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Recruiting: How to Make the Most of Your Unofficial Visits

Jill Hicks

With the direction college gymnastics recruiting is going, unofficial visits are becoming a house hold name. No longer is the norm of waiting until you are a senior to have your visits paid for, and then making your final decision. Gymnast are making verbal commitments long before they become seniors, thus the importance of making the most of your unofficial visits. Call: Be assertive and make phone calls to coaches of colleges in your area and schools that are a good match for you athletically and academically. Connect: Make a plan and ask if you can set…

Recruiting Tips: 3 Key Tips to Maximize College Recruiting Interviews

Tom Kovic

I think we can all agree that there will be a laundry list of tasks on the college recruiting checklist that require attention. Face to face meetings with college coaches are important, first of all as a means of creating a stronger interpersonal connection between prospect and coach and secondarily, as an opportunity for both sides to simply size each other up. This article offers 3 key tips that prospects and families can use to maximize on-campus interviews with college coaches.

Recruiting Tips: Creating an Outstanding Highlight Video

Jill Hicks

Creating an Outstanding Highlight Video How to create an outstanding highlight video Keep it short: 5 minutes or less First impressions are important: Show your best footage possible Post your video with your resume: See my website for examples www.jhicksconsulting.com Know what coaches are looking for: Coaches want to see you in competition. Some practice footage is also good. If you only show your vault into a pit with no landing surface, they are going to assume you do not have this vault and have never competed it. It is also best to show your skills without a spot, especially…

Recruiting Tips: 100 Days to Maximize your College Recruiting Effort

Tom Kovic

With summer in full force and the start of the academic year fast approaching, high school prospects have every opportunity to get a well-deserved breather. Taking time to relax a little after a demanding school year and a rigorous training schedule creates “new life.” That being said, the summer can be organized and utilized in several ways to grow awareness and momentum in your recruiting effort and the prospect that looks at the next 100 days as pure opportunity will greatly enhance their athletic college search.

Recruiting Tips: Learning to Pivot

Tom Kovic

When your college recruiting strategy hits a wall, learn to pivot.. The college search for athletes is an individual and tactical quest that will play out differently across the board. If you happen to be that 5 star prospect that every college coach has his eye on, your biggest challenge will most likely be which college to choose! But if you are among the majority of prospects that are lumped into the next level of recruits, your college journey will be a little more challenging.

2013 Superlatives

Skills of Note in the 2013 Season (W)
The following is a listing of high level skills performed by Women in the 2013 Season. To make this list, the skill had to be successfully competed in a meet sometime during the season. The skill competed must have an FIG rating of "E" or "F" or "G", or an FIG Vault Difficult Value of 5.3 or higher. The issue of escalating difficult leading to higher injury rates and more wear and tear on the athlete is important. The purpose of this list is not to encourage or foster unreasonable risk or other threats to the safety of the athletes. In fact, many of the skills on this list were only competed in special circumstances. This list simply serves as an archive and collection of skills actually performed by the athletes. This list is incomplete and will be updated as information becomes available. Please submit your additions and corrections to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
VAULT						UNEVENS
Handspring, Front Tuck 1/1 Twist Milan Ivory, Iowa State Amber See, Illinois RO 1/2 on, Front Layout 1/2 Off Tsukahara Layout 3/2 Marissa King, UF Yurchenko Layout 2/1 Yurchenko Layout 3/2 Caitlin Atkinson, AU Natalie Beilstein, Michigan Jessie DeZiel, NU Kytra Hunter, Florida Brandie Jay, UGA Diandra Milliner, Bama Brittany Rogers, UGA Sachi Sugiyama, Michigan						Comaneci Shushunova Brandie Jay, UGA Full Twisting Double Layout Flyaway Victoria Aepli, Ohio State Dana Bonincontri, Penn Kaitlin Clark, Bama Allison Flores, Arizona Kaylyn Millick, WVU Brie Olson, OU Emma Stevenson, Iowa Hindorff (clear-hip reverse hecht/Tkachev) Ashanee Dickerson, UF Jaleesa Wilson, DU Ricna (Stalder reverse hecht) Brittany Rogers, UGA Ray (toe-on straddle reverse hecht) Stephani Canizaro, Arkansas Kytra Hunter, Florida Alaina Johnson, UF Bridget Sloan, Florida Shayla Worley, UGA Church (toe-on pike reverse hecht) Bridget Sloan, Florida Triple Twisting Flyaway Nicole Meiller, Sac State Bharwaj (full twisting Pak) Alicia Asturias, Cal
BEAM						FLOOR
Round-Off, Layout to Two Feet Mount Switch Ring Leap Molly Quirk, Arizona Randy Stageberg, UF Back tuck 1/1 twist Arabian Front Tuck Rheagan Courville, LSU Back Layout Two Foot* Marissa King, UF Side Aerial, Cross Position Danusia Francis 5/2 Turn in Wolf (Humphrey) Double Front Tuck Back Double Pike** Katherine Grable, Arkansas * Athlete must hold layout position througout the salto for E credit. A layout with a pike down is credited as a D. ** Not in Code, but similar elements are raised in value by one, when executed in the cross position.						Full Twisting Double Layout Double Layout Stephanie Colbert, Michigan Marissa Gutierrez, Bama Brianna Guy, AU Lloimincia Hall, LSU Kytra Hunter, UF Miranda Kerr, Ball State Marissa King, Florida Maliah Mathis, LSU Joanna Sampson, Michigan Haley Scaman, OU Tory Wilson, Utah Double Front Alex Deluca, Ohio State Natalie Sutter, NIU Reema Zakharia, Michigan Arabian Double Front Nicole Allen, Ball State Natalie Beilstein, Michigan Amy Borsellino, Arkansas Olivia Courtney, UCLA Rheagan Courville, LSU Aubree Cristello, Arizona Georgia Dabritz, Utah Ashanee Dickerson, UF Brittney Emmons, Ball State Katherine Grable, Arkansas Marissa King, Florida Danielle Levy, MSU Kelci Lewis, Arkansas Sarah Miller, Ohio State Diandra Milliner, Bama Ashley Morgan, Stanford Emma Willis, Iowa Triple Full Georgia Dabritz, Utah Emily Wong, NU Tuck Full In or Half In/Half Out Kelsey Black, Boise State Lia Del Priore, Utah Luisa Leal-Restrepo, Rutgers Corrie Lothrop, Utah Brittany Potvin-Green, Boise State Alyssa Pritchett, UCLA Melanie Shaffer, Ohio State Becky Tutka, Utah Alina Weinstein, Illinois Cerise Witherby, Oregon State Tuck Full Out Pike Full In Caitlin Atkinson, AU Denaisha Christian, Ball State Noel Couch, UGA Georgia Dabritz, Utah Lexus Demurs, AU Jessie DeZiel, NU Kim Jacob, Bama Randy Stageberg, UF Brittany Webster, AU

