Kaitlyn Hoiland, a sophomore at Oregon State, will be transferring to TWU for next season. She competed on UB and VT for the Beavers.
Link: Release
Lauren Rutherford, a sophomore at NC State, will transfer to Clemson for her final two years, according to her Instagram.
Link: Insta
Ashley Miles Greig was a four-time NCAA champ, 12-time All-American and former Honda Award winner at Bama. She was also a US National Team and World Championships team member, capturing a team bronze in 2001. She has been choreographing part time as well as commentating for the ESPN family of networks.
Summer Hausner, Gymcats, recently placed 16th AA at her regional meet.
Florida's Trinity Thomas has been named the Honda Sports Award winner for Gymnastics for the second year in a row. The last gymnast to win two years back to back was UGA's Kim Arnold in 1997 and 198. She is now a finalist for the Collegiate Women Athlete of the Year and the 2023 Honda Cup (all sports).
Link: UF Release
Lucy Warren, Bronco Elite, to UW-LaCrosse
Nya Moore, Youth Sports Training Center, to Talladega
Ashlyn Clemens, Show Me Gymnastics, to UW-Whitewater
Olivia DiNovi, First State Gymnastics, competed bars and beam at her recent state and regional meets.
Leading up to the NCAA finals, a number of articles hit the mainstream press regarding a potential scoring problem in the NCAA. Scoring during the 2023 season became quite uneven and at times, blatantly generous, and it became evident that deductions were not being taken. This was not news to hardcore fans, who had been noticing the wide variation in scoring throughout the season, and the obvious (and not so obvious) missed deductions. So how did we get here and how do we move forward?
Avery Walters, Texas Dreams, placed 3rd AA (1st BB (t)) at her state meet and 5th AA (1st BB (t) at regionals.
PItt has named Casey Jo MacPherson as their new Head Coach. She's been serving as the Associate Head Coach at Missouri for the last three seasons, and as an assistant for the six seasons prior to that. She's a former8 time All-American and NCAA AA runnerup at Arkansas, as well as a senior international elite gymnast.
Link: Release
The season has completed and once again we are congratulating OU for winning the Women's Title and Stanford for winning the Men's title. Utah's Maile O'Keefe won the AA title, edging UCLA's Jordan Chiles. Chiles won the UB and FX, while O'Keefe took the BB. OU's Olivia Trautman completed a remarkable recovery from knee surgery (patellar ligament) in October to an NCAA Vault title in April. Before we look forward to next season, let's take some time to review some impressions of the past season.
Sierra Church, Everest Gymnastics, placed 8th AA at her '23 state meet and 11th AA at regionals.
Emily Krzciok, Mid Michigan Gymnastics, competed three events at her '23 state and regional meets. She placed 2nd on beam at regionals.
Stanford has won the 2023 Men's NCAA Team title with a 422.458. That's four straight for the Cardinal, anbd 9th overall. Michigan kept chase with a 419.889. Illinois was 3rd at 415.59, OU 4th at 414.024, NU 5th at 412.4257 and PSU 6th at 412.057. Michigan Fred Richard won the AA with an 85.998. Richard also won titles on PB and HB. He also tied for the top mark on FX with Stanford's Nicolas Kuebler, but Kuebler won the tiebreaker to take the title. Stanford's Asher Hong posted a 15.333 to win Vault while Illinois' Ian Skirkey posted a 15.133 to win PH. Illini Ashton Anaya is the champion on R.
Link: Results
Link: Stanford Release
OU posted a 198.3875 to hold off Florida's 198.2375 to win the 2023 NCAA Team Title. That is the Sooner's sixth title in the last 9 Championship finals (2014,2016,2017, 2019, 2022, 2023). The Sooners posted a 49.675 to hold off Florida's 49.7125 on UB. In fact, Florida outscored OU on VT, UB and BB but came up short on the FX. Utah started off strong on FX but fell out of contention on VT, where they posted just a 49.15 after being unable to stick their key vaults. LSU was out of contention early after falling behind on UB and BB.