All Things Gymnastics Podcast

We continue our Recruit Reflection series with a perspective we haven’t heard before — the parent perspective! Erin Lang is the mother of Olivia Lang, an incoming freshman at the University of Maryland. Olivia was a Level 10 gymnast at CGA and is a four-time national qualifier. She visited five schools during her recruiting process — all within the Big Ten — and ultimately found her home at Maryla...

We’re continuing our Recruit Reflection series with incoming North Carolina freshman Jillian Fisher. Fisher is a three-time Level 10 national qualifier from Brandy Johnson’s. In her own words, she was a little “late to the party” — she didn’t take her official visits until the summer before her senior year of high school. That summer, she visited Iowa State, Arizona State and NC State, ultimately...

We’re continuing our Recruit Reflection series with incoming Michigan State freshman Izzy Biro. Biro was a Level 10 gymnast for four years and trained at Queen City Gymnastics. She recently wrapped up her Level 10 career with a sixth-place finish on bars at the 2025 Developmental Program National Championships. She ends her club career as a four-time Level 10 national qualifier and a 2022 Nastia L...

We’re back with another Recruit Reflection, and we’re especially excited about this one because it’s the first time we’re featuring someone who went through the recruiting process but ultimately decided to step away from gymnastics to focus on academics. This week, we’re joined by Leah Fontaine, a member of the Class of 2025 from Capital Gymnastics. Fontaine was a Level 10 gymnast for six years an...

We’ve got plenty to catch up on this week — from the Pan American Championships and Asian Championships to college gymnastics news. It’s been a while, and we’re long overdue for a sit-down. But before we dive into all that, we’ve got another interview lined up! We’re excited to continue our Recruit Reflection series with UNC standout JoJo Valahovic, who just wrapped up her freshman season with the...

We’re continuing Season 3 of our Recruit Reflection series with Anika Most, a rising sophomore and member of Kent State's 2025 regular season MAC championship team. Anika always dreamed of becoming a Division I gymnast, but her recruiting journey wasn’t easy. She faced a lot of rejection early on because she was a bit behind skill-wise at the time. Still, she never gave up. She kept working hard i...

We’re continuing Season 3 of our Recruit Reflection series with Heather Parker, a redshirt sophomore at Central Michigan University who began her college career at the University of Georgia. One of the top athletes in the class of 2023, Parker suffered an injury during her freshman season that led her to reevaluate her path. She ultimately transferred and found her home at CMU, where she recently...

We’re so excited to kick off Season 3 of our Recruit Reflection series — where we sit down with athletes who’ve gone through the college recruiting process to hear all about their journey, from their first contact with coaches to making their final decision. With June 15th right around the corner, the Class of 2027 will soon be able to talk to college coaches. Our hope with this series is to shed...

This week we’re catching up on some gymnastics news from the past few weeks including Madison Ulrich transferring to LSU, Naya Howard transferring to MSU, and our thoughts on the situation at Clemson and Cal and what the future holds for those programs!  Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Lee B, Cookiemaster, Christa, Happy Girl, Erica S, Semflam, Amy C, Maria L, Becca S, Cathleen R, Fa...

Avery Neff just wrapped up her freshman season with the Utes, where she earned four All-American honors and was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. Avery also won the Big 12 title on beam and was a regional champion in the all-around and on vault. She accomplished all of this despite suffering two serious ankle sprains in the third week of the season. She joins us to talk about how she overcame...

This week we’re excited to be joined by Missouri freshman Olivia Kelly. Kelly helped the Tigers advance to the NCAA Final Four for the first time in program history and finish the season in third place — the highest finish ever for Missouri. Kelly was a mainstay in both the bars lineup, where she averaged a 9.846, and the beam lineup, where she averaged a 9.853. She is one of the team’s most valua...

This week, we're excited to chat with three-time NCAA champion Faith Torrez, who recently helped the Oklahoma Sooners capture their seventh NCAA title in program history. Torrez joins us to reflect on the 2025 season, what fueled the Sooners this year and how they reclaimed their spot atop the podium. Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Lee B, Cookiemaster, Christa, Happy Girl, Erica...

Today we’re excited to chat about the final day of the 2025 NCAA Championship including our thoughts on Oklahoma’s seventh title, UCLA putting up a strong fight, and Mizzou making history by placing third! We also chat with Arizona sophomore Sophie Derr who is fresh off helping Arizona qualify to the Regional final for the first time since the new format began in 2019! hank you to our monthly Patr...

