Recent content by barefoot

The ones I mentioned might not be on the CGN database yet, but the gymnasts have posted it on their own social media.

A number of big names in the portal lately - Molly Brinkman, Nyla Morabito, Ava Piedrahita, Rylee Guevara, and Nicole King off the top of my head, and I know there are quite a few more. CC Cooley just announced her transfer to UNC yesterday.

Someone on one of the Facebook college gym groups asked why people think that all is not well in the team environment at Utah and I mentioned Maile being a student coach and also a Farden defender. Missy Marlowe called me out and asked if I'd like to ask any of the girls on the team how they...

I'm a high school teacher. Two years ago I had a class with Abby, Addy, Maddy, Allie, Callie, Bella, Ella, and Ellie. Trying to match the right name to the right person was ... an experience.

I don't know how she expected to win over her readers when she was so disparaging and downright rude about other gymnasts - and even at the end, the "failure of a mother" by not breastfeeding! It's like she's determined to alienate as many people as possible.

Thank you for writing these! This show sounds like a fever dream.

I love Flavia in that shade of pink. Dulcy really DOES look good in any color!

It seems like Dulcy (and Hardie?) were the only two being written off as no-chance in these trials, and this makes me SO happy for Dulcy, no matter how they do at Worlds. Her teammates have had such incredible success and she's just kept grinding without their accolades and accomplishments. This...

I just meant that she's wearing each school's version of a leotard - the running top and briefs for each school in a recruiting pic - because I wasn't sure if the issue was gymnastics recruits in sparkly leos or sitting on thrones and whatnot.

No, because cross-country/track and field athletes don't take publicity photos in crowns and thrones, or in rhinestoned college uniforms and I've honestly never paid attention to what athletes wear on their recruiting visits to other colleges. All of hers have been in full...

Haven't finished reading the thread (I know, I need to read the whole thing) but a senior in one of my creative writing classes - I'm a high school teacher - is a two-time state cross-country champion, and she's been so excited to show me her recruiting pictures from the schools she's visited...

I coached (rec) at Everest for several years, ending in 2012 when I moved away. This is so sad to me - Han and Chen hired me, and I truly believed they were good coaches in a positive environment. I've coached at several different gyms and left a couple of them quickly because it was NOT the...

I feel like people (OK, me at least) are going to be watching Mizzou closely in the transfer portal, after the mom of an unnamed gymnast wrote something online about how heartbreaking it was for her daughter not to get to go to nationals because of the team size and the fact that she was being...

That was such a great competition! I love that the Michigan men were so emotional after winning the title - you could tell how much this meant to them.

Thank you both! She wasn't on CGN's injury list when I looked and I hadn't heard about an injury, but I figured it had to be something like that.