The men's WDP Nationals are taking place at the same time at the WDP Nationals, both in Oklahoma City. The Men's GymACT championships for collegiate clubs is also this weekend. Here are some results for the Senior division
Here are the Top 10 AAers and event winners at the 2023 Women's Development Program Nationals for Level 10. Their school is noted, where known in parentheses. The story will be updated as the weekend advances. Senior/Junior A/B/C are on Saturday, the rest on Sunday. The All-Star sessions were Friday.
Illinois has hired Temple Head Coach Josh Nilson as their Associate Head Coach. He was previously an assistant at USU under Coach Walsh.
Link: Illinois Release
Missouri has hired former ASU assistant coach Lacey Rubin as an assistant. She was a former athlete at EMU before doing volunteer assistant stints at EMU and PSU.
Link: Release
Bama has hired former UNC assistant Amelia Hundley as an assistant. The former Gator standout was a US National Team member.
Link: Release
Tanya Ho served at Interim Head Coach last season. She has now been hired to head the team going forward.
Kayla DiCello is the latest athlete to announce their intention to sit out 2024 and train for the Olympics. The Gator just finished her frosh campaign.
Link: UF Release
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.
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
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
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.
OU posted a 415.491 to edge host PSU's 415.29 and win semi-final #2 at the Men's NCAA Championships. Michigan was not far behind in third at 413.992. All three teams advance to Saturday's finals.
Link: Results
Michigan's Paul Juda won the Nissen-Emery Award as the nation's top senior gymnast. He has not been able to compete this season due to injury.
Link: Release