Historic night for Women Gymnastics - 4 perfect scores.
I was luck to attend the event last night. It was incredible. 4 perfect scores. 6th highest total score in NCAA history. I just hope they are not peaking too early and there is no injuries.
February 5th, 2022 at 9:20 AM ^
Pump it up!
Guess these girls:
February 5th, 2022 at 9:20 AM ^
Going to see them at the Elevate the Stage event in Toledo, very excited!
February 5th, 2022 at 9:40 AM ^
UMICH Women’s sports are off the hook. Can you say that anymore?
February 5th, 2022 at 10:04 AM ^
You just said it, and I don’t think any censoring is forthcoming. so, yes you can! and yes, they are!
February 5th, 2022 at 10:06 AM ^
They seem good at gymnastics...
Congrats to them!
February 5th, 2022 at 10:27 AM ^
They are getting to be pretty good at every fucking thing.
February 5th, 2022 at 7:49 PM ^
For those who don't follow gymnastics as obsessively as some (me), they're the defending National Champions and don't seem to have let up.
As an obsessive follower, however, the Grump Report: I was extremely disappointed that the BTN+ cameras were mostly on Rutgers, the home team. (They did fit in a couple of M replays after the 4 consecutive perfect 10s.) And they don't seem to be allowed to show highlights on MGoBlue.com when it's been televised. Alaska's team joined them last-minute-ish (yup, all the way to Rutgers on a really bad weather day here in the NY-NJ area), but because they aren't in the B1G they didn't get much camera time (the home team commentators mentioned that possibility in their opening).
February 6th, 2022 at 6:43 AM ^
Interesting info, thanks. As with all other women's sports, the athletes have improved over the years, compared to earlier days. I speak from experience, remembering when Title IX went into effect and being so excited to have SPORTS to play my Senior year of high school.
February 5th, 2022 at 10:13 AM ^
Go, Blue!
Go, Blue!
Go, Blue!
Go, Blue!
February 5th, 2022 at 3:15 PM ^
Sweet! Knees bent in the “sorority pose”!!
February 5th, 2022 at 10:57 AM ^
Last night’s score was well above their score that won last year’s natty!
February 5th, 2022 at 12:39 PM ^
Are we still doing "natty"?
February 5th, 2022 at 1:41 PM ^
And Wiscy?
And Minny?
February 5th, 2022 at 11:01 AM ^
What is even more impressive is that this team is plugging in younger gymnists so that they get experience, not just rolling the top talent. Then the younger ones go out and crush their events!
Go Blue!!!
February 5th, 2022 at 11:16 AM ^
A question for those who know more about this than me: my understanding is most Olympic level female gymnasts are younger than college senior age (22-23). Does this also track to college level with the younger being better in general?
February 5th, 2022 at 8:28 PM ^
Usually even younger than that. Olympic women's competitors are almost all youngsters, the maturing body apparently making things more difficult. (Or so they say.) It's the reverse for the men.
I remember at least one Olympics team member (Elise Ray) later enrolling at Michigan and continuing her gymnastics as a prominent member of the team, later becoming a coach. Here's an article about her in the US Gymnastics Hall of Fame website: https://usghof.org/files/bio/e_ray/e_ray.html
Post-Olympics section: "HONORS: Inducted into the USAG Hall of Fame in 2011, credited with the most All-America honors (14) in the history of the U. of Michigan women’s gymnastics program and Big Ten Conference all-time leader in Gymnast of the Week citations (9). She has also been honored by the FIG by having three of her skills named for her in the Code of Points."