Week 6 scheduling of NCAA Men's Gymnastics was light, with only five meets on the docket. However, a lot of interesting things happened along the way. The big takeaway was three (3) teams outscoring top-ranked Oklahoma. The end result was a tightening in the rankings, as Road To Nationals switched their [...more]
Michigan (413.90) set a season high for the second consecutive weekend in their decisive home win over Ohio State (402.30). The Wolverines had another great balanced attack, winning five team event titles, and setting new season highs on four events (PH,SR,VT,PB). Emyre Cole (FX-14.60, VT-14.75), Cameron Bock (SR-14.50, PB-14.65) and Alec Krystek (HB-13.40) won events for the 3rd-ranked Wolverines. Cole, in his maiden AA competition of the year, posted the season's 3rd highest AA performance (84.10). He provides the team with a valuable [...more]
The weekend got underway with a great matchup between Michigan & host Minnesota. Last weekend the Wolverines edged out the Gophers at the Windy City Invitational, so this one was slated to be somewhat of a grudge match. Michigan (413.15) took their A game on the road and posted the nation's 4th highest team score of the season over Minnesota (408.30). The hosts made it close most of the way, also establishing their new team high. Both teams hit the 70 mark twice, but the visitors [...more]
Oklahoma (418.55) moved back into the top of the 2019 NCAA Men's Gymnastics rankings with an easy romp over visiting Air Force (397.05) and Arizona State (392.50). They joined Stanford as the only teams to hit for 70 on three events, coming ever so close to the 420 mark. The Sooners swept all six team events, and also won all six individual events to stake out a strong claim to the top of the national rankings. Senior National Team member Genki Suzuki earned event wins on [...more]
Step 1 To follow the action, you have to know when the meets are happening, so bookmark Road to Nationals. This site has all the schedules and results in one handy, interactive place, along with a link to the [...more]
The first big weekend of the 2019 NCAA Men's Gymnastics season got underway, leaving this avid observer with a couple of glaring impressions. I'll save the biggest one for last. The pre-season consensus top-ranked Oklahoma overcame some opening jitters (PH) to easily outlast a high-caliber field at the annual Rocky Mountain Open. The Sooners (411.25) swept all the team events save for PB to win by almost 7 points over Nebraska (404.35), Minnesota (403.90), Ohio State (398.50), Arizona State (392.75) and Air Force (384.55). Senior Yul Moldauer competed in just [...more]
A terrific new gymnastics Code of Points app has hit the market! MAGCOP and WAGCOP will make searching for skills easy and fun. Designed by former All-American/All Big Ten Ohio State gymnast Seth Delbridge, the new app is now available in both iOS and Android stores. Here, Delbridge describes his motivation for [...more]
Stanford hit the jackpot in this year's recruiting sweepstakes, landing three current members on the Junior National Team. Brandon Briones, Riley Loos and JR Chou will add to last year's class that included Brody Malone, Curran Phillips and Ian Gunther. All told, the Cardinal have signed four National Team members the last two recruiting cycles. Briones is easily the nation's top decorated Junior, sweeping the 2018 AA titles at JO Nationals and U.S. Championships, thus earning a trip to represent Team USA at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires (Gold-VT, 4th-AA). This group guarantees the Cardinal will be [...more]
Sam Mikulak (174.45) and Yul Moldauer (169.95) will lead a five-man World Team squad at next month's World Men's Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Qatar. A two-day selection camp competition was held over the weekend to determine the fate of eight gymnasts. Mikulak easily topped the field, posting the best scores on four of six events (FX,PH,PB,HB), outlasting Moldauer by 4.5 points. The two gymnasts earned automatic [...more]
Men’s NCAA gymnastics is dying. So am I. So are you. But we are not dead. Each of us realizes we can’t stop the inevitable, but most of us try every day to delay the inevitable as long as we possibly can. Back in 2010, the Chancellor of UC Berkeley regretted to inform us that the California men’s gymnastics team would no longer represent the University in varsity competition. The initial demand was for over 300 million dollars to reinstate men’s gymnastics and [...more]
