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btl TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume XV / Number 4-5 (Double Edition) April - May, 1973

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PUBLISH.: While we concede that we are late w ith getting the magazine out, it does afford us the chanceonce again to remind our readers that we are still compiling results of the various State Championships for inclusion in our annual HiGH SCHOOL edition. As of the end of june, we had not received reports from any California championships, Colorado boys, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska , New Hampshire, New jersey, New Mexico, Ohio boys, Oregon boys, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia , Washington , or Wisconsin . Refer to our list in the August-September GYMNAST of meets which we have been able to publish in the past. Even at the risk of duplicating offorts j please try to get results, (top 3 only please, with scores), write.up, and action photos of the winners. The GYMNAST serves as ' the only real record once the ditto sheets have faded and become forgotten , Many top college gymnasts, and a few Olympians first received nationwide attention when their names appeared in the MODERN GYMNAST. (Don ' t forget the girls ' championships also - even though we have always apparentl y stressed the boys, we have published whatever girls' results which have been sent to us.)

Start planning for this year's Santa Monica Gymfest.... Remember as always it will be held over Labor Day weekend September 1st, 2nd, and 3rd . Open to gymnasts of any age and ability the three day meet has always' been the big gymnastic event in Southern California during the summer. In previous years gymnasts from all parts of the country have made ' the journey to Santa Monica (the land of somersault-s and surf) for the beach meet and if you are planning on joining us let us know .. .. And if you would like more information just write: Rich , Barbara and Michelle c/ o GYMNAST magazine P.O . Box 110, Santa Monica , Ca. 90406 (where else).

GYMNAST magazine is published by Sundby Publications, 410 Broadway, Santa Monica , Ca. 90401 . Second Class Postage paid at Santa Monica, Ca . Published monthly except bi-monthly June, July, August and September. Price 75Â˘ a single copy . Subscription correspondence , GYMNAST - P.O. Box 110, Santa Monica , Ca . 90406. Copyright197;JCl all rights reserved by SUNDBY PUBLICATIONS, 410 Broadway, Santd Monica, Ca. All photos and manuscripts submitted become the property of GYMNAST unless return request and sufficient postage are included .

4 FROM THE PUBLISHER, Glenn Sundby 6 ON THE BEAM, Barbara Thatch e r 8 VIEWPOINTS, Dick Criley 9 COMPULSORY EXERCISES, NCAA judges 10 NCAA REPORT, Dick Criley Team Competition Team Finals Individual Events 14 SPECIAL AWARDS 16 ALL-AROUND 18 FLOOR EXERCISE 20 POMMEL HORSE 22 RINGS 24 VAULTING 26 PARALLEL BARS 28 HORIZONTAL BAR 30 NCAA COLLEGE DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIPS, 1973 -32 34 38 40 42 44

CENTERFOLD, Debbie Fike AIWA NATIONALS, Charles L. jacobson USGF SENIOR NATIONALS, Nissen Newsletter USGF JUNIOR NATIONALS, Rodney C. Hill AAU SENIOR NATIONALS, jerry F. Hardy YMCA NATIONALS, Phil Wortman , Charles jacobson 4b RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS, Mildred Prchal 48 NCAA REGIONAL RESULTS 50 NEWS 'N NOTES, Renee P. Hendershott Sokol Organization, Ellen jeanne Schnabl USGF Region VIII Qualifier, Marialice Carter Mini judging Clinic, Delene Darst 52 JUNIOR COLLEGE NATIONALS 53 INDEX FOR 1972 (Vol. XIV GYMNAST) 54 VAULTING DRILLS, jim Turpin 56 SEQUENCES BY SCHULZ, Dieter Schulz 58 ADVANCED BALANCE BEAM, Don Tonry 62 CALENDAR

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As a journalist I have lo st my creditability. It is as simple as that. In February 's magazine I boldly predicted that SIU (Southern Illinois) would again reign as NCAA champions .... Well, the mighty team from Carbondale was beaten in the regiona ls by a strong Indiana State University (ISU) team and so th e Salukis with the exception of a few people stayed home this year ... : However that fact will not cause me to change my loyalty. I refuse to be,a fair weather fan as far as SIU is concerned. Calm, cOlliident and cons istent are not words you u sua ll y associate w ith Cyclones, but they appropriately fit the Iowa State University team . Under what must ha ve been tremendous pressu re each gymnast came through like a pro (or rather amateur) and hit nice, solid, routines. Some coaches strive to produce individual stars and others work for 'a we.! I rounded team that is capable of performing together as a IInit. Ed Gagnier has done an obviously excell ent job of being the second type of coach , although he has two fine All-Around men in Jim (Birdman) Stephenson and Doug Fitzjarrell. Congrat ul ations to the Iowa State tea m and Mr. Gagnier who was named " Coach of the year " .. ... Not bad. I was very fortunate in getting to see the NCAA's. I think my throwing out subtle hints two months befo're the competition like " It must be beautiful in Oregon in the spring. " might ha ve helped. Watching the three days of competition you couldn ' t help but be impressed by the endurance and determination of so me of th e gymnasts especially Marshall Avener who made it through the compulsor ies, optionals and team competition and qualified for four events in the indi vidual finals. But the finals were just a littl e too much for him afte r the st renuous team compet ition that morning and a spectator who had not witnessed his ot her p erformances might question how he became A ll-Around champion . He had to struggle through several parts of his routines and with a little more rest probably would have done much better.

My young lady "On The Beam" this month is Jeri Cameron, an ll-year-old competing with the Arizona Twisters from the Scottsdale Girl's Club. A gymnast to look for in the future she considers bars (unfortunately not beam) her favorite event and currently holds the Arizona State title in the junior division. It was a tough weekend for Gary Morava junior at SIU who must certainly wish that Steve Hug were gradu ating this year. Finishing second last season beh ind Stanford 's top AIIAround man (Does th e S on hi s uniform stand for Stanford or Superman?) Gary agai n finished behind Mr. Hug and Mr. Avener who shared the All-Around titl e. Last yea r's NCAA va ulting champ ion, Gary executed so me nice, high vau lts, that would certa inly have qu alifi ed him into the finals except that he didn ' t qualify in that event in th e regionals and so wasn't eligible. Oh well maybe next year. ,

I mentioned LSU (Louisiana State) once before but rea ll y didn' t do it ju stice . Coach Armando Vega has one sensat iona l All-Around man in MikeCarter. Trailin g behind Dave Repp and Jim Ivicek both of UNM fo ll owing the co mpulsories, th e little tiger (that ' s LSU's masco t by the way) ca me back supe r strong in the optiona ls parti cularly in rings and high bar and swung right into the fourth place AIIAround slot. Thou g ht for a minute that he might even boun ce Gary Morava out of the third (actually second) place position .

Photo by Ma,~ Davis

Also impressive was the spirit and enthusiasm of the University of New Mexico squad. Rusty Mitchell's prot eges cheered , clapped and seemed genuinely happy for each othe r's success. Spirited in fact is much too tame a work for the m en from Albuquerque. They were so excited about Jon Aitken winning the NCAA high bar tide' and had so much symp athy for hi s poor ripped hands that they decided what he needed was a little tape ..... 42 ro ll s of it. They proceeded to wrap not only his hands but hiS 'whole body with it. He said it took him hours to get out of it. No name could be more suitable for that team than the Lobos. Seriously it was good to see Jon win hi gh bar after thre e years of unsuccessful attempts. (Two third place finishes and one second.) His routi ne was so smooth and his 'stalders (my favorite 'm ove) were beautiful.

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This is Jon Aitken (the one with the taped face). This is the U of NM gymnastics team (the ones with the big smiles). And this picture was taken before the team had completed the task of wrilpping the new NCAA High Bar champion in 42 roles of tape. Almost unbelieveable. And remember you SilW it first in GYMNAST magazine.

Wat ching Penn State durin g th e team final s I heard so meon e say " What is a Nittany Lion ?" and th en I thought about it and rea li zed I didn ' t know eit her. So the questi on of th e mo nth is "What is a Nittany Lion?" Penn State tri ed b u t just cou ld not clo se in o n Iowa 's lead after th e prelim inaries. Eve n wit h Jim Kruest returning to th e team next seaso n, Penn State ju st won 't have that o ld strength o r ro ar o f a li o n w ithout Mr. Avener.

* Li ons and tigers and b ears, oh m y. Yes th e Cal (University of) bears we re at Nat iona ls too. A fairl y you ng tea m the ir top All-Aro und m an is fr eshman Tom Weeden, w ho w ith a few more years ex perience co uld be an outstandi ng A II Around p erformer. Cal had a rough time in the compul so ri es and althou gh th ey did quite w ell in the optio nals it wasn 't quite w ell enough to get th em into the tea m fin als. A lways a stro ng team in th e Pa cifi c 8 (Pac 8) yo u have a fee li ng Cal wou ld so meday like to cl aim anoth er NCAA c hampions hi p title. Too bad Dan Millman, George Greenfield, and a few oth ers aren 't startin g o ut as f!~shmen aga in.

Mo vi ng o n to more im portant (?) t hin gs . m ea ns m ovi ng o n to Pasadena and w hat d oes th e word Pa sa de na mea n to m any gy mn asis, . th e Pasadena National (now Intern ati onal) Invitational of co urse. A lth o ugh not as we ll known as th e Rose Bo w l Parade (but give it time) th e meet neve r-th e-I ess manages !o attract spec tato rs and gy mn asts fro m ac ross th e co untr y. (A t rip th ere is wo rth it ju st to see th e trophi es, th ey ' re enorm o us). A nd thi s yea r's 24th annu al wa s no excep tion ; fin e gy mn asts of all ages were in vited to parti cipate and amo ng this year 's co ntestant s we re Yoshi Takei, Jim Ivicek, Richard Pascale, Jim Turpin, and Ted Marcy. (Wh o by th e way recei ved a 10.00 as on e of h is scores for hi s si d e ho rse rout ine.)

On e of t he most memorable routin es of th e "PNI" was that of Mark Davis o n rings. Entertai nin g doesn' t quite adequately d escribe the ant ics of the fo rm er high bar man for SIU, The Hempfie ld High School girl's gym~astic team.

former MG ce nterfo ld , pa st star of th e Santa Monica Gymfest, " Kin g of th e Qu ad " and pi ct ure wit ho ut a name in m y Decemb er co lumn. Littl e did I kn ow th en that I wou ld act uall y meet thi s nam eless fa ce and see hi s ve ry funn y co medy. routin e. U nfo rgetable and unbeli eva b le th at abo ut sums up Mark and th e Pasadena In vitati onal . It 's not easy tryin g to sum up th e accomp li shm ent s of Charlie Pond in a mere par ag rap h. Durin g hi s 24 yea rs as hea d coac h at the University of Illinois, Coach Pond ha s coac hed 11 Olympic p erfo rm ers, 19 AAU cha mp io ns, 23 NCAA ch ampion s and 47 Big Ten champi o ns. (That 's qu ite a lot' of champion s.) A nd hi s tea m wo n NCAA team titles in 1950, 1955, 1956, and 1958. Sp.ea king of his caree r he sa id " Twenty-four yea rs is a long time to spend at somet hin g, but th e time w'en t by in a hurry beca use I was doing something I loved to do. I' m loo king forward to m y teachin g and resea rch dut ies." Yoshi Hayasaki w ill succee d Coach Pond, w ho is retiring at the end of th e seaso n. Best w ishes for futur e su ccess to both Coach Pond in hi s'new projec ts and Mr. Hayasaki as he' tak es o n th e difficu lt duti es o f head coac h.

Another coac h retiri ng thi s seaso n I S Bill Coco at Temple University. H e is stepping do w n from the head coach ing positio n in orde r to devote more time to hi s we ll know n club the Mannettes (Ever h eard of Joa n Moo re Rice? We ll th at 's her tea m.) and so hea d coach next yea r w ill be th at form er Olympian and National champion Dave Thor. Sounds like Temple may b e los in g a good coach but also 3ai nin g anoth er good and ve ry enthusiasti c ':lIl e.

Rou ndin g out my list of new coac hes is Paul Ziert recentl y nam ed as hea d coac h at th e University of Oklahoma. A lso m aking th e mo ve to Okl ahoma is Greg Buwick o ne o f M r. Ziert 's former high sc hoo l gy mnasts, and a competitor this season at Illinois State University (1973 AIIAme rican in Flo or Exe rcise) . but not next season. Mr. Ziert replaces Russ Porterfield who is se tting up h is ow n gym nas ti c school in Kansas City.

This is Jim Ivicek, better known to his teammates at U of NM as "Buzzard". Don' t ask me why but Ithink it has something to do with his unorthodox way of working Pommel horse. Anyway even the best of gymnasts like Jim can have an occasional downfall and this was his at the NCAA's. And as I reluctantly leave th e co ll ege gym nasti c scene allow me to c lose on this happy note .... Rem ember t hose d ays not long ago when "Athlete of The Year" was always a footba ll or basketba ll pla yer and mayb e if those tea m s we re doing super bad an occas io nal swimmer o r maybe track star. W ell thi s yea r th e impossible has happened , gymn astics ha s fin all y mad e ano th er breakt hrou gh and Gary Morava was selected by athl etes at SIU as "Outstanding SIU Athlete of The Year." And in the high sc hoo l division Matt Holm from Homestead High in Northern Cali fo rnia was also se lected as hi s school 's "Athlete of The Year." Will wo nd ers neve r cease. First Press Book s for gym nastics, and th en gymnasts voted " Ath letes of th e Year" and maybe someday in stea d o f gy mn astics durin g the half-time show at bask etball ga m es, it will be basketb all du rin g eve nt ro ta t ions at gym meets. (I didn ' t think of that id ea but it's still. good anyway. )

* Enough of that n ow on to our next importan t Item , new gymnastic schools!!! The JanAr Gymni\stic School w ill qpen its doors this summ er with the hopes of bringing gymnas ti cs to an area where sti ll not too many peopl e know w hat it is. (For shame). Coach and owner of tfie school is Mrs. Arthur C. Alois and the add ress is 200 Columbia St., Schuylkill Haven, Pa.

* Congratulations to the Hempfield High School gy mn ast ics team in Landisville, Pennsylvania o n a really great tea m reco rd, two and a half years of being und e fea ted, 25 w in s in a row, three years as · Lancaster County Champions and in four years of leagu e co mpetition 35 wi n s, and three losses. Th e t ea m w ill be losi ng fi ve sen iors this yea r but accord in g to m y source of info rm atio n that won ' t affect the team which will be even stronger ne xt year. Returning to the team next season w ill be Colette Bizal w ho also h as a pretty impressive record (Cqunty A ll-A ro und champi on for two yea rs ) of her own and is n ot only grea t ·at . chalking up points fo r her team but I hear is also a rea l in sp irat ion to the giris. . W ell good lu ck n ext yea r ....

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VIEWpoints by Dick Criley

We've had some well-organized University Division Championships in the past couple years -Iowa State, Michigan and now Oregon. Really, I haven ' t seen such a production since I left Penn State! Oregon coach Bill Ballester, his staff, and the boosters of the Oregon Gymnastics CI.ub went all out to make everyone feel welcome. They set up a hospitality room right in McArthur Court with sandwiches and snacks for coaches and officials and planned a number of excursions to spots of interest including boating on the McKenzie River. (They mayor may not want to take credit for it, but it was nice to have the Championships held in warm, springlike weather.) Meet manager Lindy Baer had things moving so smoothly that Bill had time to circulate and provide personal attention to various problems. Not one to stay at home during the excitement, Marilyn Ballester was also helping out with the task force of scorekeepers. What with their earlier hosting of the Romanian national team, Oregon bids fair to compete with Penn State and Michigan as real gymnastics country.

* Various notes I was surprised that so many of the individuals about whom I made notes during the competitions were right out there in the finals. Thus, fewer comments than usual. As the associated story about the. NCAA's indicates, I was quite impressed by Iowa State's Doug Fitzjarrell, a junior, originally from Colorado Springs, and Louisiana State's Mike Carter, a junior transfer student from Philadelphia. Mike had attended Northwestern Louisiana and left there when Coach Armando Vega left for LSU.

* Also, I want to mention the members of our 1972 Olympic Team who took part in these Championships with distinction: Marshall Avener and Steve Hug, co-AA champs; John Crosby, College Division AA champ; and Jim Ivicek. Steve won the PH .title and John the vaulting title in these competitions while both Marshall and Jim were the mainstays of their teams in the team competitions. All four of them got into the individual event finals on at least two events. We have quite a fine lot of young gymnastic coaches coming along to share the gym floor with our veterans and the young men of the 50s and early 60s. Among the fellows I had the pleasure of visiting with were Randy Carruthers

DIVISIO (Portland State) , Tom Dunn (U. Mass.), Yoshi Hayasaki (Illin o is), Sadao Hamada (Stanford), Sho Fukushima (ass!. coach, Washington), M . Watanabe (ass!. coach , California), Cliff Gauthier (Denver U), Jeff Bennon (Arizona), Rea Anders (San Jose), Ray Lorenz (Chico State), Neil Schmidt (Iowa), Ned Crossley (Army) and Mike Kimball (Utah) . I missed meeting ~Iiff Miyoshi (San Diego State) and AI Moreno (Cal. State-Los Angeles) but wanted to mention them as new coaches present with competing gymnasts.

* The NACGC is finally coming up with systems to hold their meetings to a reasonable length , but they still need to improve balloting on their regional "Coach of the Year. " Ed Gagnier handled an open session on suggestions for the NCAA Rules Committee which saw the innovation of prepared proposals from various conferences being brought out for all to consider. Among the interesting suggestions was one which would set up a set of 24 judges for the NCAA 's so that preliminary competition could proceed on all six events Simultaneously - opening the way either for more teams or a faster meet or both. What an enthusiastic press group traveled out to Oregon for Indiana State! Roger Counsil ' s first team appearance was capped by their third-place team finish and by gold medals for Ed Slezak (PH) and Bob Mahorney (R), with bronze for Kevin Murphy (PH) and All-American Wayne Lewis (HB) and certificates for these fellows and Rick Danley (HB) and Bill Carney (PB). Final thoughts: The packet of information provided the press was quite thorough and complete. However, the inclusion of more team information flyers (to be supplied by each team's sports information director to the host school) would be of benefit to us in writing up indiv'iduals, etc. LSU had provided them this year, and ISU's Harry Borrell also made sure the press had a dossier on the Iowa State Cyclones. On this note, I' ll quit, with congratulations to Ed Gagnier and his Iowa State team , Gene Wettstone and his Penn State Nittany Lions, and Roger Counsil and his team from Indiana State. Also thanks to Bill and Marilyn Ballester for their hospitality and a job well done including follow-up mailings to make sure we got everything!

DATE: AprilS, 1973 TO: NCAA Coaches FROM: Ted Muzyczko, National Technical Director, NGJA: Frank Cumiskey, Judges Director; Judges: R. Chew, T. Walhouse, K. Allen , R. Stout, K. Byers, J. Todd, R. Chinn , D. Gatsines, C. Regna, J. Sheer, R. Fisher.

Compulsory Exercises Deductions and Clarifications Agreed to by Judges 4/4/73 The following compulsory exercise clarifications were agreed upon by the judges . These same clarifications will be used at the USGF Championships. FLOOR EXERCISE No changes--remember up to 1.0 deduction for a tucked front dismount. POMMEL HORSE 1. Added circle -.5 each time. 2. Technique deductions for scissors are in addition to -.3 for lack of height. STILL RINGS 1. Shoulders not at ring level or above on the first dislocate--up to .2. 2. Straight arm shoot shows virtuosity. 3. Excessive bend in arms on shoots--up to . 2. 4. Shoulders notat ring level on giant entry-up to .2. S. Not extending on front cast--up to .2. 6. Bending excessively on back uprise--up to

.2. 7. Bad angle on back kip circle to handstand

andlor excessive use of strength--up to .3. 8. Shoulders not ring level on inlocate--up to .2. 9. No pike after inlocate (before dismount)-up to .2. 10. Failure to use "Whippet Technique" for dismount--up to .7. NOTE: Much latitude will be shown with this dismount. LONG HORSE 1. All 4 judges must agree before a zero will be given for a vault. 2. A zero vault (stoop) will be constituted a, one where the toes pass the end 01 the horse before the hips do . 3. If a fault " saves " a vault, i.e. bending , straddling, etc., deduct up to 1.0. PARALLEL BARS 1. Text indicates horizontal position 'for peach mount. Horizontal is acceptable as a minimum. 2. If the stutz is held in a handstand, deduct up to .2. 3. If the reverse pirouette is done to one rail in handstand position followed by a fall, deduct V2 the value of the pirouette. 4. Higher angles on the dismount will be acceptable, but a flanking action must be shown. HORIZONTAL BAR 1. Stem to handstand andlor with straight arms--reward with virtuosity. 2. Failure to complete kreis kehre with both legs over bar--up to .4. ~SfLouLdeLs~ot bar heighJ OD tbe stra_ddle cut--up to .2. 4. Laying on ihe bar after kip--up to .2. S. Extra giant between turns--.8 automatic. 6. Extra giant before stoop .in--.s automatic. 7. Extra seat circle--.s automatic.

