All Things Gymnastics Podcast

This week we are bringing you the 4th episode in our Recruit Reflection and we are excited to be joined by Charlotte Raymond, a level 10 gymnast from Canada who is committed to Brockport. She’ll be joining the team next season since she’s a class of 2024 and she joins us to chat about how she became interested in college gymnastics, how she got herself on coaches radars, feeling the pressure to go...

Today we are back with another segment of Coaches Corner as well as a 2024 season preview! We are honored to be joined by KJ Kindler to preview the upcoming season for the Oklahoma Sooners, who of course are the 2x defending NCAA champions and have won 6 of the last 9 NCAA titles. KJ joins us to talk about how she helps her team handle the pressure that comes with being the top team, athletes to w...

This week we are bringing you the 3rd episode in our Recruit Reflection series featuring fan favorite Sydney Seabrooks! Sydney recently committed to the University of North Carolina on a full athletic scholarship after visiting seven schools (which puts her in a tie for the most visits of any athlete in the 2025 class to date!) Sydney is a 2-time Level 10 National Qualifier and one of the largest...

This episode officially kicks off our 2024 NCAA season previews as well as our new segment, Coaches Corner where we sit down with the head coach of some of the top NCAA teams in the country to chat about the upcoming season. We’re excited to be kicking things off with Bev Plocki, who is the head coach at the University of Michigan and is heading into her 35th season with the Wolverines. Under her...

This week we’re back with the second episode in our Recruit Reflections series and we’re super excited to be joined by Lexi Zeiss. Lexi was the alternate for the 2022 World Championships team as well as the 2023 Winter Cup All-Around Champion. Lexi had a really unique recruiting experience since she was recruiting in the midst of her elite season. After only taking one other official visit, which...

We kick off the first episode in our Recruit Reflections series with one of the top recruits in the 2025 class, Mackenzie Estep! Mackenzie trains at Ascend Gymnastics in Washington and is the 2023 Level 10 National Champion on beam, floor, and in the all-around as well as being a 3x Nastia Liukin Cup qualifier! Mackenzie recently committed to the University of Oklahoma on a full athletic scholarsh...

This week we are excited to be joined by Panama’s newest Olympian Hillary Heron who was gracious enough to hop on a call with us while still in Antwerp after a very successful World Championships where she became the first gymnast (not named Simone Biles of course!) to compete one of the Biles elements at a World Championships. She also punched her ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympics and is riding a...

Simone Biles adds two more gold medals to her medal haul, Flavia Saraiva won her FIRST individual World medal, why Shilese Jones is under-appreciated and more! We discuss it all as we wrap up our coverage from the 2023 World Championships! Join the gymnastics Discord: https://discord.com/invite/rTNmXUsYTU   Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters: Alex M, Jenna A, ML, Lela M, Katie C, MSU, Kim...

Rebeca Andrade is a World Champion on vault once again, edging out Simone Biles! Kaylia Nemour made history by winning the silver medal for Algeria! And the FIG royal screwed up, which is now impacting Olympic qualification. Confused by everything that unfolded today? We break it all down!  Join the gymnastics Discord: https://discord.com/invite/rTNmXUsYTU   Thank you to our monthly Patreon suppor...

Simone Biles just became the most decorated gymnast of all-time by winning her sixth World All-Around title. We share our thoughts!  Join the gymnastics Discord: https://discord.com/invite/rTNmXUsYTU   Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters: Alex M, Jenna A, ML, Lela M, Katie C, MSU, Kimberly G, Randee B, Amy M, Martin, Jasmine C, Emily B, Abbie M, Derek H, Kerry M, Cathleen R, Lucy S, Paul M...

This week we are excited to bring you an interview with rising junior on the Cal gymnastics team, Mya Lauzon! Mya is here to talk all about her teams record breaking season last year, getting the first perfect 10 of her career on beam, we get her thoughts on Cal leaving the Pac 12 and joining the ACC for her senior season, and so much more! Alex M, Jenna A, ML, Lela M, Katie C, MSU, Kimberly G, Ra...

This week we run through some of the latest Worlds Team announcements, we talk about all the NCAA conference changes and how that impacts non-revenue sports like gymnastics, plus we share our "fantasy" Worlds teams! Full list of World Championships qualifiers from the Gymter.net: https://thegymter.net/2023-world-championships-wag-qualifiers/ Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters: J...

