“Youth Sports: Silvia’s Gymnastics” plus 3 more |
- Youth Sports: Silvia’s Gymnastics
- Marsden builds gymnastics program from start
- Gymnastics: Tigers earn No. 9 seed
- UAA gets boost for new sports facility
| Youth Sports: Silvia’s Gymnastics Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:16 AM PDT
Silvia's Gymnastics Silvia's Level 8 Gymnasts Compete at PA States—Level 8 gymnasts from Silvia's gymnastics competed at the PA State competition on March 26-28. Individual placements were as follows: Age 11 and under: Ally Molchan placed sixth on beam and Sam Watkins placed tenth on vault and beam. Age 12: Addie Modugno placed first all-around, floor and vault and second on bars. Age 13: Shannon Kiersey placed second on beam and Hannah Haas placed tenth on floor. Age 14: Rachel DiCarlo placed first all-around and on bars, second on beam, third on vault and fourth on floor. Bethany DiCarlo placed fourth on vault. We encourage your feedback and dialog. All comments are moderated by the editors. We ask you to follow a few simple guidelines when commenting on stories on MontgomeryNews.com. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Marsden builds gymnastics program from start Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:11 PM PDT Thirty-five years ago when Greg Marsden was offered $1,500 to start up the U women's gymnastics team, he never dreamed it would turn into a lifelong passion and career. Marsden was a graduate student studying psychology of sports in hopes of becoming a college professor in 1976 when Title IX was passed and Utah was starting a women's gymnastics team to be in compliance. "I had no intention of coaching as a career," Marsden said. "I ultimately wanted to teach at the university level. They were starting a number of varsity sports for women and I just happened to be here. At first, I didn't think I was interested, but I was a poor graduate student so I thought what the heck I'll do it while I finish my degree and that will be that." Marsden had previously been teaching a one-hour gymnastics class to fulfill his graduate requirements. He got his start in gymnastics when he took classes to help improve his diving skills at Central Arkansas. "I liked it and learned about it but never with the idea that I would be a gymnastics coach," Marsden said. Marsden, like many other long-term coaches, never planned on being in Utah as long as he has, but his 35 years of coaching make him the longest-running coach at the U. The Utes' early success is what kept Marsden coaching. In its first season competing, Utah finished 10th in the nation, five years later, it climbed its way to the top, earning its first national gymnastics championship in 1981. "I kind of got bitten and thought, 'Hey, we could have something here,' " Marsden said. "I started enjoying it and we had success right from the beginning and improved quickly." Since that first national championship, Marsden has led the team, now known as the Red Rocks, to nine national championships and more than 900 wins. Utah is the only team in nationals to have appeared in all 34 national championship meets. Once he was involved and started building the Utah gymnastics team into a national power, he had no intention of going to coach elsewhere. "I've never been interested in going anywhere else," Marsden said. "I love Utah. As long as things were going here and kept improving and we kept getting more and more support, I wasn't interested in leaving." The gymnastics program wasn't always what it is now, with its flashing lights and spectacular show. That will be just one more thing Marsden will add to his legacy when he retires. What started out as meets with 40 to 50 people sitting in folding chairs has grown to be one of the most popular sports at the U. "In the beginning, the meets were long and stale," Marsden said. "I made it my mission to change the program and was determined to make the event something that would be fun to attend." Consider the mission accomplished—the Red Rocks regularly fill the 15,000 seats in the Huntsman Center and put on a show that is worth watching. Although Marsden said he has had hundreds of memorable moments in his career at Utah, there are a few that stand out in his mind. "I'll never forget the phone call telling me we qualified for nationals our first year," Marsden said. "I was so naive, I was like, 'We did, really?' Winning that first championship was a big accomplishment, the first time we sold out the arena, that was a big day. There have been so many." p.fieldsted@chronicle.utah.edu Be the first to comment on this article!Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Gymnastics: Tigers earn No. 9 seed Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:08 PM PDT Published: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 The LSU gymnastics team will compete in this year's NCAA Championships as a No. 9 national seed, the NCAA announced Monday. The Tigers (15-8-1) earned their berth in the championships after a second-place finish Saturday at the University Park Regional, where they posted a score of 196.400. LSU also recorded a 392.815 national qualifying score to earn the No. 9 seed. LSU will compete in the opening session of the championships at noon on April 22 in Florida's Stephen C. O'Connell Center. The first session will also feature No. 1 seed UCLA, No. 4 seed Oklahoma, No. 5 seed Utah, No. 8 seed Oregon State — who the Tigers defeated March 5 — and No. 12 seed Nebraska. The second session will feature No. 2 seed and host Florida, No. 3 Alabama, No. 6 Stanford, No. 7 Arkansas, No. 10 Missouri and No. 11 Michigan.
