “My calf was still hurting to run, well, to walk, actually. I figured if you can’t run, you can’t really do anything else.”

Despite the injury, Stone was able to give Huskers fans a show. She finished tied for seventh with a 9.85 score. …

Stone competes in just one event – Husker Extra

Kylie did not make the Bars Final.

He qualified #1 into the all-around final.

But the defending NCAA 2008 champion is recovering from a sprained toe he suffered less than two weeks ago at the Big Ten Championship.

On Wednesday night, Penn State’s Casey Sandy won the Nissen-Emery Award, given annually to the top senior.

“It is a great honor for Casey,” Penn State head coach Randy Jepson said. “There are so many complimentary things I can say about him but there is one thing that epitomizes his success at Penn State. He is the only athlete I have ever had who has never uttered a complaint or spoke an ill word about anything we have done with our program. He has always been the consummate worker who brings out the best in those around him. I couldn’t be happier for his success.” …

read more – Amanda Turner on IG – Stanford Leads Qualifying at Men’s NCAA Championships

Good luck Casey.

Here are the Super Six qualifiers to the Men’s NCAA Gymnastics Championships Team Finals tomorrow:

Stanford – 361.10
Oklahoma – 360.95
Illinois – 359.30
Michigan – 358.30
Cal – 357.55
Ohio State – 354.30

Top All-Arounders:

Casey Sandy (Penn State) – 90.50
Paul Ruggeri (Illinois) – 90.45
Glen Ishino (Cal) – 90.15
Steven Legendre (OU) – 90.10
Jake Bateman (OSU) – 88.80

For more commentary and full results click through to Stick It Media – Super Six Advance to 2009 NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships

Gopher Sport

Hey … I just bumped into Jon Horton in the elevator at the Women’s NCAA Championships. Why isn’t he at Minnesota cheering on his Oklahoma Sooners?

Jon’s here supporting his fiance Haley DeProspero, of course. This is her last NCAA competition.

Jon couldn’t be in two places at once.

What a shame the two Gymnastics Championships meets were not scheduled on two different weekends, as they normally are.

Utah’s Kristina Baskett scored 39.60. Not enough to overtake Kupets.

While Georgia’s preliminary competition in the NCAA Gymnastics Championships was far from flawless Thursday, senior Courtney Kupets was perfect as she scored a 10.0 on the balance beam to seal her third NCAA all-around title.

Kupets finished with a 39.8 to win the award and become the first gymnast since Kentucky’s Jenny Hansen (1993-95) to win three NCAA all-around titles. …

“She reminds me of an angel with wings when she comes down on her landings,” Georgia coach Suzanne Yoculan said. “She is a joy to watch, so soft and graceful. She makes it all seem so effortless.”

In addition to claiming the all-around title, Kupets’ scores qualified her for Saturday’s event finals on every event. She has won NCAA championships on vault (2007), uneven bars (2006) and the balance beam (2006). She couldn’t compete in the NCAA Championships last year because of an Achilles tendon injury.

As dominant as she was Thursday, Kupets acknowledged that the past several weeks have had their low points as the pressure of facing her final collegiate meet led to some rough practices.

“I got down on myself, and that made it worse,” she said. “I got some negativity going, and I’m not good with negativity, and that made me even more frustrated with myself.”

Kupets got so frustrated she tried to talk Yoculan into letting her sit out of the all-around at the regional competition. Yoculan would have none of that, and Kupets went on to win the all-around, vault and uneven bars titles.

That success put Kupets back on track for nationals as her expectations led to big scores, not meltdowns.

“She is a perfectionist at everything, and she puts a lot of pressure on herself at everything she does,” Yoculan said.

Gym Dogs’ Kupets wins NCAA all-around title

Moving on to the Super 6 team finals, all but Utah are from the Southeast Conference of the NCAA.

Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
LSU
Utah

All hail.

With a team score of 197.025, the Crimson Tide won the evening session and qualified as one of six teams to reach Friday’s 6 p.m. finals. Five of those teams are from the Southeastern Conference, the first time one league has landed that many in the Super Six.

Arkansas (196.950) finished second to Alabama in the evening session, while Georgia, Florida and LSU swept the top three spots in the afternoon competition. Utah edged UCLA on a tiebreaker to secure the final spot.

Bama Beat – Gym Tide rolls into NCAA Super Six finals

Alabama – Roll Tide

Here are the team scores from the second session, just complete.

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Utah and UCLA both had enough errors to be eliminated. But TIED in score. The tie breaker was to average all 6 scores, rather than the top 5. After some delay … we were told that Utah had the higher score.