The NCAA stars of tomorrow are competing for titles this weekend at the Women's Development Program (WDP) Level 10 Nationals  The vast majority of future NCAA starting lineups come from the WDP L10 ranks.  They are divided into age groups, A through F, in junior and senior division.  Most of the incoming frosh are in Senior F, E and most of D.  Most of the 2025 grads, or incoming for 2025-2026, are in Sr C, B and much of A.  Here are the Top 10 AAer per division and event winners.  Their college choices are noted, where known.

The Women's Development Program L10 Nationals kicked off this week, with the All-Star session.  This competition was split into East and West sessions, with the top two All-Arounders and top five event finishers, regardless of age division, from each Regional.   The top AAer and top 3 event finishes from each session are summarized below, along with their colleges and year of graduation, if applicable.  Click the session name for the full results.  

LSU's Haleigh Bryant was named the winner of the 2024 Honda Award for gymnastics.

Link:  LSU Release

Thursday, 09 May 2024 13:02

Utah Hires Hunger as Assistant

Utah has the former owner/coach of the Twin City Twisters, Mike Hunger, as an assistant. He's also served as a staff coach for the US National team.  He will focus on VT and help on FX.

Link:  Utah Release

UGA has announced the hiring of Oleksii Koltakov and Marissa King as assistant coaches. The married couple have spent the last two seasons at Nebraska and worked with UGA co-Head Coach Ryan Roberts at Bama.  Koltakov is a former member of the Ukraine National Team and King is a former NCAA VT champ and 11 time All-American at Florida and Olympian for Great Britain.  She also worked for Cirque du Soleil, as did Koltakov.   

Link:  Release

The event finals were held at the Pacific Rim Championships on Sunday, April 28th, and US athletes ended the meet collecting a total of 17 medals, including both Men's and Women's Team Championships.  Former OU star, NCAA and US champion, World Championship Medalist and Oympian added three more golds on Sunday, winning FX, PB and tying for the still rings gold with teammate Cameron Bock.  Bock, the former Michigan star, won silver on PB and bronze on HB.  NU signee Caden Clinton won a bronze on PH.  The US men won the gold in the team competition, beating Canada by 19.35 points.  

The US women won gold on Saturday by 19.2 points.  2026 grad Jayla Hang won the AA with 2026 grad Kieryn Finnell in 2nd.  On Sunday, 2026 grad Simone Rose won golds on UB and FX, with Finnell taking the BB.  Hang won a silver on FX and bronzes on both UB and BB.      

Link:  Release/Results

Saturday, 27 April 2024 20:30

American Classic: Carey Takes First

Oregon State's Jade Carey posted a strong 55.0 to win the American Classic.  In 2nd was Michigan commit Myli Lew (53.9) and 3rd was Auburn signee Marissa Neal (53.05).   Former AU star and Sunisa Lee placed 1st on BB.  Illinois signee Chloe Cho placed 10th AA (51.05) and qualified to the US Champioonships (the results have not fully been updated with her score).  Other recruits competing AA include Clemson commit Kelise Woolford in 13th (50.2) and AU commit Brynn Torry in 17th (49.4). 

Link:  Results

Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:12

Pacific Rim: Moldauer Wins AA

Former OU Sooner Yul Mdaueir, an Olympian, world medalist and former US and NCAA Champion, won the gold in the AA at the Pacific Rim Championships.  Former Michigan standout Cameron Bock took the silver.  Moldauer posted an 84.6 to hold off Bock's 84.15.  Several US gymnasts qualified to event finals.  Moldauer qualified on FX, R, PB and HB while Bock qualified on PH, R, PB and HB  Stanford signee Kai Uemura qualified on FX while NU signee Caden Clinton qualified on PH.  Former PSU standout Sam Zakutney of Canada qualified first on HB and also qualified on FX and PB.  Zakutney was 5th AA and Clinton 6th.   

Link: USA Gym

 

In a much anticipated announcement, UGA named Cecile Canqueteau-Landi and Ryan Roberts as co-Head Coaches of the program.  Roberts has been an assistant at Alabama and Georgia.   Canqueteau-Landi is of course, along with her husband Laurent, the personal coaches of Simone Biles and head coaches at World Champion Centre in Texas.   Canqueteau-Landi also stated on her X account that Laurent will remain back in Texas for a year while their daughter finishes her final year in high school.  She will also remain at WCC through the Paris Olympics, per a release from WCC.  

Link:  UGA Release  

The 2024 Honda Award finalists for Gymnastics are Jordan Bowers of OU, Haleigh Bryant of LSU, jade Carey of Oregon State and Leanne Wong of Florida.  

Link: LSU Release

Monday, 22 April 2024 09:23

Transfer: Kraus to Nebraska

Nya Kraus, a standout sophomore at Lindenwood, will continue her career at Nebraska.  She competed on up to four events for the Lions, and was a qualifier on BB to the NCAA Regionals.  

Link:  NU Release

Stanford blasted through the final to win their fifth National Team Championship in a row.  Entering the final, Stanford had qualified in third position behind OU and Michigan.  But with a big 425.324 team tally, the Cardinal easily outdistanced Michigan's 419.689.  OU finished back at 412.956, just ahead of NU's 412.427.  Illinois was 5th at 411.659 and the host Buckeyes tallied a 399.122.  Stanford was led by AA champ Khoi Young and teammate Asher Hong, who won R, VT and PB.  Young posted a big 86.098 to outpace Michigan's Fred Richard's 83.999 and OU';s Fuzzy Benas (83.864).  Michigan's Paul Juda won the FX while Air Force's Patrick Hoopes took the PH with a big 15.3.  Illini Tate Costa won the tiebreaker on HB.  Earlier in the week, Stanford's Colt Walker won the Nissin-Emery Award. 

Link:  Results and Stanford Release

Saturday, 20 April 2024 14:55

LSU Wins the 2024 NCAA Championships (W)

LSU becomes just the 8th team to win the NCAA Team title. Coming from behind on BB, they posted a school record 49.7625 to tally a 198.225. Cal was 2nd at 197.85, Utah a 197.8 and Florida a 197.4375. This is LSU's first NCAA Team title in Gymnastics.  Utah had a slight lead heading into the final round, but had problems on their first two vaults.  Cal also suffered a mistake on their first routine as well.  Things began to get dramatic when LSU counted a fall on their BB routine, but all their next four gymnasts went 9.95 or higher to secure the title in dramatic fashion.  Utah finished strong, but Cal posted a 49.5 on UB to surpass them in the final round. 

Link:  Results

OU edged Michigan 418.957 to 418.954, thanks to a 1.0 neutral deduction to the team score.  Both teams easily advanced to the Final.  Ohio State posted a 408.725 to secure the final spot, defeating PSU (405.423), Air Force (398.089) and Springfield (382.19).  OU was led by Emre Dodanli, who posted the top mark of the day on FX, and teammate Max Bereznev, who posted the top mark on VT.  Michigan got first place finishes from Javier Alfonso on R, Evgeny Siminiuc on PB and Fred Richard on HB.  Air Force's Patrick Hoopes posted the top mark of the day on PH, a 15.266.   PSU's Josh Karnes posted an 83.531 to lead the AAers.

Link:  Results and Michigan Release

 

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