Guys... what just happened? We wanted to put together a quick episode to share our thoughts with you all on the 2025 NCAA Championship semifinals! We talk about LSU and Florida not advancing, OU slaying dragons, and Mizzou peaking at the right time! Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Lee B, Cookiemaster, Christa, Happy Girl, Erica S, Semflam, Amy C, Maria L, Becca S, Cathleen R, Faith,...

It’s NCAA Championships week! We break down each of the teams who advanced to the Elite Eight and what we think they need to do in order to have a chance of advancing to the Final Four. Will LSU run it back? Will Oklahoma prove to be the No. 1 team once again? Will a new star like MSU or Mizzou shake things up? We discuss it all! Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Lee B, Cookiemaster, C...

That's a wrap on the 2025 NCAA Regional Championships! We're back to discuss how the action unfolded, including upsets from Arizona, Denver, and Alabama, as well as controversies. We re-scored the Alabama Regional and share our results, plus share our early predictions for which teams will advance to the Final Four and more. Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Lee B, Cookiemaster...

Today we are joined by the queen of artistry, Brooklyn Moors! Brooklyn is a Canadian Olympian from the Tokyo Games, she’s a 3x floor and all-around world championship finalist, and she’s fresh off winning a team and floor Big Ten title with the UCLA Bruins. She joins us to talk about the moment she received her first perfect 10, dealing with mental blocks as a high level gymnast, her future plans,...

Today we're bringing you a bonus episode where we discuss the highlights from conference championships weekend including our thoughts on all the perfect 10s, scoring at SEC Championships, Stanford pulling off the upset in their first ACC season, our favorite moments from the Big Ten Championships and more! Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Lee B, Cookiemaster, Christa, Happy Girl,...

Our conference championships recap will be coming later this week! In the meantime, we have an interview for you all! This week we are joined by Romanian Olympian, 2024 European all-around and beam finalist, and future MSU Spartan Lilia Cosman! Lilia was born and raised in Michigan but moved to Romania at the age of 15 to pursue her dream of representing Romania at the Olympics. She joins us to ta...

This week we share our predictions for the upcoming conference championships and our thoughts on Arkansas not advancing to the championship. Plus, we have an interview with Kentucky 5th year transfer Skylar Killough-Wilhelm where we talk about what it was like losing her head coach at Washington right before her freshman season, her favorite memories as a Huskie, why she decided to transfer, her g...

This week we are joined by one of Oklahoma’s standout freshmen, Addison Fatta who is a 3-time U.S. National Team Member and the 2022 USAG SportsPerson of the Year. As a Sooner, Fatta has competed all-around in all but two meets, has career highs of 9.875 VT, 9.925 on bars, 9.9 on beam and 9.925 on floor, and is one of our favorite athletes to watch. Addison joins us to talk about some of her favor...

In case you didn’t see on social media — we were at LSU this past weekend for the gymnastics Super Bowl between Oklahoma and LSU. In this episode we talk about our trip to Baton Rouge, the incredible competition between the top two teams in the nation and then we have an interview with Michigan's sensational sophomore Kayli Boozer.  As a freshman Kayli didn’t compete aside from a few exhibition ro...

We’re back to talk about week 6 of NCAA gymnastics and we have some news updates including injury updates. Plus we have an interview with our first ever active DIII gymnast! We are so excited to be joined by Erin Roe who is a sophomore at Ursinus and made history a few weeks ago by becoming the first gymnast in program history to compete a 10.0 start value vault. Erin also holds the program record...

This week we’ll be sharing our thoughts on the statement Livvy Dunne put out about NCAA scoring, we’ll talk about  perhaps the meet of the week (UCLA vs. Michigan State meet), and all the highlights from week 5 of NCAA gymnastics! Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Lee B, Cookiemaster, Christa, Happy Girl, Erica S, Semflam, Amy C, Maria L, Becca S, Cathleen R, Faith, Kerry M, M, Derek H...

This week we have an interview with Mizzou’s beam queen Helen Hu, who is a fifth year senior and three-time All-American on beam. Helen retired after the 2023 season but returned to the sport after traveling abroad for a year and hasn’t missed a beat so far this season, scoring the first perfect 10 of the 2025 season and the first perfect 10 of her career last weekend against Oklahoma. We are so e...