2010 is the year of the freshmen in NCAA men's gymnastics. This season's crop of freshmen is making a dramatic impact for their respective teams. After three weeks of competition, seven freshmen are [...more]
The 2010 Vitaly Scherbo Invitational was a great two-day event for men's gymnastics last weekend in Las Vegas. As expected, VSSG's compulsory team swept nearly every age group in the individual AA competition. In the level 7 group, future stars [...more]
The 2010 NCAA and club season is off to a rousing start. Stanford blew out undermanned Cal (352.75 to 340.10) in the season opener for both teams. Cal was minus All-American Glen Ishino (injured in warm-up) and Dennis Mannhart (ineligible), and only won the team competition on pommel horse and parallel bars. Stanford showed why they were the pre-season [...more]
The 2010 men's gymnastics season is about to launch into hyperspeed this month, with three high-profile meets taking place next weekend (January 15-17). The Windy City Invite will feature top club teams such as Bartlett Gymnastics, Buffalo Grove, Orlando Metro, Queen City and Hocking Valley. It will also serve as the season opener for Illinois-Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota and Ohio State. The Rocky Mountain Open will help kick off the season for [...more]
2009 was a great season for men's gymnastics! Japan's Kohei Uchimura and Germany's Fabian Hambuchen dominated. It's too bad that Hambuchen's injury prevented a match-up of the two best gymnasts at the London Worlds. Still, these two gymnasts are pretty much locked in as the two All-Around favorites at the '12 Olympics. Uchimura is now unquestionably the world's top gymnast. On the U.S. side, Jonathan Horton has moved into the role of [...more]
Over the past several years World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) in Frisco, TX has been a fertile breeding ground for many of the nation's top men's collegiate gymnasts. Just to name a few, WOGA has produced such stalwarts as Oklahoma's Steven Legendre, Stanford's Eric Hergenrader and Tim Gentry, Minnesota's Cole Storer and Colin McGuire, Nebraska's Cory Baumgarten and Ohio State's Phil Onorato. Last month, Nebraska announced the signings of [...more]
It's been a long time since we've reported. The '09-'10 season was officially kicked off with the 2009 Valeri Liukin Invitational, hosted by WOGA. 2009 World Team members Jonathan Horton and Danell Leyva placed 2nd and 8th in the AA, respectively. The young compulsory team from Vitaly Scherbo School of Gymnastics was very impressive, even without [...more]
Today, Michigan finally made a highly anticipated announcement. The Wolverines have pulled off one of the top 2010-2011 recruiting hauls in the country by signing SCATS' Sam Mikulak and Jordan Gaarenstroom, Surgents Elite's Alex Bubnov, All American's Mike Myler and Josephson Academy's Dylan James. The prize nugget, of course, is [...more]
We received word that Nebraska has pulled off a great 2010-2011 recruiting coup with the signings of WOGA's Presten Ellsworth, Eric Schryver, Orlando Metro's Wyatt Aycock and Cypress' CJ Schaaf. Head Coach Chuck Chmelka and Assistant Coaches Jim Hartung and Phil Cahoy are wasting no time with their efforts to re-establish the Cornhuskers as a [...more]
Last week was the start of the early signing period for men's club gymnasts eager to commit to Division I programs for the 2010-2011 season. Most signees have not been officially announced, but so far, Illinois has landed two of the top recruits. Today, the Illini announced the signing of [...more]
