Defending champion Bridgeport and SPU advanced from Session I of the USA Gymnastics Collegiate Championships. Monica Mesalles led Bridgeport, posting the session's highest AA tally. She also had the high mark on VT and FX while tying for the highest mark on BB with teammate Emily Repko and SPU's Anissa Madrid. Madrid posted the highest score of the sesson on UB.
Link: SPU Release
Cal State Fullerton has officially announced the termination of its Women's Gymnastics program. The program was unable to meet its funding commitments by the March 1st deadline imposed by the university. Wrestling was also cut. The storied program was the 1979 AIAW National Team Champion. (The AIAW was the predecessor to the NCAA for women). Fullerton also came in 2nd twice (2 AIAW, 1 NCAA) and 3rd five times (3 AIAW, 2 NCAA). They also won 10 conference titles and nine regional titles.
Link: CSUF Release
Michelle Yasukochi, L10 at Seawind Gymnastics in California, has committed to Utah State for the 2012-13 season. This season she finished in the top ten at the OC Team Challenge, Classic Rock (1st BB), and Malibu Coast Classic (2nd V/FX). She recently placed 15th at the SoCal state meet.
Maria Cross, L10 from Excalibur in Virginia, has committed to Ball State. She has had a active 2011 competitive season, turning in a top AA finish at the PKI, a 2nd place finish at the Virginia Beach Classic, a 3rd place finish at the Ocean State Classic and finishing 4th AA at the World Class Invite and Excalibur Invite. She won bars at the Richmond Fall Classic and Virginia Beach Classic and recently finished 6th AA at her state meet.
The NCAA has announced the draw for the afternoon and evening session for next week's NCAA Championships. Check the link below to see when your favorite team or athlete is competing.
ECAC Individual Event champions on Sunday:
FX: Dylan Parrott, Navy
PH: Garrek Hojan-Clark, Army
R: Kyle Voissem, UIC
VT: Daniel Potemski, W&M
PH: Dan Zerbel, UIC
HB: Alex Tighe, Temple
The regular season is now over, and the Troester.com GymInfo National rankings are based on final National Qualifying Score (NQS). The NQS is the sum of the team's Regional Qualifying System (RQS) and their score at Regionals.
Alabama tops the final Top 25 NQS ranking, with UCLA in 2nd. OU is now third and Oregon State fourth. Florida dropped to fifth after their Regional performance.
Rhode Island College announced that the Women's Gymnastics program would be terminated immediately, on March 30th, 2011. Golf and swimming will be added in its place. They are asking for your support in protesting this move.
Please sign their online petition here.
Please check out their Facebook event.
Linda Burdette-Good has announced her retirement after 37 years at WVU. Her teams qualified three times to the NCAA Nationals.
Link: WVU Release
The excellent Denver video page is now populated with links to all of the events, by round. You can now watch the entire routines without the rapid switching from camera to camera that was unfortunately so prevalent in the online broadcasts.
Link: Denver Regional Video
Event champions at the Big 10 Gymnastics Championships:
FX: Chad Wiest, Illinois
PH: Daniel Ribeiro, Illinois
R: Brandon Wynn, Ohio State
VT: Zack Chase, Minnesota and Mike Behles, Ohio State
PB: Syque Caesar, Michigan
HB: Ian Makowske, Michigan
Link: Illinois Release
Stanford defeated top ranked OU for the title, posting a 362.25 to OU's 360.7. Cal was third with a 356.05, while NU was fourth with a 356.05. Host Air Force netted a 344.8.
OU's Jake Dalton won the VT (16.65), PB and AA (90.9). He also tied for the FX title with teammate Steven Legendre.
Link: AF Release
UIC won the ECAC title, posting a season-high 346.9. Temple was 2nd with a 388.3, W&M 3rd with a 336.5, Springfield 4th with a 333.2, Navy in 5th with a 326.7 and Army in 6th with a 324.3.
The AA winner was UIC's Kyle Voissem.
Link: UIC Release
In DU, #1 Florida struggled on BB, their final event, to leave the door open for Arkansas and Boise State. Arkansas stayed steady on UB for the win, their second over UF this season. On the last event, Boise State ended just short of upsetting UF, with a few uncharacteristic wobbles late in the lineup that proved to be the 0.025 difference. Advancing as individual AAers are Boise State's Amy Glass and DU's Brianna Springer. Also advancing as individuals on BB are Bekah Gher of Boise State and Jorie Hall of DU.
| 1 | University of Arkansas | 196.550 |
| 2 | University of Florida | 196.425 |
| 3 | Boise State University | 196.400 |
| 4 | University of Denver | 195.625 |
| 5 | University of Arizona | 195.400 |
| 6 | Brigham Young University | 194.650 |
Link: Results and Arkansas Release and Boise St Release and DU Release
Bama and Illinois advanced out of the Tuscaloosa Regional. Bama cruised to a 197.275. Illinois hit a 49.075 on the BB to edge PSU, 195.925 to 195.8, as the last round of competition once again determined the outcome. Two individuals advanced: Sharaya Musser of PSU and Kylie Shields of AU.
1. Bama 197.275
2. Illinois 195.925
3. PSU 195.85
4. AU 195.6
5. CMU 195.075
6. UK 195.175
Link: Bama Results and Bama Release
Oregon State posted a 197.025 to advance to the National meet. The hosts defeated 2nd place NU's 196.55. In the rest of the field, MSU posted a solid effort to take third in 194.5. The top two AAers not on an advancing team are Iowa's Rebecca Simbhudas and Houry Gebeshian. In addition, Katie Valleau of San Jose St advanced on FX.
| 1 | Oregon State | 197.025 |
| 2 | Nebraska | 196.550 |
| 3 | Michigan State | 194.525 |
| 4 | San Jose State | 194.425 |
| 5 | Iowa | 193.925 |
| 6 | Southern Utah | 193.775 |
Link: Results and NU Release