advancing: Kentucky, Auburn, Florida, Denver

At the Auburn Semifinal.

SAVING handstand on Bars

I admire gymnasts who have the physical preparation and mental quickness to SAVE a handstand that ends up in reverse planche position.

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Stanford, North Carolina, Arizona, Iowa State advance

Wednesday featured the Regional Play-Ins.

Four teams advanced. Four had their seasons end.

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Oksana training Handspring double front

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NCAA Women’s Gymnastics is booming

“We are sort of the beacon of goodness in our sport right now,” LSU coach Jay Clark said. “Our sport has taken so many negative hits for various reasons over the last 5-6 years, people look at college gymnastics as the saving grace.” …

ABC aired the national championships on broadcast television for the first time in a decade last April. This season, ESPN aired more than 60 hours of gymnastics and ABC televised a regular-season meet for the first time when SEC power Florida hosted Alabama. ABC will also broadcast the NCAA finals on April 16 and this week’s four regional meets will all be carried on ESPN-plus, with national semifinals returning to ESPN2 on April 14. …

While men’s gymnastics at the NCAA level is struggling to survive — there are currently only a dozen Division I programs — women are heading in the opposite direction.  …

‘Beacon of goodness’: NCAA women’s gymnastics is booming

Ian Gunther snaps a H Bar

For decades we’ve known that Horizontal Bars can break due to metal fatigue.

In fact, we once replaced a bar at University of Saskatchewan, just in case.

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excellent Simone interview

Simone Biles is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year, a recognition of women across the country who have made a significant impact.  …

Who are your role models?

I feel like I have a lot, and I feel like it varies between in the sports world or in my own personal world. But I feel like my biggest role model would be my mom. I hope to be half the person she is. She’s very strong-minded, opinionated. She stands on her own. She’s a great businesswoman. …

Do you want to be a mom?

I do want to be a mom one day. I think kids would be amazing. …

USA Today – Simone Biles is an inspiration, whether competing or ‘pushing mental health to the forefront

Leah Smith – Vault

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top sports teams have 1 Head Coach

USA Gymnastics seems to want to hire a coaching team rather than one person.

Can anyone recall a successful sport using this model?

I dunno. 🤔

I do know that John Wooden won 10 NCAA titles in 12 years. And he made all the hard decisions personally.