238: Maggie Nichols & KJ Kindler

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🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

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THE NCAA NEWS

Spencer and Jessica recap the week in college gymnastics:

Who has joined the hall of 10's.
McMurtry DTY, Karas Michigan 1.5 for 9.975, Zaakira Muhammad, WVU, perfection on a full for 9.900.
Kennedi Edney wasn't supposed to do AA, steps in on floor with this--that wasn't even in the lineup before, wins AA.
Taryn Fitzgerald at Stanford front aerial landing on two feet.
Crack or Correct: The most controversial scores of the weekend.
- McMurtry's DTY - only got a 9.995. Should it have been a 10?
- Sofie Seilnacht got a 9.7 from one judge, 9.75 from the other for this gorgeous beam routine. Robbed or fair?

THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEWS

The 2015 team World Champion, bronze medalist on floor and national treasure, Maggie Nichols, talks about her transition from elite to college gymnastics at Oklahoma. KJ Kindler, two-time national championship coach of the defending NCAA champs at OU join us to nerd out about:

Maggie Nichols (21:00):
- The arm landing position question answered!
- Oversplits
- How she increased her level of fitness after her ACL tear.
- Going pro
- Secret skills she worked on that fans never got to see.
- Skills she's thrilled she'll never have to do again!
KJ Kindler (38:25):
- How she manages to dominate from January through April.
- What are her secrets to such a dominant, consistent beam team.
- Did she always know that Chayse Capps was going to be a star
- How did Brenna Dowell and KJ negotiate Brenna's return to elite last year
- The story behind the Syrian refugee floor routine and how the team handles the current political turmoil (American Refugee Committee).
- Sultry choreography
- Why Natalie Brown had to take the slither out of her routine. Watch it here, RIP "The Slither."
- Chayse Capps beam drop.

GIVEAWAY

HOW: Tell us what the historic UNC LGBTQ meet meant to you. Be as creative as you want. A story about how gymnastics helped someone come out. Or how gymnastics taught you to be a better ally. Use the hashtag #ThxUNCgym on Twitter, Instagram or Tumblr. We will pick a winner from a random drawing of entries. DEADLINE: February 5th, 2017 PRIZE:

Three "Carolina Gymnastics Love is Love" t-shirts from the meet (sizes S, M and L)
Commemorative tickets from the event
One pair of the famous ombre blue and black Carolina Nike shoes (size 7.5, see far right shoes in the photo above)

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0:00.0	Today, world champion, and undefeated in the all-around in college so far this season,
0:10.9	Ms Swaggy Maggie Nichols is here with her two-time
0:14.9	reigning NCAA champion coach from Oklahoma K.J. Kindler. And we will talk about
0:21.9	crack or correct debating the most controversial scores of the week.
0:26.4	This is up to the 238 for February 1st, 2017.
0:31.1	Welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the Galaxy. I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the
0:36.2	balance meme situation. Spencer, let's talk about the NCAA news. Before we get started,
0:40.7	can you give us the highlights from the weekend?
0:45.0	We had some highlights.
0:46.7	It was actually kind of a rough weekend in college gymnastics for a lot of teams like Alabama
0:50.8	I had some bad ones, but the top three teams remained steady,
0:55.4	Oklahoma, LSU, Florida. They're sort of separating themselves from the pack right
0:59.3	now. They're the teams that haven't really had a bad meet so far.
1:03.3	Everyone else has sort of struggled.
1:05.6	Utah's sitting in fourth, but has now lost two major gymnast
1:09.4	to season ending injuries, Sabrina Schwab and Kim Tessen, which is devastating for them, but interesting to see kind of how they put together lineups after that.
1:19.7	So far this season now we've had five tens two more people joined the 10.0 club over the weekend.
1:27.0	One of them has been there before Kennedy Baker on floor because dos Santos, end of conversation, you don't really need to know anything else about it,
1:35.0	her candidate makers of Santos.
1:37.1	And Kyla Ross, the inevitable Kyla Ross 10 on uneven bars happened, very crisp, clean, everyone's thrilled. Yay,
1:47.2	Kila. And she cried after. Did she even cry at the Olympics? She cried
1:51.9	after she got her 10. Okay, she probably cried after she got her tent.
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