sign up to be a Utah “philanthropy-fan”

This is new for the NCAA, I believe.

The “Who Rocks the House” (WRTH) collective encourages small donors to fund the program through monthly contributions.

Funds go to the gymnasts when they participate in community activities, such as a recent Girls on the Run 5k in Sugarhouse Park.

This is legal under the NCAA Name Image and Likeness (NIL) program.

After one month, WRTH has already collected over 6 figures. It’s working.

… The administration fees are being covered by an advisory board and management team that includes prominent longtime backers of the sport including Marsden, who retired in 2015, Megan Marsden who retired as co-coach in 2019, former Director of Athletics Chris Hill and former gymnasts MyKayla Skinner and Missy Marlowe in addition to fans Dan Lofgren and Brent Wilson.

Former gymnast Kim Brunisholz (who competed in the early 2000s as Allan) serves as Executive Director. …

Salt Lake Tribune – Utah collective looks to ‘philanthropy-fans’ to raise funds for gymnasts

Alexandra Sorokina – triple back

From 1991.

Jade Carey – Cheng 

Two views.  Judges, now sitting in a line, see the second angle, where it’s far more difficult to see the split of the legs in preflight.

GREAT vault otherwise. 

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College Gym News poll

15 editors of this fan site ranked the top 36 teams for the 2023 season.

  1. Oklahoma (13 first-place votes) 640
  2. Florida (4 first-place votes) 631
  3. Utah 604
  4. Michigan (1 first-place vote) 601
  5. Alabama 571
  6. Auburn 540
  7. LSU 522
  8. Missouri 498
  9. UCLA 490
  10. California 452

See the full list.

Here’s their rationale for how they came to that list.

“women doing Yoga”

This abstract art was created by the Artificial Intelligence engine called PlaygroundAI from the text prompt “women doing Yoga”.

Vault – highest E-scores (2006-2022)

McKayla Maroney, Simone Biles, Cheng Fei, Rebeca Andrade, Aly Raisman, Shawn Johnson, Gabby Douglas, Jade Barbosa, Jordyn Wieber, Elizabeth Price, Maria Paseka, Jade Carey, MyKayla Skinner, Kyla Ross, Anna Pavlova, Jordan Chiles, Alicia Sacramone, Aliya Mustafina, Oksana Chusovitina, Giulia Steingruber.

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twisting Flyaway – Playground

Awesome.

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Thanks Doug.