2014 Michigan Gymnastics
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MICHIGAN ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS Scott Kemps • Men’s Gymnastics Contact 2014 MICHIGAN GYMNASTICS [email protected] • MGoBlue.com 2013 BIG TEN CHAMPIONS 2013 NCAA CHAMPIONS FOUR RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS MEET #2: STANFORD OPEN BURNHAM PAVILION SATURDAY, JAN. 25, 7 P.M. PST ALL ABOUT THE WOLVERINES season, while the honor is the first of Freeman’s career. The No. 2-ranked University of Michigan Wolverine UNIVERSITY INFORMATION men’s gymnastics team (5-0) will head west to take on Overview of the Wolverines Squad: Loads of Firepower, Location .............................................Ann Arbor, Mich. the No. 4 Stanford Cardinal, No. 6 Cal Golden Bears, and Upper Class Heavy Founded ....................................................................1817 Washington Huskies in the Stanford Open at 7 p.m. PST After consecutive years of welcoming double-digit Nickname ......................................................Wolverines from Burnham Pavilion. recruiting classes in 2011 and 2012, the Wolverines now Colors .........................................................Maize & Blue have 18 of 25 members of this season’s squad being either Conference ..........................................................Big Ten The Wolverines will be competing without Stacey Ervin, a junior or senior. Three freshmen and three sophomores President ......................................... Mary Sue Coleman who is taking part in the Team USA training camp in comprise the underclassmen, while the squad features 11 Athletic Director .....................................Dave Brandon Colorado Springs, Colo. juniors, seven seniors and one graduate student. Enrollment.............................................................38,980 Athletic Department Phone .................(734) 763-4423 WOLVERINE BITES With junior Michael Strathern redshirting and the Ticket Offi ce Phone ...............................(734) 764-0247 graduation of lineup mainstay Rohan Sebastian for a Last Time Against Stanford year ago, U-M returns 26-of-30 (in a six up, six count HISTORY Last season in Ann Arbor, U-M upset No. 2 Stanford, format) routines in terms of lineup regulars from the All-Time Record/Years ............................588-367-3/67 439.750-429.350, on Jan. 26, as Syque Caesar set the powerhouse 2013 squad. NCAA Titles ......................1963,1970,1999,2010, 2013 NCAA record on parallel bars with a 15.90. Additionally, Big Ten Championships ..............................................16 Adrian de los Angeles tallied the then-11th-highest Wolverines Currently No. 2 in Nation, Ranked No. 1 in All-Americans ............................................................194 all-around score ever with a 89.20. Michigan won five Preseason Big Ten Championships/Last ...........................16/2013 individual events, including the all-around, as the squad Michigan entered the 2014 season as the unanimous NCAA Individual Champions ...................................27 improved to 6-0 on the season. choice for the top spot in the 2014 Preseason GymInfo Poll. Michigan earned all 11 first-place votes to mark the Big Ten Individual Championships...........................92 U-M most recently visited Palo Alto in 2012, falling to first time in the history of the poll (since 2002) that a Academic All-Americans ...........................................75 the Cardinal and scored a 341.700. The last time U-M team has been tabbed a unanimous No. 1. defeated the Cardinal on the road was 2007. COACHING STAFF Following week one of competition, U-M sits at No. 2 in Head Coach .................................................Kurt Golder U-M Opens Season with Windy City Title the recent edition of the poll behind Oklahoma, while Alma Mater, Year ..................................... Michigan, ‘77 U-M began the 2014 regular season with a comeback this week’s opponent Stanford (4) and Cal (6) also grace Career Record at U-M / Years .................307-190-1/18 victory -- trailing by .70 heading into the sixth rotation the poll. Ass’t Coach ..........Geoff Corrigan, Michigan ‘05 / 4th Year -- and scored a 74.95 on rings to capture the 44th Windy Ass’t Coach ..............Xiao Yuan, Beijing, ‘88 / 9th year City Invite title Saturday (Jan. 18) at UIC with a team Administrative Ass’t ......Ian Makowske, Michigan ‘11 score of 437.500, besting Illinois and Ohio State as Wolverines Top Big Ten Poll; James, de los Angeles Athletic Trainer ..........Bill Shinavier, MS, ATC, CSCS well as Minnesota, Iowa and UIC. De los Angeles won Named Gymnasts to Watch ........................................ Chelsea Larsen, MS, AT, ATC parallel bars with a 15.15 and also placed third on floor The No. 1-ranked University of Michigan men’s exercise with a 14.80 to lead the Wolverine effort. U-M gymnastics team was unanimously selected to finish TEAM INFORMATION competed without Sam Mikulak, who was training with first in the Big Ten, the conference announced Thursday 2013 Overall Record ............................................... 