Podcast: College Salute Week 8- They Rise…. To the Perfect 10

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March 3, 2022

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What’s to come in this episode:

Two alums rise to career perfect 10’s, Suni Nabs it on bars, and Judge Jail. We give an update on where our Region 5 Alums rank in the NQS rankings, we kickover the art of sticking, a senior night for one alum, first time 9.9 club members and we recap the Insider Classic, Nastia and Winter Cup that and more.

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Show Notes:

Intro
FAB 5
– Suni Lee and the Nabs
– Jade Carey Pushing the AA Scores

Karas Kickover- Art of the Stuck Landing
NQS NOW– Top 5 from Region 5 in the National Rankings
Discussion-
1st Career Perfect 10’s- Sierra Brooks and Maddie Diab
Bridget Killian- First 9.9 on vault, Glue of the Iowa Team
Judge Jail- Cassie St Clair Vault ?????
Payton Richards back to doin her thing
Week 8 Breakdown
Senior Night for Anna Kaziska
Helen Hu- Still I Rise into the bar line-up
JO JO Warga- 9.9 Floor Career High
Amanda Gruber- Huge height on leaps and jumps first 9.9
Nicole Borkorwski- SO College gymnastics 2nd 9.9 of career
Freshman Debuts-
Genna Lebster- Exhibition for MSU on Beam
DRIVE to 5-
R5 Insider Classic- Ady Wahl, Kail Freeman, Addison Sarisky
Nastia Cup
Winter Cup- Ella Kate Parker vault technique, Gabby Van Frayen dabs
New R5 CollegeSalute_Podcast Instagram and Youtube Channel

Toe Point President

Andi Li

Olivia ODonnell

Anna Kaziska

Helen Hu

Gianna Gerdes

Jo Jo Warga

Sparkle and Shine on Tik Tok
Built Bar Best 5 of the Week

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Past Podcasts:

Week 7: WWW- Want, Work, Win… A Dog’s Got to Eat!

Week 6: Playlists, Program Records and Perea It’s a Chief Kiss

Week 5: Was it a 10, Should it be a 10-Subjectivity in Judging

Week 4- Storm Trooper Stare Down

Week 3- Big Letters, Records, the Queen and Wake Boarding

Week 2- Melting Thru Movement or Sharp Stab

Week 1- From A to Z and Everything in Between

College Salute Week 7: WWW- Want, Work, Win- A Dogs Got to Eat!

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Jason MacDonald

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February 24, 2022

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What’s to come in this episode:

It’s week 7 of the NCAA season but it was more like the BIG 5 and we will break down the highlights from BIG Ten’’s part 1 at Elevate the Stage, Tough to watch all the Beauty when you have beasts there at NIU, I was there more on that, we had a 10 this week but not from an alum but a Level 10, The DOGS at MSU gotta EAT and CHIPS are WANT WORK AND WIN (well close this weekend). A cool throwback to 1988 and HELLO check this vault out from SUNI.

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Show Notes:

Intro
FAB 5
– Bella Sacaledo PSU Floor-Double Front-
– Suni Vault-HELLO
– 1988 Melissa Miller (soooo cool) full twisting front handspring walkover?
– Bryant Beam Dismount
– The ultimate teammate involvement in floor routine (Destiny Watley)
– BYU TV

Karas Kickover- Wins and Losses, Should they Matter, Seeding for Championships Here is Olivia with more
Discussion-
BIG 5’s
NIU Quad- Beauty and the Beast

9.9 Notebook
Region 5 AAI Award Nominees (Heisman Trophy for Womens Gymnastics)
– Rachel Borden, Illinois

– Anna Kaziska, SEMO

– Colby Miller, Ohio State

– Leah Clapper, Florida
DRIVE TO 5
– 10.0 for on Level 10 this week
– 9 Region 5 Athletes compete at Nastia
– 2 elites to compete at Winter Cup

