Leading up to the NCAA finals, a number of articles hit the mainstream press regarding a potential scoring problem in the NCAA. Scoring during the 2023 season became quite uneven and at times, blatantly generous, and it became evident that deductions were not being taken. This was not news to hardcore fans, who had been noticing the wide variation in scoring throughout the season, and the obvious (and not so obvious) missed deductions. So how did we get here and how do we move forward?
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…
The season has completed and once again we are congratulating OU for winning the Women's Title and Stanford for winning the Men's title. Utah's Maile O'Keefe won the AA title, edging UCLA's Jordan Chiles. Chiles won the UB and FX, while O'Keefe took the BB. OU's Olivia Trautman completed a remarkable recovery from knee surgery (patellar ligament) in October to an NCAA Vault title in April. Before we look forward to next season, let's take some time to review some impressions of the past season.
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…
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…
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
Stanford posted a 421.488 to win the first Semi-Final at the Men's NCAA Championships. Nebraska was 2nd at 410.124 and Illinois was 3rd at 405.524. All three teams advance to the finals, along with various individual qualifiers. Air Force posted a 399.222 for 4th, followed by Navy (392.491) and Army…
The USA Gymnastics Development Program Level 10 Regionals are this weekend, creating a packed few days of competition. The future NCAAers are all trying to advance to the WDP Nationals in May. Here are the Top 7 finishers (over 35.0 AA) and event winners, along with their schools. The Top…
At the conclusion of the second semi-final, NCAA Champions were crowed in the individual events. AA: Maile O'Keefe, Utah, 39.7625 VT: Olivia Tratuman, OU, 9.95 UB: Jordan Chiles, UCLA, 10 BB: O'Keefe, 10 FX: Chiles, UCLA, 9.9875
Utah posted a 198.225 to win Semi-Final #2. OU was just behind at 198.1625. UCLA was 3rd at 197.9125, held back by just a 49.175 on VT. Kentucky was 4th at 197.125. Utah's Maile O'Keefe won the AA with a 39.7625, ahead of UCLA's Jordan Chiles (39.7125) and LSU's Haleigh…