All Things Gymnastics Podcast

This week we are excited to bring you an interview with a bronze medalist from the Tokyo Olympics and one of the Team GB greats, Alice Kinsella! Alice is a World team silver medalist from 2022 and a 7x European medalist including a gold medalist on beam from 2019 and a team gold medalist from 2023. Leading up to Paris, Great Britain faced a lot of adversity ahead of the Games with several of their...

This week we are joined by Levi Jung-Ruivivar who is fresh off competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics! Levi, along with her teammates Emma Malybuyo and Aleah Finnegan made history by becoming the first female gymnasts to represent the Philippines at the Olympics in 60 years and it was a pretty crazy experience. Levi had a serious allergic reaction while in the Olympic Village just days before she co...

This week we give an update on the 2024 Paris Olympic medal situation regarding Jordan Chiles and Ana Barbosu, we discuss the USOPC’s appeal, new evidence from USA Gymnastics, and what we hope happens next.  A special thank you to our sponsor Full Out Collegiate Recruiting! For more information visit: https://fulloutcollegiaterecruiting.com/ During your free consultation, if you mention the All Th...

Many tears were shed, legends shushed, and Gogeans/feet questioned. Let's discuss! Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Abbe Clark, Maria D, Charlotte D, Chuck C, Erin J, Cameron L, Jamie S, Dana B, Kyle M, Taryn M, Lynn G, Katie H, Thiago, Libby C, Lisa T, Cathy D, Amanda, Emily C, Betny T, Jakub W, Laura R, Marni S, Kentiemac, Diane J, Robert H, Hayley B, Christina K, Marissa G, Ali...

Enjoy some of our thoughts from Qualifications as well as Team Finals at the 2024 Paris Olympics! We also share our AA and Event Final Predictions!

Today we are wrapping up the Recruit Reflection Series with Alana Fisher who is a rising senior at Eastern Michigan University. Alana has a great story of not giving up despite not receiving much interest from college coaches to become a key contributor for EMU on vault and floor. After qualifying to NCAA Regionals on vault last season and notching a new career high of a near-perfect 9.925 - Alana...

Today we are excited to be joined by Csenge Bácskay who will be competing very soon at the Paris Olympics for her home country of Hungary, but she’s also a collegiate gymnast in the United States which made for a really interesting recruiting perspective. She spent the first two years of her career at the University of Nebraska and will be transferring to the University of Georgia for her final tw...

Today we are excited to be joined by Ellerie Poel who is a level 9 gymnast from Cardinal Gymnastics in Virginia. Ellerie decided to go the acro and tumbling route in college instead of doing gymnastics and will be joining the inaugural team at Calvin University this season. Ellerie joins us to talk about the decision to let go of the sport she has done for so many years and how she will be using h...

Today we share our thoughts on the 5 members of the 2024 Paris Olympic Team with comments from Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Hezly Rivera, Leanne Wong, Joscelyn Roberson, and Alicia Sacramone Quinn! Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Abbe Clark, Maria D, Charlotte D, Chuck C, Erin J, Cameron L, Jamie S, Dana B, Kyle M, Taryn M, Lynn G, Katie H, Thiago, Libby C, Lisa T, Cathy D, Amanda, Emily...

Today we are excited to be joined by Makenna Damhorst who will be joining the gymnastics team at Penn next season. Makenna has a really unique story - she became a level 10 her senior year after dealing with some injuries, which made recruiting a bit of a challenge. She applied to a few schools, including UCLA where she was a member of the club gymnastics team and D1 rowing team. All the while she...

A lot has happened...we discuss injury updates and new Olympic team predictions in this mini episode!

Today we are excited to be joined by our friends Jakub and Britton to discuss our final U.S. Olympic team predictions ahead of Olympic Trials this weekend! Podium training was not steamed so these are our predictions based off Championships, potential upgrades, and our hopes! Schedule: June 27 at 6:30 p.m. ET - Men's Day 1 - USA Network & Peacock June 28 at 8 p.m. ET - Women's Day 1 -...

This week we are joined by Hannah Aoki, who announced in May that she had accepted a full athlete scholarship to the University of North Carolina. Hannah was a little bit of a late bloomer to college recruiting as she didn’t become a level 10 until her sophomore year of high school but she was determined and willing to do whatever it took to achieve her goal of becoming a college gymnast. After wi...

