Coming off the heels of the Pacific Rim Championships, the USA is showing the world how much depth they have in men's gymnastics. The U.S. men won 3 medals at the Moscow Stars World Cup event last weekend. Oklahoma freshman and 2010 NCAA All-American Alex Naddour took the silver medal on pommel horse (15.075). Illinois All-American junior Paul Ruggeri earned the bronze 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]
John Orozco won his first international all-around title at the 2010 Pacific Rim Men's Gymnastics Championships in Melbourne, Australia. Orozco easily outdistanced teammate [...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]
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]
Cameron Rogers had quite a season last year. He started out by winning the 2009 Region 8 all-around championship over such stalwarts as Edward Mesa, Harris Coleman, Alex Barrera and Wyatt Aycock. Although he placed 17th AA at JO Nationals, he came back with a vengeance at the [...more]
The 2010 Tyson American Cup boiled down to who kept it clean. Russia's Maxim Devyatovskiy did just that, and by hitting all six events, he took home the prize. The former Russian bad boy seems to be coming into his own, after winning the 2009 Champions Trophy and placing 5th at the World Championships. He did have some help after Jonathan Horton [...more]
Stanford really put the wood to Michigan in their final home meet of the season. Granted, Michigan was not at full strength, but Stanford still posted the season's highest team score (361.40) by far. Did they send a message? Well, if you consider the fact they scored over 60 points on floor, rings and vault, and also over 58 points on the remaining events, then [...more]
Once again, the team of Japanese collegiate all-stars easily prevailed over Stanford and Cal at the 2010 Pacific Coast Classic. The Japanese tallied 358.80, as Stanford (354.20) remained unbeaten over Cal (349.45) this season. Iowa (331.05), Arizona State (318.75) and Washington (282.75) rounded out the rest of the field. For the first time this season, [...more]
Oklahoma grad Chris Brooks took care of business at the 2010 Winter Cup. After leading the competition after Thursday's preliminary, Brooks remained consistent and stayed on the pommel horse for good measure. His two-day score of 175.80 (day 1-88.30/day 2-87.50) was enough to outlast [...more]
