5-Up/5-Count started up in Week 7 of NCAA Men's Gymnastics -- The teams did not flinch. The weekend's marquee matchup between Oklahoma and Michigan did not disappoint. Both teams exceeded their season scoring averages, but the end result was not as close as anticipated. Nearly tied going into the fourth rotation, Oklahoma (424.05) erupted on VT (73.45) to pull away by a healthy margin over 3rd-ranked Michigan (411.20). All five Sooners posted 14.55 or better to establish a new NCAA season high. The Sooners also became the first team this season to score [...more]
Sam Mikulak was the only automatic qualifier to the Senior National Team to compete AA in Sunday's Senior Event Finals. He improved over his Day 1 score by almost two points, winning two event titles (FX,HB) in the process. Joining him on the victory stand were Stephen Nedoroscik (PH), Trevor Howard (SR), Colin Van Wicklen (VT) and Adrian de los Angeles (PB). Two-time NCAA PH champ Nedoroscik scored two of the weekend's five scores of 15 or better. Howard dominated the rings, winning by almost 0.6, and also taking the 2nd position on VT. Van Wicklen had [...more]
Yul Moldauer's first all-around competition of the year, which also served as preparation for next month's American Cup, turned out to be good enough for him to earn his second Winter Cup title. The win was a close one over defending champ Sam Mikulak, who will also share the American Cup stage with Moldauer on March 2. He was able to stave off Mikulak's pair of back-to-back surges on HB (15.10) and FX (15.00) to eke out a slim .05 victory margin -- 84.50 to 84.45. Moldauer tallied a meet high on PB (14.45), and had top-3 scores on PH (2nd-14.10) and SR (3rd-14.50). Mikulak had four top-5 scores, including his [...more]
Virtually every NCAA Men's Gymnastics team this season is enjoying some high-impact performances from their freshmen. Many of them are showing up in the top 10 of the rankings. Three of them of them are on the west coast -- Stanford's Brody Malone and Ian Gunther - Cal's Darren Wong. Malone and Wong are each ranked in the top 10 on two events and the AA, and Gunther cracked the top 10 on SR. Oklahoma's Vitaliy Guimaraes is in the top 10 on FX and VT. Other freshmen making the mid-season top 10 are [...more]
Week 6 scheduling of NCAA Men's Gymnastics was light, with only five meets on the docket. However, a lot of interesting things happened along the way. The big takeaway was three (3) teams outscoring top-ranked Oklahoma. The end result was a tightening in the rankings, as Road To Nationals switched their [...more]
Michigan (413.90) set a season high for the second consecutive weekend in their decisive home win over Ohio State (402.30). The Wolverines had another great balanced attack, winning five team event titles, and setting new season highs on four events (PH,SR,VT,PB). Emyre Cole (FX-14.60, VT-14.75), Cameron Bock (SR-14.50, PB-14.65) and Alec Krystek (HB-13.40) won events for the 3rd-ranked Wolverines. Cole, in his maiden AA competition of the year, posted the season's 3rd highest AA performance (84.10). He provides the team with a valuable [...more]
