Hollie Blanske, L10 at Twin City Twisters in Minnesota, has committed to Nebraska. She finished 1st or 2nd AA in all of her 2010 meets, placed 1st on bars in every meet through the state meet, and claimed many other event titles throughout the season. She finished 2nd AA at regionals (2nd V/UB/FX) and JO Nationals (3rd UB, 4th BB).
Hanna Nordquist, L10 from Twin City Twisters, has committed to Minnesota. She fhinished in the top 10 in all of her 2010 meets through regionals, where she finished 3rd AA; 1st V/FX; 4th UB. She finished 19th AA at JO Nationals.
Cierra Tomson, L10 from Gymnastics Unlimited in Florida, has commited to Minnesota. She finished 1st AA, 1st UB at her state meet in 2009.
Amanda Stepp, L10 from All American Flames Gymnastix in Michigan, has committed to NIU for the 2011-12 season. Amanda was the 2010 state and regional vault champ. She also placed 3rd on floor at regionals. At the NIT she tied for 2nd on vault and finished 7th in the AA.
TWU has two more commits for the 2011-12 season: Kayla Jones, L10 from International Gymnastics in North Carolina and Stephanie Repp, L10 from Gold Cup in New Mexico. Jones finished 47th AA at JO Nationals in 2009. Repp finished 2nd AA and 1st BB at her 2010 state meet; 10th AA at regionals; and 11th AA at the 2010 NIT meet.
Frank Kudlac has announced that 2011 will be his final season.
Miya Dotson, L10 from Oalkand Gymnastics in Michigan, has verballed to WMU. She turned in a string of top 10 finishes during the 2010 season and placed 11th AA at states and 17th AA at regionals.
Rachel Abrams, a Level 10 from Rowland/Ballard Gymnastics in Texas has committed to Ohio State for 2012-13. Abrams is the Texas 2010 uneven bars state champion. During the regular 2010 season, Abrams turned in (2) top all-around honors at the Heart of Texas Invitational (1st UB/FX; 2nd V/BB) and Svetlana Invitational (1st V/UB; 2nd FX) and (3) second place AA finishes including the Houston National Invitational where she took the top spot in vault, bars and beam.
Jim Hayes brings coaching experience from URI and MIT.
Emily Bigras, High Performance Sr. from Ontario, Canada has committed to Iowa. At the 2010 Canadian Nationals, she competed in the National Open session, finishing 11th AA (7th UB) on Day 1 preliminary session and 10th AA (6th BB) in the All Around/Event Finals. At the Wild Rose International Invitational, she finished 10thAA (2nd UB) in the Sr. Challenge session.