Friday, April 30, 2010

“Mini-camps beckon for summer gymnastics, sports at MAdison YMCA” plus 3 more

“Mini-camps beckon for summer gymnastics, sports at MAdison YMCA” plus 3 more

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Mini-camps beckon for summer gymnastics, sports at MAdison YMCA

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 05:04 AM PDT



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Youth Sports: Silvia's Gymnastics

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 08:22 AM PDT

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Local Gymnasts Were Jungle Jammin' Meet—On April 10th-11th, gymnasts in Levels 5 through 7 from Silvia's Gymnastics in Zieglerville competed in the 2010 Jungle Jammin' gymnastics meet, hosted by Central Bucks Gymnastics in Doylestown, The competition was attended by gymnasts from Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Klein High grad wins two NCAA gymnastics titles

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 10:52 PM PDT

On the biggest stage in collegiate gymnastics, LSU senior Susan Jackson (a 2006 Klein High graduate) delivered the best performance of her career.

"It was the most perfect routine I'd ever done," Jackson said. "I just wasn't nervous. It was the last routine I was ever going to do in my gymnastics career. (I decided to) have fun with it. My teammates spread their good aura over the beam."

Jackson, 23, won the first all-around national in the Tigers' history on April 22 and took first place in the Beam (with a score of 9.9625) on April 24 at the NCAA Individual Events Finals in Gainesville, Fla.

"It was the best beam routine I have ever seen from Susan Jackson," Tigers coach D-D. Breaux told LSU sports information. "It was such a fitting way for Susan to end her career."

Since she won the national title in vault as a sophomore, this was Jackson's third national title – an LSU record, and just the second Tiger to win a national team in the beam since 1977.

"There have been so many gymnasts ahead of me," Jackson said. "Knowing I can contend with them is a good feeling. It's fun to have your name in the record book."

She finished second in the vault for the second straight season

Jackson began competing in gymnastics at age 3.

"I was too energetic as a child," Jackson said. "I'd run on the back of couches and swing from shower rods."

Jackson's mother enrolled her in a gymnastics program, and she thrived with it – eventually joining Starz Gymnastics under the training of Dan and Ashley Baker.

She joined Team USA for four years and missed the US Olympic Trials by one spot in 2004.

Jackson said practicing with her college teammates was much more enjoyable than training seven hours per day for the Olympics.

"(Competing in) college is a fun atmosphere," Jackson said. "You have your teammates. It was definitely fun to be a part of the university."

When it was time to pick a college, Jackson chose LSU.

"They cared about me as a person, not just as a gymnast," Jackson said.

In 2008 and 2009, Jackson was part of LSU's first two teams to ever qualify for the Super Six (the top six gymnastics teams in the NCAA)

"It was awesome," Jackson said. "(Breaux's) been the coach at LSU for 31 years and never made it. That's what our ultimate goal was. It was just groundbreaking."

Jackson will earn her degree in Sport Administration from LSU in December, and she plans on trying out for Cirque de Soleil.

"It just looks fun." Jackson said. "It would be a good transition from gymnastics to the real world."


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CSF wrestling, gymnastics safe for now

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 02:35 PM PDT

Cal State Fullerton's wrestling and women's gymnastics programs have saved themselves – for at least one more season.

It became official on Friday that both programs have raised the necessary money by the May 1 deadline to fully fund themselves for the 2010-11 school year. Both sports were in danger of being dropped from the CSF athletic program because of state-college budget cuts as a result of the state's financial crisis.

Through desperate fundraising campaigns for pledges, wrestling covered its $196,000 budget while gymnastics was able to meet its $280,000 goal. The funds will need to be deposited with the university by Aug. 1.

"We've been saved," said a relieved gymnastics coach Jill Hicks, who told her team the good news on Friday morning. "We had some big help at the last minute. I didn't know whether we could do it when I met with the athletic director (Brian Quinn) on Thursday, but we're set, not permanently, but at least for one more year."

On Thursday, gymnastics was $65,000 short of meeting its mark before a single anonymous donor pledged to cover the balance. It brought great relief to Hicks, who had worked tirelessly to assemble a diligent and determined 11-person fundraising committee, stage events with an appearance by Olympic gold medalist Nastia Liukin and a club meet, and cultivate strong relationships with generous gymnastics supporters.

"It has been a long year," she said. "This has taken so much effort and been a focus so long that it hasn't yet sunk in that we made it."

Rather than cut the programs from the onset, which was the case with five sports at UC Irvine, Quinn gave wrestling and women's gymnastics a chance to save themselves by coming up with the money the school would have to spend to pay in 2010-2011 for travel, equipment, coaching staffs and scholarships in both sports.


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