GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast19 Huhti 2017

249: NCAA Championships

IN THE NEWS

Spencer, and Jessica chat about the 2017 NCAA Championships:

Semifinal One:
- Scoring started tight/correct but did it stay that way?
- Utah gymnast sent a lovey message to apologizes for alleged behavior of their fan
- OU was shaky, UCLA shook up their lineups and improved
- Ross made history by becoming the first female gymnast ever to be an Olympic, World and NCAA champion.
- Maggie Nichols vs. the beam
- Fans of the Year Award goes to Iowa!
- Crack or Correct : Denver's Karr stuck her 1.5 but didn't get the score she deserved.
Semifinal Two:
- Alex McMurtry (FL) wins all-around and stuck her DTY after not doing one for a month.
- LSU on fire but used all their fuel too early.
- Save of the Meet Award: Lauren Johnson (Georgia) bars gienger
- Living Your Best Life Award: Ashley Lambert (NEB) floor and tweet to RuPaul
- Stick of the Meet: Mollie Korth's stuck DLO 1/1
Event Champions (full results)
- Jessica loves all the ties, Spencer hate them
- Should every judge's score count to eliminate ties?
- Katie Bailey (Alabama), only gymnast with an event title the last two consecutive years
- Alex McMurtry only gymnast to get 10 from all 6 judges
Team Finals
- Oklahoma 198.3875 (highest Super Six score ever)
- LSU 197.7375
- Florida 197.7000
- UCLA 197.2625
- Utah 196.5875
- Alabama 196.0000
- Oklahoma: least controversial, most well-deserving team of all time.
- Maggie Nichols got a 10 on beam and from at least one judge on every single routine she did.
- Breaking down what happened to LSU
- How Dana Duckworth became an international hero with one simple interview.
- Peng Peng got a 10 on beam. FINALLY!

Behind the Scenes Shenanigans
- The bars weren't set up correctly for podium training
- Athletes had a 15 hour day during semifinals day
- Human Bowling: Florida warm-up
- F-yeah we beat Florida video breakdown
- McKenzie Wofford dropping the trophy
- St. Louis as a host city
- Ft. Worth future host city
- ESPN should buy the rights to every single gymnastics meet world-wide because their coverage was stellar!

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