College & Cocktails: Saturday Regional Finals 2026
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Original College Gymnastics Post-Meet Show!
We'll start around 7pm PT after the Florida, Georgia, Cal, MSU Regional Final at Arizona (full schedule and links here) with a very special guest, Reema Zakharia! This is the weekly Q&A show, where we answer your questions live. Here's how to ask questions live. Can't make it live? Add Club bonus episodes to your favorite podcast player (instructions here).
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CHAPTERS
00:00 – Intro: College & Cocktails + Guest Rima Zachariah
02:30 – Georgia Ends 7-Year Nationals Drought
08:15 – Regionals Pressure: What It's Really Like Competing
14:00 – Nationals Qualifiers: LSU, Florida, Stanford, Georgia
18:45 – Stanford vs Clemson: Fair Result or Robbery?
24:30 – Judging Controversies & Score Inconsistencies
31:00 – Equipment Issues: Vault Height Error + Setup Problems
36:20 – Beam Wobbles, Floor Chaos & Scoring Debates
43:10 – Injury Scare: Connor's Bars Fall Explained
49:00 – Leaps, Form & "Just Do Better" NCAA Rant
55:30 – Broadcast Breakdown: Rules Analyst Controversy
01:02:00 – Rest vs Strategy: Why Stars Aren't Doing All-Around
01:07:30 – Kaliya Lincoln's Perfect 10 & NCAA Standouts
01:11:30 – Team Culture, Coaching & Mental Pressure
01:16:30 – Live Meet Experience & Fan Stories
01:20:00 – LA Olympics Ticket Drama + Pricing Shock
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| 0:00.0 | Want to know what goes on on our extra podcast every week? |
| 0:04.2 | Here's a little teaser for you. |
| 0:08.3 | Welcome to College and Cocktails, the original college gymnastics post-meat show. |
| 0:13.4 | It is the regional, it was one regional finals tonight that we watched. |
| 0:18.1 | There were actually two of them. |
| 0:19.5 | Regional Finals Day. |
| 0:20.6 | This is our live behind-the-scenes Q&A show where we pick a meet were actually two of them. Regional finals day. This is our live |
| 0:21.7 | behind these scenes Q&A show where we pick and meet, watch it, discuss it as a family. And tonight |
| 0:26.8 | we are welcoming a special family member, special guests, Rima Zachariah. Oh, she did it. Got the name |
| 0:34.7 | right. She did it. Oh, see, you guys missed it. The B12, the B12 kicked in. |
| 0:39.4 | It needed 60 seconds. |
| 0:41.2 | I took my vitamins. |
| 0:43.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.7 | Earlier today, I made you Armenian, but now it's back to your real last name. |
| 0:49.3 | We're back. |
| 0:50.6 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:52.7 | Rima was a gymnast at Michigan, also from Miami who went to the same gym that |
| 0:58.9 | Danela Lava went to and has so many stories. |
| 1:02.1 | And now we're practically neighbors. |
| 1:04.1 | So we've been going to meets together. |
| 1:06.3 | Okay, so today's show is brought to you by Georgia going back to NCA's for the first time in seven long, dry, dry cactus-filled years. |
| 1:20.9 | They're back. |
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