Only 3.7 points separated the top three scores this weekend. Oklahoma (426.60) again reigns at the top of the heap, as they easily downed host Nebraska (414.40). Host Stanford (423.60) held on to the No. 2 spot with another big win over Cal (398.85) and Washington (375.65). But it was Illinois that made the huge jump in the NCAA team standings. The Illini (422.90) blew up in desert, [...more]
The Oklahoma Sooners picked up right where they left off last April. The top-ranked 2017 pre-season favorites looked like veritable code beaters in their debut at the Rocky Mountain Open. The new code changes account for an approximate loss of about 0.5 points per routine (~0.4 for vault). Lower scores relative to recent seasons will be the norm. No matter, the men from Norman made the most of [...more]
Three major Junior events on the world stage await our Junior gymnasts. The Summer Youth Olympic Games will take place October 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Held every two years, the Japan Junior International competition is scheduled for 2017 and 2019. The Japan Junior event is perhaps [...more]
Ten gymnasts from two different gyms earned spots on the Future Stars National Development Team. Gymnastics Olympica (Van Nuys, CA) and Lakeshore Academy (Chicago, IL) each produced five gymnasts who were among the top finishers at last month's National Future Stars competition at the [...more]
Perhaps the strongest recruiting class in recent memory is about to cash in on scholarship offers from schools across the land. The considerable wealth of talent being shared among many Division 1 programs is a welcome development and is great for parity. Michigan is back in the game, signing Junior National Team members [...more]
Now that Rio 2016 is in the history books, we're changing our focus to Tokyo 2020. Now official, Men's and Woman's gymnastics will be based on four-member teams plus a potential maximum of two event specialists. Since the qualifying round will be a 4-up/3-count format, the four-member teams will likely consist of four all-arounders. The two "event specialists" will compete in the qualifying round to vie for Finals spots on specific events and/or the AA. When announced back in May 2015, the new format ruffled a lot of feathers. F.I.G. Technical Committee President Steve Butcher [...more]
Stanford grad Sean Senters submitted this great story. He is a six-time All-American, the 2015 NCAA Vault Champion and a 2015 Nissen-Emery Award Finalist. We think you'll agree that Senters perfectly captures the spirit of NCAA Men's Gymnastics, and this is the first of what we hope will be many more great essays. By Sean Senters The Olympic period is nostalgic for any sort of “gymnastics graduate." It is a return to the glory days; the time gymnastics is “mainstream cool.” I fell prey to this trend watching the Rio Games, and naturally, I thought back to my college gymnastics days. My 5 years of [...more]
Stanford Men's Gymnastics' sophomore Josiah Eng recently posted of video of his outstanding new SR skill on YouTube. Eng describes it as a butterfly to handstand, through the inverted cross position. It has never been performed by [...more]
Danell Leyva's 2016 Rio Olympic Games can now be described as being clad in silver. Leyva had the most impressive day in recent USA men's gymnastics history. In the final day of competition, he was the first competitor on PB, and promptly posted his best score of the Games (15.90). That score would certainly hold up for a medal, but the only question was--Which color? Leyva's score survived a talented onslaught of attempts by [...more]
Greek strongman Eleftherios Petrounias turned in the strongest, cleanest routine of the day to earn gold on SR (16.00) by a fairly comfortable margin. His closest competitor was hometown favorite and defending Olympic champion Arthur Zanetti (15.766). Zanetti's silver was Brazil's third and final medal of the Games. Russia's Denis Ablyazin came in a close 3rd (15.70) to take the bronze. Petrounias competed in the second position and had to wait for six others to see if his score [...more]