This week we are joined by Megan Brueck, who is a rising junior at Yale, to talk all about her recruiting journey. Megan was injured her junior year of high school, so she was a little under the radar when it came to recruiting, but she ended up getting accepted into Yale – one of the top Ivy League schools – and has some tips for gymnasts who might be interested in Ivy Leagues. Thank you to our m...

We’re less than a week away from the start of the recruiting period for the class of 2026 and we couldn’t think of a better way to kick off season 2 of our Recruit Reflection series than LSU commit Nina Ballou. Nina is a 5x national champion, a 3x Nastia Cup qualifier and was one of the top recruits in the class of 2025. We’re so excited to have Nina back on the show to talk all about her recruiti...

In honor of June 15th quickly approaching, our Recruit Reflections series will be back next week and we’re kicking it off with a Recruiting Roundtable Discussion with UNC commit Sydney Seabrooks and Florida commit Maddy Dorbin. They have some raw, real, relatable recruiting advice for those who are about to embark on their college recruiting journey from redflags to look for, to questions you shou...

Today’s episode is all about the 2024 U.S. Championships and what it means heading into the Olympic Trials! Simone won her 9th National Title, Skye Blakely had the meet of her life, Hezly Rivera surprised us all, there may just be one spot left on Team USA…. we discuss  it all!   Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Erin J, Cameron L, Jamie S, Dana B, Kyle M, Taryn M, Lynn G, Katie H, Mar...

You get another bonus episode this week! In this episode we catch up on the latest news from Olympic dreams coming true (Emma Malabuyo – yay!) to Olympic dreams ending for Heath Thorpe and Oksana Chusovitina, we also break down the House vs. NCAA lawsuit and what this could potentially mean for the future of NCAA gymnastics. Later in the episode (around the 30 minute mark) we have an interview wit...

We are so excited to bring you our conversation with the one and only Kathy Johnson Clarke! She’s a world bronze medalist, an Olympic silver and bronze medalist, an American Cup Champion, a national champion with Centenary College, where she competed in 1978 and 1979 — long before it was cool to do elite and college gymnastics at the same time — and of course she’s a beloved commentator who has gr...

You get a bonus episode this week! We’re excited to bring you our conversation with 2024 NCAA vault champion Anna Roberts – Stanford’s first individual NCAA champion since 2018 and a key part of the Cardinal success this season which ended with a trip to the NCAA Championships as a team for the first time in eight years. Anna joins us to talk about the moment Stanford upset Denver to advance to NC...

This week we are back to recap the Core Hydration Classic where we saw some upgrades from many athletes including Simone Biles, we experienced heartbreak with Gabby Douglas and Konnor McClain withdrawing, and we were impressed with people like Jordan Chiles and Shilese Jones – who made their 2024 season debuts here – and the rockstars Jade Carey and Suni Lee who continue to make their case for Par...

This week we are so excited to be joined by Cécile Canqueteau-Landi, who really needs no introduction if you’re a gymnastics fan! Cecile is a 1996 Olympian for France and a world-renowned coach from World Champions Centre in Texas where she coaches some of the best gymnasts in the world including the most decorated gymnast of all time, Simone Biles, and world and Olympic medalists like Jordan Chil...

This week we are looking back on the historic season that Cal Gymnastics had and we are honored to be joined by the incredible eMjae Frazier. eMjae just finished her sophomore season with the Bears but she’s already primed for the history books. As a freshman she scored the program’s first and only perfect 10 on floor and broke the all-around program record. She decided to one up herself for her s...

This week we discuss Gabby Douglas’ return to competition and what her chances are for the Paris Olympics, as well as the other Olympic gold medalists who competed at the American Classic, we also talk about Qiu Qiyuan giving Kaylia Nemour a run for her money, Georgia gymnastics hiring Cecile Landi and Ryan Roberts and more! Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Amanda P, Karlin, Taryn M,...

Today we are super excited to bring you an interview with a very special national champion, Sav Schoenherr! Sav is a 6th year transfer for LSU who has played such a big role to the success of this team in terms of her gymnastics, but also her leadership. She’s here to talk about her iconic sloth fall on beam, the emotions of the entire day, and what it feels like to make history for LSU Gymnastics...