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]
One week after the 2010 Winter Cup, NCAA men's action resumed with somewhat of a whimper, although Oklahoma turned in the highest team score of the young season. Understandably, all the top teams either rested or greatly restricted the participation of their top stars. Oklahoma was no exception, but they got enough significant contributions from [...more]
*** UPDATED *** U.S. men's gymnastics is developing some very formidable athletes on pommel horse. One of those is Jacob Dastrup, a level 10 gymnast who trains under Coach Bob Gauthier at Arete Gymnastics in Lindon, UT. Dastrup placed 2nd on the event at the 2009 JO Nationals as a level 9, and was the 2008 Level 9 JO Nationals pommel horse champion. He's also an accomplished [...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]
The biggest story at yesterday's Winter Cup preliminary competition was Chris Brooks' dominating all-around performance. Brooks (88.30) easily outlasted fellow Oklahoma alum Jonathan Horton (86.50), and also posted the day's highest scores on [...more]
2010 is the year of the freshmen in NCAA men's gymnastics. This season's crop of freshmen is making a dramatic impact for their respective teams. After three weeks of competition, seven freshmen are [...more]
The second weekend of NCAA men's gymnastics is now in the books. Michigan showed great improvement over last weekend and ended up with the young season's highest team score (355.65) in their easy romp over Penn State. The Wolverines' top performers, Chris Cameron and Thomas Kelley, put it together to enable an early showcase as to why Michigan [...more]
The 2010 Vitaly Scherbo Invitational was a great two-day event for men's gymnastics last weekend in Las Vegas. As expected, VSSG's compulsory team swept nearly every age group in the individual AA competition. In the level 7 group, future stars [...more]
The 2010 NCAA and club season is off to a rousing start. Stanford blew out undermanned Cal (352.75 to 340.10) in the season opener for both teams. Cal was minus All-American Glen Ishino (injured in warm-up) and Dennis Mannhart (ineligible), and only won the team competition on pommel horse and parallel bars. Stanford showed why they were the pre-season [...more]
The Illinois men’s gymnastics team recently got a big boost with the addition of Yoshi Mori. According to the Illini’s season preview, the widely anticipated arrival of Mori became official. Although his recruitment and signing were somewhat under the radar, he enrolled this month and is expected to contribute right away. Mori, who trained at […] [...more]
