MCSMaria's Artistic Gymnastics Blog

Just when we thought that this game of musical NCAA gymnastics coaches, we were delivered another bombshell. Kristen Smyth, Stanford Women's Gymnastics head coach has resigned her position after 16 years . This comes per a press release on Stanford's website .

It's a sad day for the gymternet. Norah Flatley, once prominent junior gymnast for Team USA has announced she is stepping down from elite. Norah, who trains with legendary coach, Liang Chow, announced her plans via Instagram. Norah will finish her club career out in Level 10 before she starts her NCAA career at UCLA in the fall of 2018.

Yesterday, US gymnast Maddie Desch announced her retirement from elite gymnastics via her Instagram account. Maddie, who trains at Great American Gymnastics Express, aka "GAGE" explained she came to the decision to retire due to a nagging injury that prevented her from training at the elite level.

Today is a sad day. It's sad because 2012 Olympic Gold Medalist, world champion and multiple time world medalist Kyla Ross announced via her Twitter account that she has decided to hang up the grips on her elite career.

Last week, in an article from tass.ru, Russian head coach Valentina Rodionenko had announced the retirement of 2012 Olympic Silver Medalist, Anastasia Grishina. Yesterday, in an interview with Ginnastica Artistica Italiana, Grishina confirmed her retirement. As for her reason, Grishina cited her knee injury, which she sustained at the Russian Championships in 2014.

Japanese World Medalist, Koko Tsurumi has announced her retirement.

After much speculation as to the state of her gymnastics career, Canadian gymnast, Victoria Moors has announced her retirement.

It's the end of an era. After 36 years as head coach, the legendary Sarah Patterson is stepping down as the University of Alabama's head coach of women's gymnastics.

The year of Ebee is no more.

The latest retirement of this quad is Chinese Gymnast, Zeng Siqi. The news has been floating around the gymternet for a while it seems.

Spanish Gymnast Roxana Popa took the time to unwind after the Christmas holiday by playing a prank on her fans.

Sad news this holiday season, Russian gymnast Tatiana Nabieva has decided to call it quits on the sport of gymnastics. According to Russian Gymnastics Facebook, Tatiana announced her impending retirement via her Instagram account. This is what she had to say:

Five years after she won the gold medal in Beijing at 16, and a year after taking the silver in London, He Kexin retired from the sport of gymnastics. The 21-year-old gymnast, who has been the uneven bars pinch hitter for the Chinese women said last year that she would retire after this year's Chinese National Games. 

It's about that time. The Olympics have passed, some gymnasts are continuing and some are bidding their beloved sport of Gymnastics farewell. So who is retiring? Let's find out.