MCSMaria's Artistic Gymnastics Blog

First live blog of Saturday afternoon featuring the first BIG 5 qualifying meet featuring Nebraska, Maryland, Illinois, Ohio State and Michigan State at Michigan State. So the first three finishers from this meet will qualify for the evening session of the BIG 10 Champs next week and the first three from the second meet tonight will qualify there as well. So follow along and refresh the page every five minutes or so to follow along. Updates at the bottom. First rotation  - Nebraska is on vault, Illinois is on floor Kynsee  Robee VT Nebraska - FTY, pretty clean, small hop on landing. Kylie Noonan Illinois FX - front full + front lay,  tour jete full, sw ring + sw 1/2,  1 1/2 + front lay Grace Williams VT Nebraska - FTY, stuck the landing, good height, legs a bit separated on landing. Shynelle Aragan MD UB  - pak, leg seps, DLO stuck 9.825 Nicole Biondi Illinois FX - double pike, solid,  clean double back, good control,  ...

More Big 10 fun for the rest of the evening with THE Ohio State at Michigan. Michigan had a pretty good home opener last weekend against Bama. Ohio State wants to forget last weekend at UCLA never happened. Refresh the page every so often so see what happens! First rotation - Michigan starts on beam and Ohio State is on bars. Lexi Funk VT -  FTY, small, hop 9.725 Stefanie Merkle UB -  giant 1/2 + jaeger, catches very close,  bail,  giant full + double back. 9.625 Polina Shchennikova -  FTY - beautiful form, nice landing, good height. 9.775 Amanda Huang UB -   blind change + jaeger, nice, Bail, nice HS, bit short on that last HS, full in dismount, good landing. 9.825 Paige Zaziski VT - FTY, beautiful height, small hop on the landing. 9.85 Nevin Adamski UB + tkatchevm  clipped her foot on the bar, bail,  nice HS, DLO, small step back 9.575 Sydney Townsend VT - y 1 1/2, very good landing small step, nice i...

Week 2 Schedule & Links Tuesday, Jan. 9 th 4 ET/3 CT/2 MT/2 PT Cortland @ Brockport Video 7:30 ET/6:30 CT/5:30 MT/4:30 PT UW-Stout @ Winona State Video Thursday, Jan. 11 th 9 ET/8 CT/7 MT/6 PT Southern Utah @ Boise State Video Friday, Jan. 12 th 7 ET/6 CT/5 MT/4 PT Kentucky @ Arkansas SECN + 7 ET/6 CT/5 MT/4 PT UW Stout @ UW Oshkosh Live Stream 7 ET/6 CT/5 MT/4 PT UW Whitewater @ UW Eau Claire 7 ET/6 CT/5 MT/4 PT LSU @ Florida SECN / Live Scores 7:30 ET/6:30 CT/5:30 MT/4:30 PT Gustavus Adolphus @ UW-La Crosse 7:30 ET/6:30 CT/5:30 MT/4:30 PT Illinois State @ Southeast Missouri Live Scores 8 ET/7 CT/6 MT/5 PT Missouri @ Auburn SECN+ 8 ET/7 CT/6 MT/5 PT Lindenwood @ Texas Woman’s 8:30 ET/7:30 CT/6:30 MT/5:30 PT Georgia @ Alabama ESPN 9 ET/8 CT/7 MT/6 PT Cal @ BYU Live Stream / Live Scoring 10 ET/9 CT/8 MT/7 PT UC Davis @ Seattle Pacific 10 ET/9 CT/8 MT/7 PT Washington @ Sacramento State Live Scores 11 ET/10 CT/9 MT/8 PT Cortland @ Alask...

Time for one more meet for today. This evening, it's Ohio State (or THE Ohio State) at UCLA. It's always interesting to see what UCLA will do, they've got this talented bunch of former elites, Olympians etc. This week has apparently been brought to you by the Twilight Zone, so we'll see what happens. Hopefully no on lands vault in another dimension. Refresh the page every 5 - 10 mins for updates

Much more gymnastics to come with the second qualifier for next weekend's B1G Ten Championships. Ohio State is hosting tonight and they are joined by Nebraska, Illinois-Champaign, Maryland College Park and Michigan State. The first three finishers from this meet go to the evening session of the Big Ten Championships, for the biggest chance to win all the glory and all the bragging rights. Expect some fierce competition. Refresh the page every 5-10 minutes for all the good stuff.