Austin Sheppard represented Hungary on three events in the qualifying round of the European Championships last week. She placed 13th on vault and narrowly missed a shot at the event finals. Shepphard verbally committed to Michigan for the 2012-13 season.
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Bridgeport took its third straight USAG Collegiate National title, posting a 194.05. TWU was 2nd in 193.3, Air Force third at 191.975 and SPU 4th at 190.95.
Link: TWU Release
TWU won the second session at the USAG Collegiate Championships, posting a 194.125. Host Air Force also advanced with a 193.2. TWU's Brittany Johnson led her squad by winning the AA with a 39.075. Brittany Dutton of Air Force was 2nd.
Link: Air Force Release
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
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