The big buzz this week is the upcoming decision as to which city will host the 2016 Olympics. Seems like everybody and their brothers and sisters are descending on Copenhagen in a bit of eleventh-hour lobbying, which should make K Street blush. Representing the gymnastics world are Nastia Liukin, Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner. The four finalists are [...more]
Jonathan Horton signed an endorsement deal with GK Elite Sportswear, the world’s leading supplier of gymnastics apparel. The 2008 Olympic silver medalist on high bar, Horton is America’s leading gymnast and a force on the world scene. The former All-American Oklahoma gymnast is now training in Houston under Coach Tom Meadows. Horton, the newly crowned [...] [...more]
Part 2 In part two of our series analyzing our top elite gymnasts, guest blogger Matthew Rusk examines Steven Legendre, Danell Leyva, Tim McNeill, Daniel Ribeiro, Paul Ruggeri and David Sender. Rusk goes into much detail as he explores the strengths and weaknesses of each gymnast. How well they perform at VISAs will determine whether or not they will be chosen to represent Team USA at the the 2009 London World Championships. Rusk wraps things up with his predictions [...more]
StickItMedia is pleased to have guest blogger, Matthew Rusk, present his pre-U.S. Men's Gymnastics Championships analysis of the major players vying to make the World Championships squad. Matthew is a 16-year-old gymnastics enthusiast from Houston, TX and is the former editor of the blog Polished Gymnastics 101. As you will see, he has very impressive writing skills for such a young man. He leaves no stone unturned as he diligently dishes out the details for the top 12 gymnasts he believes will be fighting it out for coveted spots on the World Team. In his first post, [...more]
A lot of stories have been going around about many of the men's NCAA gymnastics teams scoring high in the classroom. In particular, the Stanford men's team not only won the NCAA team championship, but they also had the highest cumulative team GPA of all NCAA men's gymnastics teams. That is huge! According to Sho Nakamori's blog, Stanford also had nine guys [...more]
Exclusive Interview with Woodward West Gymnastics Director Andy Timm Woodward West is a thriving camp for gymnastics, tumbling & trampoline, cheer, skateboarding, inline skating and BMX biking. The camp formally refers to itself as an action sports camp, though after observing the outrageous stunts the gymnasts, skaters and bikers perform, extreme sports is a more apt description for us. StickItMedia recently visited Woodward West, and we found it to be [...more]
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 [...more]
Legendary Nebraska Head Gymnastics Coach Francis Allen announced his retirement effective July 1. Allen has had an amazing career which spans forty years, in which his teams won eight national championships. Hired at the age of 26, he is still a very young man. Among the highlights of his career was coaching Nebraska gymnast Trent Dimas to a gold medal on high bar at the '92 Barcelona Olympics, which were the games where Vitaly Scherbo won an unprecedented six gold medals. Allen had the pleasure of rubbing elbows with such luminary football coaches as [...more]
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 [...more]
We don't know who this person is, but he (she) brings up some good points. The blog Brusqueness commented on American male figure skater Evan Lysacek's recent accomplishment in winning the World Championship, the first for the U.S. in 13 years. The blogger continued, "Don't expect him to appear on a box of Wheaties anytime soon." Good point. He (she) goes on to say that "men's figure skating (like men's gymnastics) lacks a broad appeal to the general public." The blogger goes on to point out the many examples of [...more]
