UK frosh Sidney Dukes won the AA to lead the Wildcats to an opening meet win over Ball State. UK competed three frosh in the AA. Dukes also won the UB and tied for the vault title with classmate Katie Stuart. Fellow frosh Alex Hyland won the BB while UK junior Taylor Puryear won the FX.
Link: UK Release
CMU frosh Kasey Janowicz won the AA in her debut with a 38.975 to lead the Chippewas to the win. She also tied for the FX title with teammate Taylor Bolender. CMU completed a sweep, with Karlee Teet winning vault, Bryttany Kaplan and Megan Lamphere winning UB, and Jordan Charrette taking the BB. CMU took a blow before the meet started when they lost standout Kiki Petzold to an injury.
Link: CMU Release
Michigan posted a huge 196.975 to blow away the competition at the Cancun Classic. Arkansas posted a 195.15 and Iowa 192.35. Michigan's Nicole Artz led the way, posting a 9.9 to win UB and a 9.95 to win FX. She amassed a 39.525 to win the AA. Super frosh Olivia Karas was just behind, posting 3 scores above 9.9 for a 39.475 AA. She won BB and VT in her debut.
Note: Different results sheets and press results are showing different tallies for Arkansas and Iowa. These final tallies are what is being shown on the official NCAA score sheets.
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The season begins this evening with the Cancun Classic! Arkansas, Iowa, and Michigan meet at 6pm Central.
Coverage is being handled by FloGymnastics ($ Fee) (the former Gymnastike). You can follow the Twitter streams of each teams for each update, aggregated through our Twtter Feed.
Greg Marsden, Samantha Peszek and Alicia Sacramone Quinn join PAC-12 Network broadcast team as analysts.
The Capsule Previews for the Top 25 Women's Teams, as determined by the Preseason Coaches' Poll, are now available. In each case, we have summarized the rosters and list of newcomers, and quickly summarized their prospects and challenges. But who will challenge? And which 12 teams are in the best position to make Nationals this April?
Oklahoma tops the Women's Preseason Coaches' Poll, with Florida 32 points behind in second. Bama is third, just four points ahead of Utah. OU amassed 29 first place votes, while Florida has 15. Utah has 14 first place votes. The Poll is now administered by RoadToNationals (replacing Troester.com).
Former UCLA signee Simone Biles won golds on BB and FX, blowing away the field, to win her third and fourth golds of the Championships. OU commit Maggie Nichols picked up a bronze on BB. Former OU Sooner Chris Brooks was 6th on HB. The USA's Donnell Whittenburg won the bronze on VT (Ri Se Gwang of PRK won the Gold) while teammate Danell Leyva won the Silver on HB (Kohei Uchimura won the Gold). Leyva was also sixth on PB.
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UCLA signee Madison Kocian tied for the UB gold at the World Championships. She tied with Yilin Fan of China and Russia's Viktoria Komova and Daria Spiridonova. The USA's Gabrielle Douglas was fifth, and LSU commit Ruby Harrold was 7th. Simone Biles of the USA won the Bronze on VT; Maria Paseka of Russia won the gold.
Former OU Sooner Alex Naddour was seventh on the PH, while former Ohio State standout Brandon Wynn was fifth on the Rings. The USA's Donnell Whittenburg was 8th on Rings. Japan's amazing Kenzo Shirai won FX, while the UK went 1-2 on PH with Max Whitlock winning the Gold. Greece's Eleftherios Petrounias joyfully won his country's first gold on Rings, qualifying to the Olympics in the process.
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King Kohei (Uchimura) of Japan won his sixth straight World AA title. Cuba's Manrique Larduet was 2nd while China's Shudi Deng was 3rd. Donnell Whittenburg of the US was 8th while teammate Danell Leyva was 17th.
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Despites a few mistakes, Simone Biles won her third straight Women's AA title at the World Championships. Biles became the first woman to win three straight title (Svetlana Khorkina won three non consecutive titles). The final margin of victory was her greatest in her three wins, despite having to grab the beam on her front tuck (near fall) and bouncing out of bounds on her second FX pass. Olympic Champion Gabrielle Douglas won the silver while Romania's Larisa Iordache won the bronze.
LSU commit Ruby Harrold (UK) was 22nd AA.
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The US men finished fifth in a thrilling final at the World Championships. Entering the final round in 2nd place, the US men struggled a bit on their weakest event, the pommel horse, enabling the field to pass them by. Japan pulled out a narrow win, despite a fall from Kohei Uchimura on the final routine of the their final event, PB. Finishing a surprising and historic 2nd were the men from Great Britain, while China was close behind in third. Russia was 4th.
The US team includes former OU Sooners Chris Brooks and Alex Naddour, and former Illini Paul Ruggeri. They sorely missed former Michigan star and NCAA Champ Sam Mikulak, who suffered an Achilles injury before the Championships.
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World Champion Simone Biles and OU commit Maggie Nichols led the US Women to the Gold medal at the team finals of the World Championships in Scotland. Counting no major mistakes, they easily outdistanced the field. UCLA signee Madison Kocian helped the team to the easy win with a big 15.3 on UB. Canada, featuring UGA's Brittany Rogers and Ohio State signee Victoria Kayen Woo, finished 6th.
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The US Men secured a spot at the 2016 Rio Olympics by placing fifth in the qualifying round at the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships. The squad was led by Olympian Danell Leyva, who qualified 4th to the AA and made finals on PB and HB, where he leads the qualifiers.
Former OU star Chris Brooks, an alternate who was added when Sam Mikulak dropped out with an Achilles injury, also made the HB final. Former OU star Alex Naddour qualified to the PH final, while Ohio State alum Brandon Wynn qualified to the Ring final. The USA's Donnell Whittenburg made the Ring final and the Vault final. Former Illini Paul Ruggeri is the first alternate on vault.