Wildfire Gymnastics has announced that Madison McIntyre is headed to Utah State next season. She has finished all of her meets this season in the top ten AA and recently placed 3rd AA at the SoCal state meet.
Emma LaPinta, L10 at Kurt Thomas Gymnastics, has committed to SEMO. This season she competed to a first place finish on floor and 3rd place all around at the Texas Prime. She competed one event at the Kurt Thomas Invite, floor exercise, and won that event.
Event champions were crowned on Saturday at the USA Gymnastic Collegiate Men's Nationals.
Justin Karstadt won the AA with an 87.05 to lead the Gophers to 426.95 to 425.55 win over NU. He also won the R and PB. Teammate Joel Gangon won HB. For the Huskers, senior Austin Epperson won the FX while teammate Antonio Castro won the PH and teammate Anton Stephenson won VT. .
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PSU broke the 420 mark with a 420.4 to defeat Iowa's 414. Dominic DiFulvio led PSU with wins on Rings and VT. Teammates Stephan Nedoroscik and Leroy Clarke, Jr tied for the PH title while Wyatt Tyndall won PB.
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Michigan celebrated Senior Night with a big 414.95 in a win over UIC. Anthony McCallum won FX, VT and tied for the PB title (with teammate Jonathan Chin) to lead the Wolverines. Samuel Su won PH, Ryan Dunning the R and Marty Strech the HB to complete a sweet. Wolverine Emyre Cole won the AA.
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Ohio State posted a 417.35 to defeat host Illinois' 415.25. The Buckeyes were paced with wins from Sean Melton on R and PB and Jake Martin's 80.9 AA tally.
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Air Force captured its 8th straight team title at the USA Gymnastics Collegiate Nationals, held in Everett, Washington. They posted a 396.95 to claim first. W&M was 2nd at 388.4, Navy 3rd at 379.7 and Springfield 4th at 373.85.
ASU won the club division with a 383.65, with host Washington just behind at 381.25. Temple popsted a 364.75 and SC United a 341.5.
Air Force's Tim Wang defended his AA title with an 82.9. Washington's Nathan Tsuji was 2nd at 78.2 while Navy's Noah Beeman was 3rd.
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Skills of Note in the 2017 Season (W)
The following is a listing of high level skills performed by women in the 2017 Season. To make this list, the skill had to be successfully competed in a meet sometime during the season. The skill competed must have an FIG rating of "E" or "F" or "G", or an FIG Vault Difficult Value of 5.0 or higher. Due to it's high usage in a number of routines, the Pike Jaeger on UB, a 2017 FIG upgrade to an E, has been excluded to keep the list manageable.
The issue of escalating difficult leading to higher injury rates and more wear and tear on the athlete is important. The purpose of this list is not to encourage or foster unreasonable risk or other threats to the safety of the athletes. In fact, many of the skills on this list were only competed in special circumstances. This list simply serves as an archive and collection of skills actually performed by the athletes.
EMU will welcome Megan Benzie, Cortney Bezold, Cali Harden, Brianna Price and Jada Rondeau for 2017-2018. The commits of all but Bezold and Rondeau were covered in prior news items.
Bezold is a L10 from Gym-Nation. At the 2017 Ohio State L10 State meet, she finished 5th AA. In 2015, she tied for 18th AA at the JO NIT meet.
Rondeau is a L10 from Legacy Gymnastics. At the 2016 L10 JO Nationals, she finished tied for 10th on VT and 38th AA. She also tied for 8th on VT and 37th AA in 2015.
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