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This episode has been commissioned by Club Gym Nerd member Kerry, who requested an episode all about the 1993 NCAA Nationals, saying “This was the first NCAAs I ever watched as a kid growing up in Georgia, so this obviously got me hooked!”

Setting the scene – what was college gymnastics like in the ancient year of 1993?
- A new format called “Super Six” was taking the college gymnastics world by storm
- Bonkers scoring and unrealistic 10s dominated the conversation (we wouldn’t know anything about that)
The competition – watch along with us HERE. Press play when Jessica tells you
- The Great Marsden Billboard Incident of ’93
- We get distracted by the extremely 1993 fashions for a while
- Jessica is not having these pirouettes
- But seriously the fashion, you guys
- Agina Simpkins is the best thing ever to happen
- I MEAN THESE CLOTHES
- Dee Foster’s vault still holds up today
- Greg Marsden hates the format (Shocked, I tell you!)
- LONG LIVE GYM ACRO SERIES
- Hope Spivey-Sheely puts everyone else’s difficulty to shame
- The legend that is Jenny Hansen
- Questions about the Georgia All-American murals
- Stanning Dana Duckworth
- Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia
Post-competition discussion
- Whose personal style best encapsulated the year 1993?
- What could the 2019 NCAA code learn from the 1993 code?
- What did we see in 1993 that you are SO GLAD is gone?IN THE NEWS