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84: Meet Recaps! Jesolo & NCAA Conference Championships

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2014 NCAA Conference Championship winners and Bailie Key dominates at Jesolo.

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In the News

In the news, Jessica, Uncle Tim, and Evan answer your letters, tell some of our most embarrassing gymnastics-show off stories then discuss:

Jesolo

  • Bailie Key’s new mature choreography on floor. Hint we luuuuuuuv it!
  • Norah “The Great” Flatley and her glorious beam routine at Jesolo.
  • The vile Balking Rule takes a point away from Kyla Ross on vault.
  • Madison Kocian and her stadler filled bar routine and new coach.
  • The big tumbling and fun routines by Italians Erika Fasana and Martina Rizelli.
  • The ridiculousness of Flag-aggedon.
  • Our genius solution for adding in international quality compulsories for elites without making four-year-fans bored out of their minds at meets.

NCAA Conference Championships

  • Champion Utah and runner-up Stanford blow away the competition at Pac-12s
  • The semi-shocking rise of UC Berkeley over UCLA for 3rd place.
  • Our favorite standouts: Risa “Flash Dance” Perez, Kristin “Horror Story” Klarenback, Nicolette “Perfect” McNair and the pointed toes of the Stanford bar lineup.
  • The Michigan domination at Big 10 where the defending NCAA champ on floor closed out  her senior performance with a perfect 10.
  • Standouts Emily Wong and Lindsey “Precision” Mable, well deserved 10s!
  • Who will drop kick one of the big teams in the throat and stage a major upset at Regionals (AKA the first round of do-or-die NCAA Championships)

GYMITATION CONTEST: Enter our #gymitation contest by imitating your favorite gymnast. Just take a photo or video of you doing a pose, skill or impression of a gymnast. Tell us who you are imitating, tag us and include the hashtag #gymitation. We’ll pick our favorites to win one of these fantastic four prizes! This is the last week to enter. Check out the prizes here.

Mar 19, 2014 | Imitating Kelly Garrison’s choice words during a routine for the #gymitation contest @gymcastic

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Some of the Gymitation Contest entries so far. This is the last week to enter.

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83: University of Georgia Head Coach Danna Durante

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University of Georgia head coach, Danna Durante.

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This Week's Interview

This week’s guest is Danna Durante (née Danna Lister). She grew up as an elite gymnast in Oklahoma. After the 1988 Olympic Trials she went on to a successful career at Arizona State where she scored 5 perfect 10’s, then became a judge and college coach. She had a very rocky start at the University of Georgia. It was easy to see that the team was still loyal to outgoing coach Jay Clarke and reluctant to embrace a new head coach. But in her first year, she lead Georgia to their first NCAA Championship final in four years. Entering her second year at Georgia, we discuss:

  • If she will be wearing sequence gowns and heels like her predecessor Suzanne Yoculan.
  • Lindsey Cheek’s vault – fans want it to get a 10 already for crying out loud!
  • Collaborating on choreography with Georgia alum, Cassidy McComb 
  • How she got her very divided, Jay Clarke devoted team on board when she took over.
  • If former head coach Yoculan stays in touch or gives counsel.
  • Creating a welcoming environment for both atheist, agnostic and religious student-athletes.
  • How she determines when to push the difficulty level with athletes like Brandi Jay who’s doing a full-out on floor.
  • How her college boyfriend made a gym-fantasy marriage proposal come true.
  • Making a gymnastics coach marriage work.

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Danna Durante on Twitter.

The 2014 GymDog show. 2013 GymDog show.

Danna Durante (Lister) 1988 Olympic Trials article and results.

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Danna Lister in her college days at ASU.

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The Most Annoying People To Watch Gymnastics With

If you don’t follow Dorkly already, you should. They understand your nerd needs. Dorkly has the most fabulous, nerdtastic, humor-filled comics. This one just had to be adapted for gymnastics. So, Ms. Spanny Tampson worked her magic. If you are watching gymnastics with one of these seven characters this weekend, we sympathize.

Here is the full weekend schedule of NCAA and elite gymnastics both on television and streaming, compliments of USA Gymnastics. Look forward to our full recap of Jesolo, NCAA Conference Championships and a chat with Georgia coach, Danna Durante on this week’s podcast.

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82: Cottbus, English Championships & Danusia Francis finally gets a 10 on beam!

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Louis Smith in his Union Jack shorts at English Championships.
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Beloved British Bruin, Danusia Francis, sheds tears of joy for her 10 on balance beam this weekend.
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Beloved British Bruin, Danusia Francis, sheds tears of joy for her 10 on balance beam this weekend. Photos by Christy Ann Linder. Check out her photos on Instagram, Twitter or her official website.

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In the News

In the news, Jessica, Uncle Tim, Lauren Hopkins U.S. editor at The Couch Gymnast chat about:

  • Norah Flatley, the best thing out of Iowa since Chow landed, is going to Jesolo!
  • The Australian gymnasts have been released from gymnastics prison! We like Georgia Godwin.
  • Low scores, fulls on beam and clean gymnastics at Cottbus.
  • Rodionova, Scheder or Komova… who will be the new queen of the inbar stalder?
  • Princess Catherine Lyons of Europa teaches us how to salute
  • Broken floor plates, vault mastery and Louis Smith at the English Championships.
  • The 30-year-old swan of Chilean gymnastics, Ochoda ballet’s it up on floor.
  • Danusia gets a 10 on beam with her insanely difficult dismount.

GYMITATION CONTEST: Enter our #gymitation contest by imitating your favorite gymnast. Just take a photo or video of you doing a pose, skill or impression of a gymnast. Tell us who you are imitating, tag us and include the hashtag #gymitation. We’ll pick our favorites to win one of these fantastic four prizes! Check them out here.

