Stanford handily put away the competition to win their fourth NCAA Men's Gymnastics title. The Cardinal closed the deal with the evening's top scores on rings. Tim Gentry and Nick Noone led the way with scores of 15.45, followed by Kyle Oi's 15.35 and Sho Nakamori's 15.05. Michigan and Oklahoma mounted late charges on floor and vault but fell short. Oklahoma's bid to repeat was officially thwarted with their [...more]
The Super Six for the 2009 NCAA Championships advanced as predicted. The evening competition was exciting, with Oklahoma prevailing over Illinois and Ohio State. The most amazing performance of the night was by Illinois' Daniel Ribeiro, who scored an outstanding 16.00 on pommel horse. That's easily the NCAA's top pommel score of the season. We'll be scouring youtube to find that video! The Sooners really piled it on with their typically great performances [...more]
The 2009 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships will take place April 16-18, and will be hosted by the University of Minnesota. Click here to view the live results as they occur. There will be two team qualifying sessions on April 16, with the top six teams advancing to the team and All-Around Finals on April 17. The individual event finals will take place on April 18. Here are the most current team and individual rankings as published by GymInfo: [...more]
The following links are for the results for all nine regions. Only Region VI has not yet posted their results, but we will update as soon as they are available. You'll see some interesting results as you scroll through. We hope you like this, since it is time consuming to search for some of the various regional scores. Wouldn't it be nice to have a centralized place to find all scores? [...more]
Region I has been a virtual battle zone for most of the 2009 club season. Many of the region's top Level 10s have been banged up with injuries. Thankfully, most of them were able to compete at the 2009 Region I Championships. Jake Dalton put up an incredible 90.45 to win the Level 10 (16-18) All-Around title. Included in those numbers was an awesome 16.75 on vault. Donothan Bailey competed for the [...more]
Illinois mounted a furious comeback to tie Michigan for the Big 10 Championship. The Illini were 2.5 points behind going into their final rotation (rings). It took career high or season high performances from Tyler Mizoguchi, Nick Stango and Tyler Williamson to get the job done. Michigan's Thomas Kelly (89.35) edged out teammate Chris Cameron (89.10) for the All-Around title. Illinois and Michigan captured a total of five event titles. Paul Ruggeri won two event titles on floor (15.625) and parallel bars (15.10), and Luke Stannard prevailed [...more]
Arizona State won their 11th team title last weekend at the 2009 USA Gymnastics Collegiate Championships. The Sun Devils won the collegiate (club) title, while William & Mary nailed down their 13th national title in the Varsity division (funded programs). ASU's Alex Gaudaur led the way with a first-place finish in the All-Around (81.35), while Riley Barclay (76.05) and Charles Baysinger captured 5th and 6th place, respectively. Arizona State's Division I program was unfairly eliminated [...more]
Stanford easily dispatched UIC 359.70 to 336.70 last night in the regular season finale for both teams. The Cardinal posted their highest ever team score, meaning that they are peaking at the right time as they head into next weekend's MPSF Championships. The Cardinal were red-hot on [...more]
Gymnastike published a great interview with Sam Mikulak. Anne Phillips, seemingly in the right place at the right time the past several months, tracked down Sam at SCATS in Huntington Beach, CA. A member of the Junior National Team, Mikulak is a Level 10 (14-15) and trains under Coach Grigor Chalikyan. He won the [...more]
Top-ranked Oklahoma posted a blazing team All-Around score of 366.85 to torch 8th-ranked Penn State last weekend. The top score easily set a new NCAA record. The Sooners added insult to injury by sweeping every team event title. Talk about a team that is peaking at the right time. Steven Legendre scored a career high 92.25 to win the All-Around. Legendre also dominated on [...more]
