NCAA Snapshot Week 12/13

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Better late than never…..the stats on the final week of regular season NCAA competition.

Air Force came out on top at the USAG collegiate championships, highlighted by a 15.4 pommel horse routine from Patrick Hoopes, the second highest pommel horse score of the 2024 season. Otherwise, the meet was a mini preview of the upcoming ECAC championships (minus Army, who did not compete here). Navy led the ECAC teams with its second place finish, followed by Greenville. Greenville had a rough still rings routine, but rallied at the end with a season high 69.4 on floor exercise.

Illinois narrowly defeated Penn State 406.5 to 405.95. Penn State started to catch Illinois on still rings, but fell behind on parallel bars, and a great high bar rotation from Penn State wasn’t enough to catch the Illini. Penn State ended with substantially higher difficulty (157.5 to 152.3), but execution carried the day for Illinois (Illinois avg E per routine 8.473 to Penn State’s 8.282).

The regular season ended with Nebraska scoring the fourth highest total team score of the season to beat an Ohio State team that scored its season high of 414.15. Parker Thackston of Ohio State joined the 15 + pommel club. His fellow club members are Ignacio Yockers (Oklahoma), Patrick Hoopes (Air Force), Brandon Dang (Illinois), and Fred Richard (Michigan). Interestingly, World silver medalist Khoi Young has yet to join, an indication of the level of pommel horse specialist talent we now have in the U.S.A.

Nebraska and Illinois shared the regular season B1G Championship.

USAG individual Championships - 5 titles taken by Air Force and one by Greenville full results here

Score stuff

15 + Club

Patrick Hoopes (Air Force) PH - 6.5/15.4
Parker Thackston (Ohio State PH - 6.1/15.25

80 + AA

Michael Artlip (Penn State) - 80.55

Routines with D scores high enough to have made 2023 World Championship Event finals.

Routines that had D scores that would have made top 3 are in red.

Connor McCool (Illinois) FX- 6/14.3
Brandon Dang (Illinois) PH - 6.5/14.75
Josh Karnes (Penn State) PB - 6.1/14.65
Ian Raubal (Penn State) HB - 5.4/13.65
Josh Karnes (Penn State) HB - 5.6/13.7
Patrick Hoopes (Air Force) PH - 6.5/15.4
Garett Braunton (Air Force) HB - 5.7/14.1
Parker Thackston (Ohio State) PH - 6.1/15.25
Caden Spencer (Ohio State) HB - 5.7/13.85
Sam Phillips (Nebraska) HB - 5.5/14.3

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School reports Air Force, Greenville, Illinois, Navy, Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn State, Simpson, Springfield, William and Mary

Check out the charts below for a snapshot of last weekend’s meets. Home scores are in red. Stick bonus is included in the D score. Neutral deductions are included in the E score.

Neutral deductions for injury and non-performance related deductions are not included in the snapshots. These are meant to be a picture of the gymnastics that happened, not an official document.

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NCAA Snapshot week 11