Penn State used an advantage on vault and FX to hold off the hosts. They were led by LSU transfer Randi Lau, who won vault. ISU's Caitlin Brown won the AA with a 38.9; she also tied for the beam title with teammate Alex Marasco. Teammate Henrietta Green won the UB with a 9.825 and tied for the FX title with teammate Milan Ivory.
Link: PSU Release
CMU swept at least the top four places in every event to an impressive 194.45 opening tally. Four different Chippewas claimed an event victory: Brittany Petzold on Vault, Karlee Teet on UB, Taylor Noonan on BB, and Halle Moraw with a meet-high 9.875 on FX.
Link: UW EC Release
Illinois State's Samantha King won the AA with a 39.0. King also won the BB and FX. For Ball State, Erin Patchey won the vault while teammate Angela Durkac tied with Illinois State's Jenna Bossle for the UB title.
Link: Illinois St Release
The season kicked off with UW La Crosse's win over host UW Oshkosh on Friday night. Kari Willett won the vault and beam to lead the Eagles, while teammate Ali Berry won the floor exercise. Oshkosh's Stefanni Meusburger won the UB.
Link: UW LC Release
The Capsule Previews Top 25 Women's Teams as determined by the Preseason Coaches' Poll are now available. In each case, we summarized the rosters and list of newcomers, and we've quickly summarized their propsects and challenges. Defending Champion Florida seeks to retain their title. But who will challenge? And which 12 teams are in the best position to make Nationals this April?
The NCAA has announced Regional and National sites through 2018. Here's the video: Link
Troester GymInfo has released the Preseason Coaches' poll and to no one's surprise, Florida tops the rankings. Alabama, Oklahoma, UCLA and LSU round out the top five. Florida received 21 first place votes. #2 Bama received none, but #3 OU received 7. UCLA received one and Utah two.
SUU, USU, Boise State, Denver and BYU have announced the formation of a new five team gymnastics conference.
Do your part to help save Temple Men's Gymnastics, which is proposed to be cut after this season by their administration. They have less than 2,700 signatures left to their goal of 10,000.
Temple has announced its intent to drop Men's Gymnastics as one of seven programs to be eliminated at the end of the year. The loss of yet another Men's program will be felt throughout the NCAA. Temple also is setting the elimination of baseball, men's crew, Men's indoor and outdoor track, Women's crew and softball. The elimination of the two women's sports is somewhat unusual in that many schools use similar high roster count sports to achieve Title IX compliance. The women's gymnastics team was not cut.
In total, 150 athletes (208 roster positions) and 9 full time coaches were impacted by today's announcement. According to Philly.com, the school has said the savings will help improve funding of the other sports, including more scholarships for women's sports (in general). Lack of adequate facilities played a role in the elimination of baseball, softball, track and crew. The school also claims that the training facility for gymnastics is inadequate to hold both the men's and women's team.
Title IX is being cited as the motivation for the change, but reportedly has helped spare the Women's team. Temple claims that with these changes, they will correct a Title IX imbalance. Currently, the school is 51% female but only 42% of the scholarships go to the women's programs.
In 1994, the baseball and gymnastics teams were proposed for elimination but were saved.
We'll keep you updated on the efforts to save the Men's program, and how you can help.
Link: Temple Release
Link: Philly.com
Ball State has named Justin Wolford as an assistant. Wolford has spent the last three years as Head Coach at Flights. He was also an assistant at CMU in 2007.
Link: Ball State Release
Many recruitable profiles are now entered in the 2017 database. (A big THANK YOU to GymDivas for doing the hard work of sorting out graduation years.) If you are a 2017 recruitable, but your name isn't in the databank, please add it. The 2018 database is also available for those who would like to enter their profiles now.
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Michigan tops the Men's College Gymnastics Association Preseason Poll. Michigan was the unanimous #1 choice.