New England/New Jersey College Gym Preview 1/24-1/25

Posted a modest preview of the weekend in College Gymnastics in New England and New Jersey

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Posted a wrapup of New England/New Jersey College Gymnastics 1/16-1/18

by David F.P.
(Scores from Troester)
Here’s just a quick look at the past weekend in New England/New Jersey College Gymnastics. (literally typed hastily for time reasons) There will be more detailed posts to come in future weeks featuring discussions of routines, and more than just score posts. The first few weeks are tough as I rarely see more than a few teams first hand, and in this case due to weather haven’t seen any except on video. As the weeks go on as well I will also delve into more context regarding the teams faced as well as the teams in the region, but in the first few weeks it’s still a period of seeing how the teams are shaping up.

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Weather weather weather!

My trip to Brown was called off by a large snow storm, a variety of accidents and an official warning from the State of Rhode Island. However I did watch the meet on line and we'll be able to provide some insights to Brown later in the week.

I am currently waiting for all the scores and info to come out about this past week and then I'll be able to start writing about this past week and look towards next week where hopefully it will not snow again. New England gets snow but this is ridiculous.

More updates to come!

MIT, Yale, UNH, SCSU, Rutgers Mini Reports up and the week ahead.

Using what I have to work with I’ve got mini-reports up from this weekend in New England gymnastics as well as preliminary looks at the routines UNH and Rutgers are doing.

Rutgers at UNH mini meet report

Mini report for MIT, Yale, SCSU meets

UNH routines page (It’s a start, more updates to come.)

Rutgers routines page (Also a work in progress.)

I’ll also be writing up a Bridgeport season preview, as well as previewing this weeks meets, delving into the regional picture more, and updating the floor music lists if possible.

Modest SCSU, MIT, Yale, UNH, Brown, Rutgers previews up.

I’ve posted modest team previews, which certainly have plenty of limitations as usual, but should they be of any interest they’re up. Bridgeport’s preview is coming next week. I wanted to add more color to them, but time didn’t allow it, but I will be putting that into meet reports.

http://gymnasticsreport.net/super/index.php?cat=16

As a fan the amount that I don’t know about gymnastics far outweighs what I do know so these previews are basically based on what I can write about, but admittedly I’m no expert in many areas. My goal is to increase awareness of college gymnastics as well as teams that don’t get a lot of attention, so I do what I can.

My goal is to attempt to bridge a gap between the more technical expertise of the sport and the genral fans who may not know what the moves are called but are amazed by them anyway so really my focus will never be on the more technical aspects, which are best left to those who are true experts. I believe though the growth of the sport relies on first getting current gymnastics fans out to meets, and secondly drawing in more fans who can just enjoy what’s happening without knowing that skill was worth X difficulty but it’s a balancing act.