Thank you. What is up?

This is the beat reporters and I am not Jake Brenn, but I am joined by Rob Gray and Ben Hutchins. I'm Aiden Wyatt filling in for Jake today.

Fellas, it's that time of year. It's almost conference tourney season. We got the last weekend of the regular season on the men's side. A lot to talk about with wrestling and of course gymnastics. How are we doing today?

Doing all right. Good to see you, Aiden. Yeah, thanks for having me. You felt to mention it's also spring training. I guess Jake's not focused on the spring training out there in Arizona. What the heck, Jake? Yeah, he was out there with our guy, Jeff Kelderman.

Shout out to him for always sponsoring the beat reporters.

He sent me, you know, they were in the stands for a Cubs game the other day with the text,

Road Dogs.

So I'm sure they're having a great time down in Arizona.

Jake is finally back today.

And we will be live this evening for pregame and post game for the i've

state women's basketball game shall we dig into gymnastics i think we should i think we should

guys then you yeah you've kind of been our our number one guy here in terms of everything.

You had another piece come out today, kind of a blanket of everything that's happened.

How did this start?

You know, where was this program at?

Fill us in on what you found out.

Yeah, I wrote two pieces today.

You can check him out on the Quad City Times. They came out this morning. One, I wrote two pieces today. You can check out on the Quad City Times.

They came out this morning.

One, an overview of how successful was Iowa State's gymnastics program since 1973, the first

season it officially started as a varsity sport, and how bad did this year get?

And the truth is that 2026 got very bad before the season was canceled,

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