W Gymnastics dominates, wins B1G Championship; M Lax earns ECAC Tourney spot
Today has been a great day for Michigan Athletics.
In addition to the Men's Gymnastics team winning an NCAA Championship a year ago and being the favorite to repeat AT Crisler Center where the meet will be hosted, the dominant Women's program added more hardware and years to their banner at Crisler.
Michigan has just won the B1G Gymnastics Championship.
Their star and 2013 NCAA Champion, Joanna Sampson scored a perfect 10.00 on FX. A perfect score is the biggest thing a gymnast wants to shoot for individually in terms of performance. And to do it at the B1G Championships is outstanding.
Despite a lopsided loss today in a headscratcher against Saint Joeseph's, Bellarmine lost their 3rd straight ECAC game and is 0-3.
Since Michigan beat Bellarmine last week, and the ECAC is a five team league with a four team tournament, Michigan will play postseason lacrosse for the first time in history. The ECAC Tournament is in columbus in early May and will be broadcast on Fox Sports 1.
It's great to be a Michigan Wolverine.
While I am not that knowlegeable about Women's Gymnastics, they had the best beam rotation I've ever seen them do, bar none. Floor was fabulous.
Usually vault is their most consistent rotation and it was good, but not up to their standard outstanding score. Bars was very good, but they didn't score as high as I thought they might.
Can't wait for the NCAA competition.
March 23rd, 2014 at 12:49 AM ^
Joanna Sampson's 10.00 was her first ever, and was the first in Big Ten Championship history on floor. (Emily Wong of Nebraska later tied Sampson's floor ten in the evening session.) And the full team score was Michigan's highest on that event.
Michigan was also the first team to win the championship from the afternoon session. The top four teams are usually in the evening session. As Willow mentions above, their beam rotation was great, making up for their very uncharacteristic beam debacle last week that left them third out of four teams in the meet that served as the B1G preliminary round. Only 5 of the 6 routines are counted, so one fall is no problem. But last week the women had 2 gymnasts make two falls each. That was enough to move them down to third in an otherwise terrific meet. But today they were terrific and consistent throughout, scoring the program's fourth highest championship score ever.
By the way, the Men's Gymnastics team completed an unbeaten season this evening, warming up for the championship meets to come.