The top three finishers in each session will advance to the Super Six finals April 23 and 24.
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| UAA gets boost for new sports facility Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:08 PM PDT The $80 million included in a state Senate bond proposal for a University of Alaska Anchorage sports arena would build a much-needed facility, according to UAA boosters. The existing Wells Fargo Sports Complex at UAA opened in 1978 when there were no college athletics or physical education academic programs, say the supporters of a new arena. They say the university, with 11 Division 1 and Division 2 athletic teams, has long outgrown the old complex. But the University of Alaska Board of Regents is in less of a hurry with the project: The regents took the sports arena off the university's immediate priority list at their November-December meeting and still have questions about it, University of Alaska public affairs director Kate Ripley said Monday. The regents haven't accepted a design, settled on the size of it, nor agreed to a site, said Ripley. For one thing, the regents want to know how much it would cost to refurbish the Wells Fargo Sports Complex, Ripley said. "The board hasn't signed off on anything yet," she said. But at the same time, she said, "It's exciting that there are university projects in there (in the bond package). It's good news." The bond package has $80 million for the UAA sports arena, money for a $108.6 million life sciences building on the Fairbanks campus, and $23.5 million for an arts and learning center at the Mat-Su campus. The regents, at their Nov. 30-Dec. 1 meeting, wanted to send a message to the Legislature that a $108 million life sciences building at the Fairbanks campus is their immediate priority, not the UAA sports arena. So the life sciences building is the only building they approved as a legislative funding request. The rest of the university's capital request is for maintenance needs. In prior years, though, the sports arena for Anchorage did make the university's capital projects list. Two years ago, the university asked for $1 million in planning money. It got $15 million. Last year, the university's request included funding for a proposed $80 million arena to be constructed near the corner of Elmore Road and Providence Drive. The building at that time was proposed to be 130,000 square feet, with seating for about 3,500. There would be a running track, a fitness center, locker rooms, classrooms, a gymnastics facility, and a two-court auxiliary gym. And last June, the regents gave the go-ahead for a detailed design not to exceed $8 million. That design is in progress. But at the November-December meeting, the regents created a working group to take another look at the project, said Ripley. "They said, 'We can't just build a new arena and have the Wells Fargo complex left in current conditions,' " she said. The working group may report back at the June regents meeting in Anchorage, she said. Meantime, the municipality of Anchorage, including the mayor and Anchorage Assembly, included completing the UAA sports arena on its legislative priority list. And a group of independent boosters has been lobbying legislators, including trips to Juneau. They include Steve Nerland, chairman of the Great Alaska Shootout basketball tournament back in the 1980s, and a Seawolf volunteer ever since; Jim O'Toole, women's basketball booster club president; and Tom Packer, former president of the men's basketball booster club. Nerland said arena boosters first got together when former Gov. Sarah Palin vetoed $1 million in planning for the arena. They testified in Juneau and at local hearings and asked for a larger amount to get the project rolling. The Legislature approved $15 million. The group mobilized again after the regents decided not to include the new sports arena in this year's legislative requests. O'Toole said he's travelled around to other venues where UAA has played, such as Western Oregon University and St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. "All of these schools have fantastic athletic facilities, and none of them have near the student body UAA has," said O'Toole. Packer said he'd rather the Legislature fund the sports center outright than include money for it in a bigger bond package that voters will decide on "I think the people of America are becoming shell-shocked with debt. Bonds may have a difficult time passing this fall. But if that's the only shot we have, then I'm 100 percent in favor."
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