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NCAA Team Finals & The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles Author Interview

The dramatic video review that corrected the NCAA Team Finals (Photo Galleries) and Aimee Boorman and co-author Steve Cooper are here to talk about Aimee’s memoire The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles

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Fact Checker Wrote a Book with Simone’s Coach
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The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles

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NCAA Championships

  • Oklahoma overcame the 2024 vault gremlins and won its 7th NCAA Championship title!
  • UCLA defied early-season expectations and finished as the runner-up
  • Missouri went out with a BANG, earning its highest final placement in program history
  • Utah finished in fourth after a late-meet beam inquiry for Amy Weir bumped Missouri ahead by 0.012
  •  Why Frida Esparza wins the “fighting fascism even when it’s inconvenient” award
  • Our rotation-by-rotation recap of this meet, plus our favorite moments
    • Oklahoma’s beam domination vs. Utah’s beam woes
    • Why Chae Campbell is the only person allowed to do a Yurchenko full
    • Helen. Motherfreaking. Hu.
    • Was UCLA close to upsetting Oklahoma?
    • Avery Neff’s LEGIT 9.975 on vault

“The Balance” Interview with Aimee Boorman and Fact Checker 

  • The story behind why Simone underperformed at 2013 Classics
  • What does it mean that Marta was great at discriminated skill selection?
  • The story Aimee has about *checks notes* cadavers?
  • How Aimee was able to put up with Steve Penny for all of those years
  • How Aimee was able to teach Simone the INSANE skills she does
  • Why this book is a departure from the typical coaching narrative and opens up an honest conversation about vulnerability in elite sports
  • The toll elite sports coaching takes on family life and Aimee’s advice for coaches

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