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]
The 2009 Junior Pan American men's gymnastics competition concluded yesterday in Aracaju, Brazil. The U.S. contingent performed admirably as they brought home a total of seven medals. Gold Cup's CJ Maestas won gold on rings and silver in the all-around, pommel horse and parallel bars. SCATS' Sam Mikulak took silver on floor and bronze on vault. The team, consisting of Maestas, Mikulak, Orlando Metro's Jake Martin and SCATS' Jesse Glenn, won the [...more]
NCAA head honcho, Myles Brand, sadly succumbed to that cruel killer, pancreatic cancer. Brand was probably most famous for firing Bobby Knight back in 2000 when he was the president of Indiana University. He established most of his legacy at Indiana, where he helped transform the university with his leadership and fundraising skills. His tenure as president of the NCAA was productive as he [...more]
Jonathan Horton signed an endorsement deal with GK Elite Sportswear, the world’s leading supplier of gymnastics apparel. The 2008 Olympic silver medalist on high bar, Horton is America’s leading gymnast and a force on the world scene. The former All-American Oklahoma gymnast is now training in Houston under Coach Tom Meadows. Horton, the newly crowned […] [...more]
What a great two days of gymnastics last week in Dallas! The 2009 U.S. Championships had unprecedented media coverage, led by a deluge of Twitter updates, topped off with a live Friday night webcast by Universal Sports and NBC's one-hour recap of the men's action on Saturday. @gymnastike and @Michigan_MGym provided great timely tweets and [...more]
A lot of stories have been going around about many of the men's NCAA gymnastics teams scoring high in the classroom. In particular, the Stanford men's team not only won the NCAA team championship, but they also had the highest cumulative team GPA of all NCAA men's gymnastics teams. That is huge! According to Sho Nakamori's blog, Stanford also had nine guys [...more]
Three-time U.S.A. Gymnastics Olympian, Blaine Wilson, was hired on as an assistant coach by Ohio State Head Coach Miles Avery. Wilson, a former Buckeye, won a silver team medal at the 2004 Olympics, and was also on the Olympic team in 1996 and 2000. He was the U.S. all-around champion an incredible five years in […] [...more]
Today's Men's Qualifier at the U.S. Olympic Training Center produced twenty-six Senior Division gymnasts qualifiers for the 2009 VISA Championships. Two Ohio State gymnasts, Brandon Wynn and Jake Bateman, posted the highest scores of the day to lead all qualifiers. Among the top clubbers who qualified to compete in the Senior Division were [...more]
Gymnastike posted an interesting interview with Ron Brandt, the National Team Coordinator for USAG. Brandt discussed the growing amount of scholarship opportunities for men who wish to continue in the sport at the collegiate level. USAG has a scholarship fund which doles out about $30,000 to athletes every year. Fifty percent of the money collected each year is awarded each year, with the remaining half staying in the fund. The fund now has over $700,000, [...more]