The judges for the NCAA Championships. In addition to the Code and Supplement, the following interpretations are applicable: 1. Up to .3 mitigation for virtuosity will be used for all compulsory exercises . 2. If a move is held beyond the required time, even if it raises the category, do not ,deduct for the total value of that move. For example, if a stutz to a handstand is performed in the parallel bar compulsory and the handstand is held 2-3 seconds, do not deduct the value of the stutz; i.e. ~ 6--thls would be too severe. Do deduct, however, for excessive holding time. 3. The optional exercise execution deductions may be used as deductions for compulsory exercise infractions unless .specifically listed differently in the compulsory exercise text of deductions. 4. The use of the up to .5 deduction for an optional exercise resembling a compulsory exercise is to be used as follows: If 3 A moves are performed in an exact manner as prescribed by the compulsory exercise, the deduction is up to 1/10. If a B move is performed with the same preceding and succeeding part as shown in the compulsory exercise, the deduction is up to 2/10. The greatest deduction possible for resemblance to the compulsory exercise is SilO. This does not ' include the dismount deduction. If the exact exercise is performed, the value is, of c~urse, zero. As a general example, if a gymnast performs 3 B's from the compulsory exercise with the same preceding and succeeding parts, the total deduction would be SilO. If, in addition to these 3B 's, he does the same dismount with the same preceding part, the deduction is 7/10. As a specific example, if a circle czechkehre circle is performed in the optional, this is rated ABA and constitutes a .2 deduction. A double czechkehre, however, should not be deducted, nor should a circle czechkehre to immediateJravel. Note that the general repetition or resemblance rule does not apply when in conflict with event requirements, i.e. scissors, etc. 9

1973 NCAA Gymnastic Championships Un iversity Division by Dick Cril ey

A ti e fo r th e All -A ro und tit le and a sc ramb le for second pl ace in th e tea m co mpet iti o n hi ghl igh ted th e 1973 NCAA U ni ve rsit y Di visio n Gymn as tic Ch amp io nships. No t sin ce 1940 w h en Paul Fin a and Joe Gi all o mbardo ti ed i n w innin g th e A A titl e fo r Ill in ois has th ere b een a ti e for the to p spo t. Thi s yea r, Stan fo rd's Steve Hu g, de fendin g NCAA A A Ch amp, and Pen n State's Ma rshall Ave ner (3 rd AA, 1972) b o th sco red 110.05. In thir d w ith 108. 45 was So uth ern Ill in o is' Ga ry Morava (2 nd AA , 1972). Ro un d ing o u t the top six were M ike Cart er, LSU , wit h 106.90; Jo hn Cros by, Sou th ern Conn ect icu t, w ith 106.85 ; and Jim Ivicek , New M ex ico, w ith 106.35 . Aven er, Hu g, Crosby and Ivicek we re m embers o f th e 1972 Ol ympi c tea m and had an adva n tage in th e co mpul so ries. Th e A ll -Arou nd p erfo rm an ces we re improved th is yea r w ith 19 'perfo rm ers h itting 100.00+ fo r 12 eve nt s (as aga in st on ly eight p erform ers in 1972) w ith 15 sco res of 50.0+ in the comp u lso ri es. Eleve n o f th e 26 A ll - Aro und qua lifiers we re repea ters fro m 1972. Hu g's perfo rm ances we re so lid and he led th e AA by l o ur po ints after the first ro und o f co mpul so ries. H is op ti ona ls we re techn ica ll y excell ent b ut he di d not appea r to merit mu ch 0 1 th e "sp iritu al exp ress io n " beca use of a lack of fl air. Non e-th e- Iess , he q ualifi ed int o th e fin als in va ulti ng, para ll el ba rs, and he ho ri zo nt al bar. H is op ti onal to tal of 54.95 was t hi rd hi ghes t. M arshall A ve ne r see m ed to ha ve had a reb irth in hi s o utlook o n gymn asti cs. He hi t fo r 55.15 to lea d all AA qua lifiers in th e compul so ri es, an d scored 54.90 in th e opt io nals. Fo r hi s e ffo rt s, he qualified into th e finals o n four events: PH , R, V, and PB. In addit io n to th e 12 exercises in the prelimin ar y comp etit io ns, he had to p erform six mo re

o pti o nals in th e tea m fin als (hitt ing fo r 55.35 and lea din g Pen n State into seco nd pl ace) before he could co m pete in the in d ivid ual fin als. All in all , he hit 24 exe rcises (bot h va ult s co unt ed i n th e tea m and indi vidu al fin als) fo r a tru ly grea t A ll- A ro un d perfo rm ance. Ga ry Mo rava o f SI U h i t fo r 55.25 o n th e o pti o nals, th e seco nd h ighes t to tal, and climbed int o th e seco nd hi ghes t AA position . H e d id we ll in th e co m p u lso ri es o n FX, PB and HB , but su ff ered o n th e rin gs. Hi s 9. 0 hech t was about 13th in ra n k b ut hi s 9.45 handspring 1 !" sa ito wo uld have q uali fied h im for th e va ult i ng fi na ls had h e bee n eli gib le (h e did no t qualil y fo r th at eve nt in th e reg io nals); as it was h e ea rn ed fin ali st b erth s in FX and PB and mi sse d HB finals by be in g 7th . M ike Ca rt er fro m Lo ui siana State was a rea l eye-ca tcher w ith flair th at w as uniqu e amon g th e to p gymn as ts. H e has a go od gy mn as ti cs b uil d and sho ul d go a lo ng way u nde r coac h Ar ma ndo Vega's tut elage. His spring o n th e pi ke fro nt step o ut to hand spri ng in th e co mpu lso ry FX ro utin e and o n hi s va u lts was most d ynami c (a lth o u gh he mi sse d hittin g o n hi s fu ll tw istin g hand sprin g op tiona l va u lt). W hen he mas ters PH and brin gs up hi s co mpu lso ry sco res - -a lth o ugh a 52. 65 co mpu lso ry is no th ing to sn ee r at--thi s fe l low is go in g to go pl aces! Jo hn Crosby m oved u p f ro m 8th in th e U n ive rsi ty Di visio n las t year to 5th th is year . w hi le w i n nin g th e Co ll ege Di vision t itl e bo th yea rs. Br eaks o n th e PH and o n PB co m p ul so ries left h im in 11th pl ace, b ut h e battl ed back w ith th e h ig hes t o pt io nal to tal, 55.65 fo r a q uite resp ectabl e fin ish. H e was par ti cul arl y o utstand in g w ith 9. 55 o n FX and 9.60 i n va ulti ng and q ua li fied into th e fin als o n bo th eve nt s. Jim Ivice k co ntribut ed 45.95 so lid po int s towa rds New Mex ico ' s tea m sco re pl us a shakey 7.75 fro m PH fo r a co mpul so ry total of 53.70, w h ich was th e th i rd hi ghes t co mpu lso ry tota l. Th e PH eve nt aga in wea ken ed h is opti o n al to tal w hi ch was52.65 . He loo ked sh arp o n FX, V, and PB and qu alif ied seco nd in to vau ltin g fin als and fourth o n PB .

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TEAM COMPETITIONS As pred icted th e t ea m com pe tit io ns found more tea m s w ith st ro n g co mpul so ry sco res (on ly Iowa fa iling to m ake 150 point s) t h is yea r th an las t. The additi o n al year's ex peri en ce w ith th e co mp u lso ry exe rcises ce rt ainl y showed . Fou r tea m s, New Mex ico, Penn St ate, Mi ch igan, and Indi ana State sco red in th e 159's w hi le Iowa State ro lled in w ith 161 .90 . It w as ob vio us th at th er e w o u ld b e a fi ght fo r second p lace w ith nea rl y eve ryo ne co nce d i ng first to the Io wa State Cyclo n es . I n th e se quences of co mp etiti o n, Io wa, U ni versity o f Ca lifo rni a at Berkeley, and th e A ir Force A ca d em y w ere first up in co mpu lso ri es w ith th e AF A loggi n g 151.1 5 to Ca l's 151.55. Th e sco res increase d in th e second ro und w i th Mi ch igan, Penn St ate and Louis iana State in th e line-up , bu t th e fin al ro und, w ith Iowa State, Indiana Sta te, and New Mex ico , sh owed rea l co mp etiti ve spirit and even bett er co mpul so ry scores . The o rd er o f r o tatio n in the o pt io n als found th e last tea ms fro m th e co mpul so ri es up fir st in th e opti o nals. New Mex ico slipped a bit w ith 157.55 but Iowa State an d I ndian a State sco red 162. 95 and 161.30 resp ec ti ve ly tose t a high pace for th e da y. In th e n ex t round Penn State ex p lod ed w it h a 163 .55 w hi le M ichi ga n reco rd ed 159.55 an d LSU 158.25. In th e fin al evenin g sess io n, Ca l ne tt ed 160.55, Iowa 160.05 , and t he A ir Fo rce A ca d em y 158.40. Q uali fyin g int o th e team fi nals we r e Iowa St ate at 162. 425, Penn St ate at 161.40, and Indi ana State at 160.60. M ichi gan was fo urth w ith 159.325, New Mex ico fifth at 158.725, Ca l sixt h w ith 156.05, AF A 154.775 , Iowa 154.40, and LSU with 154.1 25.

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The yo ung Lo ui siana Sta te Un ive rsit y tea m , represe ntin g th e SIGL, showed it had come a long way und er Armando Vega 's coac hing . Out standin g ind ividu als were Mike Ca rt er, Steve Stein and Rick Ru sse ll. Floor exe rcise parti cul arl y sho wed Coach Vega's influ ence inclu ding layo ut b ack to sp lit s (Farm er) and smooth transiti ons plus powerfu l tumbling such as Stein 's doubl e b ac k mount and arab ian 1- Y4 and Carter 's double tw ist m o unt , hi s hand sprin g to h igh front so mi e, and RO , ff , wh ip back, fu ll tw istin g dismount. Carter 's po we r also showe d o n th e rin gs, PB, and HB. On th e HB he thr ew a flan k va ult to reg ras p behind hi s back and a cas t into pik e fro nt di smount. Ste in 's d ismount app ea red to be a front so mi e (o n th e bac k swin g) to a barani out. LSU 's stron ges t even ts we re FX, R, V, and HB . Th e Universit y of Iowa ga ined a berth in th e NCAA's as a resu lt of a new rule w hi ch permitt ed th e hi gh es t seco nd pla ce tea m out of the va ri o us co nfere nces to fill an y unfill ed slot-in thi s case that of th e PC AA w hi ch did not ha ve a tea m that ea rn ed 300 points. Iowa 's strength def init ely was w ith th e o ption als (160.06 to 145.75). Ve teran s Ca rl Walin , and Bob Sa lsto n e really ca rri ed th e show for th em while Da ve Lun a qua li fied into th e PB fina ls. Some stron g indi vidu al p erf ormances we re D ave May, Sa lstone, and Wal in on FX (May had a ve ry nice 1 y, tw istin g di ve roll w hil e Walin showe d good tumblin g: Fro nt step out , hand sprin , pi ~fr o nt ;a nd stre ngth: pl ancne, press to hand stand , and straddl e L, pres s to hand stand ), Wa lin and D an Repp o n rin gs, Gary Quig g w ith a good hand sprin g full t w ist o n Va ultin g, Lun a's PB, and Walin 's optional HB . Iowa 's 27+ eve nt s

Their 159.00 co mpul so ry tot al put th em in strong co nt ention for the third slot in the team fin als, but th eir bes t-l aid plan s we nt awry in the The Air Force Acade m y has it s stro nges t tea m op tion al half of th e co mp etition. Ol ympian jim in ye ars but was wea ken ed through the lossofa good three -event man, Phil Na rd ecchi a. Th ey Ivice k, w ho (a lo ng w ith th e rest of th e team) wo uld like to omit th e PH eve nt, con tributed we re two to four po int s o ff th e pace the y se t in five of th e 11 scores of 9.0+ w ith other the Wes tern Ind ependent qualif yin g mee t. A IIAro un d ve teran s Bill Ritt er and Steve H o it we re outstanding perfo rm an ces from Da ve Re pp, suppo rt ed by Breck Cu nnin gham, Ma rk Hya tt , jon A itk en, and M ike Bowen . FX was not as Larry Garrett and j o hn Tomich . Th eir stron g as in th e pa st altho ugh th e sco res were perfo rm ances we r e ge nerall y clean and safe co nsistent. Th eir rin g exe rci ses we re strong w ith a good co mpl etion rate. A 9.4 fo r j o hn w ith r es p ec t to both str en gth and sw ing w ith a Tomich' s handspr in g w ith 1 y, sa lta gave him an lo t o f depth: 8.9 's from A itken, Vic Randazzo, and Gar y V in ciqu erra. In va ulting th ey 18.35 and a berth in th e va ultin g fina ls. In opt iona ls, the team topp ed 27 onl y in th e va ult successf ull y tri ed the n ewe r, hard er va ults wi th but we re a co nsistent 26+ on all th e other a 27 .25 to show for it. On PB on ly Repp and Ivice k look ed sharp w hil e eve ryo ne but jon eve nt s. Th e U ni ve rsi ty of Cal ifornia at Berkeley Aitken (9.6) sho wed minor brea ks o n HB. Whil e ret urn ed to th e NCAA champion ship s after a va ul ting was unquest ionab ly th eir be st eve nt in yea r 's abse n ce (d u e to NCAA susp ensio n fo r o ption als, all excep t PH we re goo d and R, V, PB vio lation s in another spor t). Large ly a yo ung and HB ave raged 27+ in co mpul so ries. The Un ive rsit y o f Michi ga n brought de pth tea m, th ey we re led by AA men Tom Weeden , St eve Pos ner and C lark j ohnson w ith h elp fu l and bal ance to th e NCAA' s sco rin g 159.10 and assists from Charles Gl ass to account for 14 o f 159.55 in th e co mpul sori es and optionals th e 18 op tion al tea m scores. Li ke Iowa , th ey respec ti ve ly. Vet era ns Ra y Gura, Ward Black , rebound ed from wea k co mpul so ry se ts to a Monty Falb , and Bruce Medd we re joined by Pierre Lecl erc and j ea n Gagno n to build respectabl e 160.55 op ti o nal tot al. Th eir floor ex (27.30) fea tured so me stron g tumblin g p lu s a smoo th an d so lid tea m p erfo rm ances . Black couple examp les o f the spit zw in ke lstut z (look showed exce ll ent tumbling in FX (a strong th at up in yo ur Code of Point s) fro m Erw in forward pass in his mount , follo we d by RO , ff Ru zics and Steve Pos ner. Specia li sts Ma rk w ith V, tw ist to fu ll tw istin g di ve roll to Ito and Adams and G lenn Seymo u r co ntributed 8.9 and di smo unt w ith RO , ff , ba ck to p un ch front ) eu enswa nder showed 9.0 to the PH to tal of 26.20. Gary In a p erfo rm ed w hil e Falb and j oe a real c lean rin g routin e for a 9.15 and Mark good swin g tech niqu e o n the rings. Th e Lu ndy turn ed in a 9.00 to co ntributi'!'tG a 27. 10 va ultin g tea m hit for 28. 00 w ith a se t of ri sky rin gs even t sc ore. Vau lting was another 27+ vau lt s, we ll p erfo rm ed: Ga gnon , Yamash it a eve nt , but the para llel b ars turn ed to disaster as w ith full (o r 1 y, tw ists?) tw ist for 9. 25; Gura, nea rl y eve ryo ne excep t G lass had breaks on hand sp ri ng w ith fu ll tw ist for 9.30; and Leclerc, th eir di smou nt. Th e exe rcises looked stro nge r ' Tsukahara for 9.45. A ll th eir tw isting va ults on H B (wa tch o ut for Ru zics!) w ith 8.7 and 8.9 looked as i f a trampo lin e twist was employed. from Weeden and Po sner and G lass (9.3) Althou gh the lead -off m en broke on PB, th e thro w in g a fin e piked double to ca p a po we rful others saved th e eve nt w ith a 26 .26, but disaster ro utin e. With anoth er yea r to wo rk on th e stru ck on HB and away we nt any chance to compu lso ry se t, the y should be rea l qu alif y into th e tea m fin als. chall engers. Th e U ni ve rsit y of New Mex ico had th e good Indi ana State had ousted Sou th ern Illinoi s fortun e (?) to co mpete in a round w ith the University in the Ea stern Ind epe nd e nt stron g team s of Iowa State and Indi ana State. qualif yin g round. Not on ly th at, but they had Indi ana State University, third place team. "J

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qualified nine indi viduals into eve nt med al too, w ith 8.9 from fres hm en Keith H eaver, 9.3 compe tit ion an d of these , six were d estin ed to from Stephenson (good straight arm wo rk ) and mak e it to th e fin als. So many indi vid uals 9.2 from Kim Orr (w hi ch, added to hi s 9.35 co ntributed to th eirteam qu ali fyi ng efforts that co mpulsory, qualifi ed him into th e finals). Iowa it must be sa id , here wasa rea l team effort: Paul State ha s always b ee n strong in va ult ing and thi s Mellin and Pdul Woerz o n FX , Kev in Murphy yea r was no exception : Tsu k ~.h a ra fo r B.95 from and Ed Sleza k on PH, Tom Mo rgan and Bob Pat Lajk o, Tsukahara for 9.0 from Steph enson, Ma ho rn ey on rings, Wayne Lewis, Dave Huson , and full twisting hand spr in g fo r 9.25 from Buck. and Paul Blasko on Vaulting, Bill Ca rn ey on PB , Th eir 27 .35 on PB was th e hi gh es t optional total and Lewi s, Rick Danley, and Chris Li cht o n HB. for any of the tea ms on that eve nt thanks to Stephenson , and Graham . Th e floor exe rcise routin es we re baSica ll y Fit zjarrell , simil ar, p un ctu ated by high C's su ch as Fit zjarrell 's form showed to good result here, handspring fu ll twisting dive roll , double tw ists, . too, alth o ugh he had a break in hi s kip with vi etc. Slezak was unbelievable o n the PH turn in hi s m o unt sequence . On HB comp ul sory w ith a 9.65 plu s a 9.35 fo r hi s Stephen.son worked w ith beautiful ex tension op ti o nal. On rings eve ryo ne used a full tw isti ng and the team effort o f Pat Nee lan, Graham and dismount except Ma ho rn ey w h o used a pik e Stephenson brought a 27.55 tota l. double. Th eir va ults were simpl e, mostly Yamas hita and handsprings, though Lewis threw a nice full tw isting dismount except Mahorney who used a pik e double. Their vau lt s were simpl e, mostl y Yamashita and hand sp rin gs, though Lewis threw a nice full twisting hand spr in g. On PB , Danley threw a pike back off from a handstand whi le Carney 's o ne-armer was a littl e shake y thou gh he hit hi s do uble back OK. Th e HB was especially strong-2B. l0!-with Li cht dismounting with a rudolph , Danley w ith a hi gh double, and Lewis with a double twi st. A ll event s except comp ul so ry FX and opt io nal PH we re 26+ for Indi ana State. Penn State has always fielded a strong tea m and this year was no exception. Led by Olympian Marshall Avener and bolstered by AA men Jim Kruest and John Juli ano, multipl e event man Mik e Greene, and sp eciali sts like 'J erry Young, Bill Murphy, Vin ce Faust, and Brandt Atkins, th ey had th e third hi ghest co mpul sory tota l and the highest option al to tal, 163.55, an average of 27.25 per eve nt. Some TEAM FINALS notes on th eir FX: Green e's arabian -full twi stin g d ive rol l was so high that he broke form The tea m finals were conducted under th e tryin g to recover balance on th e way down. FIG Competition II format requiring two C Kruest showed flexibility in his back ro ll w ith V. four B - three A part s and w ith both va ults turn to che st stand . Young had a nice fro nt co unting. Another sli ght change was in ha vi ng hand spr in g to layo ut front. Avener mo unted all three teams co mp ete at o nce instead of with RO , ff, do ubl e back , but touched hi s kn ees giv ing a bye to one team . Despite this more und dismounted with a double tw ist. PH was demanding format (a lth o ugh not as strict as las t no t spectacular, but so li d. Th eir o pti o n al ring yea r's Competition III for mat), all three tea m s work even topped Iowa State and Indi ana State were ready for it. as Faust, Kru est, and Avener all hit. Kruest 's Iowa Stat e, lead in g by 1.025, pick ed up a form is excell ent but he wiggles his toes in hi s good 2.5 point s over Penn State on their first hold pos iti o ns. Th eir top three va ulters threw event s, FX and PH respecti ve ly. ISU 's Fit zjarrell the hi gher rated va ults: Kru es t a handsp rin g with 1 V1 sa ito and a big step for a 9.0, Atkins a hit a 9.5 for a routine which sta rt ed and fini shed low Tsukahara for 9.1, and Avener a Tsukahara with doub le twi sters and in clu ded a fingertip press and held stradd le planche. Penn State w ith sol id land in g for 9.3. Kruest and Avener (see AA ro utin es) hit well on PB while Kru est 's horsemen hit but without grea t rewa rd except for Marshal l Avener w hose exercise netted ex tension and fle xibility wo n him a 9.2 on HB 9.1 0. Indiana State was ca rving a little lead over (he does a ve ry ni ce doubl e rear to suppo rt ), Penn State with strong rin g p erfo rman ces from but Avener had littl e breaks on hi gh d iffi cult y. Morgan and Mahorney (9.45). Mahorney' s Coming into the champi o nships, Iowa State exe rcise started w ith a kip to planche , included had logged the high es t qu alifyin g scores o n a pullout of L cross, and finish ed with a pik e compu lso ri es and o ptional s (162.50 and 16B.l0) double di smount. and proceeded to show everyon e else w hat it Iowa St ate found out th at th e judges were was all about with 161.90 and 169.95 o n not being generous on PH . ISU 's H ern and ez com pul so ries and o ptionals respectively . Th ey made a great "save" in hi s PH routin e for a 9.1. did no t have a weak eve nt alth ough they co ul d Pen n Stat e pi cked up a bit on" rings with have pu shed the PH optional sco re a littl e co nsistent performan ces from Greene, Faust , higher (at 25.90, howeve r, th ere were but three and Kruest and topped off by Avener 's 9.35 . teams lower). Th eirs was an ex p eri enced tea m PSU 's Faust used a front sa ito with V1 turn w ith 12 event qualifiers and three AA men to dismount on rin gs whil e Avener used hi s represent the Big BConference. Th eir whole FX patented double twi st. Indi an a State , despite tea m was outs tand in g: Ri ch Larse n, Stew Bu ck, Mellin 's 9.1 and Wo erz's 9.15, did not pick up Jim Steph enson , Mark Graham, and Do ug mu ch cushion o n FX. Fit zjarrell , whose form is superb, and w hose exercise ju stifi ably qualified him into th e final s. Came th e halfway point and PSU had logged Ra lph H ernandez ea rn ed a 9.4 on th e but 79.70 to Indiana St ate's BO.50 and both co mpul sory and a 9.15 optional to qualify him teams had identica l 241. 10 tea m to tal s. Avener int o th e fin als. Iowa State hit so lidl y on ring s had substitut ed a doub le twis t to ff for hi s

double back FX mount and scored 9.2 as did teammate Jerry Young w ho hit a beautiful handspring to layout front. Indiana Stat e's powerful PH duo, Kev i n Murphy and Ed Slezak , hit fo r 9.15 and 9.45 respectivel y. Iowa State put tog ether.a27.45 from H eaver, Stephenson , and Orr on rings. tQ lead with ihe running total , 243.475. H eaver showe d a good , cl ean routin e which in clu ded a handstand , lower to cro ss, an L cross, and doubl e fl yaway dismount. St eph enso n and Orr both showed good swing and strength b alance w ith th e latt er d ismo untin g with a dou~le twist. In th e fo urth ro und Indiana State ex pl o d ed w ith a 27.BO on HB (Licht, 9.15; Danl ey, 9.35 ; Lewis 9.30) whi le Pe nn State with 27.40 o n PB' (Graf, B.B5; Kruest , 9.10; Avener, 9.45) slipped

Indiana State University

back 0.4. Th e HB dismounts we re va ri ed: Li cht: rudolph ; Dan ley: doub le fl yaway; Lewis: double twist. Kruest was ve ry clean o n hi s PB exe rcise and showe d vi rtuosity on a b ack upri se to straddle L. Avener was supercharged in hitting on hi s peach to Hand mount. Iowa State took th e dual va ult req uirement in strid e to total 27 .1 25. Fit zjarrell (B.925) used Yamashita w ith V1 and Yamashita, while St ep henso n (9.075) and Lajko (9.125) both used th e Tsukahara and hit very so lid Yama shitas. Indiana State's d ow nfall came in th e vau lt (26.25) , lo sin g better than a full point to Penn St ate o n HB (27.3). M ellin over-rotated hi s Yama shita and handspring va ults, Huson was a littl e o ff-balance on a full twi sting hand sprin g but so lid o n a Yamashit a, while Lewis undert w isted his handspring with full but go t a 9.05 for hi s Yamashita . On HB, his n ext to last eve nt , Kru es t (9. 1) sp rained hi s ankle when he bottomed o ut on a wo rn spot in th e landing mat doing a doub le fl yaway while Avener ju st missed th e sa me spo t on his doubl e. Iowa State, in no troubl e with a two point lead, scored a 27.20 o n PB, including 9.0 's from Fitzjarrell and Graham and a 9.2 from Steph enso n. Doug Fit zjarrell 's form , especiall y hi s toepoint, made him a joy to wa tch alth o ugh he suffered sli gh t executi o n faults on some mo ves. Stephenson 's back o ff with Y1 twist was nicely don e. Penn St ate faced a probl em on th eir la st eve nt , va ulting w ith Kruest out of the ac ti o n, but Mike Gree ne (B.825 for a shakey f ull twisting hand spring and high Yamashi ta) ca me thro ugh to support Avener (9.175 for a hi gh Tsukahara and Yamashita w ith smal l hop and Brandt Atkins (9.225 - individual high - for hand spring with 1 Y1 sa ito and a crooked

Tsukahara) to give Penn St ate a 27.225. Indi an a State had a se ri es of breaks on PB but still tot aled 26.50. Ri ck Danl ey fo und him se lf w alking in hi s hand stand , Paul Blas ko had a pr o bl em kee pin g h is toes po inted, and Bill Ca rn ey threw hi s hi gh d o ubl e sa ito di sm o unt to hi s seat. Iowa Sta te ca lml y glided thro ugh HB w it h a 27.35 th ank s to Pat Nee lan (9.0), M ark Graham (9 .1 ), and St eph enso n (9.25). The tea m to tals in th e aft ern o on fin als supported th e p re limin ary results: Iowa St ate 162.725, Penn State 161 .625, and Ind ian a St ate 161.050. Th e preliminary plus fin al to tals w ere: Iowa St at e 325. 15 Penn Stat e 323.025 I ndiana St ate 321 .650 Io wa St ate had o nl y two brea ks whil e Penn State had at least fi ve occas io n s to worr y in cases wh ere th ere we re brea ks in th e first three men up and th e las t two had to pull it out. Fo r Iowa St ate th ere we re ten AA and six sp eci ali st sco res in th e 9's; fo r Penn State eight A A and three speciali st sco res in th e 9's; and for Indi an a Sta te on e AA and eight sp eciali st sco res in th e 9's. The m ora l o f th e story seems to li e in a goo d bal ance b etwee n th e AA men and th e speciali sts .

