2015 Level 8 JE (12) national champion Sam Phillips (82.45) is gunning for a repeat performance in the Level 9 JE (13) division. Backed by five top-3 event finishes in Friday's optional routines, including meet-high honors on PB (14.40), Phillips is on his way at the halfway point. His leading margin could have been higher if not [...more]
A couple of returning national champions are the first-day leaders at the 2016 Men's JO Nationals. Last year's Level 10 (16) champ Matt Wenske sits on top of the 17-year-old Junior Elite (JE) division (86.65). The future Oklahoma Sooner had three top-5 event finishes heading into Saturday's technical sequences. Vitaliy Guimaraes, last year's Level 9 (14) champion, had the day's [...more]
Melton, Moldauer, Mikulak, Maestas and Modi are at the top of the Winter Cup Day 1 leaderboard. It's far from over, but what a refreshing mix of veterans and relatively new faces we are seeing at the top of the pack. Sam Mikulak had a rough go of it on PB, but he slowly crept up in the standings to place 2nd. He also had four top 10 finishes, including the top score on [...more]
If you're a men's gymnastics fan, Las Vegas will be the place to be this weekend. A two-day extravaganza kicks off the Olympic year. Winter Cup will play a major role in determining who will go to Rio. The meet is not as important for members of last year's World Team, but it has huge ramifications for those not currently on the Senior National Team. Eighteen gymnasts will emerge from Winter Cup as [...more]
Oklahoma signed two Junior National Team recruits, and Penn State nabbed another one to highlight this year's early signing period. Matt Wenske and Tanner Justus, fresh off a trip to the Czech Republic for the Olympic Hopes Cup, will make their collegiate debuts for the Sooners, while Valdez will be taking his talents to Penn State. Compared to the past several years, this year's signing period activity has been [...more]
University of Minnesota Head Coach Mike Burns has submitted the following update on the status of NCAA Men's Gymnastics. He has made us all aware of the top mandate for gym fans... We need to fill up St. John Arena April 14-16. Ohio State will be hosting the 2016 NCAA Championships, and will be a logistically desirable location to draw large numbers of fans from all over the midwest and beyond. We've received our marching orders... Let's Fill Up St. John! [...more]
We're excited to present an exclusive interview with Coach Heinz Schulmeister of SoCal United (SCU), the newest men's intercollegiate gymnastics program. Long a hotbed for men's gymnastics talent, the Southern California area has been without a intercollegiate program since the demise of UCLA's storied program back in 1994. Aside from Stanford and Cal, Southern California high school graduates have had to venture out-of-state to participate in men's intercollegiate gymnastics. Along came Schulmeister, a men's club coach at Torrance's Studio West, to found an exciting new [...more]
To most men's gymnastics fans, it was a foregone conclusion. Nothing was going to prevent Sam Mikulak from winning another U.S. Championship. In fact, Mikulak (183.65) went wire-to-wire to capture his third straight all-around title. In doing so, Mikulak earned automatic selection to the 2015 World Team. Joining him with an automatic berth is 2nd-place finisher Donnell Whittenburg (179.30). Mikulak and Whittenburg each earned top 3 placements on [...more]
Day 1 of the 2015 P&G USA Men's Gymnastics Championships marked the halfway point for Sam Mikulak's quest to win his third U.S. title. His first day performance was vintage Sam, hitting the gaudy 15 mark on five out of six events. He almost became the first American gymnast since John Orozco (2012) to post six scores of 15 or better. Mikulak (92.00) has a sizable lead over current runner-up Donnell Whittenburg (89.65). Perhaps a little surprising was his top score on [...more]
By Shelli Koszdin - (one gymnastics fan) The story of the 2015 version of the U.S. Men’s National Gymnastics Championships starts this Friday, August 14th, and will end with the crowning of an All Around champion, the selection of the U.S. National Team, and the selection of the team that will represent the United States at the World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. What follows is a guess about how these stories will turn out based on looking at the numbers and watching many of the performances. This meet is not just about Glasgow, but also an opportunity for the best gymnasts in the United States to showcase [...more]
