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Michigan Gymnastics

February 23, 2007

Online update: No. 1 Michigan falls out west

BY COLT ROSENSWEIG

OAKLAND, Calif. - For the No. 1 Michigan men's gymnastics team, last weekend's meet against Minnesota was a wake-up call.
This Saturday's Pacific Coast Classic was the fire alarm going off next to your ear.
Despite posting a respectable 214.4 team score, previously-undefeated Michigan finished fourth at the Classic. No. 3 Oklahoma looked the part of the defending national champions, scoring 218.45 overall to claim victory.
Last year, Michigan's score would have been cause for celebration.
This year, it was a disappointment.

February 22, 2007

Big Ten's best shines

BY ALEX PROSPERI

Sophomore gymnast Tatjana Thuener-Rego is a show off.
But in a good way.
Most gymnasts tend to keep a fairly straight face throughout their floor routine. But Thuener-Rego often lets loose a handful of huge smiles, showing no reservation of self-expression.
"I like to show off," Thuener-Rego said. "It's part of my personality. I'm not afraid to perform exactly how I'm feeling."
And that's a good thing, because Thuener-Rego has walked over, through and around her competition all year long.

February 21, 2007

For senior captain, a little less means more

BY COLT ROSENSWEIG

Fifteen minutes into the regular season, the Michigan men's gymnastics team needed a hero. It was halfway through the first rotation of parallel bars at the Windy City Invitational, and the Wolverines' highest score was an 8.65. The specters of the past year - when a talented team never quite put it all together - loomed ahead.
Enter senior co-captain Andrew Elkind.
With his teammates cheering him on, Elkind hit his routine for a score of 9.5 - and the undefeated Wolverines haven't looked back since.

February 19, 2007

Sarah Royce

Not pretty, but No. 1 gets it done on road

BY COLT ROSENSWEIG

MINNEAPOLIS - It was ugly.
It was disappointing.
But it was enough.
By the skin of its teeth, the undefeated Michigan men's gymnastics team pulled off a victory against No. 7 Minnesota, 209.8-209.3. The score was Michigan's lowest point total of the season, and despite the win, the subpar performance rankled in the Wolverines' minds.

February 19, 2007

'M' feels Lions' roar

BY ALEX PROSPERI

Achilles heel.
Never has one phrase so vividly illustrated a season.
The No. 9 Michigan women's gymnastics team's Achilles heel has been its inability to put together four strong rotations successfully in one meet.
Friday night, the ninth-ranked Wolverines scored a season-low 48.350 on the beam and lost the lead and the meet to conference foe Penn State, 195.900 to 195.525.
It's the fifth time in six meets that the team has had one event that was substantially worse than the other three.

February 19, 2007

Blue wins six events in non-scoring meet

The No. 1 Michigan women's track and field team will no longer be competing at the U-M Indoor Track Building this seaason. But the Wolverines went out with a bang during the Harold Silverstein Invitational on Saturday.
Michigan won a total of six events, and the top performance came from sophomore Tiffany Ofili. The Ypsilanti native won the 60-meter dash in 7.45 and was 0.01 seconds shy of an NCAA provisional standard.
This weekend's event was non-scoring and just a preparation for next weekend's Big Ten Indoor Championship in Champaign.

February 13, 2007

Blue still impacted by founding father

BY COLT ROSENSWEIG

By Colt Rosensweig
Daily Sports Writer
The distinguished gentleman sits in a chair in the corner of the practice gym. Placing both hands on the armrests, he grins brightly and says, "Look at these old parallel bars muscles at work!"
But this is no ordinary Michigan gymnastics alumnus.
This is Newt Loken, the men's gymnastics equivalent of Bo Schembechler.

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