MCSMaria's Artistic Gymnastics Blog

Just about a week after Kristen Smyth mysteriously "stepped down" as the head coach of the Stanford Women's Gymnastics Team, former Stanford gymnast and assistant coach, Tabitha Yim has now been announced as Stanford's head coach.

After dominating the junior field at the P&G Championships, junior super stars, Maile O'Keefe and Emma Malabuyo have been selected to represent the Team USA juniors at Junior Japan Invitational in Yokohoma.

Ok, it's time for the final session of the P&G Championships. The senior women. After night one, Ragan Smith was leading by 1.3 points over Riley McCusker. She's got a comfortable lead, so she really just has to stay the course and keep hitting and she'll probably win. Night one was a bit of a splat-fest for the seniors, so it will be most interesting to see if they've gotten it together for night two. So come on in and keep refreshing the page every 10 minutes or so for all the good stuff.

Time for the final day of competition of the P&G Championships. Today is the women's finals and this afternoon is the juniors' final. Featuring Emma Malabuyo vs. Maile O'Keefe for the junior national championship title. Or, perhaps a third party could sneak in and win it all. Follow along with me to get all the action. Refresh the page every 10 minutes or so for updates.

The dudes of team USA have their worlds team for Montreal. USA Gymnastics announced the team after the conclusion of the men's competition of the P&G Championships. They are as follows: Marvin Kimble Yul Moldauer Sam Mikulak Alex Naddour Eddie Penev Donnell Whittenberg Plus three alternates- Allen Bower Akash Modi Colin VanWicklen

In the span of a few days, 2016 Olympic Team member,Chris Brooks has gone from Olympian to retired gymnast to assitant NCAA gymnastics coach.

It's the first day of women's competition at the P&G Championships. Follow along as I live blog the senior session. Refresh the page every 5-10 minutes for updates! Join the party!

Here’s a brief, last minute preview of the junior competition of the P&G Championships. There’s still quite a large field of juniors (see the roster), but it’s still less than the what felt like hundreds of them at Classics. Here’s a few names to follow –

It’s that time of year again where all the elites go to the P&G National championships to allegedly compete to be national champion, but really go there and try and impress the selection committee to make a world’s team.

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 been awhile since we checked in with the Russian gymnasts, so it's about time we take a scroll through the 24-hour gymternet news cycle and see what we find! University Games

Full women's roster for both Juniors and Seniors competing at the 2017 P&G Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim California, Aug. 17-20.

US Classic has wrapped up for now. Scores are in and the winners have been crowned. Next stop, Anaheim, California for P&G Championships. So who came out on top and what were some of the biggest surprises and standouts? What else was worth talking about? Find out in this elite edition of my Power Rankings. This isn't any "official" rankings. Mostly just people and things that are newsworthy or interesting.

These athletes qualified to the P&G Championships, Aug. 17-20 in Anaheim California from the US Classic last weekend. These are not a comprehensive list of all competitors, but these athlete had not previously qualified to P&G Championships as of the US Classic last weekend, but were able to advance based on their scores.