327: 1993 NCAA Nationals (Commissioned)

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🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This episode has been commissioned by Club Gym Nerd member Kerry, who requested an episode all about the 1993 NCAA Nationals, saying "This was the first NCAAs I ever watched as a kid growing up in Georgia, so this obviously got me hooked!"

Setting the scene - what was college gymnastics like in the ancient year of 1993?
- A new format called "Super Six" was taking the college gymnastics world by storm
- Bonkers scoring and unrealistic 10s dominated the conversation (we wouldn't know anything about that)
The competition - watch along with us HERE. Press play when Jessica tells you
- The Great Marsden Billboard Incident of '93
- We get distracted by the extremely 1993 fashions for a while
- Jessica is not having these pirouettes
- But seriously the fashion, you guys
- Agina Simpkins is the best thing ever to happen
- I MEAN THESE CLOTHES
- Dee Foster's vault still holds up today
- Greg Marsden hates the format (Shocked, I tell you!)
- LONG LIVE GYM ACRO SERIES
- Hope Spivey-Sheely puts everyone else's difficulty to shame
- The legend that is Jenny Hansen
- Questions about the Georgia All-American murals
- Stanning Dana Duckworth
- Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia
Post-competition discussion
- Whose personal style best encapsulated the year 1993?
- What could the 2019 NCAA code learn from the 1993 code?
- What did we see in 1993 that you are SO GLAD is gone?

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0:00.0	Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:04.0	Today the 1993 NCAA Championships Commission episode.
0:10.0	This is episode of 326 for October 12th-ish, I'm going to say, 2018.
0:19.6	Welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the Galaxy.
0:23.6	I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer
0:25.4	from the Balance Beam situation.
0:28.2	This episode has been commissioned
0:29.6	by club gym nerd member, Carrie, not Carrie Perry, a much better one,
0:34.4	hashtag not all Carrie's, who requested an episode
0:37.7	all about 1993 NCAA Nationals
0:41.9	just to make all of my dreams come true.
0:44.0	Carrie said this was the first NCAA's I ever watched as a kid growing up in Georgia
0:49.2	so this obviously got me hooked.
0:51.2	Thank you so much for letting us do this, Carrie.
0:55.0	Club Jimner members like Carrie help us pay the bills and deliver our weekly podcast,
1:00.0	our exciting coverage of events, and if you'd like to become a club gym and
1:05.0	member you can check out the details at gymnastic.com under the support us
1:09.2	tab you can join for as little as two dollars a month or twenty20 a year and their membership tears all the way to Intergalactic Champion
1:16.9	like Carrie who can commission full episodes.
1:21.4	Okay, so before we begin watching 1993 NCAA Nationals, we should take a minute to set the scene.
1:29.5	So, since 1982, when the NCAA graciously recognized that it's possible for women to emerge
1:36.6	from the birthing hut from time to time to do sports, there had been college gymnastics
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