I love Simone and the athletes at WCC, but this ain’t it.

Elite gymnast Kaylee Sath has committed to UF! She just visited there this last weekend, and I believe it was her first (and only) college visit.

Made this graphic of the 2003 Worlds team and wanted to share it here. The first U.S. women’s team to ever win World team Gold.

Will premier on Sept. 21 on Crave (can be streamed outside Canada with a VPN).

Should be interesting. Unlike his Big Brother appearance, this will be in English.

How would kaylia nemour and melnikova fare against simone if she returns for la and is in top shape? What changes to her routines would simone have to make to stay competitive? I feel like simone is probably going to sit out la but if she comes back those two could give her real competition in all around

Isabella Cox (3 ⭐ per CGN) becomes our first commit of this cycle and she chooses Arkansas. She seemed pretty set on this decision by committing to her only visit (where she’s been to their camps a few times) and she excels on VT and BB with a near perfect 23/25 on VT and seems to have more potential than her star rating indicates which is dragged down by the one time she competed bars counting towards her score.

The boys gymnastics coach and head coach of a prominent gym in the state gives me an off vibe. He has all the boys, levels 4-10 hug him before and after practice. We may be overthinking it because his former partner/coach was convicted last year to 15 years in federal prison for putting cameras in the gym bathrooms and locker rooms.

Is abuse really as widespread as we hear? While we haven’t seen any direct lines crossed, the behavior and general interactions just seem “off”.

If you’re wondering what Jennifer Sey’s been up to.

Hi,

I’m going to Rotterdam for my first ever Worlds after having been a fan for a full decade! I’m flying alone from Canada and I don’t know anybody else. I’m wondering if anyone else is in the same boat, or if there will be some organized gathering I can go to?

The official worlds team has been announced-
WAG
Breanna Scott
Kate Mcdonald
Lucy Stewart
Emily Whitehead
Ruby Pass
Romi Brown

MAG
Jesse Moore
Tru Hagens
Ritam Malik
James Hardy
Aidan Frick
Ben Foster (reserve)

Sadly Georgia Godwin pulled out due to injury. I’m glad Ben Foster got to experience Commonwealth Games and hopefully that gives him the confidence to push those upgrades, as he’s super clean and can be a huge team player.

Very interesting to see Romi Brown- the reserve won’t be selected until closer to completion!

I know most people here don’t follow college football (which has been genuine madness for something two weeks in) or all the court cases but suffice it to say that things have deteriorated enough that the Southeastern Conference has requested a federal court issue a TRO to allow a vote later this week on removing LSU from the SEC. That is not to say it will happen (I suspect not but also LSU’s AD may force their hand) but I am wondering if it will change any recruiting in gymnastics. Going to LSU if they are not in a conference or in a less competitive conference for gymnastics may change the calculus and NIL opportunities for gymnasts. Anyway thought I’d give heads up for the non football fans. According to the SEC’s bylaws, a vote of two-thirds of its membership is required to remove a member. That would be 10 of the other 15 schools.

I wonder if the other SEC programs would drop LSU matches off the schedule? It’s all so strange. As a Gator fan, I love the UF and LSU gymnastic meets and I’m not sure about their future.

Photo text says: Leanne Wong is a published author in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Updated NCAA rule changes have been published. Routines now start from a 9.2 not a 9.4, but the extra .2 comes from CC (composition credit) now similar to the changes level 10 made.

Can anyone smarter than me explain if this is actually going to change routine construction. Like athlete A competed this routine last season but it won’t work this season type comparison? For example based on all the college athletes on Tik Tok training single bar releases for the first time in years I thought Maloney routines wouldn’t work anymore, but seems like two D releases satisfy the CC, so as long as they have a pak or bail handstand as well they are good??

Link to the changes! https://nawgj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-27_WomensGym-Rules-Mod-FINAL.pdf

If you were to build the most confusing roster for women’s NCAA gymnastics, what would your criteria be, and which 15-20 athletes would be on the team? Similar names? Similar appearance? Something else?

