Two-time Olympian Ellie Black recaptured her Canadian National TItle this weekend at the Canadian Nationals. Zachary Clay won the men's title. Future superstar Ana Padurariu swept the women's competition.
UGA hires Charlie Tamayo as Assistant Coach. He brings experience as a gymnast and as an assistant coach at the Naval Academy.
Springfield has hired alum Matthew Davis as their new Head Coach.
Link: Release
Kasey Crawford has been serving as Interim Head Coach.
USAG Hall of Famer and perhaps UGA's most outstanding alum is set to take the lead as Head Coach. According to the release, Suzanne Yoculan has stepped up as a volunteer coach.
Head Coach Carey Fagan is moving to an administrative job in the athletic department at OSU.
The top 10 AAers and individual event winners will be posted as scores become available this weekend. NOTE: This list focuses on the senior age groups to highlight the incoming classes of 2017, 2018 or 2019 and to give some additional attention to the top uncommitted athletes in these age groups. Because the Junior E and F age groups include ’19 incoming athletes, they are included here as well. As for the younger gymnasts and the athletes who finished outside the top ten, we'll link to the scores. Note: the top four gymnasts in each group are selected to the JO National Team.
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1 Kai Rivers, LSU 1st V/UB 2 Chloe Widner, Az, 1st Fx (t) 3 Payton Richards , UF, 1st BB (t) 4 Adela Stonecipher, uncom, 1st FX (t) 5 Nicoletta Koulos, UCLA 6 Talitha Jones, Cal 7 Kylie Piringer, NU 8 Robyn Kelley, UNH 9 Jane Poniewaz, OSU 10 Kayla Bird, OSU Jenna Dunn, uncomm, 1st BB (t) |
1 Markarri Doggett, Bama, 1st V/FX 2 Rachel Baumann, UGA, 1st BB 3 Cristal Isa, Az, 1st UB 4 Samantha Davis, UGA 5T Maddie Quarles, DU 5T Karley McClain, SUU 7 Sakai Wright, uncomm. 8 Alexandra Greenwald, Iowa 9 Julia Wiest, Ball State 10T Anna Kaziska, SEMO 10T Makayla Maxwell, uncomm.
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1T Milan Clausi, Cal 1T Maya Bordas, Illinois 3 Sarah Hargrove, NU 4 Derrian Gobourne, Auburn 5 Haley Brechwald, Pitt 6 Adrienne Randall, Utah, 1st BB 7 Katie Chamberlain, Pitt 8 Nya Reed, uncomm. 9 Eve Micco, uncomm. 10T Kaylee Quinn, NU, 1st FX 10T Abby Heiskell, Michigan, 1st V (t) Allie Stern, uncomm. 1st V (t); Colby Miller, Ohio St, 1st UB |
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1 Abby Brenner, Mich, 1st UB/FX 2 Lauren Navarro, Stanford, 1st BB 3 Madison Dagen, Oregon St. 4T Rachel Lukacs, UGA 4T Madison Mariani, Mich 6 Mikayla Meyer, USU 7 Natalie Wojcik, Mich, 1st V 8 J. Swartzentruber, Ohio St 9 Abby Boden, BYU 10T Taylor Lawson, Stanford 10T Alexia Burch, Utah
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1 Rachel Flam, Stanford, 1st(t) FX (t) 2t Eva Schoepfer, OU, 1st FX (t) 2t Kaitlyn Yanish, Oregon St 4 Alonza Klopfer, Bama 5 Ona Loper, Minnesota, 1st FX (t) 6 Belle Huang, Rutgers, 1st BB 7 Anastasia Webb, OU, 1st(t) VT 8 Megan Verceles Carr, NU 9 Lauren Farley, Michigan 10t Mikayla Magee, Utah 10t Jamie Panchak, UC Davis Kennedy Johnson CMU, 1st UB (t) Emma Hartzler, Iowa, 1st UB (t) |
1 Nia Dennis, UCLA 2 Lynzee Brown, DU 3 Kyana George, Cal, 1st FX 4 Lexi Graber, Bama, 1st V (10.0!) 5 Lea Mitchell, MSU 6 Drew Watson, Auburn 7T Tra'vanni Jacobs, uncomm. 7T Lexy Ramler, Minnesota, 1st BB 9 Nina Schank, Cal, 1st UB 10 Sophis Carter, Arkansas |
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1 Jillian Hoffman, Utah, 1st(t) UB/FX 2 Luisa Blanco, 1st BB, Bama 3 Sierra Brooks, Mich, 4 Amoree Lockhart, OU 5 Aria Brusch, Auburn 6 Amanda Cashman, Utah 7 Jerquavia Henerson, uncom.1st V 8T Sienna Scheriber, Missouri 8T Erin Elkachi, uncomm. 10T Emma Itoh, uncomm 10T Hunter Dula, Utah Rylie Mundel; DU, 1st UB
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1 Matilyn Waligora, Bama, 1st FX 2 Gabryel Wilson, Mich, 1st V (t) 3 Bailey Ferrer, LSU 4 Raena Worley, Kentucky 5 Helen Hu, uncomm., 1st BB 6 Bailey Lovett, Arkansas, 7 Tia Takekaw, uncomm. 8 Chloe Bellmore, uncomm. 9T Soraya Hawthorne, UGA 9T Adaline Sabados, Auburn Cassie Stevens, Auburn, 1st V (t) Grace Evans, uncomm. 1st UB |
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Kim Landrus has moved from Illinois to North Carolina State. She spent 15 years in the coaching ranks at Illinois
PSU has hired Sarah (Shire) Brown as their 8th Head Coach in history. Brown had been the Head Coach at EMU this past season.
Link: Release
Okada has been Cal's Assistant Coach for five years. He replaced Brett McClure.
Pitt's Debbie Yohman has announced her retirement after 31 seasons.
Link: Release
As we finish our post-NCAA "detox", it's time to look forward to the next season. Here's a few observations and a look forward to next season, including some thoughts on the upcoming code revision.
Florida's Alex McMurtry has been named the Honda Sports Award winner for Gymnastics. The Honda Award is given to the top student-athlete in each sport. At the end of the season, one winner from all sports will be selected as the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the winner of the Honda Award.
OU's Men's team won their third straight National Championship on Saturday night, posting a big 431.95 to easily outdistance the field. Ohio State was 2nd at 423.7, Illinois third at 422.1, and Stanford 4th at 421.5 Minnesota was fifth at 414.2, with NU at 412.9.