New R5 CollegeSalute_Podcast Instagram and Youtube Channel

Toe Point President

JoJo Warga

Jori Jackard

Alyssa Guns

Gianna Gerdes

Sparkle and Shine on Tik Tok
Built Bar Best 5 of the Week

Past Podcasts:

Week 6: Playlists, Program Records and Perea It’s a Chief Kiss

Week 5: Was it a 10, Should it be a 10-Subjectivity in Judging

Week 4- Storm Trooper Stare Down

Week 3- Big Letters, Records, the Queen and Wake Boarding

Week 2- Melting Thru Movement or Sharp Stab

Week 1- From A to Z and Everything in Between

ALUMonday for NCAA Week 7

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Jason MacDonald

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February 23, 2022

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Seven weeks. in and teams are gearing up for their upcoming conference championships with only 3 or 4 weeks left until post season. This weekend the BIG 5 competition took place at Elevate the Stage to see who is the best in the BIG ten for the regular season. We have a few routines from that meet in this weeks post.

Make sure you check out our College Salute Podcast (posted every Wednesday during the collegiate season) where we break down the weeks action, but of course we have our ALUMonday where we highlight more of the awesome routines that our Region 5 Alums did during the previous week of NCAA action.

Here are 12 routines that stood out in Week 7 of NCAA action.

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Rachel DeCavitch, Kent State Floor 9.875

Alyssa Wiedeman, MSU Beam 9.875

Ella Chemotti, EMU Bars 9.85

Lauren Beckwith, Pittsburgh Beam 9.85

Jacey Vore, Michigan Bars 9.85

Emma Pritchard, Ohio State Beam 9.825

Annie Hammond, CMU Bars 9.875

Brookelyn Sears, NIU Beam 9.85

Stephanie Macasu, Towson Bars 9.825

Molly Parris, EMU Floor 9.8

Dani Petrousek, WMU Bars 9.825

Hannah Nam, UNC Beam 9.85

Behind the Scenes Highlights | 2022 Circle of Stars

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Jason MacDonald

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February 17, 2022

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Quick Behind the Scenes Highlights from the 2022 Circle of Stars

Podcast: College Salute Week 6- Playlists, Program Records and Perea It’s a Chief Kiss

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Jason MacDonald

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February 17, 2022

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What’s to come in this episode:

The college debut the Gymternet has been waiting a long time for, Gabby Perea in the competitive line-up. A new gymnastics program to make its first college salutes in 2023, the beauty and toe point of Illinois, stars in the making, triple full, double layouts , program highs and the GREEN and WHITE…. IT’s a Chiefs Kiss!

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Show Notes:

Intro
FAB 5]
– First HBCU announces debut of Gymnastics Team in the Fall of 2022-FISK University (Nashville Tennessee)
-SKIN COLOR TAPE!!!!! We need to talk about this one (The Colour Wrap)
– Nya- Trinity Flying on floor for Florida- Double Lay for days, Sloan Blakely double arabian
– McCaleigh Marr (Penn) Beam 9.950 SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL!!!
– Leann Wong’s Triple Full or or Savannah’s bar dismount ….Insert Chefs Kiss Here
– Hailey Lui Floor New Hampshire! 9.9 Worth talking about
– SEIKA WRIGHT’S FLOOR!!!!!!! OMG YES!!!!
FAB 5 +2- Can we just talk a bit about Haleigh Bryant’s Bars

Karas Kickover- Career and Program Highs
Discussion-

GABBY PEREA FINALLY!!!!!!! Bar & Floor Line up!!

Jacey Vore- Star in the making

Sidney Washington (Pitt) doing AA- First 9.9 this week on floor, So many thoughts here

Gianna Gerdes- 9.9 on floor on Monday (exhibition on saturday against OSU) and debut her Yurchenko 1 ½ – exciting to see Gianna getting her groove back

MSU/Illinois Meet- Kim has lots to say about this meet