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS Compulsories, Optionals, Finals Th e co mpul so ry exe rcises w ere mu ch improved thi s yea r o ver las t (See Table) . Th e fault s obse rved we re mu ch th e sa me as before; howeve r, th e jud ges distributed an addition to th e tabl e o f p enalti es (w hich w e reprodu ce here - see box ) showin g st ricter standard s o f evalu ati on. Co mpari so n o f number o f co mpul so ry exe rcise s sco rin g in the 9's in 1972 and 1973 NCAA 's 1972 1973 FX PH R V PB HB

1 9 4 3 7 3

12 13 15 23 11 18

Floor Exercise More 'C' leve l tumbl i ng passes we re evident thi s yea r : d o ubl e b ac ks (includ e Jo hn Crosby 's RO , ff ,whipbac k, ff, d o ubl e back) , man y double twi sts (m ostl y i n mount sequ en ces ), full twi sting di ve roll s (so ll) e fro m fro nt hand sprin gs), 1 Yl tw isting d ive ro ll s fro m RO o r f f, and arabian 1 V. re ll o ut sa lt o s ~Fr o nt tumblin g passes we re much stro nger as evid ence d b y W ard Bla ck (Mi ch), Ca rl Walin (I o wa), Mike Ca rt er (LS U ), Bob Rikli , (Orego n), and Jerry Yo ung (PSU). Doubl e leg circl es o n th e floor we r e shown by m any, including Hu g,

Ave ner. and Me l Hill (Temp le). A co u p le simple th i ngs seem wo rth menti o ni ng: Dave Chandl er (N. Mex ico) sc isso r sw it ch to shuw fo rwa rd split s hu th ways, Jim Steph enso n (Iowa State) a ve ry sm oo th ff, layo ut w ith !12 tu rn to step o ut to fro n t hand spring wa l ko ut ; l im Krues t (PSU) back ex tension ro ll w ith v.. turn to ches t stan d . Indi vidu als quali fy in g int o the fin als we re Od ess Lov in (O k lah o ma), de fend in g 1972 FX Champ; Joh n Crosby (So . Con n ) 1972 and 1973 Co ll ege Di visio n FX Cham p; Ga r y A lexa nde r (A ri z. St), 4t h in 1972; Ga ry Mo rava (S IU) 5th in 1972; Do ug Fit zjarre ll (IS U); G reg Buw ick (III . St. U.) and Gra ig Carl son (M inn ). Th eir qu alif yin g ave rages d iffered by o nl y 0.25 fro m hi gh to low. Th e to p routin es and res ults are p rinted se parate ly.

Pommel Horse Thi s yea r saw a large num ber of re turn ees and som e ve ry exc itin g exercises. Som e ve ry fin e pomm el h o rse men fail ed to make th e fi nals d es pit e good sco res: Steve Hu g (St anfo rd ), Fulto n Loe bel (Okl a), Larry Eve rm an (N ebr), Jim All en (Co lo. St), Charl es M cGuire (Cal St. N o rth ri dge), Roger W o jtk iewicz (U. III Chi cago Circle), an d L.J . Larso n (A ri z. St. ).

St anford 's Ted M arcy, a freshman, led all q ualifi ers i nto th e fin als w ith an awa rd fo r vi rtu os it y for hi s m eth od o f brea kin g into scisso rs: a ve ry hi gh lift and unde rcut (w h ich he mo d estl y ca lls a " M arcy"). Ed Sleza k (Ind . St ate, th i rd 1972) led all qu alifi ers w ith a 9.65 co mpul sory and 9.3 5 option al. Oth er qualifi ers in cluded Eri c Swanso n (Navy), seco nd 1972; M arshall Ave ner, Ralph H ern andez (IS U), and Kevi n Murph y (Ind . St. ). Indiana State ga rn ered a first an d third w ith Sleza k an d Murph y resp ective ly. W hil e Swanson ti ed Sl eza k in the fin als, 9.35, Sl eza k' s earl y lead w as too mu ch to ove rco me. M arsh all Ave ner, co mpe tin g less th an fo ur h o urs afte r going si x event s fo r Penn Stat e in th e tea m final s, suffere d brea ks o n hi s sc isso rs and had to mu sc le hi s di sm o unt. Ma rcy also h ad b reak s o n hi s scissors, and had seve ral sto ps an d d ropp ed to ti e for fo urth pla ce.

Rings

Th ere we re few gymn asts w h o rea ll y showed and held th e ho rizo ntal lever in th e ri ng com pul sory; most o f the to p qu ali fie rs did p lu s a few oth ers like Stanfo rd 's Howa rd Bessen and UC LA's Mark Sherwoo d . A va ri e ty of impress ive m eans o f d emo nstratin g str en gth were show n, in cludin g Rober t Pop p (N .Co lu) wi th a p ull ; inl oca te an d ki p to p lanch e, Jay A ro nstein', (Ma'>'Âť w it h a cross and p ull to malt ese cross, and Gene Ha il ey (bll St. Fu ll ert o n) w ith p lanc he, cross, p ress tu ha nds talH.l. Qualifyin g into th e fin als we re Mo nt y Falb (Mi ch); Kim Orr (IS U); Benn y Fern and ez (U . Ind ia na), fo urth in 1972; Ma rsh all Ave n er, fif th

in 1972; Jay Aro nst ei n, and Bob Ma ho rn ey (Ind iana St ate) . Falb, th e o nl y bea rded gym nast, was ve ry so li d w hil e O rr was a littl e shakey in hi s ho lds. Ave ner bro ke in hi s cross, th en snapp e d back for a two seco n d ho ld w ith a b ig sm ile an d hit th e res t of hi s ro u t ine. The Ind iana State dy nas ty co nt inued w ith Bo b Ma ho rn ey eas il y captu rin g t he go ld, wh il e In d iana ' s Fer nand ez (by now, a thr ee- tim e NCAA fin alist) se tt led fo r seco nd . Ar o nstein showe d good strength an d co nt roi led swin g in takin g third, ju st 0.025 behi nd Fer nandez .

Vault

Th e gen era l ap p roac h o n the required hech t va ul t see med to be a low pref li ght angle w ith v igoro us pu sh upwa rd and forwa rd and a good post fli ght miti ga tin g so m e tenth s lost in th e low prefli ght angle. M ore gy mn as ts (23) sco r ed 9. 0's o r bett er oh thi s co mpul sory t han an y o th er. O pt io nal va ults such as th e f ull tw istin g hand sp ring, handsp rin g foll owed by 1 yi sa ito, and Tsukah ara we re sco rin g we ll , alth o ugh n o t as hi gh as las t yea r. Poo r fo rm ofte n see m ed ove rl oo ked if th e landin g was so li d and vice ve rsa. Th e Yamas hita and handsp rin g va ul ts were sco rin g we ll b elow t heir va lu es of eve n a cou pl e yea rs ago as j udges looked for even mo re virtu osity in post fli ght be fo re rewa rdin g th e va ulters with bon us p o int s. A safe mid d le gro und see m ed to b e th e Yamashita w ith Yl twist and handsp rin g w it h vi twist. Few o th er va ults we re used . Th e lac k of zones see m ed to enco urage medi ocr e vau lts si nce ma ny va ults th at sho ul d have been clear, n ea r end o r fa r end va ults we re so-so mid-zo ne va ults. Thi s w as parti c ul arl y t rue fo r Yam ashita and hand sprin g va ults. So me ve ry f in e va ulters we re no t eve n q u ali fied fro m the ir co nferen ces fo r eve nt m ed als: Ch arl es G lass (Cal); Mel Hill (Templ e) w ho ti ed fo r th i rd in 1972; Jea n Gagno n and Pi erre Leclerc (bo th o f Mi chi ga n); G reg Le wi s (LSU), W ay ne Lewis (Indiana St); and defendin g NCA A champ Gary Mo rava (S IU). A few o f t hose eligibl e for th e f in als but w ho mi sse d t he cut-o ff incl ud ed Greg Bu w ick (III . St. U), Bran d t A t k in s (PSU ), a 1972 fi nal is t; Jim Steph en so n (ISU) Ri ch Gaylo r (W as h) wh o t ied fo r third i n 1972; and Okl aho m a's Tomm y Yu en, w ho hit and stu c k a tr emen do usly hi gh hand spri ng wi t h 1V2 sa it o . As u sual, t ie sco res brou ght mo re th an six gy mn asts into t he fin als, seve n to b e specific , all b ut o n e o f t hem an A ll-Aro u nd m an. Th ese includ ed 1973 Co ll ege Di visi o n Champ, Jo hn Cros by, hi s Ol y mpi c t ea mm ates A ve ner, Hug, and Ivice k, plu s 1972 finali st Ray G ura (Mi ch ) an d Stew Bu ck (ISU) and Jo hn To m ich (A FA) . Less than 0.3 se para ted th e qu ali fy in g sco res of t he hig h an d low m e n. Crosby was th e cl ea r w inne r w ith a full tw istin g hand sprin g (lo ngitudinal ax is va ult ) and pik ed Tsukah ara with solid land in g fo r a 9.35 average. Ivice k' s hand sprin g w ith 1 Vl sa ito was hi gh b ut required a giant step w hil e his Tsukaha ra was a littl e low, bu t th e co mbin at io n ga in ed him a 9.20. In third p lace, A ve n er used a hi gh Tsukahara w ith o ne recove ry step an d a full twis ti ng han d sprin g w ith a sh o rt hop o n th e landin g to average 9.20, a tenth too low to ti e Iv ice k's C+0 ave rage lea d .

Parallel Bars The reverse stut z in t he co m pu lso ry sho w ed m u ch 15eTter execu ti o n, b u t p ro bl em, -still exis ted o n th e peach, glid e ki p and dismo unt s th at we re too hi gh . In fact, th ere were fewe r 9.0+ p erfo rma nces u n thi s co m p ul so ry th an an y o th er. 13

Optional exe rci ses t ended to be a littl e less stock with a return to ov er-the-side work, the Diamidov, front so mie (Takei ), and double saito dismount. Amon g good but non-finali st exercises were th ose of Breck Cunningham (AFA) , Jay Whel an (So. Conn), Robert M ise k (U. III. Chicago Circl e); John Crosby; Jim Kru es t; Bob Johnston (M ich); Gregg Fenski (I II ), a 1972 finalist ; Mike Carter (LSU ); the Iowa State trio of Doug Fit zjarrell , Mark Graham, and Jim Steph enso n; Da ve Repp (N. Mexico), and Steve Zamora (Co lo. St.). In th e finals again we re three Ol ympi ans, Hug, Avener, and Ivicek; Gary Morava, and newco m ers Dave Lun a (Iowa) and Bill Ca rn ey (Ind. St). Gary Morava 's horoscope must some da y tell him to stay off th e parallel bars as he repeated la'st yea ris d ebacl e with breaks on a straight arm drop, overbalanced his Diamidov and fel l over the side into a glid e kip and straddle up, but from there on it was improvisa tion right up through th e rep etition of the compu lsory di smount. Bill Carne y also suffered a brea k in not holding his one -arm hand stand and walking in another handstand . Ivicek brok e form on his Diamidov and in other pl aces. Avener hit we ll for hi s 10th exercise of the da y but his handstands we re wea k. Dav e Luna pulled out a d ark horse second place with a very clean and so li d performance. Steve Hug won his only clear title with a so lid routine albeit somewhat mechanical , recei ving th e same 9.35 ave rage in the finals as did Luna . Horizontal Bar The flexibilit y requirements of the compulsory st ill continued to elud e some gymnasts : the straddle cut, the stoop through to eagle and the eagle itself. The dismount showed much improvement although there were a few that resembled a straddle cut on rings. The optional routines showed again that less monoton y (fewer stock combinat ions) will carry the da y with 24, 9.0 or better routines out of 64. Much depended on the compulsory, but even here th ere were 18 scores with 9.0 or better. Among th e strong performances w hich were not even eligib le for medal s in this ev'en! were those of Ch arl es Glass (Ca l), Jim Kru est (PSU), Jim Ivicek, (UNM), Bob Dard en (Michl, Pat Neelan (ISU) and Christ Licht (Ind . State). Dismounts inc luded th e usual range from doubles to cast fronts to hechts with greater use of tw ists than in th e p as t ~ regular full tw isting flyaways, pike flyaway with -full twist, (Kerry Ruhl - Iowa, Ron Nissen - Portland State) , hecht with full (Greg Maxwell - Oregon ), barani (straight body by Fitzjarrell) , and a rudolph (1Y2 twists) by Christ Li cht. Andy Saunders (Denver U) pulled off a cast into front but instead of the front wriggled into a 'Ii twist and did a back out (and is reported to ha ve done it piked in practice!) . Finalists on this event were Oregon 's Greg Maxwell; Ri ch Danley (Ind. St) , sixth in 1972; Jim St ephenson (IS U); Wa yn e Lew is (Ind . St); Steve Hug, and Jon Aitken (UNM), third in 1972. The difference b etwee n high and low in the C+0 average was only 0.225 . In the final s, Jon Aitken sho we d a lot of sty le and a very smooth-flowing exerci se to capture first. Hug mounted with a three C combinations and built up from th ere, meriting the virtuosity points for hi s stald ers. Indiana State nabbed th eir fourth m edal of th e evening in Wayn e Lew is' clean and freeflowing exercise. Fifteen of th e 38 slots in th e finals were filled with gymnasts who had taken p art in the 14

grueling afte rnoon session. Leas t fortunate, perh aps,. was Marshal l Avener who had qualified into four eve nt finals (PH , R, V, PB) and had to fa ce AA co-champ Steve Hug on va ulting and PB but took third on both. Indiana State had six be rth s in the finals, Iowa State fi ve , and Pen n State and Stanford four each. Th e re we re 19 AA and 19 specia li st slots, which, aga in , illu st rat ed th at a good balance mak es fo r exci ting gymn as tic s.

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE GYMNASTIC COACHES 1973 HONOR AWARDS

1973 WINNERS

PRELI M. TOTALS PRELIM AVERAG E Iowa State

0 Indiana State

0 Penn State

0 Michigan

0 New Mexico

0 California

0 US Air Force

0 Louisiana State

0 U of Iowa

0 U~IVERSITY

161 .90 162.95 159.90 161.30 159.25 163.55 159.10 159.55 159.00 157.55 151 .55 160.55 151 .15 158.40 150.00 158.25 148.75 160.05

162.425 160.600 161.400 159.325 158.275 156.050 154.775 154.125 154.400 Gene Wettstone

DIVISION TEAM FINALS

IOWA STATE

Floor Exe rcise Pomm el Horse Rings Vaul t Parallel Bars High Bar

27 .900 25.700 24.750 27.125 27.200 27.350

PENN STATE

Floor Exercise Pomm el Horse Rin gs Va ult Parallel Bars High Bar

27.300 25.500 26.900 27.225 27.400 27.300

INDIANA STATE 26.750 27.100 26.650 26. 250 26.500 27.000

Free t:. xe rcise

Pommel Ho;se Rings Va ult Para llel Bars High Bar FINAL

TOTAL

Iowa State

Prel iminari es Fin als Total Points

162.425 162.725 325.150

Total Points

161.400 161 .625 323.025

Total Points

160.600 161 .050 321.650

Penn State

Preliminari es Final s Indiana State

Preliminari es Finals

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GYMNAST Quiz of the month .... Who is the artist who painted those fine pictures that were on display at the NCAA Championships. Please rush us an answer, we would like to give him some credit in our.' magaz·ine.

Th e winner of the 1973 NACGC Honor Coach 's Award is Eugene Wettstone of U ni ve rsit y Par k, Penn sy lva nia . He has been in a co ntendin g position for the past three years. EUGENE WETTSTONE ("Ge ne") Penn State U ni vers it y 1938Born in West New York , N.J. Married to th e form er El ea nor Keen of Algona, Iowa ... Th ey have four children. State U ni ve rsit y of Iowa - B.S. and M.A. degrees. Competitor at U ni vers ity of Iowa. Won man y indi vidu al titles and th e team wo n the Big Ten Champi o nship w hile he was co mp eting. H e ha s se rved w ith distinction for many yea rs on Na tion al AAU, NCAA , USGF, and U.S . Ol ympi c co mmittees. Past Pr es id en t of NACGC and r ecen t w inn er of NACGC Special Recognition Award . H elms Hall of Fam e for Gymn as ti cs. NCAA Coach of the Year. Wettstone, Pro fesso r of Ph ys ica l Educat ion , received th e U ni ve rsit y's McKay Donkin Award thi s yea r. H e has a dist in gui sh ed reco rd as both a coac h and promotor of gymna stics on the U ni vers it y, National , and Int ernati o nal leve ls. H e coach ed the U.S. O lym pi c tea ms in 1948and 1956 an d served on the co mmittee for th e se lection of th e U nit ed States m en 's and wo men 's tea ms for th e Munich Games last summ er. In 1970, h e was th e coac h of th e U.S. team in th e World Gam es, he ld in Ljubljan a, Yugoslavia , and on num erou s occasion s h e has se rved as an O lympi c judge. (He) was th e first recipi ent of th e Master of Sport s Award of the U.S . Gymnastic Federation . and he numbers amon g hi s honors the Lin g Award o f Sweden and th e Go ld Medal of th e Ministry of Education of Finl and. Gene ha s wo n 17' Eastern Intercollegiat e Gymnastics Leagu e champion ships and 8 NCAA titles. H e has produced 9 Olympians and 23 indi vidual NCAA champion s. In du al m ee t 'competition he has co mpil ed 187 - 37 - 1 reco rd . H e has h elped to bring top tea ms to thi s cou ntr y from Scandinavia, including Sweden and Finl and , from the Sov ie t Union , from Germany, Switze rl and and Bu lgaria.

COACH _ OFTH~

Reseatch Awards The J. H. McCloy Hon or Resea rch Award of the NACGC - Sarasota, Florida $100.00 (Sp o nso red b y N isse n) Chairm an - Dr. Newt Lok en (Cooperati ng - George Szypul a) . Tie a. Marianna D. (Mrs. Warren F.) Wakelin (Physical Ed u ca ti on for Women , Anderson H all , No rth er n Illin o is U ni v., Dekalb, III. 60015). " A Comparison of Two Me thod s of Teaching Gymnastics to College Women. " b. A.B. Frederick (Ass t. Pro f. of Ph ys ica l Edu cat io n, Univ. of Wisconsin, Superior, Wis. 54880) " Pr og ramm ed Movement Inst ru ction an d Its' Effect on Lea rnin g a Co mpl ex, G ross Motor Skill. " 2. Th e Hart ley Pri ce Hon or Research Awa rd of the NACGC - Tucson Ar izo na $100.00 (Sponsored by th e Gym MasterCo.) ChairmanDr. Clair Jenn ett (C o-op erating - Jeff Bennon) Tie - a. Kay Flatten (2500 Rockport Rd. Apt. 2504, Bloomington , In d . 47401). " A Study of Judgin g A mplitud e in Women ' s 1972 Ol ympi c Compulsory Uneven Parall el Bar Routin es ." b. R.H. Dvorak, " A Kin ematic Comparison Between the Bent-Arm and Straight-Arm Giant Swin gs on rhe Still Rin gs Using Cinematographical Analysis" 3. Th e Lyle Welser H o nor Resea rch Award of the NACGC - Ft. Lauderdal e, Florid a $100.00 (Sponsored by Atlas) Chairman Di ck Hol zae pfel (Coope rating - Bill Meade) Agnes Chrietzberg (P h ys ica l Education Dept., Marshall Univ., Huntin gton, West Virginia) " The Effect of Pre -Practi ce Training on th e Learning of a Gymnastic Skill. " 4. Th e Leopo ld Zwarg Hono r Research Award of th e NACGC - Berk eley, Calif. $100.00 (Sponso red by American Athletic Equipment I Co.) Chairman - Dr. Harold Fr ey (CooperatingDr. Eri c Hugh es) Sho Fukushima wor king on his Ma ster's D eg ree at the U ni ve rsi ty of Washington . EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - Chairman, Dr. Hartle y Price (Asst. Chairmen - Art A ldritt, Dr. Clair Jenn ett), Dr. Newt Lok en, George Szy pula , Dick H olzaepfe l, Bill Meade , Dr. Harold Fey, Dr. Eric Hu ghes, Jeff Bennon , Frank Cumi ske y. Th ese are th e Di strict Chairmen and their assistants. NOTE: Dr. Clair Jennett will eventually be Chairman of this committee or perhaps Co-Chairman with Dr. Gerald George, who should be very active at annual NACGC meetings. Both m en ha ve ag reed to work closel y with this proj ect. Nex t yea r we should add the new Sec/ Tres. as an Asst. Chairman. TECHNICAL RESEARCH SUB-COMMITTEE Chairm an, Dr. Gerald George; Dr. James Bosco, Mr. Ed Gagnier, Dr. Josep h Tot h, Dr . William J. Vincent. AU recipients of awa rd s are supposed to repo rt their finding s to thi s committee for future distribution. (A lso to the Gymnast ma gaz in e (Glenn Sundby) or Research Quarterly o f AAHPER) RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF NACGC (1973) 1. I would urgeth attheDistri ctCh airmen and their Assistants prov id e extra publi city for th ese awards in th eir own districts. Th ey are to be co mm ended for th e exce llen t job the y did thi s ----year. 2. I wi sh to endor se th e pr ese nt set-up for th e Honor Research Awards. All of us ap precia te the excellent coo perati o n of th e equipment

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compa ni es. I wo uld recom m end th at th ey send in $100.00 eac h yea r in advance for th e awards. The NACGC Sec/ Tres. should then estab li sh a spec ifi c fu nd fo r th ese awa rds. Perhaps occas iona ll y anot her cli ni c might be includ ed if fund s were avail ab le. Ine xpensi ve certifica tes sh o uld be give n to th e w inn ers.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Th e Chairman w ishes to exp ress hi s deep ap pr eciat io n to th e NACGC; th e Gym nastic Clinics at Sarasota, Ft. Lauderda le, Tucson and Be rk e ley : th e G y mnastic Equipment Manufacturers: th e USGF: The Gymnast and other m agaz in es. I w ish to thank FS U in general for full cooperation and to Sei Ito for brin gin g th e material last yea r and this yea r aga in to th e NACGC m eetings. I also w ish to th ank the N isse n Corporation for th e genero us offer to type, duplicate and distribute the material for me if I had any difficu lty. Perhap s in the future I might take advantage of N issen 's kind offer.

NISSEN AWARD

Ed Gagnier Coach 01 The Year

Th e 1973 NatIO nal "Coach ot the Year" is Ed Gagnier coac h of the Iowa State U ni ve rsit y Cyclone s, the 1973 NCAA team champion s. Since com in g to ISU in 1961 Gagnier h as d eve loped nea rl y 50 indi vidu al Big Eight co nference cha m p ions, over 20 All-Americans and 7 in dicidu al NCAA ch amp io ns. Hi s tea m s first NCAA team victory was in 1971 and he has also had two second and two th ird place team f ini shes. A graduate ot th e U ni vers it y of M ichi gan,. Gagnier was capta in of th e 1958 team and th at yea r won the Big 10 A ll-Aro un d title. Born in Ontario, Canada he was a member of th e 1956 Canadian Ol ympi c team and was c hose n as that country 's o utstandi n g juni or athlete th e previous yea r. Gagnier was cho sen Na tion al "Coach of th e Year" in 1971 and ha s been named Regional " Coach of th e Yea r" six tim es. Regional " Coach of th e Year" awa rds for 1973 wen t to Ra y Lo renz, Chico State CollegeWest; Don Robinson , Arizona State-Midwest; Roge r Council, Indi ana State U niversityMideast; and Abie Grossfeld , Southern Connecticut-East.

John Crosby recipient 01 the 1973 Nissen Award.

Jo hn Crosby, a sen ior at Sou thern Connecticut State College was vo ted th e recipi ent of the 1973 Nissen Award. Fifth in th e All-Around co mp et iti o n, and first in va ultin g at the NCAA University Divi sion Championships, Jo hn was also first in the A II Regional coaches 01 the year. Around at th e NCAA College Di vision Championships he ld in San Fran cisco the week before the NCAA's in Oregon. Thi s was hi s third consecuti ve College Di visio n A ll-Aro und titl e. An English majo r w ith a 3.7 grad e point average, Jo hn was a m ember of th e 1972 Ol ympi c team and the 1971 Pan American tea m . It was during t he Pan American Games that he wo n two go ld m edals for th e U nit ed States. The N isse n Award is give n annu all y to the nat io n 's o utstandin g se ni o r co lleg iate gy mn ast. Other nomin ees for thi s year's awa rd were Jo n I _A_v-ce~n-=e_ r ~~'---=-=-~__ I A itk en (UNi',I1), Marsh, a'o-I,-Rand y Balhorn (M igan ), Ray Gura (M ichigan ), Odess Lov in (O kl aho m a), Jim Stephenson (Iowa Sta te), and Eric Swanson Dr. Hubert Dunn and D;. Eric Hughes are this year's (Navy). recipients 01 the Helm's Hall 01 Fame Award. 15

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Marshall Avener (Penn St.)

