All Things Gymnastics Podcast

This week, we are joined by our correspondent JD, who was on the floor in Fort Worth for the 2026 NCAA Championships. We talk about the highs and lows of the competition — from Minnesota upsetting UCLA to advance to their first final ever, to Kailin Chio being a 10 machine, to our thoughts on the outcome of the meet, and more — plus we share some of our hopes and predictions for offseason transfer...

This week we look back at NCAA Regionals and discuss some of the highlights, we preview the upcoming NCAA Championships and we have an interview with Big Ten Freshman of the Year — Arianna Ostrum — who helped her team pull off an incredible upset to punch a ticket to Fort Worth!  Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Lee B, Cookiemaster, Happy Girl, Erica S, Semflam, Amy C, Maria L, Becca...

In the latest episode of Mental Gymnastics , Dr. JD Barton is joined by Jacey Vore, a two-time Big Ten Champion at the University of Michigan. Before her collegiate career, Jacey was one of the nation’s top Level 10 gymnasts, earning the 2019 Level 10 National All-Around title, qualifying for the Nastia Cup three times, and finishing as a two-time runner-up in the event. At Michigan, Jacey became...

This week we’re excited to bring you this interview with the talented Maggie Slife, who is currently dominating her junior season at Air Force! A two-time Mountain West Gymnast of the Year, she has also earned Specialist of the Year honors across the all-around and every event. Maggie holds multiple program and conference records, including a 9.975 on bars and beam and a 39.675 in the all-around,...

This week we’re joined by Ava Jordan, a junior at the University of Michigan. In her freshman year, she competed on vault in all but one meet, notching a season-best 9.85 in her very first collegiate appearance. She took things up a notch during her sophomore season, consistently competing in both the vault and bars lineups and earning her first career 9.9 score on bars at the Big Ten Championship...

This week's guests are sisters Morgan Price and Frankie Price. Morgan Price spent the first three seasons of her college career at Fisk University, competing for the first HBCU gymnastics team. She won six WCGNIC national titles and became the first HBCU gymnast to score a 10.0, earning the mark on uneven bars during her junior season. Now a senior at the University of Arkansas, she recently m...

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We’re so excited to kick off a new monthly series, Mental Gymnastics , with Dr. JD Barton (who you may also recognize as our West Coast correspondent)! This series creates space for retired gymnasts to share their stories, memories, struggles, and triumphs from their time in the sport. Our first guest needs no introduction. She’s a 2020 Olympian, 2025 NCAA and Big Ten floor champion, and queen of...

This week, we’re excited to be joined by Theresa Kulikowski-Gillespie, a 1995 Team World bronze medalist and Olympic alternate for the gold-medal-winning 1996 U.S. women’s gymnastics team. Theresa competed collegiately at the University of Utah, where she was a 14-time All-American and won three individual NCAA titles — including the all-around and balance beam as a freshman in 1999. Following her...

Our guest this week is truly taking the world by storm. You may have seen her soaring 400 feet above New York City in a partnership with Red Bull and Rimmel London — or maybe you caught her on the SEC Network this past weekend, helping her team secure their first win over LSU in a decade. We’re thrilled to be joined by Georgia GymDogs junior Lily Smith. With just two competitions under her belt th...

Welcome to our final Coaches’ Corner interview of the 2026 NCAA season. We’ve got another new face on the show, and we’re very excited about this one — Ashley Johnston, who is entering her fourth season as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. Ashley was an incredible athlete in her own right before becoming a coach. She was a 10-time All-American during her career at Alabama and helped lead the...

With the first week of the 2026 NCAA gymnastics season in the books, we catch up with our West Coast correspondent, JD Barton, who was in Seattle for the Best of the West meet featuring UCLA, Cal, Oregon State and Washington. We share some of our thoughts on the competition, plus JD also had a chance to chat with Jade Carey before the meet. Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Lee B, Cook...

Happy New Year! As promised, we’re back with another Coaches Corner interview as we kick off the road to the 2026 NCAA season. We’re excited to welcome a new face to the show — Washington head coach Jessa Hansen Parker — as she joins us to preview what’s ahead for the Huskies. Jessa enters her second year at the helm of Washington, which also marks the program’s second season competing in the Big...

