Miranda Kuehl, L10 at Success Gymnastics in Iowa, has committed to Ball State. She is a 4-time JO qualifier and finished 21st AA in 2010. She recently won her 4th straight State Championship along with the BB title.
The AAI award is given to honor the Outstanding Senior Gymnast from all NCAA teams. The winner will be announced at the NCAA banquet in conjunction with NCAA Championships. The nominees:
Kat Ding of Georgia
Megan Ferguson of Oklahoma
Amy Glass of Boise State
Leslie Mak - OSU
Jaime Pisani of Arkansas
Geralen Stack-Eaton of Alabama
Grace McLaughlin, an Elite and National Team Memberfrom WOGA, has committed to Florida according to Gym-Style.com, her webmaster. Grace won the 2011 American Classic and placed 10th AA at Nationals.
Kennedy Baker has announced via Twitter her commitment to Florida. Baker, a Jr. Elite National Team Member from Texas Dreams, placed 7th AA at the 2011 National Championships and 8th AA at the Covergirl Classic.
Chloe Nelson, L10 at Olympic Warrior Gymnastics in Mississippi, will join the Yale team this fall. She qualified to JOs in 2011. This season she won the Manhattan Classic (1st V, UB, BB) and she recently picked up state championship titles in vault, bars and floor.
Kristyn Bossle, L10 at Phenom Gymnastics in Illinois, has committed to Illinois State, where she'll join her sister, Jenna. She has placed in the top five AA at most of her meets this season, including a 2nd place finish at the Love or Money meet. She recently placed 4th AA at her state meet.
Clair Jones, L10 at Precision Gymnastics in North Carolina, has committed to Rutgers. She has finished no lower than 4th AA in her meets this year and she won the Hilton Head (1st UB/BB/FX) and the Charleston Cup (1st BB). She recently finished 4th AA at her state meet.
National Champions were named at the Men's USA Gymnastics Collegiate Nationals on Saturday night.
The new champions are:
Floor: Jimmy Pezzino, Springfield
PH: Chris Junghans, Navy
Rings: Ryan Ponce, Springfield
Vault: Ben Zaiser, Air Force
PB: Josh Ramos, Air Force
HB: Mac Ritchie, Air Force
Link: Air Force Release
Air Force defended its Men's USAG Collegiate National Championship title on Friday, posting a season-high 341.05 for the home win. William and Mary was 2nd at 331.85, Navy 3rd at 326.9 and Springfield 4th at 324.35. ASU won the Men's club title with the 3rd highest team total on the night.
In the AA race, Navy's Andrew Faulk won the title with an 84.3. Event finals are Saturday night.
Link: Air Force Release
Jessica Savona, Canadian High Performance gymnast, has tweeted about her commitment to LSU. She recently competed at the Gymnix, finishing 4th in the all around and 12th on bars in the event finals. Last season she finished 2nd AA at the Canadian Championships and 1st on beam and floor in the event finals.
Rachel Kreager, L10 from San Mateo Gymnastics in California, has committed to UC Davis. This season she placed 2nd AA (1st FX) at the Red Heart 10.0 meet and 2nd AA (1st UB) at the Wine Country meet. She placed in the top 10 all around at all of her 2012 meets, including a 7th place finish at the Nor Cal meet last weekend.
MacKenzie Brannan, an elite from Capital Gymnastics in Texas has committed to Alabama according to Chalkbowl, her webmaster. This season she has competed at the San Diego Classic (2nd AA; 1st V), the Alamo Classic (1st AA; 1st V/UB/FX), the Nadia Comaneci Invite (1st AA; 1st BB/FX) and the WOGA Classic (1st AA; 1st V/UB).
Ericha Fassbender has committed to Florida according to a tweet from Chalkbowl, her webmaster. The former Jr. International Elite from Stars in Texas has competed in several Level 10/Open sessions this season, finishing 1st AA at the HNI (1st AA; 1st V) and the National Gym Challenge (1st AA; 1st V/UB/BB/FX). She also competed at the Lady Luck meet and finished 2nd AA and 1st on vault.
Grace Williams has tweeted about her commitment to Nebaska. Williams competes at Level 10 for Geddert's in Michigan. Grace has picked up the AA and vault titles in all of her meets this season, while also picking up five bars titles, two beam titles and three floor titles. Grace will be joining her Geddert's clubmate, Karerin Moore, at Nebraska.
With a season-best performance this weekend, PSU takes over the top spot in the Troester GymInfo National Rankings for the Week of March 4th. OU is 2nd and Stanford is 3rd.
The Men's rankings from Troester GymInfo are now using the "Four Meet Average". To get this average, the four highest scoring meets are taken, of which no more than two are home meets, the high score dropped, and the remaining three are averaged.
Individually, Jake Dalton of OU holds the top spot in the AA. He is also the leader on floor and PB. This week, the big change is that PSU's Craig Hernandez takes over the top spot on PH. Teammate Scott Rosenthal retains his lead on Rings. Stanford's Eddie Penev ranks first on vault. On the pipe, Illini Paul Ruggeri also retains his lead.
| Rank | Team |
Team Four Meet Average |
| 1 | Penn State | 355.600 |
| 2 | Oklahoma | 354.167 |
| 3 | Stanford | 352.650 |
| 4 | Illinois | 352.133 |
| 5 | Minnesota | 347.267 |
| 6 | Ohio State | 345.467 |
Link: Troester GymInfo