College & Cocktails: Canadian Excellence Meet

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🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

College & Cocktails: Iowa and Minnesota at Utah

College gymnastics is back, and College & Cocktails returns with its live post-meet breakdown of the Canadian Excellence showdown featuring Utah, Minnesota, and Iowa.

Recorded immediately after the meet, this episode covers early-season judging trends, start value controversies, standout performances, and what January scoring can (and can't) tell us about the rest of the NCAA season.

In this episode:

Did the right team win?
Avery Neff's breakout meet and a start-value judges' conference
Utah's depth, Minnesota's beam strength, and Iowa's returning veterans
Superlatives: Simone of the Meet, Artist of the Meet, Assassin of the Meet
Early-season judging inconsistencies and ...dun dun dunnnn altitude effects!
Fantasy gymnastics implications and lineup strategy
Audience Q&A on winter break training, international eligibility, and college gymnasts with named skills
Corrupt or Correct: re-judging controversial routines

College & Cocktails is GymCastic's live, behind-the-scenes NCAA gymnastics show — recorded in real time, rated TV-14, and fueled by strong opinions, expert analysis, and the Spencer with a cocktail.

This episode is part of our weekly Friday night College & Cocktails series.

Full episode with live Q&A are available to Club Gym Nerd members. Join here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to College and Cocktails. The 2026 season is upon us. And tonight is the Canadian
0:08.5	excellence meet. We watched Iowa, Minnesota, at Utah, and tonight's meet is brought to you by
0:19.4	commentator Moe said, the judges are rusty too and this is our
0:24.4	first show back since vacation so it's almost like we are too um you can listen to this show you don't
0:31.1	have to join us live you can listen on your favorite podcast player but do we do it live after we pick a meet
0:35.4	each week during college season and this is our live Q&A show.
0:39.6	We answer your questions.
0:40.5	It's just for you, our club Jimner members.
0:42.5	And today is January 2nd.
0:45.2	Yes, that's right.
0:45.8	We watched a college gymnastics meet on January 2nd.
0:50.1	The least wise thing that has ever happened in the history of sports, besides that thing in the sports ball, ball, where they do a parade and then they compete in the football on New Year's Day, I think.
1:04.7	That's the worst one.
1:06.2	But a day after also, a decision not made for health, I think.
1:11.7	Yeah, I mean, most of the things I want to talk about were Avery Neff, so we can talk
1:16.0	about what happened on Beam.
1:17.4	She does way more bonus than is needed.
1:20.1	The coolest part of her Beam routine is her aerial to two feet connected to Shushinova,
1:27.4	which is a- Quarter-turned Shoshinova, which is a...
1:27.8	Quarter turn, Shushinova.
1:29.1	Quarter turn.
1:29.7	Yeah.
	...

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