Former OU star Jonathan Horton defended his AA title Friday night, successfully winning the VISA Championships. In 2nd was Danell Leyva, who also captured the PB title while holding off Ohio State's Brandon Wynn, who also won Rings. OU grad Chris Brooks was 4th and 1st on HB while Cal's Glen Ishino was fifth. NCAAers excelled in the event finals, with Josh Dixson of Stanford taking the FX title and Daniel Ribiero of Illinois taking the PH title. OU's Steven Legendre won the VT title, breaking 17 with a 17.05 for the 2nd time in a row.
Link: AA Results and Event Results
Charley Nelson, the assistant men's coach at UIC, has been named Head Coach. He replaces CJ Johnson, who retires at the end of the month after 36 years.
Link: UIC Release
WOGA's Rebecca Bross took the lead after Day 1 of the VISA (US) Championships Senior Women's division. UCLA signee Mattie Larsen was 2nd, while Alexandra Raisman was 3rd. UGA commit Chelsea Davis is fourth, while UF signee Kytra Hunter was tied for fifth with future teammate Mackenzie Caquatto. UCLA's Vanessa Zamarripa was 7th, while posting the 2nd highest senior score of the day (15.6) with a stick on her "Cheng" vault (roundoff 1/2 on to front layout with 1 1/2 twists off). The highest senior score of the day (15.65) was posted by ex-Brown athlete Alicia Sacramone.
Link: Full Results
UIC has announced that Charley Nelson will step in as head coach of its men's program, replacing recently retired CJ Johnson. Nelson competed for UIC during college, and then he was named Assistant Coach soon after he graduated.
The VISA (US) Championships are this week, and you can follow the action online in a number of places. On Friday night, the men's take the floor to battle out for the title.
Senior Men (7 pm EST): Video and Quick Hits
Link: Results Page
Schedule
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Daily Schedule |
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| Date | Time | Event |
| Friday, Aug. 13 | 7:00 p.m. | Sr. Men Competition - Day 2 |
| Saturday, Aug. 14 | 1:00 p.m. | Jr. Women Competition - Day 2 |
| 7:30 p.m. | Sr. Women Competition - Day 2 | |
Former OU star Jonathan Horton leads the field in the senior division at the VISA (US) Championships. Danell Leyva is in 2nd while Ohio State star Brandon Wynn is third while topping the field on Rings. Cal's Bryan del Castillo is in fourth, while OU's Jake Dalton is fifth. Current and former collegians posted the top scores on the individual events: Stanford's Josh Dixon on FX; Illinois' Daniel Ribiero on PH; OU's Steve Legendre on VT with a meet-high 17.05; former OU star Chris Brooks on PB and HB. Current and former NCAAers also dominate the senior standings.
In the Junior Men's division, Michigan bound Sam Mikulak took the AA title and won three individual events (PH, HB and share of PB title). Jacoby Rubin was 2nd while Wyatt Aycock (NU signee) was third.
Link: USA Gymnastics and Junior Results
Jeff Graba has been named Head Coach at Auburn. Graba makes the move from Utah, where he has been the Assistant Coach for the past five seasons. At Utah he coached Kristina Baskett to a National Title on bars and he coached many of his bars workers to All America status. He came to the collegiate ranks after years as co-owner and head coach at Midwest Gymnastics in Minnesota. Graba tweets that he'll start his new job next week.
Will Stokley has been hired as an assistant at SEMO. Stokley was a graduate assistant at Ball State and a student assistant at AU.
Link: SEMO Release
UIC Men's Head Coach CJ Johnson has retired, according to a school release. His coaching career spanned 36 years, and yielded back-to-back Division II National Titles in 1978 and 1979.
Link: UIC Release
NCSU has announced the hiring of Colleen Johnson as assistant coach. Johnson coached at Arizona for seven years.
PSU has announced the hiring of Jeff and Rachelle Thompson to coach its women's gymnastics team.
Boosters of Cal Men's Gymnastics have formed "Cal Gymnastics Forever Foundation" and will be meeting with the Chancellor on the 14th to present a business plan. They need your letters of support, and your donations. Thus far, they have raised pledges for over 25% of the operating budget and 200 letters of support. Click on the link to fill out an automatic letter generating tool.
Link: More Information
The Men's qualifier to the VISA (US) Championships were held this weekend, and 23 seniors and 9 junior advanced. A number of past, current and future collegians were in action. Jesse Silverstein won the senior division, while Daniel Potemski was the top junior.
Link: USA Gymnastics