Today's Event Finals concluded the 2010 Men's JO Nationals. The big winners were Sam Mikulak and Colin Van Wicklen, who each won two individual event titles. Mikulak posted the day's highest score on floor (15.65) and vault (16.70). Van Wicklen as well won titles on floor (14.50) and vault (16.00). Level 10 (14-15) All-Around champion Jake Martin took [...more]
Sam Mikulak and Jesse Silverstein put on another show for the ages in today's Level 10 (16-18) All-Around finals. After Thursday night's showcase, we figured that would be hard to top. Well, they did it again. With four events in the books, a mere five tenths of a point separated the two. Both gymnasts set things up nicely by nailing their fifth events. Silverstein's outstanding 15.50 on rings was countered by Mikulak's explosive 16.75 on vault. Leading by 1.45 going into the final rotation, Mikulak undoubtedly knew he needed to do something special on parallel bars to have a shot at winning. After all, Silverstein was [...more]
Yul Moldauer, who trains at 5280 in Wheat Ridge, CO, posted the highest Level 9 qualifying score (84.05) at the 2010 Men's JO Nationals. Moldauer, who tallied the second highest AA score during the regular season, had a very consistent meet as he finished in the top 10 on all six events. He put up the second highest scores on high bar (13.65) and pommel horse (14.15). The heavy favorite going into this meet, [...more]
What amounted to a walk-off homer, Sam Mikulak needed to hit at least a 16.35 on his last event to tie Jesse Silverstein in the qualifying round at the 2010 Men's JO Nationals. Instead, he nailed it with a 16.40 on vault to win outright. Michigan-bound Mikulak must have been drooling when his team drew the opening assignment on [...more]
The 2010 Men's JO Nationals will commence on Thursday morning (May 6) in Knoxville, TN. The grueling four-day competition features two days of qualifying, as the level 10s will go at it on Thursday and the level 9s will compete on Friday. There are three sessions on each day and the gymnasts who had the top qualifying scores at regionals will be [...more]
A week after the smoke cleared at West Point, it's a lot easier to analyze the NCAA Championships. Of the top three teams (Michigan, Stanford and Oklahoma), Stanford was the only team not to field an all-arounder in the team finals. Neither did they last season. Coach Thom Glielmi's season-long strategy was to utilize his team's [...more]
Some of the highest men's club gymnastics scores of the season were turned in over the weekend at the Region 1 and Region 7 championships. The big winners were Region 1's Sam Mikulak and Marty Strech and Region 7's Jesse Silverstein. The 2010 Region 1 men's gymnastics championships produced some spectacular results. Leading the way was [...more]
After initially signing with Nebraska last fall, WOGA's Presten Ellsworth signed a national letter of intent today with Oklahoma. A paperwork snafu scuttled the deal with Nebraska, which led to Ellsworth's deal with the Sooners. Coached by Sergei Pakanich, the six-time Region 3 All-Star and former Junior National Team member offers Oklahoma [...more]
This past weekend was very busy for men's club gymnastics. Every region held their championships except for Regions 1 and 8. Those regionals will be held this coming weekend. Here are the published results for the regions who have so far held their respective meets: [...more]
Heading into this weekend's conference championships, Stanford is the top-ranked team according to GymInfo. Oklahoma has three of the top six ranked all-arounders... Steven Legendre (88.48), Jake Dalton (88.18) and Alex Naddour (86.99). Not to diminish this list, but several top all-arounders are nowhere to be found in the [...more]