SIeve Hug (Stanfo rd)

Gary Morava (SIU)

C 8.95 9.30 9.25 9.30 9.35 9.00 9.20 9.35 9.30 9.35

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9.00. 55.15 8.70 54.90

110.05

C 8.95 9.00 9.1 5 8.70

8.95 9.30

9.00 8.65 9.40 8.75

8.10 9.00 9.30 9.00 9.45 9.30

9.15 9.35

53.20 55.25

108.45

8.40 8.60 9.05 9.10 8.90 8.60 9.20 8,60 9.30 8.85 9.00 9.30

52.65 54.25

106.90

Mike Carter (lSU)

john Crosby (5. Conn . St.)

C 9.15 7.55 9.55 8.85

9.35 9.40 9.45 9.20 9.25 9.35

55.10 54.95

jim Ivicek (UNM)

9.05 8.85

7.75 7.35

9.15 9.40 9.1 5 9.40

9.25 9.30

9.10 8.60

TOTAL

53.70 52.65 106.35

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110.05

8.40 9.30 7.80 9,00 51:20 9.10 · 9.60 9.25 9.30 55.65 106.85

Dave Repp (UNM) 105.55; jim Stephenson (Iowa 51.) 105.15; Doug Filzjarrell (Iowa St.) 104.70; Ray Gura (Mich) 104.25; Ma rk Graham (Iowa St.) 103.85; Dubi Lufi (Wash 51 .) 103.60; jeff Rock (M inn) 102.95; Carl Walin (Iowa) 102.35; james Kruesl (Pe nn St.) 100.90; jay Whelan (5. Co nn . St.) .100.80; Steve Hoil (USAF) 100.70; Paul Blasko (Ind . St.) 100.40; Roger Haldeman (Utah) 100.00; Dave Huson (Ind . St.) 98.60; Tom Weeden (Cal) 98.40; Melvin Hill (Temple) 97.80; Rick Russell (LSU) 97,80; Ron Nissen (Porlland St.) 96.15; Bill Ritter (USAF) 95.85; Charles ' Wanner (U of II. Circle) 46.20.

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Marshall Aveners Routines

1973

NCAA

Floor Exercise: Roundoff, bac k handspring, double full , handspring ste p-out , turn, run to front . somersault ste p-o ut, roundoff, pike sid e step-out, jump to "swedish fall , straddle cut , kip y, turn to stradd le to do ubl e leg circles, one a rm pl anche, press to handstand, roundoff dive y, turn , co rne r turn , roundoff, handspring, doubl e full di smount. Pommel Horse: Back moore trave l down , bac k moo re travel up to immediate Bailie, trave l down , loop , uphill moore, ke hre in, moore, scisso rs, trave l down. Russian walk a round to loop y, turn dismount. Rings: Di slocate, high dislo ca te, locked arm shoot , back gi ant loc ked arm, front giant to c ross, dislocate front uprise "L" , hollow back press, giant, disloca te, double full dismount. Vaulting: Tsukahara (Roundoff back) . Parallel Bars: Peach handstand , stut z handstand, ba ck handstand , stutz ha ndstand layaway, uprise, hop pirou ette, cast back stutz , pirouette, back o ff. Horizontal Bar: High Start, stoop, Ta ka moto t6 full twi st ca tc h, kip hop to front giant, hop free hip, reach und er vault, bac k kip German, hop y, turn ; kip change grip to front giant, pirouette, doubl e flyawa y.

Steve Hugs 1973 NCAA Routines Floor Exercise: Ro undoff, bac k hand sprin g, double full , kick ba c k to s; lit s, double leg circles to back support, stand . Roundoff, piked Arabian so mersault ste p-out , handspr in g, front so me rsault , fall to strad dle c ut , sprea d legs to Japanese sp lits, sl id e through , stiffst ift"press (legs together), ste p down . Roundoff, p"ik e d side somersault, swedi sh fall to si t, back ex te nsion roll with y, turn , lowe r down to sid e split scale. Roundoff back handspr ing, full twist. Pommel Horse: Bac k moore, kh e re down , front-in imme di ate Baili e pu sh down to e"nd , Russian to imme di ate stockli up, break int o two front scissors, sing le 'leg cut to two front scissors, single leg cut to two ba ck scissors, two ci rcles, bac k moore trave l down , walk aro und to loop with y, twi st. Rings: Invert e d han g, cast to giant inlocate, ba ck ri se to handstand, front giant to ha ndstand , bailout to front uprise, ho ll ow press to ha nd sta nd , lower to cross, two dislocates, p iked double back. Vaulting : Yamash ita ; Handspring with a full twi st. Parallel Bars: Cast ca tc h, re verse pirou ette, peach to handsta nd immediate forward pirou ette, cast to uppe r arms, back' uprise t~ back stutz, ho p pirou e tte, stutz hand sta nd , back over ba r to handsta nd, drop to peach layaway, frontllj)fise to front off with y, twist. Horizontal Bar: Ste m immedi ate stoo p to one inverted gia nt , one eag le gia nt , hop out to full twisting pirouett e, Ono to vau lt catch, back kip, o ne German giant , stoop o ut with y, turn, kip, immedia te kriske hre to sta lder, two "giants, full twisting flyaway .

Gary Moraya (StU)

John Crosby (S. tonn.)

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Mike Carter (LSU)

Jim tyicek (UNM)

FLOOR EXERCISE ____________________ _

C Odess Lov in John Crosby Gary Morava Gary Alexander Doug Filzja rr ell Greg Bu w ick Craig Carlson

Ok lahoma So. Co nn. 5t. 51U A rizona 5t. Iowa 5t. IlIir10is 5t. Minnesola

9.30 9.1 5 9.00 9.25 9.15 9.10 9.10

0 9.60 9.35 9.40 9.40 9.25 9.45 9.30

Ave. Finals Total

9.450 9.350 9.200 9.325 9.200 9.275 9.200

9.50 18.950 9.45 18.800 9.30 18.500 9.10 18.425 9.05 18.250 8.95 18.225 8.40 17.600

Additional FX qualifiers: Myron Tucker (Ariz. St.) 18.30; Bob Rikli (Oregon) 18.20; SIeve Hug (SIan ford) 18.10; SIeve Gerlach (UCLA) 18.00; Marshall Avene r (Penn . St.) 17.95 ; Bob Sa l Slone (Iowa) 17.95; Jim Ivicek(UNM) 17.90; SIeve Slein (LSU) 17.85; Dave May (Iowa) 17.80; Bill Riller (USAF) 17.75; Mike Carler (LSU) 17.60; Bill Beebe (S IU) 17.55; Slew Buck (Iowa St.) 17.50; Melvin Hill (Temp le) 17.50; Ken Porrazzo (CSU/ LB) 17.45; Jay Whelan (S . Con n . St.) 17.40; SIeve Hoil (USAF) 17.25; Mike Green (Pe nn St.) 17.20; Rick Russell (LS U) 16.90; Kurt Hartel (CSU/ LB) 16.80; Ron Sleeper (CSU/ LB) 16.25; Mickey Wissler (CSU/Norlh ri dge) 16.25; Joh n To mich (USAF) 16.15.

Odess Lovin (Oklahoma)

Crosby (5. Conn.)

Winning Routines Floor Exercise Odess Lovin, (Univ. Oklahoma): RO, ff , wh ipbac k, ff , double twist a nd turn to Swed ish fa ll ; sin g le leg a round a nd under, ste p up, RO, pike sid e , headspring to Japa nese split s; turn a nd roll o n back; along di ago na l: ff oJ( seat to stand, RO, ff, a rab ian 1-';", two foot takeoff handsp rin g forward to fro nt suppo rt , V, turn to forward split s; straddl e press to handsta nd ; pike down ;"pike Russian fr o nt , RO , ff , full twist. John Crosby (Sout!lern Co"nnecticut): RO , ff, whipback, ff , doubl e som ie a nd turn , dropping to front suppo rt ; stand up , Ru ss ian fro nt, RO , stradd le pike sid e , fall o ut to forward splilS; straight ar m, stra ight leg press to ha nd sta nd ; stoop down , RO, 1 V, twisti ng "di ve roll, jump, ff to Iron t.s uppo rt, sca le in co rn e r; RO, ff , h: g h d o ubl e tWister. " Gary Morava (Southern Illinois Univ.): RO, w hipba c k, double twi st , ff to knees, ff to for wa rd sp lits; press si raddl e, stra i'gh t ar ms, st ra ight legs to hand stand ; ste p down, RO, pik e sid e , cariw hee l, pike sid e; kick to han"d s tand and drop back int o spli ts, doub le leg circle with turn to stand ; RO, ff , arabian dive roll , jump, forward roll w ith no a rms up to straddle sta nd , lower to Japa nese split s, back ex te nsion roll ; RO, ff, double twist. " Gary Alexander (Arizona State Univ.): Fro nt with step out to handspring, full twi stin g di ve roll, cockroac h, press to han ds tand , step down ; RO, ff, layo ut stepout and kic k to ha nd sta nd , straddl e down , ba ck extension roll ; RO , ff, 1Vi twi stin g dive ro ll , jump w ith V, turn , back ff to front su ppo rt ; RO, ff , full. Doug Fitzjarrell (Iowa State Univ.) : 1 step to RO, ff , d o ubl e twist, back ex te nsion roll and lowe r to knees and sp rin g backward to hand stand , lower to Ja pa nese splits, raise to straddl e sta nd, stra igh t arm straig ht leg straddl e press o n fin gertips to hand stand (hold ); stoo p down and alo ng the side: full twisting di ve roll to straddl e sta nd , st radd le press to planche; fli p sid eways ove r to rear suppo rt , back ex te nsion roll with v. turn to dia go na l: RO , ff, bac k w ith Vl tw ist, headsprin g to seat drop , illu sion to va ldez to stand ; RO, ff , double twist. Greg Buwick (Illinois State): Fron t ha nd spring, pik e front , fro nt hand spring, sta ld e r ro ll up to handstand; V,turn , co lla pse ro ll ; RO , ff , arabian , ha nd spring , back extension ro ll ; V, piro u e tte, ste p down, back walkover, stoop thro ugh to V, straddl e L, press to ha ndsta nd , y.; piro ue tte, ste p down, RO, ff , a rab ia n dive ro ll , jump, handspring and ste p to sp lits; RO, ff, doubl e twist. Craig Carlson (Univ. Minnesota) : RO, ff, ara bia n 1-';", st raddl e jum p , drop to fo rwa rd splits; press straig ht arm and stra igl'lt- Ieg to ha ndsta nd,./, pirou e tt e, stoo pd ow n; run , pik e front , fl yspring wa lkout , sw inging reve rse piro ue tt e , ro ll o ut , ff to handstand , ste p down ; RO, ff, arabian front , fron t wa lkover a nd ste p to hand sta nd , reve rse pirouette, stoop down to kn ee sit ; inl oca te to kip to wa lkout to stand ; RO , ff, d o uble tw ist.

Doug Fitzjarrell (Iowa State)

Craig Carlson (U. of -Minn.)

Gary Morava (SIU)

Greg Bm\lick (Illinois Siaie)

PH Ed Slezak E.R. Swanson Kevin Murphy Ted Marcy Ralph Hernandez Marshall Avener

POMMEL HORSE ____________________ _

Indiana St. Navy Indiana St. Stanford Iowa St. Pe nn St.

Ave.

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Tolal

9.65 9.35 9.35 9.55 9.40 9.30

9.35 9.45 8.95 9.50 9.05 9.20

9.500 9.400 9.150 9.525 9.225 9.250

9.250 9.250 9.000 8.550 8.850 8.350

18.700 18.650 18.150 18.075 18.075 17.600

Addilional PH qualifiers: Jim All e n (Co lo . St.) 18.05 ; Fulton l oebe l (Oklahoma) 18.05 ; Howa rd Beck (Illin o is) 17.95; Dan Wong (CSUlA) 17.85; l a rr y Everman n (Nebraska) 17.80; John Gracik (Georgia So .) 17.80; St eve Hug (Stanford) 17.70; Ru ss Fystroin (M inn) 17.60; Roge r Wojtkiewi cz (U of III. Circle) 17.60; Joe l Hunt (Ohio St.) 17.55; Glen Seymour (U.c. Be rk e ley) 17.45; Randy Sa bey (Arizona) 17.40; l arry Garrett (USAF) 17.35; l.J. larson (Ariz. St.) 17.35; Way ne Olson (No. illinoi s) 17.30; Mark Hya tt (USAF) 17.25 ; Mike Carter (lSU) 17.20; Gary Anderson (U of III Circle) 17.10; Charles McGuire (CSUN) 17.10; Chris Klinge rman (CSUlA) 16.35; M e lvin Hill (Temp le) 15.90; larry Perez (CSUlA) 15.60; Rick Russell (lSU) 15.50; Dan Be lger (Denver U) 10.80. Ed Slezak (Indiana Stale)

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Pommel Horse Ed Slezak (Indiana Slale Univ.): Back moo re uphill, pommel loop, stock li out, immediate hop, loop around, uphill Bailie, front in , break into reverse scissors, 3 forward sc isso rs, stockli out, 2 back loops, loop, loop w ith ". Eric Swanso n (U.S. Naval Academy): Back moore, front out, loop , back stock li in , behind the back travel to end, reverse loop, front-in-hop-down (a ll on same side of horse), front in , Russian, Ru ssia n on one pommel, break away, 3 regula r scisso rs, reve rse scissors, moore, moore, front out, unpommel ed Russian , walka round, loop off with VI , Kevin Murphy (Indiana State Univ.): Back moore uphill, double, back moore downhill, double, frontin, double, moore to immediate front out (Sh uriock) , back scisso r, 3 front scisso rs, doub le, stock li out , wa lka round , loop, loop with V" Ralph Hernand ez (Iowa State Univ.) : Back moore down , loop aro und, reverse stock li in , Ba ili e, im mediate Ba ili e, '/.0 ou t, push moore, kehre in , fro n t flare, reverse scisso rs, 3 front scissors, circle, tromlot down , loop, loop wi th flare. Ted Marcy (Stanford Univ.): Pomme l Ru ssia n, back moore downhill , Russ ian , stockli in, Baili e, (spectacu lar) break to reverse scissors, 3 regul ar scissors, circl e, trave l down, front in, moore, stock li out, loop, loop, loop wit h V" Marshall A.ener (Penn State Uni â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘): See All-Around routin es.

Marshall A.ener (Penn State)

Ralph Hernandez (Iowa State)

R Bob Mahorney Benny Fernandez Jay Aronstein Monty Falb Marshall Avener Kim Orr

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Indi ana St. In diana Massachusetts Michi gan Pen n. St. Iowa St.

C 0 9.60 9.50 9.20 9.40 9.25 9.40 9.20 9.30 9.25 9.35 9.35 9.20

Ave.

Finals

9.550 9.300 9.325 9.250 9.300 9.275

9.500 19.050 9.450 18.750 9.400 18.725 9.150 18.400 8.900 18.200 8.850 18.125

Total

Additional Rings qualifiers: Mike Minalco (Oklahoma) 18.45; Bill Jaega r (III. St. U.) 18.40; Jim Stephenson (Iowa St.) 18.40; Dan Bruring (S IU) 18.35; Mike Carter (LS U) 18.35; Jim Ivicek (UNM) 18.30; Dave Repp (Iowa) 18.20; Howard Bessln (Stanford) 18.20; Mark Sherwood (UCLA) 18.15; Larry Billow (CSUN) 18.10; Robert Popp (No. Co lo.) 17.85; John Rabins (USAF) 17.80; Tom O ' Donnell (Wash) 17.75; Vincent Faust (Penn St.) 17.70; Roger Halderman (Utah) 17.50; William Hale (CSULB) 17.35; Rick Curtis (Ariz. St.) 17.30; Breck Cunn in gham (USAF) 17.20; Gene Bailey (CSUF) 17.10; Rick Boye'r (U of Georgia) 16.90; Steve Hoit (USAF) 16.85; John Heneise (CSULB) 16.80; Steve McCormick (CSUSJ) 16.45 . Bob M"horm,y

Benny Fernandez (Indiana Univ.)

Winners of the Rings event (LloR): Kim Orr, Monty Falb, Benny Fe rn andez, Bob Mahorney, Jay Aronstein! Marshall Avener.

Rings Bob Mahorney (Indiana State Univ.): Straight body pull to inverted hang, kip to L to immediate planche, kip to handstand , reverse giant with straight arms, regular giant with straight arms, straight body lower to back roll with stra ight arms, front lever, immediate kip to L cross, pullout, hollow back press to hand sta nd , giant, double pike flyaway. Benny Fernandez (Indiana Univ.): Dislocate, st raight arm shoot to handstand, whippit, planche, JA giant, L, hollowback press to handsta nd , stra ight 路a rm giant, reverse kip to fro nt leve r, st raight body dis locate, double flyaway. Jay Aronstein (Univ. Massachusetts) : High start, giant inlocate, back uprise to handstand, regu lar giant, regu lar giant (straight arms) to regular cross (hold), pull to maltese cross (ho ld ), giant drop to front uprise, L, hollowback press to handstand, giant drop to giant dislocate, double flyaway . Monty Falb (Univ. Michigan) : Giant in locate, back uprise to handstand, forward giant , fall out, back uprise to cross, reverse kip to L, hollow back press, lower to c ross, dislocate, double flyaway. Marshall Avener (Penn. State Univ.) : See All-Around rou tines. Kim Orr (Univ. Iowa): Disloca te, shoot to handstand , giant, back uprise to L, hollowback press, power down , L cross, double dislocate, double flyaway.

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So. Conn. St. New Mexico Penn St. Iowa St. USAF Stanford Michigan

9.30 9.40 9.30 9.10 8.95 9.35 9.20

0 Ave. 9.60 路 9.450 9.40 9.400 9.30 9.300 9.25 9.175 9.40 9.175 9.20 9.275 9.30 9.250

Finals 9.320 9.200 9.200 9.150 9.150 8.975 8.850

Totals 18.775 18.600 18.500 18.325 18.325 18.250 18.100

Additional Vaulting qualifiers: Brandt Atkins (Penn St.) 18.30; Rich Gaylor (Was h) 18.25; Jim Steph e nson (Iowa St.) 18.25; Greg Buwick (III. St. U) 18.20; Steve Holthaus (S IU) 18.15; Buck Bl evi no (Co lo. St.) 18.10; james Kruest (Penn St.) 18.10; Shawn Skerrett (Stanford) 18.05; Mike Carter (LSU) 17.95; Tommy Yuen (Ok lahoma) 17.95; Steve Ste in (LSU) 17.85; Myron Tucker (A riz. St.) 17.85; Rick Ru sse ll (LSU) 17.80; Tom Beusc h (Eastern 111.) 17.75; Paul Blasko (Ind. St.) 17.70; Bill Barnwe ll (CSUSj) 17.60; Ron Nissen (Po rtl and St.) 17.55; Scott jon es (CSUSD) 17.35; Bill Ritter (USAF) 17.30; Leonard Peet (CSULB) 17.0; Malt Holsinger (CS UF ) 15.65; john Crosby (5. Conm)

Jim Ivicek (UNM)

Vaulting John Crosby (Southern Connecticut): Full twisting I)andspring; piked Tsukahara. Jiln Ivicek (Univ. New Mexico): Handspring 1 V, salta; Tsukahara . Marshall Avener (Penn State Univ.): Tsukahara, full twisting handspring. !phn Tomich (Air Force Academy): Handspring 1V, salta, full twisting handspring. Stew Buck (Iowa State Univ.): Tsukahara, full twisting ~andspring.

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PARALLEL BARS __________ ___________ _

Stanford Iowa Penn St. New Mexico Indi ana St. Southern III.

C 9.40 9.10 9.35 9.25 9.20 9.30

0 9.25 9.40 9.35 9.30 9.20 9.30

Ave: Final s 9.325 9.250 9.350 9.275 9.200 9.300

9.350 9.350 9.100 9.150 8.800 7.200

Total 18.675 18.600 18.450 18.425 18.000 16.500

Additional PO qualifiers: Gregg Fenske (III) 18.35; Jim Step he nso n (Iowa St.) 18.10; Doug Fitzja rrell (Iowa St.) 18.05; Steve Zamo ra (Colo. St.l 17.95 ; MikeCarter (LSU) 17.90; Mark Graham (Iowa St. ) 17.90; Dubi Lufi (Wash St.) 17.70; Breck Cunningham (USAF) 17.60; Robert Graf (Penn St .) 17.60; Jay Whelan (So. Conn . St. ) 17.50; Dave Hu son (In d. St.) 17.45; Ben Kravitz (UNM) 17.15; Gary Mikam i (CSU LB) 17.15; Robe rt Misek (U of III Circle) 17.15; Bill Ritter (USAF) 17.10; John Crosby (So. Conn . St.) 17.05; Cla rk Johnson (U.c. Be rk e ley) 16.90; James Krues t (Penn St.) 16.85; Paul Blasko (Ind . St.) 16.75; Ge ne Coy le (Indi ana) 15.65; Rick Russe ll (LSU) 15.60; Xav ier Ri es (CSULA) 14.65; Steve Berglund (CSUS)) 11 .60. Steven K. Hug (Stanford)

Dave Luna (Univ. Iowa)"

Winners on Parallel Bilrs (L 10 R): Gary Morava, Jim Ivicek, Dave Luna, Sieve Hug, Marshall Avener, Bill Carney.

Parallel Bars Sieve Hug (Slanford Univ.): See All -A ro und routin es. Dave Luna (Univ. Iowa): Jump in, ea.r ly drop, peac h hand , layaway, front ·uprise, reverse pirouette, stutz handstand, cast to upper <\rms, back upri se, stradd le L, straigh t arm, stra ight leg press, back toss to handstand, st utz, layaway, front uprise, front pirou ette, back o ff. Marshall Avener (Penn Siale Univ.): See All-Around routines. Jim Ivicek (Univ. New Mexico}:·Cast to sup port, sw in g pirouette , Diamidov, ·s tutz, .·drop peach glide, swing revers·e pirouett e, streuli, stutz, layaway, front uprise, front off with V, twist. . . Bill Carney (Indiana Sla·l e Univ.): Cast to support, swing to immed i.ate reve rse · pirou e tte, stutz handstand, cast to suppo rt, stradd le L, stiff-stiff press, (attempted) one-arm handstand, stutz layaway, fro nt uprise, swin g pirouette, double sa·lto. Gary Morava (Soulhern Illinois Univ.): Peac h to hand stand, back toss to handstand , st utz to hand stand , front uprise, pirouette, st rad dle down, stradd le up, stut z, fro nt upr rse, front off. (This is the routine Gary planned to do before his breaks.)

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New Mexico Stanford In diana St. Iowa St. Oregon Indiana St.

0 C 9.30 9.60 9.45 9.35 9.40 9.40 9.35 9.25 9.35 9.20 9.10 9.50

Ave. Finals Total 9.450 9.500 18.950 9.400 9.400 18.800 9.400 9.300 18.700 9.300 9.100 18.400 9.275 9.000 18.275 9.300 8.800 18.100

Additional HB qualifiers: Gary Morava (S IU) 18.50; Mark Graham (Iowa St.) 18.40; Hopp\, Batten (Nebraska) 18.30; Bill Carpenter (Wash) 18.30; John C rosby (So. Conn . St.) 18.30; Andy Sanders (Denver U) 18.25; Jim Furcini (Ariz St.) 18.00; Mike Carter (LSU) 17.90; Jay Whelan (So. Conn. St.) 17.80; Marshall Avener (Penn St.) 17.70; Bill Barnwell (CSUSJ) 17.70; Bill Kerchner (Minn) 17.70; Bill Ritter (USAF) 17.55 ; p. L. Jacobson (Navy) 17.50; Bruce Waldman (Iowa) 17.45; Mickey Wissler (CSUNf 17.45; Lawren ce Butl e r (Penn St.) 17.35; Theo Digern ess (Co lo St.) 17.00; Jeff Rock (Minn) 16.90; Phil Siemers (CSULA) 16.55; Mike Raines (U . of Georgia) 15.70; Rick Russell (LS U) 15.50; Tom Dietrick (CSU LA) 15.40. Jon Ailken (UNM)

Steven K. Hug (Stanford)

Horizontal Bar Jon Aitken (Univ. New Mexico): High start, stalder, pirouette, stalder, Cal ifornia hop, pirouette, free hip,

blind change, stoop, 1 inverted gia nt, 1 eag le giant, hop out , pirouette, sta ld e r, giant , doub le flyaway. Steve Hug (Stanford Univ.): See All-Around routines. ,Wayne Lewis (Indiana State Univ.): Hi gh start, stoop, dislocate, eag le, hop, pirou e tte, blind change, O no va ult , kip, c hange, pirouette, doub le full . Jim Stephenson (Iowa State Univ.): Stemme, imm ediate stald e r, '14 gia nt , stoop to inverted gian ts, hop out, pirouett e, J/4 gia nt, blind change, stalder, hecht. Greg Maxwell (Univ. Oregon): Stemme, J/4 gia nt, reverse grip stalder, J/4 gia nt, pirouette, pirouette, J/4 giant , step on-off, stradd le so le ci rt le, J/4 giant, blind change, '14 giant, full pirouette, Ono va ult , straddle cut catch , kip, roll , giant , giant, hecht wi th full twist. Rick Danley (Indiana State Univ.): High start, imm ediate stald e r, pirou e tte, Ca lifornia hop, imm ediate jam, inverted, inve rted, hop, pirouette, imm ediate reach und e r, pike va ult, kip, pirouette, double flyaway.

