Making Our Mark! • 2004 Maryland Gymnastics
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Making Our Mark! • 2004 Maryland Gymnastics COMCAST CENTER Maryland’s new student activities building and home of Maryland Athletics was completed in fall Comcast Center’s main arena provides a seating capacity of !" fans for basketball and will serve as a campus site for university special events and select community events The "%seat Comcast Center Gymnasium serves as home to the Terps’ gymnastics wrestling and volleyball teams and the Nextel Heritage Hall multi%purpose room (capacity +) is equipped to host banquets press confer% ences large meetings and serve as a pre%game restaurant suite overlooking the competition arena The Comcast Center also houses the university’s athletics administration offices and includes a %square% foot Academic Support Center providing an enhanced study atmosphere for the school’s nearly% student%ath% letes on " teams The Terrapins’ first public event for basketball was its annual Midnight Madness celebration Both basketball The auxiliary gym where competitions are held teams have state%of%the%art facilities at their fingertips including locker room and lounge areas training areas com% plete with jacuzzis and outstanding weight training facilities Twenty suites provide enhanced viewing and entertainment capabilities for Maryland fans Maryland’s stu% dent seating capacity accommodates + with students ringing the first rows around the floor and a majority of seats on the arena’s west wall Comcast Center is an excellent place for alumni and fans to enjoy their favorite sports and share their common Terrapin spirit Visitors will learn about the men and women who have made Maryland Athletics great as they stroll through the dramatic Terrapin Walk of Fame and History And the Terrapin Team Store located just off the soaring three%level atrium lobby allows visitors to outfit their pride Maryland has once again reclaimed the status of having the best student activities center and athletics home in the country The main arena at Comcast Center Gillian Cote is featured on Comcast Center’s Walk of Fame and History The Maryland Hall of Fame The Terrapin Team Shop 2004 Maryland Gymnastics 39 2004 Maryland Gymnastics • Making Our Mark! STRENGTH & CONDITIONING One of the most unique aspects of Maryland’s women’s gymnastics team is the nature of its strength and conditioning program “We have a vigorous weight program ” says head coach Bob Nelligan “We’re physically more tough and the support staff that’s allowing us to do this should be applauded” The team’s strength and conditioning coach Barry Kagan has been a part of Maryland’s strength and conditioning program since !!9 and has worked with the gymnasts for the last six years According to Kagan the gymnastics weight train% ing program is one that is constantly changing “It’s con% tinuously adapting depending on the individual needs of the current team ” said Kagan The primary goal of the team’s program is injury prevention Next the weight program strives to enhance Barry Kagan each gymnasts’ performance “Most gymnastics pro% grams take a fairly conservative approach doing mod% erate weight training ” said Kagan “We take a very balanced approach empha% sizing strength over muscular endurance as most of the other programs do” The team begins lifting in September upon returning to campus The first two weeks are comprised of a learning/reacquaintance phase “Most gymnasts don’t lift in the style that we do ” said Kagan “We want to make sure they are ready to take on the more complicated lifts” cent skylights and large windows overlooking the playing field at Byrd Stadium After the two%week introductory period the team progresses into a com% The Terps’ spacious weight room includes square feet of functional floor plex training program which involves several Olympic%style lifts The main lower space with two elevated offices that are easily accessible to the training floor body exercise is the squat exercise to enhance lower body stability For upper This season Maryland has begun to train in the spacious brand%new state% body training the women use dumbbells rather than bars to alleviate some of of%the%art weight room in Comcast Center the stress on the shoulders The athletes also train aerobically in September and Maryland gymnasts train with some of the best equipment available in% October to prepare for full routines cluding pounds of customized York free weights seven pieces of Keiser “In season our approach becomes more of a maintenance phase ” said Kagan progressive air resistance machines and a full line of Hammer strength equip% “We alternate the daily intensity of the lifts by organizing around the meet sched% ment The weight complex also features immense self%contained rack stations ule” The women lift as a team twice a week with occasional conditioning circuits Olympic lifting platforms with Eleiko bumper plates and upper body pressing in the gym stations As for strength%to%body weight ratio the gymnasts are the “strongest women in the department ” said Kagan The Terrapins are fortunate to train in two of the premier weight training Practice Makes Perfect at North Gym facilities in the country Conveniently located in the Gossett Football Team House at Byrd Stadium this facility has excellent aesthetic appeal with two magnifi% The Maryland gymnastics team practices in the North Gym located near the Cam% pus Recreation Center North Gym is a state of the art gymnastics facility that covers ? square feet There are two spring floor exercise mats which lie side% by%side with a travelling overhead spotting rig used for vaulting as well as floor exercise There are spotting belts that are placed above the uneven bars the single rail bar and the trampolines The single rail bar tumbling strip and vaulting area are all connected into or onto brand new fitted Tiffin resi pits Twenty centimeter mats surround AAI uneven bars and four new AAI Elite series balance beams One of the most attractive features of the practice facility is the lighting which is soft and leaves no shadows anywhere in the gym Finally there is a glassed%in tram% poline room with four%string bed Goliath tramps surrounded by spotting plat% forms and %inch landing mats 40 2004 Maryland Gymnastics Making Our Mark! • 2004 Maryland Gymnastics OPPONENT PROFILES Air Force Falcons Denver Pioneers George Washington Colonials Iowa Hawkeyes Location: USAFA Colo Location: Denver Colo Location: Washington DC Location: Iowa City Iowa Home Arena: Cadet Gymnasium West Gym Home Arena: Hamilton Gym/Magness Arena Home Arena: Charles E Smith Center Home Arena: Iowa Field House Conference: Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Conference: Independent Conference: Atlantic Conference: Big Ten Colors: Blue/Silver Colors: Crimson and Gold Colors: Buff & Blue Colors: Black and Old Gold Head Coach: Lisa Woody (Texas Woman’s ’!) 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