Trinity also completed the Gym Slam in a single season.Trinity Thomas is now just one 10 from tying the all-time record after she recorded not one, but two 10s during the SEC Championships.The Becky Downie revenge tour begins at Euros.When the ferns come out, you know it’s championship season.We always love an opportunity for comedy.The structure and foundation for something truly great is here, now the NCAA needs to go all-in on the presentation of the Selection Show and the promotion of the play-ins.We appreciate all the prep work the announcer, Charlie Clifford, put into making the Regional Selection Show a thing.Excited to see Ball State for at least one more week.Without a doubt, the week-in-week-out quality of gymnastics from top to bottom is better today than it’s ever been-and it is a perfect problem. With the talent spread out across the country, are scores everywhere getting lifted? Is the scoring just wrong? Could it be some combination of factors? Yes… probably… to all of it. Wanna guess what conference has three of the four No. Four gymnasts representing four different programs-three in the Pac-12. Is it the result of high tides raising all boats? Look at the incoming class I named above. And a whopping 79 team apparatus records were broken. Twenty four teams recorded all time NQS scores (although a team like Fisk doesn’t really count since it’s their first year). However! Why are all the scores going up across the nation? Twenty teams put up all-time team scores. It stands to reason we’d see a lot more 10s, right? Olympic team: Sunisa Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, and Grace McCallum. There are honestly too many elites, world team members, medalists and Olympians to name but just to rattle off some from the U.S.

Now consider the impact from what we declared The Greatest Freshman Class of All Time last year. That’s two Olympians (out of only six gymnasts in all of NCAA to record a perfect score that year) representing over half the 10s. Her Olympic teammate, Courtney McCool, added another two that season. A 2004 Olympian, Courtney Kupets (you might have heard of her), scored nearly half of those (7) by herself that year. When Olympians in other years did touch the collegiate floor you saw something happen. To put that into context, in 2006 there were only five perfect 10s in all of NCAA. Together, this group alone account for 49 10s over the stretch of their careers. The next few cycles you got a smattering of Olympians, but nothing like that 2000 class, which included the likes of: Jamie Dantzscher (28), Elise Ray (3), Kristen Maloney (5), Tasha Schwikert (5), and Mohini Bhardwaj (8, who represented Team USA after graduating college). Here’s the thing… what happened after 2000? The NCAA saw its first large influx of Olympians who entered and competed in college! After they graduated the numbers clearly dip. The thing you immediately notice is a big spike starting after 2000 before it dips back down in 2005 and then another huge spike starting last year. That’s the title mountain-climbing former Utah coach, Greg Marsden, gave his tweet, which included a chart of perfect 10s dating back to 2000.

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