146: Taylor Rice and The 2015 NCAA Championships

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🗓️ 24 April 2015

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Rice (Stanford) makin' it rain during event finals at the 2015 NCAA Championships. Photo by Christy Linder.

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Stanford junior, Taylor Rice, joins us to discuss the 2015 NCAA Championships. Taylor is known for having a different hair color at every meet, being more trouble than Tasha Schwikert for her coach/mother Cassie Rice during her youth at GymCasts and having been the first woman in NCAA history to compete a man wipe. We discuss:

Where did the inspiration for her back-dat-twerk-tastic floor choreography come from? That's So Raven.
How early is too early to commit to a college?
What did Stanford do to change their results so drastically from the last few years.
Why didn't she ever go the elite route and what she learned from Tasha Schwikert
Will Stanford be able to work a tree pose into their floor routines next year?
The changes would she like to see to the NCAA.

Uncle Tim, Evan Heiter, Spencer, Spanny Tampson, and Jessica chat about everything that happened at the NCAA Championships in Ft. Worth, Texas:

The heartbreak:
- What does UCLA need to do differently in order to gain their former team glory?
- The Beam-tastrophy that was the LSU prelim session and how many times are hearts broke.
- Was Lindsay "Precision" Mabel Khorkina'd after starting on vault and getting a lowely 9.85.
Gym-Myth Busters: It was true that the fiberglass was falling off of the bars?!
We revel in the joy of two fantastic all-around champions, Kytra Hunter and Sam Peszek; fair and well deserved!
The haters, the disadvantage of being the defending champions.
Are judges afraid to be the first to give a 10?
The floor curse. Beam isn't the difficult event to start on anymore--floor took Oklahoma out of the Super Six finals.
The exciting finish between Utah and Floirda coming down to the very last routine and half a tenth.
Our favorite moments from Championships:
- Ivana Hong getting her gymnastics on and scoring well!
- Gymnasts who have improved in college.
- Auburn qualifying for Super Six for the first time in 22 years.
- Taylor Rice's all-comedy floor routine.
- Sam Peszek's standing full on beam!
Rules changes we need for 2016:
- Allow judges to take the quarter tenth deduction.
- Make the regular season matter more.
- Top 5 finishers receive All-American honors. It's not enough to just qualify.
- Required single bar release.
- Teams must perform at least one vault from each of the three vault entries: tsukahara/kazamatsu, front handspring and yurchenko.
- Make the post-season matter: you should have to win something before Super Six.
- Four on the floor final, get rid of the Super Six.
Event Finals:
- No upgrades in vault finals that we hadn't seen during season.
- We overwhelmingly agree on the floor finals.
- NINA McGEE!

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Taylor Rice (Stanford) makes it rain on beam.

UCLA gymnastics team does Taylor Rice's making it rain choreography as they watch from the stands during floor finals at the 2015 NCAA championships.

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0:00.0	Remember the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:04.8	The bars were, like fiberglass chunks were coming off into Brits's hands or something.
0:11.6	What? And that the beam was wobbly.
0:13.7	Yeah, Taylor, any thought?
0:15.7	Yeah, that's totally true.
0:17.6	Today, Florida, three peats, Petra and San Pheschix flipped the all around.
0:25.2	Nina McGee won the crowd on floor and
0:27.8	Stanford's Taylor Rice is here to tell us all about the man white she did in
0:32.1	floor finals. This is episode 146 for April 22nd, 2015.
0:37.0	Welcome to the Number 1 gymnastics podcast In The World. I'm Jessica and I'm here with
0:41.0	Uncle Tim Evan Heider, Spencer,
0:43.2	Spanny Tamsen, and Stanford, Jim Cat, Taylor Rice.
0:48.8	Next week, Mez and Emma will be here reporting on Euros,
0:51.8	so stay tuned for that. If you haven't heard about the
0:54.3	book club that's happening with Shannon Miller yet you really need to.
0:57.3	Shannon Miller, the most decorated in American history, had just wrote a memoir.
1:01.1	It came out on April 21st yesterday. It has lots of gymnastics
1:06.2	stuff in it. So if you're worried that it was going to be a depressing cancer book,
1:09.6	Fear not. It's super gym nerdy and inspirational. It's called It's Not About Perfect,
1:14.8	competing for my country and fighting for my life. Order it on the
1:17.9	Gymcastic website through our store, Amazon Store, a little portion of
1:21.0	what you spend will go back to us and help support the show.
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