The 2009 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships will take place April 16-18, and will be hosted by the University of Minnesota. Click here to view the live results as they occur. There will be two team qualifying sessions on April 16, with the top six teams advancing to the team and All-Around Finals on April 17. The individual event finals will take place on April 18. Here are the most current team and individual rankings as published by GymInfo: [...more]
Region I has been a virtual battle zone for most of the 2009 club season. Many of the region's top Level 10s have been banged up with injuries. Thankfully, most of them were able to compete at the 2009 Region I Championships.
Jake Dalton put up an incredible 90.45 to win the Level 10 (16-18) All-Around title. Included in those numbers was an awesome 16.75 on vault. Donothan Bailey competed for the [...more]
Illinois mounted a furious comeback to tie Michigan for the Big 10 Championship. The Illini were 2.5 points behind going into their final rotation (rings). It took career high or season high performances from Tyler Mizoguchi, Nick Stango and Tyler Williamson to get the job done.
Michigan's Thomas Kelly (89.35) edged out teammate Chris Cameron (89.10) for the All-Around title. Illinois and Michigan captured a total of five event titles. Paul Ruggeri won two event titles on floor (15.625) and parallel bars (15.10), and Luke Stannard prevailed [...more]
Top-ranked Oklahoma posted a blazing team All-Around score of 366.85 to torch 8th-ranked Penn State last weekend. The top score easily set a new NCAA record. The Sooners added insult to injury by sweeping every team event title. Talk about a team that is peaking at the right time.
Steven Legendre scored a career high 92.25 to win the All-Around. Legendre also dominated on [...more]
The 2009 NCAA Men's Gymnastics season is winding down its regular season with conference championships looming just around the corner. The major conference action takes place on April 3-4 with the Big 10 Championships at Ann Arbor, MI, while the MPSF Championships will be held on April 4 at Stanford.
There was plenty of action this past weekend. Oklahoma pummeled [...more]
StickItMedia Exclusive Interview
Jake Dalton is a perennial top all-arounder who trains at Gymnastics Nevada (Sparks, NV) under Coach Andrew Pileggi. Among his many accomplishments:
2008 - 2nd place All-Around J.O. Nationals / 3rd place All-Around VISAs
2007 - 5th place All-Around J.O. Nationals / 4th place All-Around VISAs
A member of the Junior National Team, Dalton was recently awarded a scholarship to attend the University of Oklahoma, starting in Fall '09. His signing capped off a remarkable recruiting class for the defending national champion Sooners. Joining Dalton at OU in the fall are [...more]
Guest Blogger
StickItMedia had the opportunity to meet Logan Melander at the recent 2009 Stanford Open. After chatting for a few minutes, Logan handed us a binder which contained information about the Iron Cross Foundation (ICF). We were soon amazed to find out that the founder of this fine organization was a 14-year-old Level 10 gymnast, and he was [...more]
StickItMedia Exclusive Interview
Jacoby Rubin was four years old when Kelly and Mike Rubin came to the realization that gymnastics would be a good activity for their son to run and jump around in a supervised venue, rather than running around and jumping on anything and everything in the house.
Jacoby would alarm many people at the local park when he would climb to the top beam of the swing set and work his way to the other side. Back and forth he would go, and people would stare at his parents, scared for his life. [...more]
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Dominic Morris got off to an early start in gymnastics. At six months he was doing chin-ups and skin-the-cats. At two he jumped out of the family's backyard treehouse onto a trampoline. Then at age three he was climbing trees and freaking out neighbors when he climbed up onto the roof of his grandparent's three-story house. Deirdre and Joe Morris had already enrolled their son Dominic in a "Mommy and Me" gymnastics class at age two-and-a-half, mainly because "the kid had to be taught how to land!"
In no time, he had to be moved up to the six-year-old class. He was soon doing punch fronts on the tumble track at two-and-a-half, flipping over the vault at three-and-a-half, [...more]
StickItMedia Exclusive Interview
Ten year-old David Finning knew what he was doing, yet he didn't consciously have a means to get his message across. It wasn't until one of his neighbors turned him in to his parents that he finally got the opportunity to officially become a gymnast. On that fateful day while his parents were at work, David somehow convinced his older brother and sister to help him position the family's backyard trampoline against the house. David then jumped down from the roof of his house onto the trampoline for added acrobatic effect, and ended up flying over a fence into the yard next door. Out of concern for David's safety, his neighbors busted him and called his mother at a local school where she worked.
David's father, Scott Finning, decided it was time to do something about his son's precocious obsession with being airborne. Scott found a local gym near [...more]
