The 2009 NCAA Men's Gymnastics season is winding down its regular season with conference championships looming just around the corner. The major conference action takes place on April 3-4 with the Big 10 Championships at Ann Arbor, MI, while the MPSF Championships will be held on April 4 at Stanford. There was plenty of action this past weekend. Oklahoma pummeled [...more]
The Big 10 Network will televise the March 7 tri-meet that featured Oklahoma, Stanford and Minnesota. Oklahoma remained undefeated by beating number one ranked Stanford and Minnesota. The Sooners won three team events on pommel, rings and vault. The top performers for OU were [...more]
Daniel Ribeiro posted an NCAA season high score of 15.95 on pommel horse to lead the Illini to victory over UIC. Illinois had 5 gymnasts with scores of 14.00 or better on the apparatus, which enabled the Illini to compile the nation's top team pommel horse score of 60.05. The Illini also posted their season-high team score of 357.85. The meet marked the return of [...more]
The Region 5 Men's Gymnastics website, maintained by Sonja Rupe, has a constantly updated list of rankings of the entire region's individual results. Not only that, but the site also maintains a historical archive of most individual scores dating back to 2002. The archive is searchable by name, team, meet and year. There are currently a total of 37,573 [...more]
According to the stats compiled by GymInfo, the men's NCAA Division I rankings are becoming a bit clearer. As of March 2, the top 5 plays out like this: [...more]
StickItMedia Exclusive Interview Jake Dalton is a perennial top all-arounder who trains at Gymnastics Nevada (Sparks, NV) under Coach Andrew Pileggi. Among his many accomplishments: 2008 - 2nd place All-Around J.O. Nationals / 3rd place All-Around VISAs 2007 - 5th place All-Around J.O. Nationals / 4th place All-Around VISAs A member of the Junior National Team, Dalton was recently awarded a scholarship to attend the University of Oklahoma, starting in Fall '09. His signing capped off a remarkable recruiting class for the defending national champion Sooners. Joining Dalton at OU in the fall are [...more]
Coach Rick McCharles at GymnasticsCoaching posted about some of the tallest women's gymnasts of all time. Well, it's time that we update our list of the tallest men in collegiate gymnastics. As of now, there are at least 12 gymnasts who are six feet tall or taller. Here is the updated list. [...more]
The Stanford Men's Gymnastics Team broke their three-meet losing streak to Cal in convincing fashion at the 2009 Pacific Coast Classic. Stanford reversed their curse on pommel with four gymnasts logging scores of 14.0 or higher, led by [...more]
Cal made it three-in-row over Stanford at the 2009 Gold Country Classic held on February 14. Once again, Cal's strength on pommels put the Bears on top, although the final team score was close (354.25 - 354.00). Cal had four gymnasts with pommel scores of 14.3 or better, led by Kyle Bunthuwong's 14.85. Bunthuwong also won the high bar competition with a 15.35. Cal's top all-rounders, the Bunthuwong brothers and Glen Ishino, [...more]
We would need a slapping if we didn't link to a great post by retired Michigan gymnast, Ward Black. It's all about the relative demise of U.S. excellence on pommel horse. Ward nailed it. He was very harsh on our guys, but he said what needed saying. He was not without some praise, though, especially that reserved for [...more]
