MCSMaria's Artistic Gymnastics Blog

For my first NCAA Gymnastics live blog of 2019, I'm following the Oklahoma at Arkansas meet. To follow along, refresh the page every 10-15 minutes or so...

It's the last week of the regular season and we're concluding the official regular season with Oklahoma @ Texas Woman's University. Follow along as I give you all the updates. Refresh the page every five minutes or so, most recent updates at the bottom of the page. Introductions underway now. Gymnastics to commence shortly. First rotation - Texas Woman's will start on vault, Oklahoma starts on bars. Oklahoma's bars line-up - just incase you were curious. Here we go! We'll start on bars today! 📈: https://t.co/B4AITwqQJW 📺: https://t.co/7rWp37l9OB 1️⃣ @AWebb_ 2️⃣ @Bre_Showers 3️⃣ @stefanicatour 4️⃣ @brennadowell 5️⃣ @nico_613 6️⃣ @MagsGotSwag12 pic.twitter.com/qC9cRDxZrc — Oklahoma Women's Gym (@OU_WGymnastics) March 18, 2018 Hunter Vincent VT TWU -  Y layout, big hop on the landing, good distance. 9.425 Anastasia Webb OU UB -  pak + shap 1/2, nice, toe 1/2 + dbl front, stuck, solid.  9,8 Erin Aldeman TWU VT  -  FTY...

Tonight, Oklahoma is venturing into SEC country to take on Alabama at home, or if you're Oklahoma, post season practice. It's also senior night, so make sure to have tons of tissues and waterproof mascara, because there WILL be tears. Come follow along with me in all the shenanigans. Maybe Carol will make an appearance! Keep an eye out for some errant tens. Refresh the page to follow along, updates are at the bottom of the page. Meet's beginning now with a montage of seniors being introduced with their parents. Lauren Beers (Stanton) is commentating. First rotation - Alabama is starting on vault, Oklahoma is starting on bars.  Mac Brannan is hanging out with her scooter, foot in a cast. Abby Armbrecht VT Alabama - FTY, good form in the air, slight hop on the landing. Overall solid. 9.8 Anastasia Webb UB Oklahoma -  good first hs, pak, beautiful,  shap 1/2, beautiful,  toe 1/2 + dbl front, stuck the landing. Really clean all the way around. 9.9 ...

Forget the Super Bowl, the ultimate sports event is not between the Patriots and the....Eagles? Yes, the Eagles, I think. The ultimate showdown is between Oklahoma and UCLA, former and current national champions performing daredevil tricks and flying high. UCLA is coming off of a win at Metroplex last weekend and Oklahoma is coming off of a loss to Florida, breaking their winning streak. Who will prevail this afternoon? Refresh the page every five to ten minutes or so to get updates! You gotta love that this meet is on ESPN!!! EEEEEEEEE!!! Super Meet Sunday, that's right Bart! Down to business - UCLA is the home team and is starting on vault, Oklahoma's starting on bars. Katelyn Ohashi leads off vault for UCLA- FTY - hop in place, good height. 9.775 AJ Jackson leads off bars for Oklahoma -  front giant + pike jaeger, nice, bail to handstand, good HS position, full in, lots of amplitude, but small hop on landing. 9.8 Pauline Tratz UCLA VT -  FTY, very n...

Friday gymnastics time has begun! It's former vs. current national champions! Refresh the page to get all the good stuff! Jazzy Foberg leads off vault for Florida -  FTY, gorgeous, solid landing. good height, distance. Looked stuck, but not really, that is ok. 9.875 AJ Jackson leads off bars for Oklahoma - feed froze so I missed most of that routine. 9.85 Sierra Alexander VT FL -  FTY, huge height and distance. hop back, 9.825 Anastasia Webb OK UB -  good 1st HS, pak, nice, shap 1/2, legs glued together, blind change + double front dismount, stuck. 9.925 Alicia Boren VT FL -  big y 1 1/2,  bends her legs on the ascent down, but good height and distance. Won't get as high as she is accustomed. 9.875 Stefani Catour UB OK - perfect ray,  toe on + bail, nice HS position,  almost over arches HS, snaps back in a hot second, DLO, stuck. 9.85 Baker VT  y 1 1/2 BRENNA FREAKIN' DOWELL!  Ray,  nice bail,  bit shor...

