“SPU to host gymnastics finals / NW Briefs (Seattle Times)” plus 3 more |
- SPU to host gymnastics finals / NW Briefs (Seattle Times)
- Gymnastics for dummies (Kentwired.com)
- This Week in Pac-10 Women's Gymnastics (Pac 10)
- Gymnastics hopeful for MAC title (Western Herald)
| SPU to host gymnastics finals / NW Briefs (Seattle Times) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 09:13 PM PDT Seattle Pacific will host the ninth annual Mountain Pacific Sports Federation women's gymnastics championships at 6 p.m. Saturday at Brougham Pavilion. The four-team meet will determine the conference's team and individual champions. The host Falcons will be joined by Air Force and UC Davis, along with defending conference champion Alaska Anchorage. SPU was the runner-up at last year's MPSF meet in Colorado Springs, Colo. Tickets for the MPSF meet can be purchased at the door and are priced at $7 for adults, $5 for children and senior citizens and $3 for SPU students or staff. Curling The Brady Clark rink from Seattle's Granite Curling Club won twice at the mixed nationals championships in Chicago, beating an Alaska team 7-6 in an extra end, then dominating a California team 8-1. First-place Team Clark (Brady and Cristin Clark of Lynnwood, and Phil Tilker and Bev Walter of Seattle) improved to 6-1 and can clinch a spot in Friday's semifinals with another round-robin win Thursday. The finals are Saturday. Softball Sarah McEnroe of Woodinville pitched 3-1/3 innings of scoreless relief as Western Washington rallied for a 2-1, nine-inning victory and a split of a doubleheader at San Francisco State. McEnroe retired 10 of 11 batters. Western lost the opener 4-1. Track and field SPU's Crystal Sims, a junior transfer from Mount Hood Community College, is sixth among 11 competitors in the women's heptathlon after the first of two days at the Cal Multi Meet in Berkeley. Sophomore teammate Brittany Aanstad of Lake Stevens is 10th. Idaho State's Cassie Merkley, from Cascade High School of Leavenworth, leads with 3,196 points. From sports-information reports. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Gymnastics for dummies (Kentwired.com) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 09:18 PM PDT Gymnastics for dummiesWritten by Katie Corbut Tuesday, 23 March 2010 21:31 Gymnastics gets its recognition every four years as a spectacle in the Olympics.
Gymnastics gets its recognition every four years as a spectacle in the Olympics. Rarely though, does gymnastics grace the media like baseball or football.This Saturday, the Kent State gymnastics team will travel to Bowling Green to compete in the Mid-American Conference Championships after winning the regular season MAC title. If you decide to travel to watch the competition, here are five things you need to know about the sport:Check out four KSU gymnasts at work. 1. A perfect 10A gymnast can score up to 10 points on a routine for each of the four events: floor, vault, bars and beam. The top five scores on each event are taken out of the six gymnasts who compete, and those scores are added to the team total. Two gymnasts compete "exhibition," and while the scores don't count, the gymnasts compete to show their coaches what they're capable of scoring during a competition. Points are earned by including acrobatic skill sets as well as jumps and turns. Bonus tenths can be earned by placing these skills in direct succession with another, depending on level of difficulty. Tenths can be deducted for falling off the apparatus, losing balance, a leg separation, an arm bend or even a rhythm break in the routine. Routines are performances. Exclusion of necessary elements or lack of composure results in low-scoring routines. "When it comes to scoring, judges can take off for anything, bent legs, body positioning, stuck landings," senior Carly Conroy said. Most team victories are decided by merely tenths of points. For example, one fall off the beam costs five-tenths and can result in the loss of a competition entirely. In the Flashes' meet against Kentucky on March 5, Kent State lost by one tenth. Had Kentucky fallen on one routine, Kent State would have won. For the best teams, all five counting scores must exceed a 9.8. The skill level required to prevent deductions is accomplished by years of intense training and dedication.2. Don't boo the judgeUnlike other sports where a coach can throw a flag down to protest a call by a referee or umpire, the challenging of a gymnast's score is much more particular. Judges are relatively unapproachable. Nine times out of 10, challenging a score will do no good, and on the off chance the judge made a mistake, only a few tenths (maximum) can be awarded back to the gymnast. "There's no instant replay," senior Lydia Barrett said. "There's nothing you can really do to change what they saw other then inform them what's in the routine, but it's up to them. The judges do check each other, if there's a huge difference, then something wasn't counted by one judge." A gymnast's routine can be left to interpretation. A judge may miss a skill the gymnast performs, thus creating problems for a coach who knows the gymnast's routine beginning to end. "Really there's not a lot you can do," Kent State coach Brice Biggin said. "Inquiries are when the judges' scores are drastically different or if there's an occurrence where they might have not given credit for something. "The only real way to approach them is by giving them looks. Certainly astonishment, disbelief or complete utter disdain for what they put up there. I've been known to do that a lot in my career. And most judges know that and just don't look at me." If routines don't build, the judge won't grant a gymnast the benefit of the doubt. On a full turning jump, she may have barely missed 360 degrees, but if the judge isn't feeling accommodating, the gymnast will not receive full credit. However, if the gymnast does not give reason for the judge to deduct and the judge still does, a challenge may be placed in on the routine. "It's all about discretion," senior Brittany Kopp said. "For a bent knee, they can take up to a tenth, some will take a half a tenth. Some will take the full tenth every time."3. Why did she only compete on floor?In club gymnastics, gymnasts are required to compete in all events, but in college gymnastics, event specialists are more common than all-around competitors. A gymnast can be recruited for being an excellent beam worker or based on her abilities on a combination of events. Having many