27-2 the United States National Team in Beijing, China. (Dec. 12) with the release of the preseason coaches’ poll. Conference Record / Finish .....................438.900/ 1st U-M earned two on the Gymnast to Watch list in senior Lettermen Returning / Lost .................................. 22/2 Nick Hunter set a pair of career highs in the meet, Dylan James, a 2013 NCAA All-American on pommel Newcomers ....................................................................3 besting his previous parallel bar score with a 15.10 and horse, and junior Adrian de los Angeles, 2013 NCAA 2013 Postseason .....NCAA Championships/ 1st place his high bar score with a 14.75. Stacey Ervin also set a All-Around runner-up. NCAA Champion ... Sam Mikulak (AA, p-bars, fl oor) new high score on high bar (14.55), while Alex Bubnov All-American’s (13) ..................................Sam Mikulak got off to a hot start with a career best on still rings James, who earned his first career All-America citation (6), Syque Caesar, (3), Adrian de los Angeles (2), Dylan (15.40). after taking sixth on pommel horse, looks to lead a unit James, Rohan Sebastian that finished last season ranked as the No. 4 pommel New Team Captains horse team in the country. De los Angeles, a member of ARENA INFORMATION The 2014 squad will be headed up by co-captains in the most dynamic all-around combination in the country Home Arena ........................................Cliff Keen Arena graduate season Syque Caesar and senior Matt Freeman. along with two-time NCAA all-around champion Sam Capacity ..................................................................1,800 Caesar will captain the squad for the third-consecutive Mikulak, is coming off a season where he earned three 2014 MICHIGAN MEN’S GYMNASTICS SCHEDULE AND RESULTS DATE OPPONENT RESULT FLOOR POMMEL RINGS VAULT P-bARS HIGH BAR 1/18 at Windy City Invitational 437.500 71.65 71.30 74.95 74.35 73.85 71.40 1/25 at Stanford 7 p.m. PT 2/1 vs. OHIO STATE 2 p.m. ET 2/8 vs. NEBRASKA 7 p.m. ET 2/20-22 at Winter Cup Challenge TBA 3/1 at OSU Invitational 2 p.m. ET 3/7 at Puerto Rico vs. Penn State TBA 3/14 vs. PENN STATE 3 p.m. ET 3/22 vs. ILLINOiS-chiCAGO 7 p.m. ET 3/28-29 at B1G Championships 7 p.m. ET 4/10 at NCAA Qualifi er 7 p.m. ET 4/11 at NCAA Team & AA Finals 7 p.m. ET 4/12 at NCAA Event Finals 7 p.m. ET AT STANFORD OPEN 2014 MICHIGAN MEN’S GYMNASTICS WEEKLY RELEASE AT STANFORD OPEN 2014 MICHIGAN MEN’S GYMNASTICS WEEKLY RELEASE CGA National Gymnast of the Week honors and MICHIGAN TEAM RANKINGS All-Big Ten first team honors in addition to his All- WEEK BY WEEK IN THE GYMInfo POLL America citation in the all-around competition. Rank Avg./RQS NCAA RANKINGS Preseason 1 - - - This is the second straight season that the Wolverines Week 2 2 437.500 FX PH SR VT HB PB have earned top billing in the conference poll. Wk1 4 4 1 2 2 4 2013 PRESEASON COACHES POLL RANKINGS 1. MICHIGAN INDIVIDUAL EVENT TITLE WINNERS NCAA INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS 2. Ohio State Top-10 3. Illinois 4. Penn State WINDY CITY INVITE (1) 5. Minnesota Adrian de los Angeles P-Bars Pommel Horse 6. Iowa 8. Matt Freeman 14.75 7. Nebraska 2014 GymInfo Coaches’ Poll 1. Oklahoma Still Rings Mikulak Entered in American Cup 2. Michigan 5. Jordan Gaarenstroom 15.45 Sam Mikulak has accepted an invitation to represent 3. Ohio State 6. Alex Bubnov 15.40 the United States at the 2014 AT&T American Cup, scheduled for Saturday, March 1, 2014, at the 4. Stanford Greensboro (N.C.) Coliseum Complex. 5. Penn State Vault 6. California 3. Syque Caesar 15.15 Mikulak finished sixth in the all-around and 7. Minnesota 6. Adrian de los Angeles 15.10 fourth on the horizontal bar at the 2013 World 8. Illinois Championships. He enjoyed an incredible 2013, 9. Nebraska Parallel Bars winning the all-around crown at the Big Ten 10. Iowa 2. Adrian de los Angeles 15.15 Championships, NCAA National Championships 11. Air Force Academy 4. Nick Hunter 15.10 and the P&G Championships. He also claimed the parallel bars and high bar titles at both the NCAA 12. William & Mary Nationals and P&G Championships. Mikulak was 13. Army a member of the U.S. Men’s Team for the 2012 14. Arizona State Olympic Games, where he competed in the vault 15. Navy 2014 BIG TEN GYMNASTS finals. OF THE WEEK Invitations to compete in the AT&T American Cup are based on performances at the 2013 World Gymnastics Championships. The international field is expected to be announced in early 2014. The American Cup became a FIG World Cup event in 2014 CGA GYMNAST OF THE WEEK 2011 and is part of the FIG’s all-around World Cup series. Standout Trio Signs with Michigan for 2014-15 Season A trio standout student-athletes to National Letters of Intent Wednesday (Nov. 20) for the 2014-15 NEW CAREER HIGHS season. Floor The class, hailed as the top class in the country by Still Rings StickItMedia.com, features 2013 United States junior Alex Bubnov (Windy City) 15.40/+.15 P&G All-Around champion Dmitri Belanovski (Milwaukee, Wis./Nathan Hale), 2013 Junior Vault Olympic All-Around champion Marvin Kimble (Milwaukee, Wis./Hamilton) and 2013 United States junior P&G floor exercise champion Marty Strech Parallel Bars (Fountain Valley, Calif./Communications Academy).