A lot of stories have been going around about many of the men's NCAA gymnastics teams scoring high in the classroom. In particular, the Stanford men's team not only won the NCAA team championship, but they also had the highest cumulative team GPA of all NCAA men's gymnastics teams. That is huge! According to Sho Nakamori's blog, Stanford also had nine guys [...more]
Exclusive Interview with Woodward West Gymnastics Director Andy Timm Woodward West is a thriving camp for gymnastics, tumbling & trampoline, cheer, skateboarding, inline skating and BMX biking. The camp formally refers to itself as an action sports camp, though after observing the outrageous stunts the gymnasts, skaters and bikers perform, extreme sports is a more apt description for us. StickItMedia recently visited Woodward West, and we found it to be [...more]
Exclusive Interview: The recent Japan Cup was quite a learning experience for Danell Leyva. Though it wasn't his first international competition, it was definitely his first major one. Leyva was the youngest member on Team USA and was probably the youngest gymnast in the entire field. Pretty heady stuff for the 17 year-old from Miami, FL. He was rubbing elbows all week with past and future [...more]
USA Gymnastics released the start list for VISAs, which will be held August 12-15 in Dallas. Included on the list for the Senior Division qualifiers are age-eligible Junior Division qualifiers Jake Dalton, CJ Maestas and Alex Naddour. Dalton and Naddour will be competing for Oklahoma next season. Jacob Dastrup, who competed as a Level 9 […] [...more]
The News Transcript published a great story about David Durante’s recent visit to Classic Gymnastics in Marlboro, NJ. Tricia Adamo, one of the owners of Classic Gymnastics, successfully recruited Durante to visit her gym, and Durante was happy to pay back to the local community where he grew up. This visit was all about the […] [...more]
Japan's Kohei Uchimura made a statement to the world today at the 2009 Japan Cup. He hit on all six events to post an outstanding 92.75 to win the men's all-around competition, thus establishing him as the favorite going into Worlds in October. Germany's Fabian Hambuchen followed-up his impressive performance in yesterday's team competition, tallying a 92.10 to finish [...more]
Team USA struggled against a strong field at today's 2009 Japan Cup. Steve Legendre fell twice on floor and Sho Nakamori hurt his knee on high bar. Meanwhile, Jonathan Horton had the second highest score on high bar (15.85) and had a nice 16.00 on vault to lead Team USA. However, it was not nearly enough as Team Japan [...more]
Three-time U.S.A. Gymnastics Olympian, Blaine Wilson, was hired on as an assistant coach by Ohio State Head Coach Miles Avery. Wilson, a former Buckeye, won a silver team medal at the 2004 Olympics, and was also on the Olympic team in 1996 and 2000. He was the U.S. all-around champion an incredible five years in […] [...more]
After not being heard from since the disappearance of Gymnast.com last year, Andy Thornton is back to blogging on American Gymnast . It’s nice to have him back. He writes some great stuff, offering us interesting observations and expert commentary. Welcome back! [...more]