event specialists can provide invaluable depth when a teammate is sick, injured or doesn't warm up well. The ability to put out six solid routines that can score the highest is pivotal in winning meets. "In gymnastics it's so different, we have 20 girls and the top six compete on each event," Biggin said. "Not all the girls are on the same level as far as expertise. We want to find a team where we have eight, nine, 10 girls who can go up at any time and throw a great routine. "That's the easiest way to win championships — with good depth."4. It's all about the teamWhile gymnastics appears to be an individual sport, in college gymnastics, it's all about the team. Each gymnast competes individually, but each gymnast also depends on her teammate before to build the scores. Scores should technically increase from gymnast to gymnast in the lineup. The most difficult and solid routines will compete last, and if the previous gymnasts are successful in hitting their routines, the last gymnast will more likely have the highest score possible. If a judge sees a series of falls or unclean routines, he or she will not expect the next gymnast to execute and will not give her the benefit of the doubt on the skills in her routine. It's unfair. But that's the sport of gymnastics: It's imperfect and competitive. "If someone goes before you and gets a high score, if you go up and do that much better, they technically have to give you a better score," Conroy said. "You have to make individual sacrifices if you're having a bad day. The easiest thing to do is let yourself fall, but you can't do that, you have to find confidence and go for it. You have to push to hit." "Everything you do affects someone else," Barrett said. "If someone doesn't do well in front of you, that puts that much pressure on you. We try to build a family atmosphere where everyone behind you is pushing you. It's individual when you're up there, but it's about the team at the end of the day."5. Yes, she has to danceGymnastics is comprised of many elements, mostly rhythmic and acrobatic. The sport is intended to look polished, flawless, delicate, strong and easy. The most successfully artistic gymnasts can combine all of these characteristics into one routine, and, if they've scored well, you can tell if they have. "Gymnastics is artistic, so part of some of the deductions the judges can take are within the choreography," assistant coach Sharon Sabin said. "Are skills artistic? Are skills dynamic? If we didn't do any dance, we'd be like men's gymnastics. So that gives a feminine touch to the sport. Yes, we can do all these skills, the other side to that is the flexibility. Their personalities come out in the dance. We work with the girl's strengths." The dance moves break up skill sets and give the gymnast a break between, for example, her flight series (the flips) and the jump series. Dance is designed to make the routine flow. Especially on the beam, where the gymnast needs to move to different sides to ensure she has enough room to complete the required skills. Contact sports reporter Katie Corbut at kcorbut@kent.edu. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| This Week in Pac-10 Women's Gymnastics (Pac 10) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 02:24 PM PDT Complete Release in PDF Format
GENERAL INFORMATION WHAT: Pacific-10 Conference Women's Gymnastics Championships. WHERE: McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz. WHEN: Saturday, March 27 at 4:00 p.m. WHO: Women's Gymnastics teams from ARIZONA, ARIZONA STATE, CALIFORNIA, OREGON STATE, STANFORD, UCLA and WASHINGTON will all compete with one last chance to show the rest of the country what they are made of. TICKETS: Admission to the 2010 Pacific-10 Conference Gymnastics Championship is $10 for general admission and $6 for senior and youth. MEDIA CONTACT: The Arizona sports information office will handle publicity for the 2010 Women's Gymnastics Championship. Valery Meusburger, the Wildcats's gymnastics contact can be reached at (520) 621-4163. MEET RESULTS: At the conclusion of the event, results will posted on the Pac-10 website (www.pac-10.org) , as well as on Arizona's website (www.arizonaathletics.com). Please contact Victor Rodriguez (vrodriguez@pac-10.org) at the Pacific-10 Conference office for more information.
PAC-10 NOTES ARIZONA ARIZONA STATE CALIFORNIA OREGON STATE STANFORD UCLA WASHINGTON -www.pac-10.org-
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| Gymnastics hopeful for MAC title (Western Herald) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:15 PM PDT Looking to capitalize off one of their strongest showing of the seasons in last weekend's meet against MAC powerhouse Kent State University, the Western Michigan University gymnastics team will travel to Bowling Green, Ohio on Saturday for the MAC championships. "I'm really impressed with our concentration in the last home meet," Bronco head coach Dave Kuzara said. "We're peaking at the right time." Kent State won the meet 195.300 to WMU's 192.950, but it was the Broncos second-best finish of the year. Junior Kristine Garbarino was the best all-around gymnast of the meet for both teams and set her career best with an individual score of 39.075. "Kristine got a little tired in the middle of the season – that's what happens when you do the all-around every week," Kuzara said. "She's getting her second wind now." WMU received strong performances from senior Liz Prouty, who finished fourth in the all-around with 37.975 and tied Garbarino for first on the floor exercise with 9.750. She is competing to qualify for the NCAA individuals regional in Lexington, KY next month with Garbarino who has already qualified. Senior Tonya Eckert also spotted season highs on the vault and floor competition in her last home meet. "There can be a lot of pressure in the last home meet," Kuzara said. "They handled that. Both have been great leaders all year and that will continue this weekend." The young broncos will attempt to keep momentum going at the MAC championship and improve over their last place finish at the MAC last season. The 2010 season has been marked by steady improvements in Kuzara's first year, as he attempts to turn the team back to the success it had after winning the 2006 MAC championship. "Sure, we may have finished last a couple of times in the past," Kuzara said, "but I don't see that in this squad." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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