Men USAG Men's Program Committee meeting 1.7.22

[OnoNoKomachi]

https://usagym.org/PDFs/Men/Committee%20Minutes/mpc_2022_0107.pdf

Paul Ruggeri has stepped down as athlete rep. He’s a nurse now, and seems to have moved on from the gymnastics community.

Expanded funding for National Team members - more people will get it.

Discussion of allowing individual event winners at NCAA to qualify to US Nationals. I swear this has happened before (it did not happen last year).

AA winner from USAG Collegiate National Championships will qualify if he has a D score of 32 or higher.

 

[MAGfan]

These are some positive changes. I love that they are funding more athletes.

 

[irichluck21]

I love that they are funding more athletes.

Considering several NCAA programs dropped men’s gymnastics I am glad they are supporting the athletes that they need to compete for national team spots.

 

[RedBirdie]

Paul Ruggeri also spent the summer tweeting things like this, so if he was quietly told to go away, it wouldn’t surprise me.



You can read a bunch more and our reactions here: Paul Ruggeri out here making a fool of himself

 

[blake]

Along with Orozco’s story of Paul outing him in front of teammates while at USOTC, Ruggeri comes off as a horse’s ass.