NCAA Team Finals & The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles Author Interview

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

The dramatic video review that corrected the NCAA Team Finals (Photo Galleries) and Aimee Boorman and co-author Steve Cooper are here to talk about Aimee's memoire The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles OUT NOW!

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NCAA Championships

Oklahoma overcame the 2024 vault gremlins and won its 7th NCAA Championship title!
UCLA defied early-season expectations and finished as the runner-up
Missouri went out with a BANG, earning its highest final placement in program history
Utah finished in fourth after a late-meet beam inquiry for Amy Weir bumped Missouri ahead by 0.012
Why Frida Esparza wins the "fighting fascism even when it's inconvenient" award
Our rotation-by-rotation recap of this meet, plus our favorite moments
- Oklahoma's beam domination vs. Utah's beam woes
- Why Chae Campbell is the only person allowed to do a Yurchenko full
- Helen. Motherfreaking. Hu.
- Was UCLA close to upsetting Oklahoma?
- Avery Neff's LEGIT 9.975 on vault

"The Balance" Interview with Aimee Boorman and Fact Checker

The story behind why Simone underperformed at 2013 Classics
What does it mean that Marta was great at discriminated skill selection?
The story Aimee has about *checks notes* cadavers?
How Aimee was able to put up with Steve Penny for all of those years
How Aimee was able to teach Simone the INSANE skills she does
Why this book is a departure from the typical coaching narrative and opens up an honest conversation about vulnerability in elite sports
The toll elite sports coaching takes on family life and Aimee's advice for coaches

Aimee Boorman Interviews

Women's Finals Recap with Aimee Boorman and Christian Gallardo
Aimee Boorman and Maggie Haney: The Olympic Experience
- Aimee addresses her co-interviewee in her book
Behind The Scenes: Aimee Answers More Questions

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RESOURCES

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Oklahoma are national champs again.
0:02.9	An NCAA championship final recap today, plus The Balance, my year's coaching Simone Biles, is in bookstores today.
0:09.3	Thanks for making the number one gymnastics book on Amazon and on Kindle.
0:13.1	Amy and her co-author, Steve Cooper, aka Fact Checker, are here to talk about the book.
0:18.3	It's April 22nd, 2025, and welcome to the number
0:21.1	to NASA podcast in the Galaxy. I'm Jessica, and Spencer will be joining a little bit later.
0:26.2	We are back from NCAA Championships where reigning champions LSU failed to make the
0:31.4	finals just like OU did last year. But they didn't leave empty-handed.
0:36.6	LSU's Kailen Chio won a well-deserved vault title.
0:40.3	This year, Oklahoma not only made the finals but won their seventh team title,
0:46.3	and Jordan Bowers became all-around champion.
0:48.3	UCLA plays second and gained two national champions.
0:52.3	Brooklyn Moore's on floor and Jordan Childs on bars.
0:57.7	In a dramatic last second rejected inquiry petition, Missouri earned a historic third place as a team.
1:06.9	I'll give you all the details on that. In Missou Things, the goddess of beam, Helen Hu, became national champion with a 99875.
1:16.6	We're going to get into NCAA finals.
1:18.6	Congrats first to the Michigan men's team for winning their seventh title.
1:22.6	Congrats to the men's coaches for finally doing the right thing and changing their format.
1:26.6	It was four up four count.
1:28.5	So it was super exciting and it came down to the last vault from Olympian Paul
1:33.3	Judah who stuck to win and then promptly proposed to women's 2021 national champion for Michigan,
1:39.8	Raina Gagino.
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