Greg Maxwell (U. of Oregon)

Jim Stephenson (Iowa State)

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Jay Whelan (Southern Connecticut)

photo by S. Goldman

[, 1973 NCAA College Division National Championships March 29-31, 1973

by Jerry Wright

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After many close also- rans and defying co nve ntion by wi nning away from home, Southern Connecticut State Co llege traveled all the way to San Francisco to win the 1973 NCAA College Di v ision Gymnastics Championships. After watching California sc hoo ls dominate 路 th e meet four of it s f ive yea rs of existence and ' finishing second thre e times, th e Southerll Connecticut Owls finall y realized their goal of winning th e ' Nationals', as All-Around m en John Crosby and Jay Whelan led the team to a co mfortabl e but clo se victory over Northridge (formerly San Fernando Valley State) 160.75 to 158.70. Southern trailed throu gho ut mu ch of th e meet beca use o f a relati ve ly weak performan ce by th eir pommel horse team which scored only 24.60 points (the tea m averaged 27.27 in the other five events), but gradually overcame the deficit and fin all y passed Chicago Circle after th e 4th event (vau Iting); No rth ridg e also passed Circl e at thi s point to help them fini sh ahead of the Chicago t ea m. In th e indi vidual finals it was simply another da y in the life of Johri Crosby as he ca ptur~d five first pl aces winning the All-Around , floor exercise, va ulting, parall el bars and horizontal bar and fini shin g 5th on the rings. In th e process John tied th e reco rd se t by Rich Grigsby of winning five events in one yea r and set an all-time record of 12 ca reer titl es (previous reco rd was seven co -held by Crosby and Grigsby). Crosby's teammate Ja y Whelan was also a story by him se lf as he finished 2nd in the AIIAround and in floor exercise , and 3rd on parall el bars and hori zo ntal bar in spite of an extremely tend er' and painful knee that he seriously injured just a f ew weeks prior to the . meet. The meet itself was held befor e packed houses of approximately 1,300 in each session except, surprisingly enough , the final session where only approximately 1,500 were in attendance in the 2,000 seat gym (the pr eliminari es were only set up to seat 1,400). The meet organization was excellent in that in spite of the large number of entries th ere were no scoring erro rs report ed, . but th e . Friday session ran too long, and the xerox machine broke down ca using delays in getting out results and causing a shortage of result sheets. The individual finals ran without a hitch except for one rules interpretation problem that wa s reso lved with so me difficulty but satisfactorily. This session was also highlighted . by th e presence of Dr. 5.1. Hayakawa, possibly th e best known College Presi dent in th e United States, who hand ed out so m e of th e awards. Robert Popp, of the University of Northern Colorado created a stir as h e dethroned twotime defending champion , Keith Fuerst of Eastern Illinoi s on the rings with an exce llent job on both the compulsory and optional routines. ",

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1973 College Division Champions - Southern Connecticut State College; Front row (left to rig ht): Doug Dauz, Dave Berg, Steve Randall, John Crosby, Paddy Nugent, Jay Whelan, Middle row: Head coach Abie Grossfeld, Joe Lewandoski, Rich Onysko, Tony Guarnieri, Vic Ziniewicz, Kip Reed, Assista nt coach Mike Shay; Back row: Travis Trabbacone, Gerry Nelson, Jeff Schmich, Dave Nugent, Rich Weinstein, Bob Moore,

Northridge State University - College Division second place team: Head coach - Jack Medina, Kurt Bradley, Sal Mojica, Mark Matlin, Noboru Miyagi, Dean Furukawa, Ted Marriott, Malcolm Stanislaus, Mickey路Wissler, . Charles Arbry, Charles McGuire, Robert Willser, Larry Bilow, Charles Richards, Mike Lynn, Assistant coach Lee Stanish,

................................................................................... The man whose name no one co uld : pronoun ce, Roger Wojtkiewicz , brought th e pommel h o rse title back to Chicago as h e succeeded Circles St eve Fo x as the pomm el horse champion. The surprise of th e meet, however, was probably the fine second place showing of Northridge as they cons istentl y scored around 152.00 al l year only to sudd enl y build up to 159. 00 plu s the wee k prior to th e Nationals and remain ed at 158.70 to finish a st ro ng second .

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TEAM STANDINGS 1. Southern Co nn ecticut State 2. Northr idge State Un ive rsity 3. Uni v. III. Chicago Circl e 4. California State Fullerton Univ. 5. Eastern Illinoi s Univ. 6. Western Illin o is Univ. 7. Chico State Uni v. 8. Mankato Sta te College 9. Uni v. Northern Colorado

160.750 158.700 157.800 157.750 149.250 148.350 143.350 . 141.350 141.200

ALL-AROUND 1. John Crosby, So. Conn. 2. Ja y Wh e lan, So. Conn. 3. Charl es Wanner, C ircl e 4. Noboru Miyag i, Northridge 5. Bru ce Boult, Circle 6. Robert Harden, Chico

105. 250 103.400 98.800 89.750 88.900 87.850

FLOOR EXERCISE 1. John Crosby, So. Conn . 2. Ja y Wh e lan , So. Conn. 3. Mick ey Wi ss ler, North rid ge 4. Vic Zin iew icz , So. Con n . 5. Ted Marriott , Northr id ge 6. Tom Fogel,. C ircl e

18.350 17.225 17.075 16.92~

16.900 16.900

POMMEL HORSE 1. Rog e r Wojtki ew icz, C ircl e 2. Charles McGu ire , No rthrid ge 3. Gary Anderson , Circle 4. Charles Wanner, C ircl e 5. Mark Loebel , Full e rton 6. All e n Herr ick, Springfield

17.700 17.225 17.115 17.100 17.050 17.000

STILL RINGS 1. Robe rt Popp, No. Colorado 2. Gene Bailey, Full e rton 3. Larry Bilow, Nort hrid ge 4. Steve Diggle, Full e rton 5. John Crosby , .50. Conn. 6. Guy Ne lso n , Fullerton

18.350 18.300 18.000 17.825 17.650 17. 050

VAULTING 1. John Crosby, So. Con n. 2. Tom Beusch, East. Ill inois 3. Matt Holsinge r, Ful lerton 4. M ike Lynn , North ridg e S. Bruce Boult , C ircl e 6. ' Nobo ru M iyagi, No rthri dge

18.675 17.850 17.775 17.725 17.375 17.275

PARALLEL BARS 1. John Crosby, So. Co nn . 2. Robert Misek, Circl e 3. Ja y Whelan , So. Conn. 4. La rry Cast le , Full erto n 5. Charles Wann e r, C ircle 6. Robe rt Garc ia , Fullerton

18.650 18.200 17.875' 17.425 17.225 16.550

HORIZONTAL BAR 1. John Crosby, So. Conn. 2. Mickey Wiss le r, Northridge 3. Jay Whelan , So. Conn. 4. Robe rt Hard e n , Chico 5. Bru ce Boult , Circle 6. Larry Castl e , Ful le rton

18.575 17.975 17.925 17.700 17.250 17.225

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Massachusetts Wins AIWA Nationals by Charles L. Jacobson Women's Gymnastic Coach Grand View College Des Moines, Iowa The fifth Association of Intercoll egiate Athletics for Women Gymnastics Championship was held on April 20-21 in Des Moines, Iowa with Grand View Co ll ege serving as the host institution for the second consecutive year. The meet was held in Veterans Auditorium which provided excellent facilities for the 152 gymnasts representing 52 co ll eges and universities from 25 states. The University of Massachusetts, coached by Virginia Evans and Michael Kasavana, was the surprise team champion with a record score of 105.70. The key to their victory was exce llent beam routines. As they have all gymnasts returning next year, Massachusetts must be favored to repeat as team champions. Southern Illinois, the pre-meet favorites, finished second with a 105.25 total. Southern was deducted .9 of a point for repetition of vaults. Indiana State Universit y finished a close third with a 104.975 score. Springfield College and Southeast La. State University finished fourth and .fifth in the team competit ion. Adele Gleaves of Western Kentucky won the All-Around champ ionship with a 36.15 score. Two Southern Illin ois gymnasts, Terry Spencer and Phyllis Hardt, placed second and third with scores of 35.70 and 35.45. Anne Vex ler 6f Massachusetts was fourth with 35.40. Adele Gleaves was presented the Nissen Award at the banquet following the championship. The } ,OOO spectators at finals were treated to outstanding individual performances. Chery l Perozzi of Clarion State won the beam with a near flawless rout in e. Laurel Anderson of the University of Washington won the vault. Ade le Gleaves capture.d the uneven bars championsh ip whi le Terry Spencer captured the hearts of the spectators in winning the floor event. The attitude displayed by all of the gymnasts, judges, andmost of the coache~ was a cred it to the sport of gymnastics. The meei was te levised nationally by the Public Broadcasting Network. The . caliber of gymnastics at this champ ionship was far superior to any previous collegiate meet. Several co ll eges from various parts of the country are developing stro ng programs. The sixth AIAW Gymnasiics Championship will be held in Sacramento, California w ith Sacramento State serving a's the host institution .

Cheryl Perozzi (Clarion 51.)

The University of Massachusetts team

The All-Around winners

Team awards

Debbie Dunkley (Springfield)

Terry Spencer (SIU)

1973 AIWA Gymnastics Championships RESULTS Va ulting 1. La u re l Anderson, Univ. Wash. 9.40 9.20 2. Lori Amwake, Indiana St. 9.30 9. 10 3. Adele Gleaves. West. Kentucky9.20 9. 10 3. Lee A nn Lobdi ll , Cal St. LB 9.05 9.25 5. Stephanie Stromer, Southern 1119.10 9.05 6. Kim Cosner, Southeast La. St. 9.00 9.10 9.00 9.10 6. Vickie Andrews, Trenton St. Bars 1. Ade le Gleaves, W. Kentucky 9.20 9.10 2. Stephanie Stromer, So . III. . 9.05 9.20 9.10 9.15 2. Margie Combs, Univ. Mass. 9.10 8.90 4. Phyllis Hardt, Southern III 5. Susan Shink le, Ca l St. LB 8.95 9.00 9.10 8.85 5. Debbie Dunkley, Springfield Beam 1. Che ryl Perozzi, Cla rion St. 8.85 9.20 8.60 9.25 2. Terry Spencer, Sout hern III. 3. Kathy Kince r, Indian a St. 8.95 8.85 4. Ginge r Temp le, SE La . St. 8.80 8.90 5. Jeannine Bu'rger, Univ. Mass 8.80 8.85 8.70 8.95 5. Adele Gleaves Floor 1. Te rry Spence r, Southern III. 9.30 9.40 2. Stephanie Stromer, So . III. 9.10 9.30 2. Phyl lis Hardt, So. III. 9.15 9.25 4. Ade le Gleaves, W. Ke n tucky 9.00 9.25 4. Anne Vexler, Univ. Mass. 8.95 9.30 6. LeeAnn Lobd ill , Ca l St. LB 8.90 9.15 All -A round 1. Ade le Gleaves, West. Kentu cky 2. Terry Spencer, So. I llino is 3. Phyllis Hardt , So . Illinoi s

18.60 18.40 18.30 18.30 18.15 18.10 18.10 18.30 18.25 18.25 18.00 17.95 17.95 18.05 17.85 17.80 17.70 17.65 17.65 18.70 18.40 18.40 18.25 18.25 18.05 36. 15 35.70 35.45

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Team 1. Univ. Mass. 2. Southern Illinoi s 3. Ind iana St. Univ. 4. Spr ingfield 5. Southeast La. St. 6. Clarion St. 7. Kent State 8. Calif. St. Long Beach 9. Southwest Mo. St. 10 Un iv. Nevada - Reno 11 . Un iv. Arizona 12. Oregon College Ed. 13. Univ. Oregon 14. G ustavus Ado lphus 15. Ar izona St. 16. Grand View

35.40 35.30 35. 15

105.70 105.25 104.97 102.25 101 .50 98.55 98.05 97 .30 95.75 95.20 94.00 92.70 90.90 90.65 89.35 89.20

•••••............................. NOTE FROM EDITOR: For those of you who are seeking a co ll ege or Un iversity with a good gymnastic prog ram, here is the list of institutions which qualified as TEAMS to compete in A IAW Nationa ls. It is interest in g to note that only 17 of the 49 U niversities and Co lleges enter ing women in this co mpetit ion qualified as teams. On ly two out of six colleges whose teams placed lower than 10th p lace had half or more of th eir gymnasts compe ting A IIAround whe reas, eight out of the 10 sc hoo ls in first through tenth pl aces had at least ha lf of their gymnasts competing A ll -Around.

School 1. U. of Mass. 2. Southern III. U . 3. Indi ana St. U. 4. Springfie ld Co ll ege 5. Southeast La. St. 6. Ciarion St. 7. Kent St. Unive rsity 8. Ca lif. St. - Long Beach 9. Southwest Missouri St. 10. U of Nevada - Reno 11. U. of Arizona 12. Oregon Co il. Ed . 13. U. of Oregon 14. Gustavus Adolph us 15. Tempe, Ariz . 16. Grand View

No. Co mpo Coac h 6 Virginia Evans 7 H erb Vogel 6 Margit. Treiber 5 Mimi Murry 7 Vannie Edwards 4 Barbara McKenz ie 7 Rudy Bachna 5 Gretchen Dowsing 4 Ch ic Johnson 6 Da le Flan saas 5 Barbara Hedges 6 Gary Goodson 10 Mari lyn Fitch 7 Nancy Baker 5 Monika Sub l itte 7 Charles Jacobso n

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1973 USGF SENIOR NATIONALS from Nissen Newsletter

This meet was held the same weekend as the AAU Meet at Dieruff High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Bill and Donna Strauss, coaches of the Parkettes directed the meet. There were 67 competitors. Pam Simone of Southern Connecticut Gym Club was first in the All-Around with a score of 72.50. Her coach, Muriel Grossfeld reported that Pam executed . two original moves on beam. One was a layout back somersault and the other was a Diamidov, a full-twisting valdez maneuver named after a famous Russian gymnast. Besides Miss Simone, others making the 70.00 s.core were second place winner, Diane Ainley of Fresno (70.30), and third and fourth place winners Karen Brezack of Parkettes with 70.30 and Susan Archer of Kips with 70.00. Only Pani and Karen qualified for the Elites after doing the Olympic compulsories, however. Also, Lynn Govin of the Scats did only optional routines io qualify for Elites. She had been injured in San Francisco at the second trial and so was allowed to do this . Her optional scores were added to the compulsory scores she earned out West to qualify her.

vaulting - 1. Karen Brezack, Parkettes, 18.550; 2. Susan Archer, Kips, 18.400; 3. Pam Simone, Southern Connecticut, 18.350; 4. Kim Bellow, Olympiad, 18.300; 5. Diane Ainley, fresno , 18.125; 6. Suzy Kinsman , Southern Connecticut, 18.100; 7. lisa Cain , Southern Connecticut, 17.950. Uneven Bars - 1. Diane Ainley, Fresno, 18.250; 2. Cheryl Diamond , Yami , 18.075; 3. Karen Brezack, Parkettes, 17.875; 4. Mallory Perkin s, Gymnastrada, 17.775; 5. Pam Simone, Southern Connecticut, 17.425; ,6. Lisa Cain, Southern Connecticut, 16.865 . . Balance Beam - 1. Pam Simone, Sout/'ern Connecticut, 18.250; 2. Debbie Hung, Diablo, 17.925; 3. Susan Archer, Kips, 17.775; 4. Renee Hack, Denver, 17.375; 5. Suzy Kinsman, Southern Connecticut, 17.150; 6. Karen Brezack, Parkettes, 17.100. Free Exercise 1. Pam Simone, Southern Connecticut, 18.475; 2. Lisa ' Cain , Southern Connecticut, 18.100; 3. Carrie Englert, Tallahassee, 18.050; 4. Susan Archer, Kips, 17.900; 5. Suzy Kinsman, Southern Connecticut, 17.650; 6. Diane Ainley,-Fresno, 17.550.

Lisa Cain (So. Connecticut)

1973 USGF TEAM AWARDS: 1st. Southern Connecticut Gym Club, 2nd. Fresno Gym Club, 3rd. Parkelles.

1~73 Senior National All-Around winners: Pam Simone, first, Diane Ainley, second, Kathy Blezack, third, Susan Archer, fourth, Cheryl Diamond, fifth, Debbie Hung, sixth.

'Pam Simone is presented with the Susan Brenner Award which is sponsored by the MAGDA (Middle Atlantic Gymnastic Directors Association). Second is Lisa Cain, third Carrie Englert, fourth Susan Archer, fifth Suzy Kinsman, and sixth Diane Ainley.

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Pam Simon e (So. Connecticut)

USGF JUNIOR NATIONALS ____________ _

photos by Rich Kenney

1973 JUNIOR NATIONALS by Rodney C. Hill

The 1973 junior Nationals were held at the Denver School of Gymnastics for the first two days and at Lakewood High School in the Finals. We had a total of 78 gymnasts in his years Nationals, and the caliber of co mpetition was better than at any other time in th e past. The judging was quick and e fficient. We held two sessions a day, one in the afternoon and one in the evening on both compulsories and optionals. Th e longest session we had was three hours. We we re through by five in the afternoon session and by ten for th e evening sess ion. There was the usual complaints about judging, but all in alii have to say they did a fine job. The girls showed overall improvement in the c(')mpulsories over the last year. The Denver School of Gymnastics went out in front of th e team co mpetition after the first afternoon session and were never threatened. After each session they widened their lead . In the individual competition, Trish Reed of Denver lead after the first two events, then surrendered her lead to Shelly Bier of the M ann ett es. These two were destined to battle it out through the three days of competition. Shelly, age 14, was the final all-around winner over Trish, age 12, by .15. It went down to the final event before the all-around was decided. Linda Antonio of Denver made a fantastic surge in optionals and came to 3rd place after being in 9th after compulsories. Linda had a 36.40 in o ptionals to far outdistance . any rival. She finished .55 behind Shelly. The Denver team won the team title by nearly five points before it was over. In the finals at Lakewood High School, the vault was won by Karen Robertson of Islip with a fine Yamashita . Uneven Bars was won by Trish Reed of Denver. Balance Beam was won by Linda Antonio of Denver, followed by Alicia johnston of Denver and a tie for third between Trish Reed and Shelly Bier. Free Exercise was won by Denise Walker of Grossfelds. Again in finals as in Optionals, Lind a Antonio Sue Archer (Kips) of Denver outscored everyone easily to climb into the medal category in every event she Balance Beam participated in . -. . . : .Den. Sch. Gym. 9.10 1. l. Antonio The following girls then participated in the Den . Sch. Gym. 8.80 2. Alicia Johnston Olympi c Compulsories and qualified to go to 3. Shelly Iller ' Mannettes 8.75 . Elite Nationals. Kathy Howeard, Linda Antonio , 4. Trish Reed Den. Sch. Gym. tI.60 Donna Payton, Shelly Bier, Denise Walker. Kips 8.55 5. S. Archer Parkettes 7.55 6. Kathy Gackenbach Trish Reed was not old enough. FINALS

Free Exercise Denise Walker 2. l. Antonio 3. Shelly Bier ' 4. Debbie;'Hung 5. Trish Re';':d 6. Mary Schumacher

Vault 1. K. Robertson 2. Denise Walke'r 3. Karen Smith 4. Kim Bellow 4. leslie Harris 5. Kim Sanders 6. Donn a Payton

Islip Grosstelds Diablo Olympiad Tumble Bees Fresno louisville

Uneven Bars 1. Trish Reed 2. Kathy Howea r 3. linda Antonio 4. Don na Payton 5. Sue Archer 6. Shelly Bi er

Den. Sch. Gym. Okl. Twisters Den. Sch. Gym. louisville KIPS Mannettes

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8.90 8.85 8.80 8.75 8.50 9.10 8.95 9.00 8.80 8.60 7.75

Grosstelds Den. Sch. Gym. Mannettes Diablo Den. Sch. Gym. Okla. Twisters

Linda Antonio (DSG)

Trish Reed (DSG)

Kathy Gachenback (Parkettesf

9.10 9.05 8.95 8.90 8.70 8.60

In the finals, the girls in most cases showed the fatigue of three days of co mpetition . There were fa lls that w e did not see in the Compulsories and the Optionals. We have a fantastic group of juniors in this country and if handled r'ight, there is no reason we cannot see several of them on the Olympic Team at Montreal.

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Charles Ropiequel

Photos by 'limes F. Relel.uils

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1973 NATIONAL AAU SENIOR GYMNASTIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

by Jerry F. Hardy Chairman, National A.A.U. Men's Technical Gymnastic Committee

The 88th National Amateur Athletic Union Gymnasti c Championships held at th e Koessler Athleti c Center of Canisius College, Buffalo, 'New York April 26th-27th-28th 1973 were a great success from every point of view. Despite conf.ii.c ting dates with other major gymnasti c meets throughout the country, the A .A .U. Championships had 48 women entries, with every' top woman gymnast in the country, including four Olympians from the 1972 Olympic team still in training, and also four members of the Canadian 1972 Olympic team . The men's competition had a strong field of 46 gymnasts, including four top Japanese nationals in our country (who are not eligible to represent the United States in international competitions), a member of the 1972 U.S. Olympi c team (Jim Culhane) and two members of the 1972 Canadian Olympic team. Th e meet was very well organized, the facilities excellent, and a fine spectator attendance at each one of the six competitive sessions. The officiating was on the international basis, with nationally certified judges. The meet was televised on the A.A .U .. CBS Sunday Sports show. Following are the results: WOMEN ALL-AROUND (highest possible total 80.00) 1. Joan Moore Rice, Manne ttes Gym Philade lphia 2. Roxann e Pierce, College Park , Maryland 3. Kim Chace, Riveria , Florida 4. Nan cy Th e is, Urbana Gym Club 5: Ann Carr, Mannettes Gym Club, Phil. 6. Diann e Grayson, Flint Olympians

Club 74.850 74.600 74.300 73.700 72.000 71.700

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (highest possible total in each event 20.000) VAULT: 1. Roxanne Pierce 2. Joan Moore Rice 3. Ann Carr BALANCE BEAM: 1. Kim Chace 2. ' Nqncy Theis ' 3. 'Jo'a n Moore Rice UNEVEN BARS: . 1. Roxanne Pi e rce 2. Joan Moore Rice 3. Nancy Theis FLOOR EXERCISE: 1. Joan Moore Rice 2. Roxanne Pierce 2. Kim Chace

18.775 18.725 路 18.600

19.100 18.800 18.675

19.100 18.725 18.650

19.300 18.900 18.900

TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP - Mannettes Gym Club, Philadelphia MEN ALL-AROUND (highest possible total 120.00) 1. Yoshi Takei . Georgia Southern University ,1 . Yoshi Hayasak i, University of Illinois 3. Jim Culhan e , New' York A.C. 4. Jay Whalen, New York A.C. 5. Sado Hama"da , Stanford University 6. Mel Hill, Owi Gymnastic Club, Phil.

