Somehow two NCAA judges invented some reason to call this series of errors less than a 0.5 deduction.
I feel they should be called out for an impossible score.
Sam Mikulak – H Bar
Gage Dyer – Floor
As SCHOOL Gymnastics declined, Men’s NCAA declined
USA.
Katherine Hasenauer Cornetta:
Many men’s gymnastics followers point to the impact of Title IX as providing a critical blow to the sport on the collegiate level.
However, an in-depth look at the history of gymnastics in education over the past 60 years shows that while Title IX is used as an excuse to eliminate collegiate teams, there were several elements that offered up men’s gymnastics to the chopping block.
It was a perfect storm of court cases involving risk, injury and liability in physical education classes and school sports and a change in media coverage. …
While balance beam, parallel bars, vault, trampoline, rope climb and more used to be regular gym class activities, around 1978, they start disappearing from the curriculum. …
When existing equipment broke, it was not replaced, but phased out. When new schools were built and gymnasiums were stocked, gymnastics equipment was not ordered. …
… A Look At How Liability Caused A Decline in Men’s Gymnastics
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I graduated High School in 1975. I had school Gymnastics club and competition in Elementary, Middle School, and High School. Each was fairly well equipped.
By 1985 (or so) all three of my schools had eliminated all but basic P.E. Gymnastics. They sold off the equipment by auction. Clubs bought the best of it.
“Be true to yourself.” – UCLA Pride Meet
Student athletes shouldn’t have to hide who they are.
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The Pride Meet was Feb. 9th vs. #20 Arizona. 🏳️🌈
Break the Fall – a book review
Break the Fall by Jennifer Iacopelli was released Feb 18th.
I finished it in less than 24 hours.
That’s surprising since I’m decidedly NOT the target audience for Young Adult / Teen romance.
This novel is heavy on Gymnastics, light on the typical YA cliché teen crushes and rivalries.
Jennifer: For me, when writing sports fiction, the sport itself is what the plot will stem from, so it’s almost impossible for me to write a book about sports that doesn’t heavily include the competition, practices and training that would be a major part of any athlete’s life.
Often we’ll see books about an athlete that’s injured or an athlete that had to give up their sport as an exploration of their identity away from the thing they love, but that’s been done so much, I’m more interested in what it takes to strive to compete at the highest levels, to try to win and what happens when you do (or don’t). …
And the Gymnastics is well informed.
I assumed Jennifer was an ex-gymnast or coach, but she’s actually a kick-butt librarian. Her sports were tennis and softball.
Jennifer: “… what I worked on the most was making sure the gymnasts were portrayed as realistically as possible, in and out of the gym. …”
The American National Team Director is lead away in handcuffs, accused of tampering with drug test results. Later charged with sexual assault.
When the rest of the Federation supports him, the equivalent of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee suspends the equivalent of USAG and delivers the U.S. Olympic team to a new coach only weeks before the Tokyo Olympics.
That’s a good plot device.
Jennifer loosely based the new Olympic coach on Kim Zmeskal.
She was inspired to write a Gymnastics novel after following the Nassar / USAG scandal: “… people in a position of power abusing athletes or failing to protect athletes from abuse …”
The story starts at Olympic trials 2020. Ends on the last day of Apparatus Finals in Tokyo.
If you are wondering whether your gymnasts should read this book it does have a lot of profanity. And there is discussion of sexual abuse though none of that is graphic.
The audio version is available on Scribd and Audible.
Yurchenko double pike to pit mat
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ARKANSAS Women’s Empowerment Night
First 300 students get free pizza.
First 1,500 fans will receive a Razorback Gymnastics Women’s Empowerment bracelet.
Special Alumni Reunion for all the former Razorbacks
Girl Scout Appreciation night!
First 500 fans will get a free Razorback Gymnastics “Girl Power” sticker.
Fans will get a first look at special commemorative t-shirts that each athlete has
dedicated to the woman in their life that has paved the way for them.
Start Floor IN BOUNDS
#reminder 🙂
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Maile O’Keefe is awesome
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