MCSMaria's Artistic Gymnastics Blog

Another future Olympian entered the world today.  2008 Olympian Alicia Sacramone (Quinn) and husband Brady Quinn welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Sloan, into the world.  Alicia made the official announcement via her Instagram account.

Recently, the gymnastics world was saturated with the topic of babies, with the birth of another gymnastics royal baby, while a former Olympian announced her pregnancy. Jonathan Horton and his wife, Haley welcomed another future gymnast to their family, this time, it was a little girl, named Addie Lee, born February 9. Addie joins her big brother, David. Jonathan posted this picture of the happy family:

Recently, young upstart vault and floor worker MyKayla Skinner has taken the USA Gymnastics scene by force. She's gained much attention this year for her powerful floor routine and her extremely powerful left arm. She's being compared to 2008 Olympic Silver Medalist and former World Champion, Alicia Sacramone. Like her counterpart, Alicia is a strong vaulter and a powerful floor worker and has contributed greatly to team USA on those events. Their similarities do not end there. Here are some comparisons of these two dynamic athletes:

A little Friday fun... I found these series of images on Tumblr this afternoon while going on there to post a blog entry. This is a series of images of the 2008 US Olympic team with captions as to what they were "really" thinking. These Mystery Science Theater ad libbing is via SparklesandChalk on Tumblr.

Just a few months after Alicia Sacramone's wedding to quarterback, Brady Quinn, a photo of the couple in newly-wedded bliss has surfaced.

While listening to a podcast about badass people (nearly all of whom were men), I decided it was time to celebrate the badass-ness of women. Since this is a gymnastics blog, this article will focus on bad asses in the sport of gymnastics, particularly women in gymnastics. These women are tough for their perseverance, their bravery, and just generally being awesome.

It's the 10th anniversary of the cult classic Mean Girls.  Since GIFS and stills from the movie have been going viral on Tumblr, I thought it was time to share this hilarious gem. This video from Huangquishangfan on YouTube is a trailer of the movie featuring the athletes of USA Gymnastics.

Alicia Sacramone recently married her longtime beau Brady Quinn.

Here's a gymternet story book about the little gymnastics federation that could, aka USA Gymnastics. Featuring Mary Lou Retton, Shannon Miller, Dominique Dawes, Carly Patterson, Chellsie Memmel and more. Lots of funny, ad lib commentary, guaranteed to give you a good laugh bright and early this Monday morning. All the credit is to Jordynslefteyebrow on Tumblr.

After days of speculation, it is official, Alicia Sacramone is engaged. Alicia officially confirmed on today's Gymcastic podcast her engagement to NFL quarterback Brady Quinn. Boston news reporter Dan Hausle posted an announcement about Alicia and Brady on July 20 via his Twitter account about the engagement: Congrats to USA gymnast and fam friend Alicia Sacramone just engaged to NFL QB Brady Quinn! Her mom says I can let the cat out of the bag, — Dan Hausle (@dhausleon7) July 20, 2013

For over forty years, gymnastics has been a sport dominated by teenagers. At least on the women's side. Men's gymnastics seems to be dominated by men in their early to mid twenties. But there are veterans of the sport that defy all age barriers and statistics. Previously, I featured a couple of gymnasts who were over the age of 30 (in light of my 30th birthday). I've always found it ironic that a man or woman in his/her prime is considered "ancient" by gymnastics standards. In honor of the prime time players, this blog will feature gymnast who defy age stereotypes.

 Alicia performs her pike front to standing back tuck mount. Black and white makes everything an instant classic. From: Gymnastics GIFS

Now earlier this week, Alicia Sacramone "officially" announced her retirement. It's for real this time.  Alicia, who has been an elite gymnast for over 10 years,has served as team captain for the USA in Beijing and has been a steady leader on the USA Gymnastics scene.