108.100 108.100 105.850 103.400 103.350 101.700

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18.250 18.075 17.975

PARALLEL BARS: 1. Yoshi Takei 2. Yoshi Hayasaki 3. Sado Hamada

18.625 18.275 17.625

RINGS: 1. Charles Ropiequ et, Unattac hed 2. Yoshi Takei 3. Robert Mahorney, Unattached

19.175 18.725 18.625

HORIZONTAL BAR: 1. Yoshi Hayasa ki 2. Yoshi Takei 3. Jim Culhane

18.575 18.500 18.275

TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP - New York Athletic Club

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Seattle Gymnastics Team. Seattle Washington - lirst place 1973 YMCA Nationals. Top bar: L to R: Jan Anten, Patti Lanterman, Terry Lanigan; Low bar: Sue Middleton, D"nna Burian; Floor: Janette Anderson, Debbie Halle, Sue Swenson, Laurel Anderson, and Jill Johnson. front: Coach George Lewis.

Second place team - Mid Valley YMCA, Van Nuys, Ca. Coached by Fritz Reiter. L to R: Jeanne Fields, Sue Solie, Diane Nason, Wendy Mula, Denise Cheshire, Kelly Muncey.

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YMCA GYMNASTIC CHAMPIONSHIPS by W.P. Wortman Director, Physical Education YMCA of Greater New Orlean s

Th e 1973 National YMCA Gymnastics Championships for men and women were con ducted in New Orleans on Apr il 13 and 14. .The m eet was sponsored by the New Orleans YMCA and conducted in the bea utiful faciliti es of Louisiana State University in N ew Orleans . Thi s marked the 24th men 's and 9th wo m en 's National YMCA competition. Tw enty fou l YMCA 's were represented in the men 's competition and 35 YMCA 's represe nied in th e women 's co mpetition. Over 370 gymnasts participated in the competition. On e of the sid eli ght s which added to the fes tiviti es and success of th e Champ ionships was th e Cajun Feast prepared by th e parents of the N ew Orleans gymnasts. It included typi ca l South Loui siana foods such as Gumbo, raw Oysters and Red Bean s and Ri ce . Even th o ugh the unexpected large number of entri es ca used the prelimin ari es to run a littl e long, th e jud ging seemed consistent and good. Few protests were entered and thos e were generally handl ed w ith mutual agreement. Th e fina ls we re opened with a Dixieland band parading around th e compet ition floor playing th e music that made N ew Orleans famou s. Awards were presented to th e women by young m en d ressed in white jac keted forma l wear and th e men received their awa rds from 8 beautiful young ladie s dressed in lo ng South ern gowns. Obs ervation s of competition: There was an in crease in the caliber of men's co mp etition over that of the 1972 Championsh ips in Ch icago. Out stan ding perform ances were given by Bruce McGartlin of Charlotte, N.C. in the All - Around. His extreme amplification of movement netted him first p lace finishes in A ll -Around, floor exercise, vau lting and para llel bars. He attempted a full twi st dive to a front hand spring va ult in th e fina ls. Rick Ru sse ll of New Orl ea ns showed his A ll Am eri ca n abilit y in winning seco nd place A ll -Around and placing fir st on pommel horse and st ill rings. Jack Leonard of Columbu s, Ohio performed a double back so mersault, a front one and one fourth so m er:;au lt and a full twi st back so mersault pUllch front in floor exercise in his attempt to overtake McGart li n. Bru ce Tr o tt of Co lumbus, Ohio, the 1972 YMCA Al l-Around Champion, p laced third in All-Around and ' captured first place on the hori zo nt al bar_ Three yo un g gymnas ts, Mike Fost er of N ew Orleans, Don Cl iffo rd of New Orl ea ns and Bart Conner of Chicago (la st year's Juni or Olympic Champion), demonstrated outstand in g potential. Foster placed fourth in Al l- Around and made finals in two events, Clifford mad e the final s in three events and Conner p lace d fifti1 All-Around and made fina ls in three events. This marked New Orl ea ns' fourth win out of th e last fiv e years. New Orl ea ns with it s tremendous depth and A ll-Ar ound compet itors easi ly o ut-pointed second place New York City, Queens Central, by more than 100 points. In the wom en 's co mpetition , Sea ttle , W ashington repeated as Na:'o n II Champ ions for the ninth tim e. Jeann ie Bea dl e of Baton Rouge came o n strong in th e optiona l ::f 'v ;n ~ t. ' 路路A ~""'\' one al I lisl'\ . ~ )t,J(C

first place in floor exercise, balance beam, and vau ltin g. Wendy Schon of Sacramento, Ca li fornia placed second in All - Around foll owed by Debbie Hall e of Seattle, Wa shington. Floor exercise was high lighted by th e unusual co mbin at ip n s and styles as each one of th e fin ali sts were from different areas of the nation. Balan ce b ea m was highlighted b y consistancy of move m en t and numerous ba ck handsprings, high lea ps and New Orl ea ns ' Jud y Putnam 's round off full twisting ba ck so mersault di smo unt. Uneven bars present ed many new and different co mbinations plu s new techniques in swing and bar compression particularl y by Denise Cheshire and the Los Angeles California team . A ll in all , the 1973 National YMCA Gymnast ics Championsh ips for m en and women were a great success. Th e Championsh ip s have surely become one of the outstanding events in gy mn ast ics for th e United States MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIPS Team New Orleans, Lou isiaQa (Lee Circl e) Queens Centra l, New Yo rk Ci ty Birm in gham, Alabama All-Around Bru ce McGartlin Cha rlott e, NC. Ri ck Ru sse ll New Orleans, La. Bru ce Trott Colum bus, Ohio Floor Exercise Bruce McGartlin Charlotte, N.C. Jack Leonard Coum bu s, Ohio Rick Ru ssel l New Orleans, La. Pommell Horse Rick Ru ssell New Orleans, La. Bru ce McGartli n Charlott e, NC. Bruce Trott Co lumbu s, Ohio Long Horse Vault Bru ce McGartlin Charl ott e, NC. Rick Russell New Orleans, La . Greg Lewis New Orleans, La. Horizontal Bar Bruce Trott Columbus, Ohio Bart Conner Ch icago, III. Steve Bonham Birmingham, Ala.

288.35 172.65 169.55

Bart Conner WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIPS

102.05 101.75 94.55

Team Seatt le, Washington Los Angeles, Calif. (Mid Valley) Chicago, Illinois (N.W. Suburban)

209.20 206.60 198.75

18.425 18.250 17.725

All-Around Jea nnie Bead le Wendy Schon Debbie Halle

Baton Rouge, La. Sacramento, Ca lif. Seatt le, Washington

71.200 70.400 70.1 50

Floor Exercise Jea nnie Bead le Debbie Halle Kelly Muncie

Baton Rouge, La. Seatt le, Washington Lo-; Ar.geles, Ca.

17.975 17.875 17.775

17.325 15.975 14.950 18.150 17.825 17.2.00 16.500 16.375 16.275

Balance Beam Jea nnie Beadle Denise Cheshire Jud y Putni,m

Baton Rouge, La. 17.5 50 Los Angel es, Ca. 17.350 New Orl "a ns, La. 17.300

Parallel Bars Bru ce McGartlin Rick Russe ll Bart Conner

Charlott e, NC. New Orleans, La. Chi cago, III.

18.300 17.200 17. 000

Uneven Bars Denise Ches hire Debbi e Halle Jea nnie Bead le Kell y Muncey

Rings Ri ck Ru sse ll Bruce Tron Bru ce McGartlin

New Orleans, La. Columbu s, Ohio Cha rlon e, NC.

17.200 16.575 16.350

Vault Jea r' nie Bead le Laurel And erson Denise C~eshi r e

Bator: Rou'le, La. 18.025 Se"ttl e, Was',inton 17.875 Los Ange les, Ca. 17.700

Trampoline Mark Langeneckert Ji m Cart ledge Pete Ragas

St. L:Ju is, Mo. Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La.

59.500 59.500 53.150

Trampoline Lil ah Hoveye Barbie Jenki ns Lind a Spitznagel

Faton P.o u g ~, La. 55.550 baton P.ouge, La. 54.850 St. Louis, Mo. 50.900

Los Angeles, Ca. Seattle, Washington Baton Rouge, La. Los Ange les, Ca.

18.325 18.100 18.050 18.050

Debbie Halle

FIRST NATIONAL MODERN

RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS ----_------

Marion Duncan

THE FIRST NATIONAL MODERN RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS COMPETITION By Mildred Prchal The First National Modern Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition was held .at George Williams College, Downers Grove, Illinois, on Saturday, May 5th under the direction of Nora Veyette. This co mpetitiun was conducted ~or the purpose of selecting individuals for parti:ipation in the Rotterdam, Holland World's Championships to be held November 15 to 18, 1973. Seventeen gymnasts were entered ill the co mpetition that included exercise without implement, e.:ercise with ribbon, and exercise with hoop. Sarah Brumbart, from Chicago, Illinois, placed first in the All-Around compet ition ' Katherine Brym from Riverside, Illinois, and Lyn Cindy jones, from Seal Beach California placed second and third respectively. Other gymnasts demonstrating a high degree of proficiency were Gail Ber.dreim and Stephany Hitchcock, both from New York ' s Spense School and coached by Maria Bakos; and Debbie Bardarson from Rivers ide, California coached by Helena Greathause . judges for the competition were Tamara Bompa , Norma Zabka, jane jurew, Inez Quevedo, and Louise Engstrom. Those who have worked toward the inclusion of this beautiful event for girls in the USGF program were happy to witness this presentation . We were also happy to have, as guests, hig;ll~ skilled and charming young exponent of M .G. from Ontario, Canada, Denise Fujiwara and a. certified judge, Tamara Bompa, who kindly accepted the duties of head judge throughout (he entire competitions. We are very grateful to them and will be aule to reciprocate by having Nora Veyette judge the Canadian Nat;onal Championships. Marion Duncar. , another guest, and former member of (he New Zealand team that participated in the World 's Charnpionships in Cu:)a la st November, also co mpeted. Both Denise and Marion presen~etl highly spectacular and beautlcul compos itiuns. The exercise of our winners were of high caliber. They are to be congratulated for their hard work and determination . Upon invitation from the Canadian Modern Rhythmic Gymnastics Commission, Sarah and Kathy will compete as guests in the Canadian competitions to be held on june 22nd, 1973. In con templation also, are competitions with Canada and hopefull y, Mexico, in the foreseeable future . The technique of handling hand apparatus in the European countries becomes more demanding with each World's Championship. Elements surpassing the brillance of a professional " juggler" are becoming a requirement for participants. High throws (at least 14 feet) and intricate movements co upled with exquisite physical movements such as leaps, pirouettes, balancing while apparatus is in constant motion creates a thrilling spectacle to the audience . Through th e support of the United States Gymnastics Fed erdtion, Modern Gymnastics is rapidly developing into an exciting sport for women. Next y ear new beginning , intermediate, and advanced compulsory exercises will be available for use in local , state, regional , and national competition s. Th e new edition of technical rul es book will also b e Q

All-Around winners (L to R): Debbie Barda7son, Gail Bendheim, Katherine Brym, Sarah Brumgart, Lyn Cindy Jones, Stephany Hitchcock.

availab le and judges sessions will be conducted throughout the country. Super 8 co lor films of the National Championships w ill be available for rental at $15.00 for five days or for purchase at $:.(5.00 Inquiries about both modern gymnil~t i cs and the filrr. shou ld be directed to : No ~a Veyette George Williams Co ll ege 5~5 31 st Street Downers Grove, Illinois 60515 MEET RESULTS Exercise without Implement 1. Sarah Brumgart 2. Katherine Brym 3. Ellen Garli ck i 4. Gail Bendhei m 5. Lyn Cindy jones 6. Stephany Hitchcoc k

9.30 8.60 7.30 7.25 7.20 7.05

Exercise with Ribbon 1. Sarah B,u,ngart 2. Katherine Brym 3. Lyn Cindy jon es 4. Gai l Bendheim 5. Debb ;e Bardars{ n G. Step hany Hi :t ht xk

8.75 8.00 5.95 5.90 5.i 5 5.25

Exercise with HOOII 1. Sarah Brumga rt 2. Katherine Bryr.. 3. Lyn Cind y IGnes 4. Stephany Hit chcod 5. Sarah Man sfield 6. Debbie Bard arson

8.55 i .20 5.30 4.75 4.6" 4.5(,

All-Around 1. Sarah Brumgart 2. Katherine Brym 3. Lyn Cind y jon es 4. Gail Bendheim 5. Stephany Hit chcock 6. De bbie Bardarso n

26.60 2' .8(\ 18.4~

-:7 .,.1 5 17.0" 16.55

Katherine Brym

Results of Regional NCAA Qualification Meets

SOUTHERN

Team: Penn Slate Universit y Coac h Gene Wettstone University Park, Pennsy lvan ia

Team: l o ui sian a State University Baton Ro uge, l ouisiana

152.95 162.15 315.10

141 .60 Compulsory total 158.75 Preliminary Optiona l total 300.35 Total points

Compulsory tota l Optional total Total points

All -Around: 1. Marshall Avener 2. James Krue st 3. M el Hill

Penn State University Penn State Unive rsity Templ e University

GYM NASTIC

INTERCOLLEGIATE LEAGUE

EASTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE GYMNASTIC LEAG UE

Coach Armando Vega

All-A rou nd 1. Mik e Carter louis iana State University 103.650 2. Ri ck Ru ssell louisiana State University 99.850 3. Third pla ce al l-aro und did not make NCAA cut-off

107.800 99.500 98.200

sco re Floor Exercise: 1. Marshall Avener 2. M el Hi ll 3. Mike Green e

Penn State University Tem pl e University Penn State Uni ve rs ity

17.800 17. 550 17. 025

Floor Exercise: 1. Mike Carter 2. Steve Stein 3. Rick Russe ll

loui sia na State Un ive rsi ty louisiana State University loui sia na State University

17.625 16.800 16.350

Pomm el H orse: 1. E.R . Swanson 2. Me l Hill 3. Marshall Avener

Navy Temple University Penn State Uni ve rsit y

19.150 17.850 17.525

Po mmell H orse: louisiana State Unive rsity 1. Rick Russe ll 2. Mik e Carter loui siana State University 3. John Gracik Georgia Southern College

17.050 16.550 16.525

Rings: 1. Marshall Avener 2. Jay Aronstein 3. Vincent Fau st

Penn State University M assachu setts Penn State University

18.075 17.875 17.525

Ri ngs: 17.025 1. Mik e Ca rt er louisiana State University 16.450 Un iversity of Georgia 2. Ri ck Boyer 3. Third place ring s did not make NCAA cut-off sco re

Vaulti ng: 1. James Kruest 2. Marshall A vener 3. Brandt Atkins

Peo n State University Penn State University Penn State University

18.025 17.975 17.900

Vaulti ng: 1. Mike Carter 2. Steve Stein 3. Rick Russe ll

Parallel Bars: 1. James Kruest 2. Marshall A ve ner 3. Robert ' Graf

Pen n State University Pen n State Unive rsity Penn State University

18.000 17.800 17.025

Hi gh Bar: 1. Marsha ll Avener 2. lawrence But ler 3. D. L. Jaco bso n

Parallel Bars: 16.750 1. Mike Carter lou isiana State University 16.350 2. Ri ck Ru sse ll loui siana State Univers ity 3. Third place para ll el bars did not make NCAA cutoff score

Penn State University Penn State University Navy

17.750 16.950 16.925

l ou isiana State University lou isiana State Unive rsity lou isiana State Unive rsit y

H orizo ntal Bar: 1. Mik e Carter 2. Mike Rain es 3. Rick Ru sse ll

l o uisiana State Unive rsi ty University of Georgia louisiana State University

17.925 17. 200 17.050

17. 000 16.725 16.675

. -----------.----------'. EASTERN INDEPENDENT GYMNASTIC l EAGUE

Team: Indiana State University Terre Haute, Indiana

Ru ss Fystro m (Big 10 1973 Pommel H orse Ch ampion)

Coach Roger

COli~sil

BI G 10 CONF ERENCE

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Team: University of Mi chigan Ann Arbor, Michigan

Coach Newt loke n

156.60 Compulsory to tal 165.25 Optiona l total 321.85 Total poi nts

155.75 Compulsory total 161.85 Optional tota l 317.60 Total p oints

All-Around: 1. Gary MoravaSouth ern I llin ois University 106.750 2. Paul Blasko Indi ana State University 101.450 3. Dave Huson Indi ana State Unive rsity 97.600

All-Around: 1. Ray Gura 2. Jeff Rock 3. Carl Walin

Michigan Minn esota Iowa

105.500 104.200 102.400

Floor Exercise: 1. Greg Buwick Illin o is Sta te University 2. Gary MoravaSouth ern Illin ois University 3. Bill Beebe South ern Illin o is University

18.800 18.650 18.500

Floor Exe rcise: 1. Craig Carlson 2. Dave M ay 3. Bob Salstone

Minnesota Iowa Iowa

18.350 18.075 17.725

Pommel H orse: Indiana State University 1. Ed Sleza k 2. Kevin Murphy Indiana State University 3. W ayne OlsorNorth ern Il lin o is University

19.150 18.300 17.650

Po mm el H orse: 1. Ru ss Fyst ro m 2. Joel Hunt 3. Howa rd Beck

Minnesota Ohio State Illinoi s

18.375 18.050 17.950

Rings: 1. Bob Mahorn ey Indian a State University 2. Bi ll Jaegar Illinoi s State University 3. Dan Bruring South ern Ill in ois Unive rsity

18.900 18.500 18.200

Rings: 1. Be nny Fernandez 2. Dave Repp 3. Monty Fa lb

Indiana Iowa Michigan

18.700 18.450 18.425

Vaulting: 1. Greg Buwick Illinois State Uni ve rsit y 2. Palll Blasko Indiana State Unive rsity 3. Steve Holthau s Su o II I. Un iversit y

17.850 17.650 17. 350

Va ulting: 1. Gary Quigg 2. Ray Gura 3. Jeff l eF leur

Iowa Mich igan Minnesota

18.175 18.075 10.000

Parral el Bars: Indiana State Un iversity 1. Bill Carney 2. Gary Morava South ern Illino is University 3. Paul Blasko I ndiana State University 3. Dave Huson Indiana State University

18.050 17.650 17.450 17.450

Iowa Illinoi s Indian a

18.500 18.500 17.900

H ori zonta l Bar : 1. Wayne lewis Indi ana State University 2. Gary MoravaSouth ern Ill in ois University 3. Rick Danl ey Indi ana State University

18.900 18.600 18.400

Iowa M in nesota M innesota

18.125 17. 975 17.450

Parallel Bars: 1. Dave lun a 1. Gregg Fenske 3. Gene Coyle H orizontal Bar : 1. Bru ce Waldman 2. Bill Ke rchn er 3. Jeff Rock

Team: Iowa State University Ames Iowa 162.25 168.10 330.35

Team: United States Air Force Academy Coach Major Karl Schwenzfeier

Coach Ed Gagnier

Team: University of Ca lifornia Berkeley, California

USAF Academy, Colorado

Compu lsory total Optional total Total points

All-Around: 1. Jim Steph enso n 2. Mark Graham 3. Doug Fitzjarrell

PACIFIC 8 CONFERENCE

WESTERN INDEPENDENT LEAGUE

BIG 8 CONFERENCE

159.30 159.05 318.35 Iowa State 109.65'0 Iowa State 106.300 Iowa State 105.350

154.35 160.80 315.15

Compu lsory total Preliminary Optional total Total points

All-Around: 1. Steve Hoit 2. Bill Ritter 3. Ron Nissen

Air Force Academy Air Force Academy Portland State University ,

103.100 101.000 100.500

Coach Hal Frey

Compulsory total Optional total - pre liminary Toial points

All -Around : 1. Steve Hug Stanford University 2. Dubi Lufi Washington State University 3. Tom Weeden ~alifornia-Berkeley

Floor Exercise: 1. Od ess Lovin 2. Doug Fitzjarrell 3. Stew 8uck

Ok lahoma Iowa State Iowa State

18.975 18.850 18.300

Floor Exercise: 1. Bill Ritter 2. Steve Hoit 3. John Tomich

Air Force Academy Air Force Academy Air Force Academy

18.275 17.825 17.275

Floor Exercise: 1. Steve Gerlach 2. Bob Rikli 3. Steve Hug

Pommel Horse: 1. Ralph Hernandez

Iowa State

18.475

Air Force Academy Air Force Academy Denve r University

17.300 17.050 16.500

Pommel Horse: 1. Ted Marcy 2. Steve Hug 3. Glen Seymour

107.650 104.800 101.400

UCLA U njversity of Oregon Stanford

18.450 17.980 17.630

Stanford Stanford Ca liforni a-Berkeley

18.450 17.830 17.630

2. Fu lton Loebel 3. Larry Ever mann

Oklahoma Nebraska

18.275 18.050

Pommel Horse: 1. Larry Garrett 2. Mark H ya tt 3. Dan Belger

Rings: 1. Jim Stephenson 2. Mike Mihalco 3. Kim Orr

Iowa State Oklahoma Iowa State

19.025 19.000 18.800

Rings: 1. John Robins Air Force Academy 2. Breck Cunningham Air Force Academy 3. Steve Hoit Air Force Academy

18.500 17.800 16.975

Rings: 1. Howard Bessin 2. Mark Sherwood 3. Tom O'Donnell

Stanford UCLA Washington

18.150 18.100 17.880

Vaulting: 1. Stew Buck 2. Jim Stephenson 3. Tommy Yuen

Iowa State Iowa State Oklahoma

18.525 18.475 18.375

Vaulting: 1. Job,n Tomich 2. Ron Nissen 3. Bill Ritter

Air Force Academy Portland State University Air Force Academy

17.725 17.500 17.150

Vaulting: 1. Rich Gaylor 2. Shawn Skerrett 3. Steve Hug

Washington Stanford Stanford

18.175 17.705 17.600

Parallel Bars: 1. Jim Stephenson 2. Mark Graham 3. Doug Fitzjarrell

Iowa State Iowa State Iowa State

18.350 18.200 17.825

Parallel Bars: 1. Bill Ritter Air Force Academy 2. Breck Cunningham .Air Force Academy 2. Phil Nardecchia Air Force Academy

17.875 17.425 17.425

Parallel Bars: 1. Steve Hug 2. Dubi Lufi 3. Clark Johnson

Stanford Washington State California-Berkeley

18.500 17.580 17.330

Horizontal Bar: 1. Jim Stephenson 2. Mark Graham 3. Hoppy Batten

Iowa State Iowa State Nebraska

19.025 18.975 18.425

Horizontal Bar: 1. Andy Saunders 2. Bill Ritter 3. Phil Nardecch ia

18.050 17.500 17.325

Horizontal Bar: 1. Bill Carpenter 2. Steve Hug 3. Greg Maxwell

Washington Stanford University of Oregon

18.430 18.380 18.180

Denver University Air Force Academy Air Force Academy

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Team: Un iversity of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico 318.25 Total Points All-Around: 1. Dave Repp 2. Jim Ivicek 3. Roger Haldeman Floor Exercise: 1. Gary Alexander 2. Myron Tucker 3. Jim Ivicek Pommel Horse: 1. L.J. Larson 2. Jim Allen 3. Randy Sabey Ri ngs: 1. Roger Ha Ideman 2. Rick Curtis 2. Jim Ivicek

PACIFIC COAST ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION LEAGU[

Coach Rusty Mitchell

New Mexico New Mexico Utah

Arizona State Arizona State New Mexico

COLLEGE DIVISION LEAGUE

Team: None over 300 .00 points minimum rule All-Around: None over 16.00 points mmimum rule

Team: None (participates with Pacific Coast Athletic I\ssociation)

106.200 105.950 98.700

18.600 18.350 18.00r

Ari zona State Colorado State Arizona

18.800 17.825 17.700

Utah Arizona State New Mexico

18.350 18.175 18.175

Floor Exercise: 1. Ken Porrazzo 2. Kurt Hartel 3. Ron Sleeper

All-Around: 1. John Crosby Southern Connecticut State 2. Jay Whelan Southern Connecticut State 3. Charles Wanner Univ. III.-Chg. Circle

105.250 103.400 98.800

Cal-State Long Beach Cal-State Long Beach Cal-State Long Beach

'''16.97) 16,500 16.425

Floor Exercise: 1. John Crosby Southern Connecticut State 2. Jay Whelan Southern Connecticut State Cal State - Northridge 3. Mickey Wissler

18.350 17.220 17.050

Pommel Horse: 1. Dan Wong Ca I-State Los Angeles . 2. Chris Klingerman Cal-State Los Angeles 3. Larry Perez Ca I-State Los Angeles

17.950 17.825 16.475

Pommel Horse: 1. Roger Wojtkiewitiniv. of III.-Chg. C;:ircle 2. Charles McGuire Cal State - Northridge 3. Gary Anderson Univ. of III.-Chg Circle

17.700 17.220 17.110

'Still Rings: 1. John Heneise Ca l-State Long Beach :2. William Hale Cal-State Long Beach 3. Steve McCormick Cal-State San Jose

17.850 17.650 17.275

Rings: 1. Robert Popp 2. Gene Bailey 3. Larry Billow

17.52S 17.075 16.750 16.750

Vaulting: 1. John Crosby Southern Connecticut State Eastern Illinois 2. Tom Beusch Cal State - Fullerton 3. Matt Holsinger

18.670 17.800 17.770

16.775 16.225 16.100

Parallel Bars: 1. John Crosby Southern Connecticut SI. 2. Robert Misek Univ. of II-Chg. Ci rcl e Southern Connecticut 51. 3. Jay Whelan

18.650 18.200 17.600

Horizontal Bar: 1. John Crosby Southern Connecticut State Cal State - Northridge 16.825 • 2. Mickey Wissler 16.725 : 3. Jay Whelan ·Southern Connecticut State

18.570 17.970 17.920

Vaulting: 1. Myron Tucker 2. Jim Ivicek 3. Buck Blevins

Arizona State New Mexico Colorado St,te

18.250 18.200 18.175

Vaulting: 1. Leonard Peet Cal-State Long Beach 2. Scott Jon es San Diego State University 3. Bill Barnwell Cal-State San Jose 3. Tom Dietrick Cal-State Los Angeles

Parallel Bars: 1. Jim Ivicek 2. Steve Zamora 3. Len Kra vitz

New Mexico Colorado State New Mexico

lB.370 18.100 17.900

Para:1lel Bars: 1. Xavier Ries 2. Ga ry Mikami 3. Steve Berglund

18.825 18.775 18.725

Horizontal Bar: 1. Bill Barnwell ,2. Tom Dietrick 3. Phi I Siemers

Cal-State Los Angeles Cal-State Long Beach Cal-State San Jose

• •• • 17.250 :

Univ. of Northern Co lo . 18.350 Cal State - Fullerton . 18.300 Cal State - Northridge 18.000

Horizontal Bar: 1. Jon Aitken 2. Theo Digerness 3. Jim Furcini

New Mexico Colorado State Arizona State

Ca l-State San Jose Cal-State Los Angeles Cal-State Los Angeles

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i. The came ra sho uld have an automat ic locking system which will not permit you to take dotJble exposures. j. Be sure the pi cture taking knob is easy to push in and easily found when not looking. Some are so hard to push that you move the came ra when depressing th em. k. Make sure your came r a is sy nchronized for use with an electronicflash gun. 1. All other fea tures are not a necess ity and will add to the cost of your camera.