Recruiting Tips: Four Key Recruiting Tools

Tom Kovic

The college search for athletes has accelerated to the point where an early start is your best bet for success. Competition for scholarships, roster spots and admissions support is at fever pitch and the family who organizes best and executes their plan flawlessly will give themselves the best opportunity to succeed.

Recruiting Tips: Finding Your Voice

Jill Hicks

FINDING YOUR VOICE: The most powerful tool in creating a strong collegiate gymnastics team! One of the greatest gifts a gymnast can receive while attending college is her “voice”. The "voice" is defined as an instrument or medium of expression; wish, choice or opinion openly or formally expressed.

CollegeGymFans.com Top Recruiting Classes of 2012-2013

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For the past several seasons, we've made an attempt to rank the incoming classes for teams across the nation. The task is never easy, and this year is no exception. For the schools, investing in athletes today is a bit like investing in the stock (or precious metals) market. With recruiting taking place earlier and earlier, coaches have to become experts at detecting the traits, abilities and characteristics that will produce a championship athlete two, three, and four years down the road (or six, seven and eight by the time they are college seniors!). So who's class is rated to…

2013 Capsule Previews: Teams #13 to #25

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Recruiting Tips: Networking Tools That Advance the College Search

Tom Kovic

The college search for athletes is a marathon, not a sprint, and the recruiting process can be, at times, both exhilarating and uplifting, especially when your personal plan is working on all cylinders. That said, even the best executed plans can run into road blocks or even stall completely.

Fall Training: Openings and Newcomers

Greg

As the fall workouts continue, teams are hard an work to prepare for the coming season. Key veterans are looking to advance from where they left off last spring, while newcomers look to break into the rotations for the coming season. This past summer, we said good-bye to some top athletes at teams across the national. Athletes like UGA's Kat Ding, Bama's Geralen Stack-Eaton, OU's Megan Ferguson and UCLA's Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs have been stars in their respective programs for the past four years. Although it is still early in the preseason, here's a quick summary of the status of Top…

Recruiting Tips: The Walk-On

Jill Hicks

So what is the exact definition of a walk-on athlete and how does this differ from an athlete who receives a scholarship? An athlete who is a “walk-on” is one who has been offered a spot on the roster, but will not be given scholarship money. Unfortunately walk-on spots are sometimes perceived as a step down, but in reality they can be very prestigious and a stepping stone to earning a scholarship in the future. As a coach I always viewed it as an opportunity for an athlete. Once the team members report to practice, it is an equal playing…

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