Sho Nakamori is a hard-working, cerebral member of the men’s gymnastics community. Not only is he an eight time All-American and member of the U.S. Senior National Team, he is also a CGA National Academic All-American. Nakamori just completed his undergraduate career by earning degrees in International Relations and Japanese Studies. His recent tweet on Twitter said it all - “snakamori done with school. now, focus=gymnastics.”

Now that his studying days are over, for the time being at least, Nakamori is focused like a laser beam to earn

Stanford All-American gymnast, Sho Nakamori, has launched a new blog that will chronicle his quest to make the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team. The blog, while new, is jam-packed with interesting information about Nakamori’s life, interests, and hopes.

His about page is a very interesting bio including his fond memories of

The Arizona State Men’s Gymnastics Team, coached by Scott Barclay, is an excellent example of a successful program that continues to excel despite being kicked in the teeth back in 1993. Prior to that, the ASU program succeeded for 25 years as a fully-funded Division I entity under Coach Don Robinson. Thanks to Title IX, the program was unfairly axed, but was soon resurrected as an unfunded club team, and has been coached by Barclay ever since.

Sun Devil Gymnastics was forced to organize as a non-profit 501-C3 booster club consisting of 7-9 board members. Fundraising consists of booster club memberships and donations, corporate sponsorships and team fundraising events. One such event was the recent

The 2009 Men’s JO Nationals concluded today in Cincinnati with the individual Event Finals. World Cup’s John Orozco continued to dazzle as he incredibly won national titles on five out of six events to go along with his All-Around title. Orozco won on floor, rings, vault (tied), parallel bars and high bar. His 2nd place finish on pommel horse prevented a clean sweep in the Level 10 (14-15) age division.

SCATS’ Sam Mikulak also had a spectacular day by placing

The All-Around Finals took place on day 3 of the competition in Cincinnati. In the morning session, World Cup’s John Orozco outlasted a very strong field. He was the only competitor to qualify for all six events in tomorrow’s Event Finals. Orozco was also the top qualifier in three of the events: vault, parallel bars and high bar.

SCATS’ Sam Mikulak finished behind Orozco, and qualified in all events except for floor. Mikulak was the top event qualifier on rings. Seven points separated

Another marathon day of competition concluded with today’s level 9 competition. The top qualifiers advance to tomorrow’s all-around competition and Sunday’s individual event finals. There were no surprises as Orlando Metro’s Sean Melton (84.50) edged past Xtreme’s Allan Bower (84.10) in what’s shaping up to be a replay of last year’s all-around finals. Melton also had the day’s highest scores on