Items filtered by date: Friday, 19 April 2013

Here is the event finals qualifiers and draw:  Link

UCLA's Vanessa Zamarripa was named the winner of the 2013 AAI Award.  The award goes to the top senior.

Link:  UCLA Release

Kimberly Kunert, L9 from Poway Gymnastics in California, will join the Bridgeport team this fall.  She qualified to regionals this year and finished 12th AA.

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Florida's Bridget Sloan, competing in the first session, won the 2013 Women's NCAA AA title.  The former World Champion, just a frosh, posted a 39.6 for the win.  LSU's Rheagan Courville was the runnerup.

Link:  UF Release

Host PSU held off Stanford for the top spot in the evening session at the Men's NCAA Championships.  Iowa nipped Cal for the third spot by just 0.1 points.  These three teams will be chasing first session leader Michigan for the title.  OU and Illinois will also be in the hunt for the title on Saturday.

Link:   Session 2 Results

It all came down to the last rotation, but in the end, Alabama, OU and UCLA will advance to the Super Six.  As the final round approached, OU was in the "dugout" with a 197.2, highlighted by a 49.5 UB rotation.  In the final round, Bama was on vault, UCLA on UB, and Utah on beam. 

Bama hit their vaults well enough to post a 49.35 and win the session.  They were led by Kim Jacob's 39.425 AA win.  UCLA survived a few scares on UB (low landing by Zamarripa, improvisation by De La Torre) to tie OU.  Utah had a shaky leadoff and then suffered two more falls to drop out of the running.

Early wobbles on beam took Michigan out of the running.  However, their two AAers, Joanna Sampson and Katie Zurales, posted the highest scores of the session.   Arkansas placed sixth, after some problems on UB and a slow start on vault.

Link:  Results

Michigan won the afternoon session at the Men's NCAA Gymnastics Championships.  They compiled a total of 443.85, led by Adrian de los Angeles' 89.65 AA tally.  OU was 2nd at 433.85 and Illinois third at 426.9.                                                                                                                                                                                                             

 Link:  Results