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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]
The Stanford Men's Gymnastics Team broke their three-meet losing streak to Cal in convincing fashion at the 2009 Pacific Coast Classic. Stanford reversed their curse on pommel with four gymnasts logging scores of 14.0 or higher, led by [...more]
All six members of the 2008 Men's Olympic Gymnastics Team successfully petitioned on to the 2009 U.S. Men's Senior National Team. Olympians Raj Bhavsar, Jonathan Horton, Joey Hagerty, Kevin Tan, Justin Spring and Sasha Artemev were joined by Tim McNeill and Kyle Bunthuwong, who were picked by the Men's Program Committee and the Men's National Team Coordinator. The remaining seven team members were chosen based on their performance at the 2009 Winter Cup.
McNeill punched his ticket by scoring huge points on [...more]
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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]
Joey Hagerty backed up his dazzling first night's performance with an even better one in the finals of the Winter Cup Challenge. Hagerty posted an 89.75 to best the field. Perhaps the nation's top men's club gymnast, Danell Leyva, posted an 89.05 to finish solidly in second place. Stanford's Sho Nakamori, Guillermo Alvarez and Oklahoma's Chris Brooks rounded out the rest of the top five. The 17-year-old Leyva, from Universal, has been rewarded with a coveted spot on the U.S. Senior National Team.
Seven gymnasts were named to the Senior National Team as a result of [...more]
The first day of competition is over at the 2009 Winter Cup Challenge in Las Vegas, NV. The top 42 gymnasts have qualified for the finals, which will be held on Saturday, February 7. Two club gymnasts placed in the top seven in the all-around competition. Danell Leyva garnered an 87.30 to take 3rd place for the evening, [...more]
How nice it was to attend a men's club gymnastics meet the other day and come home to find the scores already posted on MeetScoresOnline (MSO). Instead of having to wait for a couple of days or weeks to analyze the scores, the host gym utilized MSO's easy system of uploading the scores in real time. We're not going to mention the name of the host gym, but let's just say [...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]
The 2009 Stanford Open took place January 23-25. As usual, the folks on The Farm put on a good show. A special thanks to Meet Director Doni Thompson and Meet Co-Directors Tom Langenstein and Michael Diliberto for their great hospitality.
The Stanford Open is one of the premier annual events for men's gymnastics. The highlight of the weekend was [...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]
