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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

2024 NCAA Championship Recap & Olympic Qualification Update

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

Sports News, News, Sports

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

LIVE SHOW REPLAY NOW AVAILABLE

Watch a replay of the our live show from Friday, April 19th in Ft Worth with Kathy Johnson Clarke! Virtual Replay Tickets on sale until May 3rd. 

HEADLINES

Jessica is joined by Michigan great, Olivia Karas while Spencer is on the mend.

  • LSU are Champions!!
  • Courtney Kupets is out at Georgia. After seven seasons the UGA gymnastics coach, Courtney Kupets Carter, is gone. This has since kicked off a whirlwind of speculation surrounding her successor. The lead candidate heading into the weekend was new national champion head coach Jay Clark, which pushed a bidding war that is rumored to have reached $2 million before Clark turned it down according to our sources. We discuss the other coaches we're hearing Georgia is interested in and are expected to make an announcement soon. 
    • We discuss how this transpired
    • Why this is good for the sport
    • Who we've heard is currently in the running

FINAL OLYMPIC QUALIFIER WORLD CUPS

  • Qualifier World Cups have concluded and the spots go to: 
  • Vault: An Chang Ok (PRK), Valentina Georgieva (BUL)
  • Uneven Bars: Georgia-Rose Brown (NZL), Levi Ruivivar (PHI)
  • Balance Beam: Nina Derwael (BEL) , Ting Hua-Tien 
    • Emma Malabuyo (UCLA/PHL) failed to qualify
      • She still has one more shot
  • Floor Exercise: Charlize Moerz (AUT), Laura Casabuena (ESP)

NCAA FINALS

  • LSU won their first ever NCAA Championship
    • The 8th NCAA program to be crowned champion
  • The Stanford men won their fifth consecutive NCAA championship
  • Bests and Worsts from Championships
  • Judges Award for Getting it Right
  • Shocking Twist Awards
  • That Girl Award
  • Mother Award
  • Badass Skill Award
  • Individual Queen Award

GYMTERNET NEWS

  • The DOJ has reached a settlement with 139 claimants for a total of $138.7 million
  • Sunisa Lee revealed she has been battling two kidney diseases
  • Simone Biles is the 2024 Laureus World Comeback of the Year Award winner
  • Curran Phillips' coach says he withdrew from the Doha World Cup because of USAG policy
  • GymCastic is featured in the Wall Street Journal
  • Hashimoto Daiki wins his fourth straight All-Japan All-Around Championships title
  • Morgan Price from Fisk University has won the first-ever collegiate national title for an HBCU gymnast

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:15.0

Remember the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two.

0:19.0

To a sitting position on the other side of the beam that could literally have counted as her

0:24.8

full turn skill at elite because you can do a bowl of any kind now you don't have to do a full turn on

0:29.8

one foot sideways forward backwards any kind of role I was like this is amazing if you could do that with

0:35.6

straight legs the FIG would take it in a minute today everything that happened at

0:41.2

NCA Championships who's getting the Georgia head coaching job,

0:46.0

final Paris World Cup qualifiers have been announced, it's over, we have the people who qualified through the World Cup and a huge

0:55.4

Department of Justice settlement with survivors it's April 23rd 2024 and

1:01.6

welcome to the everyone to NASA's podcast in the Galaxy.

1:04.3

I'm here with Olivia Karis, Michigan Great,

1:08.7

who is one of those gymnists who built a program and then the program won after she graduated so she's going to have

1:17.1

thoughts on LSU like I did for all of those gymnast that built that program up because we thought they were going to win for so many years and they play second.

1:24.8

Spencer will hopefully be well enough to join me on Saturday live after the American Classic.

1:32.2

So this is featuring Gabby Douglas as in a three-time

1:36.2

gold, Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas, 2012 London, all-around champion,

1:41.7

Gabby Douglas, that Gabby Douglas. Finally we're going to see her didn't see her winter cup

1:45.8

Also Jade is gonna compete Jake carry Morgan State Josh Roberson is competing

1:50.9

So you can get details at USA Gymnastics or you can watch of course on

1:54.7

flip now so when that is done we'll do our episode live club gym nerve members

1:59.6

can join us live and that will probably be our episode for the week because that's my only

2:04.4

chance to take a day off between now and a week off between now and the Olympics so

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