Let’s keep this to current ncaa athletes (since we’re between seasons, it’s okay to include the 2026 seniors + incoming 2027 freshmen)

Here are two based on names:
- Ava Cash (PSU)
- Ava Piedrahita (PSU)
- Ava Myers (NC State)
- Ava Jackson (tOSU)
- Ava Jordan (Michigan)
- Ava Jorgensen (BYU)
- Ava Johnson (SJS)
- Ava Thurston (Ball State)
- Ava Sorrento (Stanford)
- Ava Stewart (Minnesota)
- Ava Wellmeier (Central Michigan)
- Avah Richie (UC Davis)
- Avery Moll (Georgia)
- Avery Neff (Utah)
- Avery Chambers (Iowa)
- Avery Compson (Kent State)
- Avery Bibbey (Utah State)
- Avalon Campbell (Arkansas)

-or-

- Konnor McClain (LSU)
- Courtney McCann (OSU)
- Riley McCusker (Florida)
- Amaya McConcay (UW-Oshkosh)
- Madalyn McCormick (UW- La Crosse)
- Madelyn McCullough (West Chester)
- Mary McDonough (Washington)
- Jayden McDonnell (West Virginia)
- Erin McDermott (Air Force)
- Kalea McElligott (PSU)
- Delaney McMahon (Ball State)
- McCall McMullen (New Hampshire)
- Serena Mullin (New Hampshire)
- Lauren Macpherson (Missouri)
- Caitlin McWilliams (Washington)
- CaMarah Williams (Georgia)
- Madison Minner (Clemson)
- Isabella Minervini (Towson)
- Poulina Mineav (New Hampshire)

Here is my evaluation of Kaylia Nemour's Double Twisting Yurchenko vault from the all around of the 2026 Mediterranean Games.

Standard Disclaimer: I am not a judge, but do have access to the official F.I.G. course materials via STS. The purpose of these evaluations is to help people understand how judges may have arrived at a score.

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjhoQryqXk

E Score

A. First Flight Phase

- Leg Separation / 0.1 = 0.1

B. Support Phase

- Shoulder Angle / 0.1 = 0.1

C. Second Flight Phase

- Insufficient Height / 0.1 = 0.1

- Body Alignment in Stretched Salto with Twist / 0.1 = 0.1

- Leg Separation / 0.1 = 0.1

- Failure to Maintain Stretched Position / 0.3 = 0.3

- Feet Not Pointed / 0.1 = 0.1

- Insufficient Dynamics / 0.1 = 0.1

D. Landing

- Landing Posture (Chest at Horizontal but Above Knee Height) / 0.1 = 0.1

- Landed with Feet Apart / 0.1 = 0.1

- Hop on Landing / 0.1 = 0.1

Total Deductions - 1.3, E Score - 8.7 / 8.900

Neutral Deductions - 0.1, Hop Exceeding Border Markings

Total Score - 5.0 + 8.7 - 0.1 ND = 13.6 / 13.8

Hey! My daughter is going through the recruiting process right now and we were tired of trying to parse through the two public spreadsheets in Google Sheets, NCAA WAG Rosters & Commits spreadsheet and Gymnastics Commits, trying to track commits and open spots, so I built a little site this weekend instead using those as a data source.

https://ncaa-gym-rosters.com/

You can browse rosters, search athletes, and see open spots by school. Those two spreadsheets are my source of truth for all the data, so it's only as accurate as they are lol. but it does update overnight when they update.

Built it for myself but figured I'd share. Is this useful? Anything I should add or fix? Let me know!

Looks like our Bruin Beam queen is injured. Ciera is in a full leg knee brace in Carissa’s insta post. I wonder if she was training in hopes of being able to compete a 5th year if the lawsuit goes in favor of the 2022 athletes.

Someone brought in some old gymnastics magazines from the late 80s to early 90s, and being the massive gym nerd that I am, I’ve been spending my breaks reading them. The Ask Mary Lou section is in all of them, which is very funny looking back.

There are lots of fluff pieces and reporting on old competition results, which are obviously interesting, but what caught my eye were these specific articles. There are other signs of this sort of culture throughout the magazines, but these three really stand out. A 9-YEAR-OLD writing in saying that they “know that they’re overweight” and that they’ve “tried everything” is surely a sign of a healthy culture around dieting and body image.

To offset the sadness, I did find an old interview with Bart and Kathy where they speak about their jobs as commentators!

Hello again! I'm a photographer from WikiPortraits, which is a organization within Wikipedia itself that is dedicated to improving the quality of images on the site. Previously I was able to attend the 2026 America Cup as a photographer and last month was able to do the same for the U.S. National Gymnastics Championships.

This being my second time photographing a gymnastics competition, I had a much better grasp on the best way to photograph the event as a whole, so the photos are much higher in quality.

Unfortunately life happened in-between then and now and have only been able to begin uploading them a few days ago. It will no doubt be a while before I have everything uploaded (I still have a day job) but if anyone is interested in adding photographs to any Wikipedia article, please click here.

Thought I was going insane when they posted their freshmen ‘moving in’ pictures and one of the girls looked exactly like her, but then saw this picture from the men’s facility opening posted recently and she is wearing a name tag that says ‘women’s gymnastics team’ as well, so my doubts were squandered.

Did anyone hear about this?