Gymnasts with ties to the NCAA did well at the event Finals at the World Championships this past weekend. The participants include:
Men's
FX: Jake Dalton (former OU), Silver
FX: Steve Legendre (former OU), 7th(t)
R: Brandon Wynn (former Ohio State), Bronze
VT: Steve Legendre (former OU), Silver
PB: Brandon Wynn (former Ohio State), 7th
HB: Sam Mikulak (Michigan), 4th
Link: USA Gymnastics
Michigan's Sam Mikulak placed 6th in the AA at the finals of the 2013 World Championships, in Antwerp, Belgium. Japan's Kohei Uchimura won his fourth straight world title, a new record, and easily outdistanced the field. Mikulak challenged for a medal, and stood in third heading into high bar, his final event. A slip on his ful Takamoto dropped him to sixth.
Link: USA Gymnastics Release
On September 11th, 2001 the newly minted Head Coach of UC Santa Barbara's gymnastics team boarded a plane to head out to meet her new team. Find out more about this remarkable woman and the dream that was cut short by the events of 9/11:
Michigan has announced Brooke Parker's transfer from Alabama: Announcement
Randi Lau's name now appears on the PSU roster.
She has coached at WVU and she has been a volunteer coach at Ball State.
Garrett Griffeth has been named an assistant at TWU. He spent one season as a graduate assistant at UGA, and has been coaching Level 8, 9 and 10 at the Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy. His wife is Courtney McCool Griffeth.
Link: TWU Release
Maggie Germaine Ethier has been named volunteer head co-coach at ASU.
Michigan's Sam Mikulak won the AA title by three points at the P&G (US) Championships on Sunday. Former OU Sooner Alex Naddour was 2nd, while former OU star Jake Dalton was third. Olympian John Orozco rose to 4th after a rough Day 1.
Link: USA Gymnastics
In the Junior Division, Dmitri Belanovski won the Junior 17-18 division. Incoming Ohio State Andrew Rickly was 2nd, with Illini frosh Matt Foster in 3rd. Hunter Justus won the 15-16 Age Group. Seven juniors competed in the Men's senior division.
Link: USA Gymnastics
Simon Biles won the senior women's title at the P&G (US) Championships. Olympian Kyla Ross was 2nd. OU commit Brenna Dowell was 3rd, with UF commit Peyton Ernst in fourth. Maggie Nichols was fifth and Utah commit Mckayla Skinner was 6th.
Link: USA Gymnastics
Bailie Key won the junior women's title at the P&G (US) Championships. Lauren Hernandez was second and Amelia Hundley was third.
Link: USA Gymnastics
Day 2 is underway at the (US) P&G Championships, with the Men's Preliminaries.
In the Senior Men's category, Michigan's Sam Mikulak posted a big score to lead the field by nearly three points. Former OU star Jake Dalton was 2nd, with another former Sooner, Alex Naddour, in 3rd.
Link: USA Gymnastics Senior Men
In the Junior 15-16 category, rising star Marvin Kimble leads the AA.
In the Junior 17-18 category, Ohio State recruit Jakub Dastrup holds first, with Dmitri Belanovski in 2nd. Datrup's future teammate Andrew Rickly is third.
Link: USA Gymnastics Juniors
Illinois coach Daniel Ribeiro and Illinois team member Mike Wilner are scheduled to compete in the 19th Maccabiah Games in Israel. Illinois official announcement
Charly Santagado, incoming Rutgers freshman, will also compete at the Maccabiah Games. News article
Although the US did not send gymnastics teams, a number of NCAAers competed at the World University Games this past week. UCLA's Danusia Francis made the floor final and placed 6th.
Team (W): 1. Russia 2. Japan 3. Germany
AA (W): Alina Mustafina
Team (M): 1. Russia 2. Ukraine 3. Japan
AA (M): Nicolai Kuksenkov
Events (M)
FX: Ryohei Kato
PH: Kursenkov
R: Arthur Nabarrete Zanetti
VT: Hak Seon Yang
PB: Emin Garibov
HB: Emin Garibov
Event (W)
VT: Un Jong Hong
UB: Mustafina
BB: Yelinzi Zhang
FX: Ksenia Afanaseva
Washington has promoted assistant David McCreary to Associate Head Coach.
Link: UW Release
Oregon State has announced the addition of Brian Amato to the coaching staff. Amato comes to OSU from Brandy Johnson's gymnastics in Florida.