Today, it's the current national champions, Oklahoma versus the former many time national champion Georgia. Oklahoma opens their season on the road and Georgia has their second meet in a matter of days. Georgia struggled in their season opener against Alabama and will definitely want to make Friday a distant memory. Oklahoma, as per usual is expected to kill it. Refresh the page every five minutes or so for all the good stuff! KJ looks incredibly bored. 1st rotation  - Georgia is on vault, Oklahoma is on bars. Sabrina Vega UGA -  FTY, chest a bit down, knees slightly bent. 9.775 AJ Jackson Oklahoma UB -  l grip giant, piked jaeger, bail,  full in- small hop 9.85 Marissa Oakley VT - UGA - small shuffle, good position and height 9.8 Anastasia Webb UB Oklahoma -  pak, very nice,  shap 1/2,  toe 1/2 + double front. solid, small step 9.85 Rachel Dickson UGA VT -  solid, nice height, flares it. small hop. 9.825 Stefani Catour U...

NCAA season is 24 days away and yesterday the NACGC/W preseason coaches' poll results were released. Claiming the top spot for another consecutive year is the reigning champions, Oklahoma. Denver received a boost from their 9th place finish to 8th. Florida beat out LSU for 2nd. Full results below the cut.

The NCAA Gymnastics Championships has concluded for 2017. Thus begins the void between the end of NCAA season and the start of elite season heading in to world championships. I have been in St. Louis last weekend catching all the action. We're still 8 months out from the start of NCAA season in 2018, so lets take some time to recap real quick and provide some closing thoughts.

Welcome back! Tonight, I'm following the Oklahoma at Cal meet. It's the last meet of the regular season before Conference Championships for these two teams. I haven't been able to watch Oklahoma too much this season because Comcast doesn't carry the channel the Sooners are broadcast! Anyways, refresh the page every few minutes for updates.

Week 2 is officially in the books! Which means it's time for my weekly power rankings! These aren't the official Road to Nationals rankings, rather they are stories and people that have caught my attention throughout the week, whether it be note-worthy events or a reaction to something. Last week's power rankings were: 1. The Power Freshmen 2. The Judge at the LSU/Georgia meet who had to do everything 3. LSU & Oklahoma - Egregious home scoring or peaking too early? 4. Guys, I think we broke Georgia Without further adieu, here is this week's power rankings:

UCLA travels to Oklahoma for their second meet of the season and Oklahoma is at home two weeks in a row. This is going to be the battle of the elites, Olympians Kyla Ross and Madison Kocian versus fellow elites and world champs, Maggie Nichols and Brenna Dowell. I'm here providing you all the good, juicy details, so refresh the page every few minutes for all the info.

The 2017 NCAA gymnastics season is starting tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 6th.  Oh it's the best time of the year. Tons of great gymnastics every week. Here is a preview of what is to come this weekend. The meets are all listed on this page and when applicable, links for live scoring and broadcast/streaming are provided.  Friday Jan. 6th -  #10 Georgia @ # 2 LSU - 7 ET/ 6 CT/ 5 MT/ 4 PT This is an SEC powerhouse match-up. Georgia has a legacy behind them, with 10 NCAA titles under their belt. LSU came in 2nd last year behind Oklahoma, their best finish ever. No doubt they're looking to finally get that coveted NCAA title that has eluded them. Georgia should put up a good fight, but LSU is at home and they haven't lost at home since before Facebook existed. But who can remember a time before Facebook, am I right?

After retiring from elite, World Medalist Maggie Nichols is preparing for the next phase of her gymnastics career: college gymnastics. Maggie has made the trek to Oklahoma from her hometown of Little Canada, Minnesota. Today, she posted a video of herself training bars and beam with her new team on her Instagram account for National Gymnastics Day.

It's the showdown we have all been waiting for. UCLA versus Oklahoma, one beam team takes on another. Last weekend, UCLA lost at Pauley Pavillion for the first time like, ever when they hosted Stanford and Georgia. Oklahoma has been almost unbeatable, sans the loss at LSU in the first week of the season.  Will Oklahoma crush UCLA's dreams or will they rise to the occasion. Refresh the page every few minutes or so to find out!

The most timely of things you can look forward to this year is the wonderful, gymnastics filled four months of the year we call NCAA season. The best part is, it starts tomorrow! So why do we love NCAA Gymnastics? Here are three of many many reasons:

Regionals happened. Eight straight hours of gymnastics from two o'clock in the afternoon till about ten at night. There were tears, screaming, punching and hitting things. So were my predictions head on? Should I go take my special skills to Vegas or should I keep my day job?

Today, the top 36 NCAA Gymnastics teams will go head to head for a spot at the NCAA National Championships April 17-19. The teams have been seeded into "regionals" (not so much based on their region, but based on their rankings) based on their regional qualifying score or RQS. The top two qualifiers from each of the six regionals will go onto NCAA's in Dallas. So much gymnastics, this is what Spencer at the Balance Beam Situation is calling Gymnastics Christmas . I've gone through and to the best of my abilities,  I have picked my selections for the teams who will qualify out of their regional.  I have no real scientific analysis of who will win, so don't use my guesses to win money in Vegas... if they actually bet on gymnastics in Vegas.