GYMTERNET NEWS

No show is complete without discussion of the latest news stories from around the gymternet:

  • Shawn Johnson in the running for The Celebrity Apprentice
  • Our favorite commentators from the Big 10 Network
  • Alicia Sacramone marries her longtime love.
  • Kalon Ludvingson is on the mend and looking great.
  • Greg Marsden throws a fit about seeding and he’s kind of right.
  • Beth Tweddle robbed of Dancing on Ice win.

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Louis Smith in his Union Jack shorts at English Championships.
Louis Smith in his Union Jack shorts at English Championships.

 

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81: Jenny Hansen

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Jenny Hansen with her coach, Randy Lane at Platinum Gymnastics.

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Jenny Hansen is here! Follow her on Instagram as you listen this week and you’ll be giggling along with us. The Wisconsin native attended the University Kentucky where she won three consecutive NCAA All-Around Championship titles between1993 and 1995. She is the only person to ever win three straight All-Around titles. Jen won a total of eight national titles. She accomplished all of this while competing as an individual, without a team to set up her scores at NCAA Championships.

Then 14 years after her career ended, Make It Or Break It pulled Jen right back into gymnastics when she started doing stunts for the show. In 2011, she went elite again at age 37. We discuss:

  • Why you should never drink before taking a backflip bet while wearing steel toe boots
  • The sport that drew her to the University of Kentucky (Hint, it involves Fascinators).
  • Why she stayed away from elite gymnastics in her youth, but not as a adult.
  • The importance of fans when competing as an individual.
  • The ways in which trampoline can save your life.
  • How to describe your athletic lifestyle on blind dates when you are a stunt woman/gymnast/acrobat/horseback rider.

Don’t forget to enter our March gym nerd CONTEST! Enter our #gymitation contest by imitating your favorite gymnast. Just post a photo or video doing a pose, skill or impression of a gymnast. Tell us who you are imitating, tag us and include the hashtag #gymitation. We’ll pick our favorites to win one of these fantastic four prizes!

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  • Jenny on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
  • May 5, 2012, National Qualifier, full senior results from Jen’s meet at the Ranch 
  • Beam and vault qualification scores from the London Olympics
  • 38 year-old Jenny Hansen’s Beam Routine From The Final Elite Qualifier
  • “I want to inspire…show there can be longevity in gymnastics” – new Jenny Hansen Interview
  • 37-year-old Jen Hansen Says That Her Comeback Isn’t Over Yet
  • Killing Age Stereotypes: 40 Adult Gymnasts to Follow to London 2012
  • Safe for Athletes survey.

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Vault qualifying scores from the 2012 London Olympics.
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Jenny Hansen on the cover on International Gymnast Magazine after winning her third NCAA AA title in a row.

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Victoria Moors: A Photo Gallery from the 2014 American Cup

Canada’s Victoria Moors is the gymternet’s own tiny, buff, super-performer. As one of the few elite gymnasts who truly embodies the great artistic roots of the sport, she knows where the camera is at all time and engages it. When your coach says that any moment of your routine should make a perfect magazine cover, Moor’s style is what she means. On the one week anniversary of the American Cup, we’re revisiting a few of the best Moor’s moments by Christy Linder.  Follow this great photographer on Instagram, Twitter, and find even more photos on her official website.

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80: 2014 American Cup: Recap & Photo Essay

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This photo essay of the 2014 American Cup is by the great, Christy Linder. Follow Christy on Instagram, Twitter. Act quickly and hire her now for your meet by visiting her official website here,  before Azerbaijan snatches her up as their official photographer.

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In the News

This week Jessica and Lauren Hopkins from The Couch Gymnast chat about:

  • The 5th annual Nastia Liukin Cup: pink, roses, great level 10s and no ties!
  • Márta Karolyi commentating live during the Nastia Cup broadcast! SQUEAL!
  • Elizabeth “Ebee” “Consistency “Price winning by almost 3 points.
  • The solution for Orozco’s mental game–we are sending him to Texas Dreams.
  • American Cup a preview of World floor podium? Ferrari, Ebee and Moors?
  • Why Moors’ coach,Elvira Saadi, should always carry a spare leotard.
  • NBC broadcast commentary, including, “She doesn’t look very Japanese.”
  • Why John Macready should have his own game show for kids.
  • The level of difficulty for the women at the American Cup versus NCAA.
  • TV etiquette for gymnastics fans. Shame on you parents of North Carolina!

Don’t forget to enter our March gym nerd CONTEST! Enter our #gymitation contest by imitating your favorite gymnast. Just post a photo or video doing a pose, skill or impression of a gymnast. Tell us who you are imitating, tag us and include the hashtag #gymitation. We’ll pick our favorites to win one of these fantastic four prizes!

GYMTERNET NEWS

Here are the latest news stories we discussed from around the gymternet:

  • The Houston Chronicle reports that Simone Biles and Coach Aimee Boorman have left Bannon’s Gymnastix.
  • Oklahoma Men’s alumni have an acrobatic network at Disney World in Florida.
  • The dream team grows! Oleg Stepko is set to compete for Azerbijan.
  • Rebecca Tunney debuts a Church to Bhardwaj at the Welsh Open.
  • The Michigan’s Men’s team are training in PUERTO RICO for spring break!

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2014 Nastia Liukin Cup
2014 American Cup 
American Cup full results.
Kayla Williams reasons for leaving her home gym after becoming World Champion.
Christy Linder’s photo gallery of podium training here.
Safe for Athletes survey.

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The pink and black versions of the Nastia Cup leos.

 

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