II. Light Meter Mrs. Renee P. Hendershott 17605 Fries Avenue Lakewood, Ohio 44107

NEWS 'N NOTES

Renee Hendershott_ Women's _ _ _ _ __ Co.ordinating ~ edltor _ _ _ _

PHOTO CORNER

by Renee Hendershott The Gymnast magazine often receives volumes of meet re sults, but it is too seldom that pictures .... even poor ones ... . are submitted. H oping that we can encourage youto make a stab at it we will hold a minicamera clinic. The ability to take good photos of gymnasts in action opens up a whole new world of enjoyment of gymnastics.

What Equipment WiII 'y ou Need? I. Camera A 35mm single lens reflex came ra with a 55mm lens i's a good sta rt. a. These are priced anywhere from $60.00 for a good used one (that 's what I've got) to many hundreds of dollars for the ones with many extra attachm ents which you would love to have but do not need. b. You m ay later wa nt to ge t a telephoto lens for your camera, so make su re the len s is detachable and that a telephoto len s is avai'3ble for that make. c. Many of the newer cameras have builtin light meters but this is not an essential. You can buy one separately. d. Th e camera should be adjustable down to 1/ 500 of a second in speed for good action shots. e. The lens should be open to at least 1.8 (f stop). f. You sho uld be able to look through the lens and focus the camera. Some cameras ju st tell you on a scale that the picture will be in focus at a range of so many feet if you set the lens at a ce rtain spot. You cannot see if it is in focus with th ese. g. Th ere are various methods of focusing cameras. 1. Some show a double image until the camera is fully in focus . These are hard to focus in a hurry. Th ey would drive me to in sa nit y. I tried one once and eve ryo ne had two nos es. One is b ad enough! 2. Some have a wavy view until in fo cus and are fairly easy to wo rk with. 3. Some have a visible screen which appears until the camera is in focus. These are good. h. Check ease of handling. Some ca meras can be both h eld and focused with one hand while th e other hand takes the pictures (takes practice). 50

If yo ur camera does not have one built in it, you will need to purchas e one. a. You can purchase one for around $25.00 which has a nice zipper case and a ribbon attached so that you ca n hang it aro und your neck (and further decrease the b lood supply to your brain!) b. There is one type wh ich has a button yo u push and then release when yo u are taking the rea ding. The m eter remains at that reading until you take another reading. This is convenient w hen yo u are nervous and in a hurry and are likely to forget th e reading. c. You need a light meter only if you will be using light available in the gym or flood light s. Flash wou ld be in very poor taste during actua l competition . III. Film You shou ld use a fast film such as Kodak Tri-X. With slowe r films the film will not record the image fast enough when you r camera is set for fast action p ict ures and your pictures will be too dark. IV. Lens Cleaning Materials See your dealer abo ut how to keep yo ur lenses clean .

V. Electronic Flash Gun Although some very dramatic resu lt s are possible with ava ilable light , yo u will find that most of your pictures have poor con trast or have dark shadows in places that sho uld be lit when yo u are using available light. This ca nn ot be avoided at competit ion , but if you are taking pictures under other cond itio ns, this is an indi spensibl e item. a. It is cheape r to use than fl as h bulbs or cubes. It will flash over and over again until the batteries wear out. When the batteries are wearing out, yo u must wait longer and longer for them to recha rg e between pictures. You can plan on taking about 30 pictures with one set. b. It is more convenient and less messy. ' c. The one disadvantage is that you do have to wait anywhere from 8 to 14 seconds (depending on th e type of gun) for th e batteries to recharge before you can flash aga in. Some you can plug into the wall. I understand that th e recha rge tim e is faster with these. d. Some of them have a littl e light which goes on when the gun is ready.路 e. Believe it or not, you ca n purchase one for $8 to $10. Mine cost about $17.00 and has the signal on it, but cannot be plugged into the wall. You get what yo u pay for. Now that you have purchased the bare essentia ls, you will need to get some books out of the libra ry to help you understand the fundamental id eas of photography. Don 't forget the instruction booklet that comes with your equipment. Kodak puts out a series of small booklets on just about every subject yo u need to read about. Remember, wh en you first start o ut, keep a pad and p enci l handy and record exact ly wha t you did with each pi cture so that your first pictures will be meaningful expe rim ents from which you ca n learn. * * *

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED JUST WHAT A SOKOL IS? I wro te to Ellen Jea nne Schnabl, chairman of the Technical C.om mittee of the American Sokols and here is what she had to say: INFORMATION ON THE AMERICAN SOKOL ORGANIZA TION

Promoting

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Sokol in th e English lan guage m eans FALCON , a daring fea rl ess bird , famous in songs and stories. It flies high w ith the eagle, ever on guard. It was adopted as the official name for the Organization because it signifies strengt h and ind ependence. THE SOKOL ORGANIZATION is dedicated to the physical , mental and cultural . adva n cement of its members, teenagers and children who attend th e classes in th eir respective gym n asiums. It is based on the theory th at on ly physically fit, mentally alert and cu lturall y we ll developed citize n s can form a hea lth y and st rong nation. Its classes are for all ages, tot s through adu lts with many over 50 yea rs of age. The SOKOL movement was founded in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1862 by Dr. Miroslav Tyrs. The goa l of the founder was a noble mind through systematic, cons istent physical training to physical perfection. Th e SOKOLS numbered' over one million members in 1938, in Czechoslovakia; were dis-banded by the Nazis in 1939; th en re-activated in 1945, only to be again dissolved by the Communist regime in 1948. The first UN IT of the AMERICAN SOKOL ORGANIZATION in the United States was form ed in February 1865 in St. Louis, Missouri by the many Czech immigrants who sett led there and wished to contin ue their SOKOL ideals and proud heritage in th eir new homeland. In a few years, SOKOL UNITS were organized in areas hea vily populat ed by the Czechs such as, Chicago, New York , Maryland , Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas and th e Pacific Coast. Presently there are six districts; Eastern (12 Units) located in Maryland, New York , New Jersey, Florida, Pennsy lvania and Washington D.C. ; Northeastern (7 Units) located in Ohio, Michigan and Pittsburg, Pa. ; Central (22 Units) located in Illinoi s, Wisconsin and Missouri ; Western (15 Units) located in Iowa , Nebraska, Minnesota and Kansas' Southern (7 Units) jocated in Texas and Oklahoma ; Pa cific ' (7 Units) located in California, Oregon and Washington. Present adult membership is over 7,500 and between 10,000 and 12,000 children and teenagers. Most SOKOL UNITS cond uct their own gym cla sses in th eir own gymnasi um s which are not subsidized by any donations from State or Government Funds. Each Unit maintains th ei r appara tu s eq uipment and halls by various projects sponsored by their members. Annual Gymnastic Exhibitions are held by most Units as well as an Annual District Exhibition with parti cipati on from all U nits from the District. Every four years a NATIONAL GYMNASTIC EXHIBITION (SLET) is held with gym nasts participating from all over the United States and Canada. The past three Nation al Sl ets were held at Morton West High School in Berwyn , Illin ois. The next Slet w ill be in 1973. These National Slets are attended by over 3,000 participant s demonstrating their skill s at gymnastics, track and field, vo ll eyba ll and ca listh en ics, a beautiful sight to see. Th e

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SOKOL YOUTH are not those with nothing to do. Their activities are varied , interesting and co nstructi ve . The I nstructors are not only competent teachers but dedicated to the teachings of our future Sokols.. . . The SOKOLS were honored I.n 1965 with the Issuance of a Commemorative Stamp by the Postal Department in conjunct ion with their 100th Ann ive rsary of promoting Physical Fitn ess. . . . Information about the va rious SOKOL UN ITS In th e Chicago Metropolitan area may be obtained from the Nat ional Headquarters, AMERICAN SOKOL ORGANIZATION 6426 West Cermak Road , Berwyn , IllinOIS 60402. Sokol Motto: A SOUND MIND IN A SOUND BODY -- PHYSICAL FITN ESS THROUGH

GYMNASTICS The Thirte enth Amer ican Soko l Slet will be held June 21-24 . June 21 Competitions for Junior bo ys and girl s (13-17) June 22 Compet iti ons for Sen iors June 23 Championsh ips for Juniors and Seniors The fina l eve nt is the Slet on June 24th at 2:00 p.m. at Hoffman s Stadium of Morton West, 24th and Harlen Ave. Berwyn, Illinois. This w ill in clu de mass ca li sthenics ; folk dancing; re lays as well as apparatus by the winners of previous competitions. Participants wi ll be from pre- ' schoolers to senior citizens who will have their own performance. Tickets are $2.00 - 3.00 for ad ults and $1.00 for ages 7 thru 14.

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USGF REGION VIII QQUALIFIER Submitted by M. Carter

MINI JUDGING CLINIC

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1element (doub le-leg squat-thru). It .is Held in sunny Panama City on March 23rd at I considered a medium element when done In the Marina Municipal Auditorium, this meet (it this manner. was hard to tell whether it was a swim or a gym I meet since most of the participants spent .8. This is a glide kip done only to a front workout times at the beach) was sponsored by 1support (4) . The gymnast had to do an extra the Carter Gymnastic School and the Civitan of I sW in g (5) In orde r to go Into the next movement Panama City. . (7). The glide kip done In thiS manner does not Marialice Carter served as meet director. The 1get medium credit and the Judge will deduct .5 Carter School proved to be successfully for an extra swing. organized and followed the instructions of the I . USGF guide book to the letter. Every detail was I c. A gymnast does a front seat circle and taken care of from copies of scores given out immediately after each session to lovely sprin g bouquets given to the top All-Around compet itors. A total of 16 gymnasts competed, from three states and nine different teams , 10 in the 12-14 and six in the 15 and over age groups. Carrie Englert of the Tallahassee Tumbling Tots proved to be the outstanding competitor of the meet w ith a 70.00. Many of the younger gymnasts in the meet showed promise but lacked polish and confidence. The meet was run of! in three short sessions . Judging the meet were Nancy Moynihan and Pat Floyd of At lanta, Georgia; Betty Nash of Birmingham, Alabama; and WiÂĽna Fizell of Riviera Beach, Florida. Sharon Valley of New Haven Connecticut was technical director for the meet.

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cont inu es to sWing forward under the bar. a. If she continues right up to rear support w ithout hesitation or a break in form ... looks like she planned a double seat circle: Assume she planned to do a double seat circle and make no deduction.

1 b. If she has to swing her hips back once I before she can go forward to complete t he second front seat circ le: I would not be considered a fall. Deduct .5 1 This for an extra sw in g. 1 c. If she has to swing her hips back twice before recovering: I 1 Deduct 1.0 for two extra swings. d. If she has to hook Iler leg overthe bar and

1 recover with a knee swing up: 1 Deduct.5 for a major break. Again , this wou ld Those qualifying to go o n to the Nationals 1 not be considered a fall. Junior Division: I 66.40 1 Note From Editor: This month 's Mini Judging Kanzaki Karen Ei lertsen Kanzaki 6405 1 Clinic was w ith Mrs. Delene Darst, FIG National Leslie Jones Judge, member of the USGF Women ' s Deborah Reiser Gymiam i 65:85 1 Technical Committee, and USGF Chairman for Judge's Training.lf you would like some of your judging problems cleared up, submit your 1 Senior Division: to Renee P. Hendershott 17605 Fries 1 questions Ave. , Lakewood , Ohio 44107. I shall see that Carrie Englert Talla. T.T. 7U.00 1 they are answered in a future Gymnast. Stick Mallory Perkins Gymnastrad. 68.15 I figures often h elp to clarify a question , so Maribeth Steinlen please submit these where appropriate. Seminole 66.25 I Eileen Huck,oi Florida Region VII"

1973 NJCAA GYMNASTIC CHAMPIONSHIP Jun io r College Natio nals Fo r th e fo urth co n secuti ve yea r Od essa Col le ge cla im ed th e Na ti o n a l Junior C o ll ege Athl e ti c Associa ti o n G ymnasti c tea m ti tl e as we ll as ca pturin g six of th e seve n in d ividu a l m e d a ls. No t as w e ll p ubli cized as th e NCAA C h a mpi o n sh ip s th e m ee t neve r th e less mana ge d to draw a c rowd o f cl ose to 2,000 a nd a lso rece ive d lo c al te lev ision cove rage . A lth o ugh t he m ee t was cl ose a t tim es Od essa w a s neve r'b e hind a n d t h e o nly tea m to come fa irl y close was New M ex ico Juni o r Co li ege. Th e fin a l sco re was 153.65 for O dessa and 152.25 fo r th e te am fro m New M exico. A p arti c ularly stro n g eve nt for Od essa was va ultin g in w hi c h th ey ga in ed 27.05 p oi n ts . Th e hi g h es t sco re r fo r th e tea m in va ultin g was Bo b Mill e r who g rea tly b o ost e d th e tea m sco re with a 9.3. Va ultin g was a lso Ne w M ex ico 's st ro n gest a rea n e ttin g th e m a tea m sco re of 27 .55. Od essa ' s wea kes t a rea w as p o mm e l h o rse w h e re th ey on ly m a n aged to ta ll y 22. 60 . The tea m score was dec ide d by add ing th e to p thre e sco res .fo r each tea m in each eve n t. A m o n g the o th e r sch oo ls part ic ipatin g was DuPage w h ic h was in consta n t b a ttl e wi th Farmingd a le fo r th e thi rd pl ace tea m awa rd a n d e d ged that tea m o ut too by a m e re 2.30.

Prelim Odessa Od essa New Mex ico O dessa Fa rmin gd ale New Mex ico

Score 9.25 8.95 9.10 8.90 8.50 8.55

Sat. Score 9.05 8.95 8.80 8.70 8.15 7.50

Total 18.30 17.90 17.90 17.60 16.65 16.05

POMMEL HORSE 1. To m St earn s 2. Do n Ste iger 3. Gary Rafalos ki 4. Je ff Hart 5. Bo b Ko lvi tz 6. Gary linde r

New Mex ico New Mex ico Odessa Trito n DuPage New Mex ico

8. 55 8.55 8.25 7.60 8.3S 7.90

8.80 8.70 8.00 8.45 6.70 6.10

17.35 17.25 16.25 16.05 15.05 14.00

Odessa New Mex ico Od essa DuPage DuPage O dessa

9.30 9.25 9.10 8.85 8.45 8.55

9.15 9.10 8.80 8.65 8.25 8.55

18.45 18. 35 17.90 17.50 16.70 16.05

VAULTIN G 1. Bo b Mill e r 2. Angie Ro binso n 3. Phi l Ho lt 4. Darre ll Cri bbs 5. Charl es Leo nard 6. Bill Austin

Od essa 9.30 New Mex ico 9.20 New Mex ico 9.30 O dessa 9.00 Qu eens boro 8.95 New Mexico 9.05

9.05 9.05 8.90 8.675 8.30 7.95

18. 35 18.25 18.20 17. 675 17. 25 17.00

O dessa 8.85 Mi ami N. 8.80 New Mex ico 8.15 DuPage 8.30 Odessa 8.15 Farmin gda le 8.45 New Mexico 8.15

9.00 8.45 8. 85 8.05 8.20 7.90 7.90

17.85 17.25 17.00 16.35 16.35 16.35 16.05

Od essa O dessa

9.40 8.85 8.40 8.35 7.65 7.40

18.25 17.50 16.95 16.65 16.10 15.35

PARALLEL BARS 1. Gary Rafalas ki 2. Mik e Fulks 3. Ne lso n Ga in es 4. Ray Dodge 5. Jr. Perez 6. Ke n Simigran 7. Ga ry lin de r HORIZO NTAL BAR 1. Darre ll Cribbs 2. Jr. Perez 3. Gary linde r 4. M ik e Ful ks 5. To m Stea rn s 6. Angie Ro binso n ALL-AROU ND 1. Gary Robinso n 2. To m Stea rns 3. Gary Linder 4. Angie Robi nso n 5. Jun io r Perez 6. Charls Leonard 7. Howie Lo un sbu ry 8. St eve Co nlo n 9. Bo b Wakup 10. Mike Shanno n 11 . Tim Slayto n 12. Bob Faga n 13. Tom Stan fa 14. Greg Koesy 15. Greg Kad lec 16. Ch arles Ja nse n 17: Jo hn Pese k 18. Rand all Reva k 19. Dave Roth 20. Joe Ecker

INDI VIDUAL FINALS

FLOOR EXERCISE 1. Randy Nelson 2. Do n Pollard 2. Bill Austin 4. Jr. Pe rez 5. Randy Brooks 6. Phil Ho lt

RINGS 1. Larry Laine 2. Alfred Chavez 3. Blain e O ney 4. ;St eve Co nl o n 5. Pat Stauffe r 6. Bo b Co hen

8. 85 8.65 8.55 Miami N. 8.30 New Mexico 8.45 New Mex ico 7.95

O dessa New Mex ico New Mex ico New Mex ico Od essa Qu eenbo ro Qu eenboro DuPage DuPage Suffo lk C uyahoga DuPa ge Tr iton M iami Dad e So uth Fa rmingdale Suffo lk Cu yah oga Mi ami Dade So uth Mi ami Dade North Tri ton

49.35 47.45 47.40 45. 15 44 .64 . 36.65 36.30 36.25 ' 34.40 33.50 31 .80 31.35 30.80 30.60 30.55 30.45 29.70 28.20 27. 55 27.10

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INDEX FOR 1972 (Vol. XIV GYMNAST) This index is lat e fo r a number of reasons and might not have seen the light of da y at all were it not for the great help and assistance of Miss Candy Kesse y. Miss ' Kessey is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin (Superior) and has accepted a coaching assignment in the Eau Claire, Wisconsin area beginning thi s Fall. In addition, she has served faithfull y as the manage r of an intercollegiate team for three yea rs and has certified herself for judging. Her ability in the latter area has been acknowledged by th e " Dean " of Wisconsin judges, Mr. Ken Allen of Oshkosh. Those of us w ho have come to depend on her for a number of things will mi ss her but we are sure that she will continue to deve lop creatively as a teacher and w'ill contribute much to the sport she loves. Volume numbers will be used in the index as previousl y but we point out that three numbers have caused some trouble due to editorial error. For this reason the April-May edition (A-M ), the June-July edition (J-J) and the August-September edition (A-S) will be referred to by the initials shown in the parentheses rather than the numbers actually recorded in each of these editions. References will therefore be made as follows: January - 1 February - 2 March - 3 April-May - A-M (Listed as No.4; should be Nos. 4-5) Jun e-Jul y - H (Listed as Nos. 8-9; should be Nos. 6-7) August-September - A-S (Listed as Nos. 8-9 which is correct but may be confused with the H edition carrying th e same numerals.) October - 10 November - 11 December - 12 SUBJECT MATTER ART Unusual Horizontal Bar Photograph (Bestman) 3(2425) The Coach is My Shepherd 3(39) A Path to the Artistic Life (Millman) 2(10-11) A Path to the Artistic Life (Part II) 3(16-17) BALANCE BEAM Variations of the Roll to Arch Out (Sjursen) 2(39) Aerial Cartwheel Dismount 3(33) Cartwheel on the Beam (Hendershott) 11(35) BOOKS (Reviewers - Criley and Frederick) Sport: A Contemporary View by Miller and Russe ll 2(44) The Golden Library (A.B. Frederick) 3(34-37+) Book Review and Interview with Eric Hughes (Criley) J-)(8) Golden Library Update (Frederick) J-)(8) 1972 USGF Materials List 10(44) Women's Gymnastics for Performers and Coach by P. Prestidge 12(9) Rebound International (New Trampoline Periodical ) B. Bollinger Ed. 12(9) CAMPS Formation of the Western States Regional Training Camps (Obradovich) 1(35) Camp Listing 3(46) CANADIAN REPORT (Lew Waller) 3(12-13) ; A-M(48-49) ; A-S(26) CHAMPIONSHIPS USGF Nationals (Medina) 1(18-22) USGF Nationals and First Olympic Trials (Cobb) 1(26-30) NCAA Championships - College Div. A-M(9-12) NCAA Championships - University Div. (Criley) AM(14-18) DGWS Nationals (Jacobson) A-M(34-37) NAIA National Championships (Schaefer) A-M(3B39) Jr. College Nationals A-M(40-41) AAU Nation als (B urnett and Shaw) A-M(42-44)

