Oklahoma #1 in preseason poll

As voted by the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association.

  1. Oklahoma (22)
  2. Florida (21)
  3. Utah (2)
  4. Michigan (4)
  5. Auburn
  6. LSU
  7. Alabama
  8. California
  9. Missouri
  10. UCLA

Here’s the list from last season:

  1. Michigan (2405 points) (37 first place votes)
  2. Florida (2319 points) (16 first place votes)
  3. Oklahoma (2317 points) (6 first place votes)
  4. Utah (2306 points) (8 first place votes)
  5. LSU (2179 points) (1 first place votes)
  6. Alabama (2027 points)
  7. California (2020 points) (1 first place votes)
  8. UCLA (1887 points)
  9. Minnesota (1803 points)
  10. Denver (1763 points)

See the full list on Road to Nationals.

How about MSU?

Men’s College East v West

1st annual Collegiate All-Stars competition, hosted by the College Gymnastics Association.

SUNDAY, December 11 at 5 p.m. ET on YouTube.

Each team will select four All-Stars / apparatus.

John Roethlisberger and Bridget Sloan as the commentators, along with Heath Thorpe, Maggie Nichols, Livy Dunne, and Stephen Nedoroscik serving as judges.

Wednesday Addams dance moves

Reminding me of Uma Thurman, I’m looking forward to seeing some of these moves referenced in NCAA routines 2023. 😀

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Here’s Uma. Watch it on YouTube.

Jim Holt on FIG Worlds format

American coach Jim Holt has coached 14 World Championships, with 7 different nations (BAR, BOL, ECU, IND, IRI, NAM, YEM).

He knows as well as anyone the benefits of having developing nations compete at the highest level.

In this post, Jim responds to Hardy Fink’s recent article on the unintended negative consequences of FIG increasingly making it more difficult for new nations to compete at Worlds.

Jim agrees with Hardy and adds specific examples from the past.

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music video – Arielle Kowdrysh – Unbreakable

Arielle shot her video at Oakville Gymnastics Club in Canada.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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