This week, our friend JD Barton heads to Stanford to catch the team’s final intrasquad before the holiday break and sit down with head coach Tabitha Yim to preview the 2026 season. Tabitha breaks down what fans can expect from an exciting class of newcomers — including Olympians Ana Bărbosu and Levi Jung Ruivivar — along with the team’s biggest strengths, the momentum from winning its first ACC Ch...

This week, we’re joined by one of the most legendary head coaches in college gymnastics: KJ Kindler, head coach of the seven-time NCAA champion Oklahoma Sooners. After missing the NCAA finals in 2024, Oklahoma rebounded in dominant fashion to win the national title in 2025. As the Sooners prepare for the 2026 season and their second year in the SEC, Kindler reflects on last season, how the team us...

Today, we’re thrilled to welcome University of Minnesota head coach Jenny Hansen to the podcast for the very first time as part of this series. We’re incredibly grateful she took the time to join us, and we’re excited about what Minnesota could bring to the table this season. The Gophers are coming off a strong year, finishing third at the Big Ten Championships and second in the regular season sta...

We continue our Coaches Corner series this week with one of our most anticipated interviews — Jay Clark from LSU. We’re thrilled to welcome Jay to the show following another strong year for LSU. The Tigers captured the SEC Championship and the regular-season SEC title, spent the entire season ranked in the top three nationally, won regionals, and crowned an individual NCAA champion in freshman Kal...

Our Coaches Corner series continues this week with another guest interviewer — our friend Anthony is back to interview UCLA head coach Janelle McDonald! UCLA put itself back in national title contention last season by winning its first Big Ten Championship title with the highest score in Big Ten Championship history, and by finishing as the national runner-up at the NCAA Championship. This season,...

Our Coaches Corner series continues this week with Florida Head Coach Jenny Rowland, who is heading into her 11th season with the Gators. Under Rowland, Florida has enjoyed tremendous success — making eight NCAA Championship appearances, including seven trips to the NCAA finals, and earning four SEC Championships. Still, the program is hungry to return to the top of the NCAA Championship podium, a...

This week, we’re joined by Cécile Canqueteau-Landi, who is heading into her second season as co-head coach of the Georgia GymDogs and is eager to build on what they started last year. Georgia spent most of the season inside the top 10 — something the program hadn’t done in a while — and although things didn’t end the way they hoped, the GymDogs showed they’re ready to reenter the conversation for...

This week, we’re thrilled to be joined by Geralen Stack-Eaton, recently named the 14th head coach at Cal. She spent 11 seasons as an assistant coach at Minnesota before coming to Berkeley, helping the Golden Gophers qualify for three NCAA Championships and capture the program’s first Big Ten title in 15 years in 2021. Prior to coaching, she was a standout gymnast at Alabama, where she helped the C...

We’re so excited about this week’s Coaches Corner interview with none other than Jordyn Wieber, now in her sixth season as head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks! Even with some key injuries last season, the Razorbacks still put together a strong run. Remember, they upset both LSU and Florida when those teams were ranked No. 2 in the nation! While the end of the season didn’t go quite as planned —...

This week we’re a little late — but better late than never! We were able to watch practice yesterday at MSU, and afterward, we sat down with the 2025 WCGA Regional Assistant Coaches of the Year — associate head coach Nicole Curler Jones and assistant coach Devin Wright — to preview the upcoming season. MSU is coming off its best finish in program history, advancing to the NCAA Championships for on...

This week’s guest is making their lineup debut for the Coaches Corner series. After last season’s historic performance, there was no way we couldn’t have Shannon Welker on to preview the upcoming season for the Missouri Tigers. Last season, Mizzou finished third — the highest finish in program history — and reached several other milestones, including advancing to the evening session of the SEC Cha...

We’re excited to continue the Coaches Corner series this week with our interview with Utah head coach Carly Dockendorf. Utah is coming off its 50th year as a program, and even though it wasn’t the ending the Utes had hoped for — finishing fourth — it was still a very successful year. They won the Big 12 title in their first year in the conference and qualified for the Final Four for the fifth cons...