YMCA Nationals (Leidt~e) A-M(46-47) 10th Annual USGF Championships J-)(10) 1972 Philippine National Open (Dennis) A-S(7) CLINICS Tu cso n Clinic (Ben non) 1(12-13) New England Clinic'(Kjeldsen) 1(14) Southern California Women's Gymnastic Clinic 2(12-13) CLUBS Diablo Gymnastic Club (Wagner) A-M(50) COACHING.u.uu. The Dilemma of Coacnes and Gymnasts - Time (Part III Ballester ) 3(10-11) Wolfe, Grossfeld & Medina (Criley Interviews Coaches) A-M(12-13) Getting the Grip on Gymnastics (Holms) J-)(28-29) Learning a Compulsory Routine (Tonry) A-S(7) EDITORIALS Two Steps Forwa rd - On e Step Backward (Vogel) 1(14-15) Innovati ve Techniques for the Gymnastic Spectrum (George) J-)(40-42) One Area 's A nswer tothe Nine Hour Meet (Reeves) 10(40) FLOOR EXERCISE Front Walkover (Hendershott) 1(40-41 ) Principles of Jumping (Hendershott) 2(36) Valdez (Cinematography) (Byrd and Everett) 2(37) Beginning Floor Exerci se Routine (Wright) J-)(29) That All-Important Footwo rk (Hendershott) A-S(40) The Body Wave (Hendershott) A-S(41) The Handstand for the Serious Perfectionist (Sjursen) 10(42) The Leap (Hendershott) 11 (36) GYMNASTICS WITH LOURIE (Fiction by Rod. C. Hill) 1(7) ; 2(7); 3(17+) HIGH SCHOOL High School Report for 1972 A-S(9-19) HISTORY Two Steps Forward - One Step Backward (Vogel; 1(14-15) Chet Phillips -1972 Honor Award Recipient A-M(14) HORIZONTAL BAR Back Giant Swing (Tonry) 1(38) Beginning Routine (Wright) 2(39) Free Hip Progress ion (Tonry) 2(40\ Piked Giant SWing (I onry) 3(38) The Back Kip (Roetzheim) J-)(32) Anal ys is of Piked Front sa ito with y, Twi st Dismount (Bajin & Brooker) A-S(26-27) INDEX Index for 1971 (Frederick) 1(45-46) Index for Mademoiselle Gymnast Vol. V (Frederick) A-S(42-43) INTERNATIONAL Japan USA Tour 1972 1(8-9) China Builds Gymnasts 1(11) European Gymnastic Championships for Women (Haberland) 1(15-1 7) Japan-USA Tour (Bare) 2(18-19+) USA All-Stars vs. Japan (Ja y) 2(34) USA Gymnasts in Riga (Khotinsk y) 3(14) Report of Riga Trip (Grossfeld and Coco) A-M(6-7+) USSR Cup - Final Olympic Trial (Barosch) A-S(20-22) Gymnasti cs in East Germany (Barosh) A-S(22-23) World University Games Report 12(11-12) JAPANESE GYMNASTICS Interview with Touring Japa nese Team 2(32) Japan vs. U.S.A. (Massi mo) 3(20-21) Temple University Stop Over (Turoff) 3(22-23) JUDGING Judges' Corner 2(34-35) How Would You Rate This Sequence? (Sjursen) 2(38) Rating Exam for the DGWS 2(34-35) On Derelicts, Omegas and Figs (Hennecke) 3(9) Head Judg e and Referee Duties - Women 3(31) Why Are Scores Generally Low in Final s Competition? (C umi skey) J-)(9) Judging Notes (Hendershott) 11(32) FIG Terminology Interpreted (Vincent) 11(41) N.G. J.A. Report 12(10) See also USGF Coaches ' Congress JUNIOR OLYMPICS National AAU Jr. Olympic Championships - 1972 (Elrod) 10(41)

MATERIALS LIST 10(44) ; 11(42) MECHANICS A Concept of Swing (Yacovone) 1 (36) Watch Those Curves (Bates) J-)(35) MODERN GYMNASTICS International Academy (Schmid) A-S(38-3~) NEWS 'N NOTES by Renee Hendershott 1(33-34) ; 2(33-34); 3(26-30); A-M(50-55); J-)(33-34); A-S(34-35); 10(40); 11(30-31) OLYMPICS Olympic Qualification System 3(31) Olympic Final Trials (Sasvary) J-)(11-12) Ol ympic Final Trials - Women J-)(20) Men 's Team Competition 10(12-15) Men 's All-Around 10(16) USA Women 's Team 10(26-27) Women 's Tea m Competition 10(28-31) Women's All-Around 10(32) Olympic Report - Men (Criley) 11(10-17) Olympic Report - Women 11(18-27) View from the Tube (Hendershott) 11 (28-29) USGF Men 's Ol ympic Games Report 12(11) USGF Women 's Olympic Report (Fie) 12(18-19) Olympic Report - Women (Grossfeld) 12(19-21) What We Accomplished in Munich (Flaansas) 12(19)

PARALLEL BARS Beginner Routin e (Wright ) 1 (37) Preparation for a Cast (Anders) A-S(28-29) Back Up, Forward Saito to Straight Arm Support (Schultz) 11(38-39) PERSONALITIES Jonathon Collins (Criley) A-M(8) Chet Phillips A-M(14) Penn State's Women's Gymnastic Team A-M(Sl) Disciplin e is the Name of the Game A-M(51-52) (Gillian) The In stant Gymnast - Bill Blume J-)(6) Interview with Bud Marquette (Flood) A-S(36-37) Olga Korbut (Pictorial) 10(38-39) POMMEL HORSE U.B.C. Pommel (Lascari) 3(13) Beginner's Routine (Wright) 3(39) PSYCHOLOGY An Open Letter to th e GymnastiC Community (Massimo) J-)(7) RESEARCH Presenting Dr. H.J. Biesterfeldt - GYMNAST Research Editor A-S(26) ROUTINES See specific eve nts above (men) for Wright ' s Beginner's Routin es . SEQUENCES BY SCHULTZ Half-in, half-out handspring H(30) Moore to Manna J-)(31) Handstand to " V" Sit on Beam ; Lay-away to drop kip straddle " L"; Cartwheel, '/4 turn, Arabian dismount from Beam; Back travel on horseA-S(30-33) One and one half back saito dismount on parallel bars and Glide Kip straddle cut to planche support on parallel bars 12(27) Back hip circle, straddle hecht to Eagle catch on Unevens; Back rise front saito to support on parallel bars ; Spotting a Diomidov va riation and Back di ve, one and one half twist to forward roll on floor 11(3739) TRAMPOLINE USA Trampoline Team Finals A-S(6) UNEVEN PARALLEL BARS Back straddle release to glide (Sjursen) 1(39) Are you a coach and afraid to spot? (Hendershott) J)(34) New Movements from Olympische Turnkunst J)(36) " Tarza n " Move (Sjursen) J-)(37) Front Hip Circle (Reeves) 11(34) New Moves (Sjursen) 12(26) USGF COACHES COACHES' CONGRESS USGF Coaches' Congress 12(10-23) Notes on National Compulsories (Darst) 12(24) VAULTING Yamashita (Wom en) 3(32) Coni'inued on page 55

VAULTING DRILLS (first of a series) by Jim Turpin Head Coach Almaden Valley Gymnastics Club 1971 All American Vaulter

gravity behind the base of support with the Âˇ arm s down and slightly bent). (p ict ure #3). The performer now exte nds off the board as quickly as possible. While coming off the board th e body should be tightened. Th e arms are lifted to a high forward oblique position and th ere should be a slight hollowing of the chest (picture 4). Upon contact with the landing mat the performer should stick without moving (picture #5). This is done by absorbing the shock with th e knees and tightening the caboose. *When the drill is completed successfully, back up one large step and repeat the drill by taking two steps. Keep repeating by adding one large step. *-Ru nning from too far away will ca use the gymnast to turn over during extension if blocking has bee n performed correctly. Watth for these Mistakes: 1â&#x20AC;˘ . Starting too close to the board. (The performer should feel that he has to reach for the board with his fe et). 2. Not leaning enough before th e first step. (Without a sufficient lean the body will not move fast enough to " explode" off the board).

Photos by Keith Reynolds HURDLE, BLOCK, EXTEND, STICK Objectives: 1. To develop a low, long, and fast hurdle. 2. To develop co rrect blocking technique. 3. To develop a tight body during extension. 4. To develop a habit of "sticking" the vault. Execution: The performer starts by standing erect with his arms at his side and his feet together. He should be approximately one body length behind the end of the board . The performer now raises on his toes and leans forward (Picture #1). This acts as the forward momentum . When he feels that he can no longer remain standing he takes one small step towards the board (picture #2) . Without stopping he should then move both feet as fast as possible to the board. He should hit the board in a good blocking position (center of

3. Feet not moving fast enough towards the board. (This may resu lt in an incorrect blocking on th e board). 4. Not hitting the board in correct blocking position. 5. Arms too high upon takeoff. 6. Legs bent too much during the hurdle (they should bend on ly slightl y). 7. During extension arms to o high up or in a "chee rl eader" position. (Th is w ill co unteract the effect of blocking and throw tbe ce nter of gravity for ward in stead of directing it upward). 8. Landing too far from the board (probably ca used from jumping forward instead of upward ). 9. Landing lea ning backward (caused by throwing th e belly forward and leaning backward on the board). Spotting Hints; Th e spotter ca n stand almost in front of the vaulter and pl ace his hands on the vaulter's upper torso as he comes off the board. By doing thi s yo u can feel if the vau lter is leani ng forward or backward. If the va ulter is doing the drill correctly the spotter will not feel any pressure going forward or backwards.

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Objectives: 1. To develop ankle strength. 2. To develop a light and quick rebound. 3. To develop the timing which is needed for a light rebound.

Execution: The performer stands at one end of the runway, leans slightly forward and hops " like a rabbit " to the other end of the runway with the last hop being taken off the board . (This works as an excellent warm-up drill) . The performer should try to stay as high as possible and rebound off the ground as fast as possible. The performer should land on the " balls" of the feet (picture #2) al}d not " flatfooted: ' The legs should be bent only slightly (picture #I f when getting ready to extend. . After extending off the ground th e body should be tightened and remain so until the height of the jump is reached at which time they bend slightly in preparation for the next hop (picture #3).

2 Watch for These Mistakes: 1. Landing flat-footed 2. Too much knee bend 3. Punching into the ground instead of rebounding off of the ground .

3 4. Not keeping the body high (results in a' heavy landing) . 5. Too much body movement (the upper should be kept motionless).

Continued lrom page 53 VIEWPOINTS by Dick Criley Notes on USGF Congress 1(11) Gymnastics Alter College 2(9) Photos lor the GYMNAST 3(7) Review 01 the 1972 Federation of H.S. Gymnastic Rules for Boys A-S(8) Trip to Munich 10-8) Olympic Report 11(8-9) WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS Eastern View (Davis) 1(31) Mid-East View (Liedtke) 1(32) USA Women ' s European Tour (Obradovich) 1(3334) Judging Notes 1(34) Compulsory Notes 1(34-35) Mid-America Conference (Mulvihill) 2(33) CONTRIBUTORS ANDERS, REA Progressions in Gymnastics (PB Cast) A-S(28-29) BAJIN , BORIS canadian Report A-S(26) BALLESTER, BILL The Dilemma of Coaches and Gymnasts 3(10-11) BARE , FRANK Japan-USA Tour 2(18-19) Coaches ' Congress Remarks 12(13-14) BAROSH, JAN USSR Cup A-S(20-22) Gymnastics in East Germany A-S(22-23) BATES, R.A. Watch Those Curves J-)(35) BEN NON, JEFF Tucson Clinic 1(12-13) BESTMAN, LAWRENCE Unusual Horizontal Photograph 3(24-25) BIESTERFELDT, H.J. Gymnastic Research Column A-S(26) BROOKER, BARRY Canadian Report A-S(26) BURNETT, ALICE AAU Nationals A-M(42-44) BYRD, RONALD Va Idez 2(37) COBB, LINDSAY USGF Nationals 1971 1 (20-30) COCO, VIRGINIA Report on the Riga Trip A-M(6-7+) CRILEY, DICK Jonathon Collins A-M(8) Wolfe, Grossfeld and Medina (Interview) A-M(12-

GEORGE, GERALD Innovative Techniques for the GymnasticSpectrum J-J (40-42) GROSSFELD, ABE Report on the Riga Trip A-M(6-7+) GROSSFELD, MURIAL Women 's Olympic Games Report 12(19-21) HABERLAND, CARL European Gymnastic Championships for Women 1(15-17) HENDERSHOTT, RENEE - Fro;;'t Walkover 1(40-41) Principles of Jumping 2(36) Olympic Final Trials - Women J-)(20) Are you a coach afraid to spot a cast rotate? J-)(34) Interview with the USA Women's Olympic Team A5(34-35) That All-Important Footwork A-S(40) The Body Wave A-S(41) View from the Tube 11(28-29) Cartwheel on the Beam 11(35) The Leap 11(36) 1972 Coaches' Congress 12(10-23) HENNECKE, BOB On Derelicts, Omegas and Figs 3(9) HILL, R.C. Gymnastics with Lourie 1(7) Gymnastics with Lourie 2(7) Gymnastics with Lourie 3(17+) HOMES, BILL Getting the Grip on Gymnastics J-J(28) JACOBSON, CHARLES DGWS Nationals A-M(34-37) JAY, JEANNETTE U.S. All-Stars vs. Japan 2(34) KHOTINSKY , VLADMIR U.S. Gymnasts in Riga 3(14) KJELDSEN , KITTY New England Clinic 1(14) LASCARI, ARNO U.B.C. Pommel 3(13) LIEDTKE, CAROL Mid-Eastern View 1(32) YMCA Nationals A-M(46-47) MAHER, G.J. Jr. 10th Annual USGF Championships J-)(8-10) MASSIMO, JOSEPH Japan vs. the U.S.A. 3(20-21) f ,n Open Letter to the Gymnastic Community J-)(7) MEDINA, JACK USGF Nationals - 1971 1(18-22) MILLIMAN, DAN A Path to the Artistic Life 2(10-11) A Path to the Artistic Life (Concluded) 3(16-17)

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13) NCAA University Div. Championships A-M(14-18) Book Review and Interview with Eric Hughes J-)(8) 1972 National Federation of H.S. Gymnastics Rules A-S(8) Trip to Munich 10(8) Olympic Report 11(8-27) 1972 Coaches' Congress 12(10-23) CUMISKEY, FRANK Why are the scores generally low in the finals? J-)(9) DARST, DELENE Notes on the National Compulsories 12(24) DAVIS, GAIL Eastern View 1(31) DENNIS, FRED 1972 Philippean National Open A-S(7) ELROD, TOM National AAU Jf. Olympic Championships 10(41) EVERETT, PETER Valdez 2(37) FIE, JACKIE USGF Women's Report 12(18) FLANSAAS, DALE What We Accomplished in Munich. 12(19-20) FLOOD, RICHARD Interview with Bud Marquette A-S(36-37) FREDERICK, A.B. Index for 1971 1(45-46) The Golden Library 3(34-37+) Golden Library Update J-)(8) Index for Vol. V - Mademoiselle Gymnast A-S(42-43)

MULVIHILL; DICK Mid-America Conference 2(33) OBRADOVICH , WANDA USA Women 's European Tour 1(33-34) Formation of the Western States Regional Training Camps 1(35) REEVES, DAVID One Area 's Answer to the Nine Hour Meet 10(40) Front Hip Circle on the Unevens 11(34) ROETZHEIM, BILL The Back Kip J-)(32) SASVARY,HS Olympic Final Trials J-)(ll) SCHAEFER, JOHN 1972 NAIA Championships A-M(38-39) SCHMID, ANDRIA International Academy A-S(38-39) SHAW , JAY AAU National Championships A-M(42-44) SJURSEN, HELEN Back Straddle Release to Glide 1(39-40) How would you rate these? 2(38) Variations of the Roll to Arch Out 2(39) " Tarzan " Move J-)(37) Handstand for the Serious Perfectionist 10(42) New Moves on the Uneven> 12(26) SUNDBY, GLENN USGF Coaches ' Congress 12(10-23) See also "Notes from the publisher" in each edition of GYMNAST TONRY, DON Back Giant Swing 1(38) Free Hip Progression 2(40) Piked Giant Swing 3(38) Learning a Compulsory Routine A-S(7) THATCHER, BARBARA ("On The Beam " ) 10(6-7); 11(6); 12(6-7) TUROFF. FRED Temple University Stop Over (Japanese Tour" 3(22~ 23) VINCENT, WILLIAM J. F.I.G. Terminology Interpreted VOGEL , HERB Two Steps, Forward - One Step Backward 1(14-15) WAGNER, CHERYL Diablo Gymnastic Club A-M(50) WRIGHT, JERRY Beginning Parallel Bar Routine 1(37) Beginning Horizontal Bar Routine 2(39) Beginning Pommel Horse Routine 3(39) Beginning Floor Exercise Routine J-)(29) YACOVONE, ANTHONY A Concept of Swing 1(36).

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SEQUENCES BYSCHULZ Photos by Dieter Schulz

Uta Schorn 01 West Germany executes a Iree hip circle to handstand straddle down and sole circle to a tucked Iront flip dismount during the Olympic Games in Munich.

JUMP TO STRADDLE CROSS HANDSTAND AND SPLIT LEGS Prerequisites : Ability to ho ld handstand in cross position on the beam and the ab ilit y to jump to handstand with legs stradd led. Training: Practice the run and jump to the straddled hand sta nd on low broad surfaces such as piled mats or table. A ll straight leg piked jumps and presses to handstands require th e performer to: st radd le w ide (if doing stradd le), arch the lower back to get the seat over the head and to " push out " in the shou ld ers. Before deciding to use this mount, be sure that you can "work out of it " w ith good connect ion. Hand spot on semilow beam is recommend ed.

ONE ARM BACKWARD HANDSPRING Prerequisites: Two arm backward handspring on the beam. Training: Practice this ski ll on the floor w ith lin es drawn for guidance during the hand and foot placement. The handspring sho uld: conta in some forward stomach thrust in order to keep the legs from flying over the head too quickly, ha ve good shou ld er stretch and arm reach. Both arms shou ld be used at first until confidence is gained by slow ly tak ing we ight off the free arm. Belt spot on low beam is recommended.

VALDEZ Prerequisites: Ability to perform th e VALDEZ on a lin e on the floor, cont ro ll ed hand stand wi ll help. Training: Practice on the floor until the pushing leg can be fully extended as the reach backward occurs. Try some with one arm to in su re ab ility to balance over supportin g arm. A hand spot is recommended.

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And if you ' re a gymnastics coach and plan on moving to Indiana (I hea r it's pretty th ere) you might cons id er app lyin g for the job as gir l's gymnast ic coach at Columbus East High School in Co lumbu s, In diana (I already said that). There is also the possib ility of an age group program starting in the area . So all interested women are asked to contact LeRoy Nelson, Principal, Columbus East Hi gh Schoo l, 230 South Marr Road , Columbus, Indi ana 47201. MOVIES -MUNICH OLYMPICS 1972See the greatest women gymnasts in their best routines. Rigby, Korbut, Janz , Tounscheva, etc. Gymnasts name and score given prior to each routine -- you be the judge. Vault in slow motion. -RUSSIAN OLYMPIC TRIALSWorld womens gymnastic team chan ' pions competing. to represe nt the USSR in Munich. Optional routines on all events. Filmed in Moscow. MUNICH super 8 & 8mm 400 It. - $35.00 16mm -

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And now there 's even a privat e co llege preparatory boarding schoo l in th e Ea st which is offering gymnastics for high schoo l age girls who wish to study it seriou sly. The Walnut Hill School w ill be offering classes all year lo ng in gymn ast ics and also ballet and mod ern dance. The principal members of the coach ing staff are William Sl. Cyr, George Wheeler, and Ken Henderson. And the address is..... Walnut Hill School, College Preparatory School , School of Performing Arts, Natick, Mass. 01760 (In case yo u ' sti ll can't find it,. it' s 17 miles west of Boston.) My apo logi es to Robert Morris of the Delmarva Gymnastic Academy for spelling his name wrong and also for not giving th e address of hi s grou p in a previous column. The address is P.O. Box 151 , Salsbury, Maryland 21801. Sorry.

W e will tryout team mat es courag e On the bars and on th e beam First to fight for height and form And to balance on the beam We are proud to claim the trophies For th e Sun Cit y gymnastics team ... .â&#x20AC;˘ Not bad at all. Well that 's it - 30 - (jou rnali sm term aga in m ea ning finished). Much of my co lumn I know so unds like Dick Criley 's report but can I help It if we noticed th e sa m e things. Anyway before I forget don 't you forget that this year GYMN~ST mag az in e will again spon sor th e Santa MOnica Gymfest. It 's always b een a big meet I hear (although I've never been to it) and will be held over Labor Day weekend. So start sav ing those pennies for the big trip out West and don 't forg et to save 8 of tho se pennies for a stamp to send m e some NEWS. Enough of that and definitely enough said for one, I mean two . months .. .. Bye.

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CALANDAR OF SWytMER CAMPS June 17-Aug. 31 Mu riel Grossfeld's World ·of Gymnastics In c. .. g irls gymnastic clinics to be h e ld a t the following sites : lun e 17-22 Purdue Un ive rsity, La fa yette, Indiana Jun e 25-29 Charles H. Roth Jr. Hi g h School , He nri etta , N.Y. Jul y 22-27 Wes tfield State College, Westfield, Mass . Jul y 29-A u g. 3 Sanford Pre p School , Wilmington, De lawa re Aug . 5-10 Sanford Prep School, Wilmington , De laware Aug. 12-1 7 Vi rginia Commonwea lth University, Ri c hm o nd , Virg ini a Aug. 26-31 Miami Un ive rsit y, Oxford , Ohio For information o n any o f the Grossfe ld Clinics w rite: Mr. Edgar Knepper, 235 Pin e hurst Rd., Wilmington, Delaware 19803 PH 609 - 881-8400 ext. 227 or 302 - 6563715 June 24-Sept 1 International Gymnastic Camp at Blair Academ y in Blairstown, New Je rsey. Fee: $100.00/ week for g irl s a nd boys .. age 6 through H.S. Last two weeks h e ld a t Sun Mountain Camp in th e Poconos. Write: Bruno Klaus, Int ernation a l Gymnasti cCam p , RD Box 518 - Stroudsburg, PA 18360 . June 24-Sept 2 W oo d ward Camp for boys and girls age 8 a nd up.... a tt e nd one or more weeks ... $95.00/wee k ... Write Woodward Camp. P.O. Bo x 93, Woodward, Pa . 16882. June 24-Aug. 26 Stony Brook G ymnast ics Camp o n Long Island ... for boys and g irls Write: th e camp a t P.O. Box 593, Sto n y Brook , Long Isl and, N. Y. 11 790. July 1-Aug. 26 Sokol Woodlands. .. Sokol USA Gymnastic School in Barryville, N.Y. for boys a nd girls ... Fee: $110.00/ wee k ... Write: Sokol Woodlands, 276 Prosp ect St. P.O. Box 189, East Orange, N.J. 07019 PH 201 - 676-0280 Stated pupil/ teac her ratio is 1-8. July 15-Aug. 17 Blu e Mountain Sports Camp ... four week sess io ns ... $81.00/ wee k ... girls only, Directed b y Bill and Donna Strauss (coaches of Parkettes) GYMNAST ICS, Blu e Mountain Sports Camps, In c. Box 198 Mounta inhome Pennsylvan ia 18342. Aug. 5-9 Nationa l Summer G ymnasti c Clinic, Michigan State U for b oys and girls, teach e rs, coach es. Live in Dorm . Fo r Info rmat ion: George Szypula , CO'l.ch , Michigan State U ni ve rsity, Lan si ng Michigan. Aug. 13-17 Summer Gymnastic Camp .. . girls 12 & ove r. .. Fee: $82.50 ... Gustu vus Adolphu s College in St. Peter Minnesota. Write Nancy Bak e r at: Box 1477, Gustavus Ado lpnu s Co ll ege , St. Peter, M inn esota 56082. August 20-24 Third Annua l GymnasticsClinics for Girls and Coac h es... Fulton Montgomery Community College, Jo hnstown, New York 12095 ... $45.00 fee non-resid en t clinic. .. 4 evenings and 5 da ys .. . Codirectors: Sandra Sheedy & Tom Foster. .. qu a lifi ed staff a nd reg ulation e quipm e nt structured cla sses, open work-outs a nd swimming August 20-26 M id dl e Eastern Gymnastics Ca mp for boys and g irls ... West Virg inia camp located a t Timber Rid ge Camping Reservation ... Fee: $100.00 Write: Middle Eastern Gymnastics Camp, 11615 Fulh am St. , Silver Spri ngs Maryland 20902. August 26-31 Tabor G ymna sti cs Camp for boys a nd girls ages 10 a nd up ... camp in Mass Fee: $90.00. Write Tabor Gymn as ti cs Camp, P.O. Box 431, Brick Tow n , "I. J. 08723. About these camps: Some of them offer a full ca mp ex peri e n ce wi th many other activities besides gymnastics. Others offer a co ncentrate d gy mn as ti c experience. Some limit number of pupils p e r teac he r and others do not. Most of th e m offer special rates to co mmut e rs a nd those ca mpers who sta y more tha n one week. Room and board is furni sh ed in a ll cases except the one mf'ntioned and thi s one h as th ese available. Th ese ca m'ps offer ma']y different kif]ds of experi e n ce. You mu st find out w h a t type of experience you r c hild needs a nd seek that type of ca mp ... remembe r. .. your own gy mna st ic sch ool may be offering quality learning expe ri e n ces this summe r tau.

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