This week Karina Muñoz is here, the incredible rising sophomore at Iowa who will stare deep into your soul when she’s on the floor performing! Karina is truly a remarkable gymnast who not only contributes big scores to her team (she went 9.9 or higher on every event during her freshman season), but she brings such a positive energy to her team and the sport as a whole. Karina joins us to talk abou...

This week we are joined by rising super senior on the NC State gymnastics team, Chloe Negrete! In this interview we talk about how she got recruited to NC State, advancing from a play in round (that her team shouldn't have even been in!!) to make it all the way to the regional finals, coming back from an achilles injury to have her best season yet as a senior, and so much more! Thank you to ou...

This week we are talking all things Core Hydration Classic! It was the comeback meet for Simone Biles and Suni Lee – their first elite competitions since the Tokyo Olympics! Plus we saw the beautiful Melanie de Jesus dos Santos in action, absolute domination from Joscelyn Roberson and so much more!  Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters: ML, Meghan W, Lela M, Katie C, MSU, Kimberly G, Randee...

This week we are super excited to be joined by the legendary Haleigh Bryant from LSU! Haleigh joins us to reflect back on the incredible season LSU had in 2023, we talk goals and preparations for her senior season, where her head is at in terms of taking a fifth year and so much more, so stick around! Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters: ML, Meghan W, Lela M, Katie C, MSU, Kimberly G, Rand...

This week we are so excited to be sitting down with rising Michigan senior Naomi Morrison. Naomi of course was a part of the team who won Michigan’s first NCAA title in program history during her freshman season and has been a key part of Michigan’s success ever since with her amazing Yurchenko 1.5, picture perfect Gienger on bars and one of the best full twisting double backs college gymnastics h...

This week we discuss the announcements of Simone Biles and Suni Lee on the 2023 US Classic roster, as well as Trinity Thomas' plan to train for Paris 2024 (which we helped film and announce!) It's going to be an exciting run to Paris 2024... here are some of our early thoughts! Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters: Meghan W, Lela M, Katie C, Tyler S, Kasey, MSU, Kimberly G, Robert H...

This week we are excited to bring you our interview with the first commit for Talledega College, Kyrstin Johnson. Talledega of course is the second HBCU to start a gymnastics program and is now the third college gymnastics program in the state of Alabama. We talk to Kyrstin about her decision to commit to Talledega, her family history with that school, what goals she has for herself and more! Than...

This week we are excited to bring you our interview with rising senior elite Kelise Woolford! Kelise caught our attention at the 2022 US Classic which was her first major elite competition and she has only continued to improve. She joins us this week to talk about upgrades she hopes to compete, college recruiting, her goals for 2024 and beyond! Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters: Meghan W...

This week we are excited to bring you our interview with Tiana Sumanasekera who is fresh off making her senior international debut at the Pan 2023 American Championships where she brought home 3 gold medals (AA, team and beam, as well as a silver on floor!) Tiana joins us to talk about making the switch to WCC, upgrades she is working for this season, future goals & more! Thank you to our mont...

This week we are excited to bring you our conversation with social media star Whitney Bjerken and the director of the new documentary One In A Million, Joya Thome! The film will be available to stream in the United States on June 6th on Apple TV, but we were fortunate enough to get early access to the film and we can't wait for you all to see it too! Here's a little preview of what you can...

This week we are so excited to be joined by rising junior Aleah Finnegan who has been an absolute star for the LSU Tigers the past two seasons. This season she scored 4 perfect 10s (4 weeks in a row!) and was a huge part of her teams success this season by stepping up and doing AA every weekend and helping the Tigers to their best finish since 2019! Enjoy this interview as Aleah joins us to reflec...

This week we are joined by LSU gym’s newest member, Sav Schoenerherr! It was a move that shocked a lot of people in the gymnastics world when Sav announced she would be taking her sixth and final year at LSU instead of Florida where she spent the last 5 seasons, so Sav is here to talk about what went into her decision, what the reaction has been like, goals for her final season & more! Thank you t...

This week we are excited to be joined by Ilka Juk who spent the last 2 seasons making history at LIU and recently announced her plans to transfer to Iowa to finish out her career as a Hawkeye! She joins us today to talk about that decision and walk us through the process from the moment she knew she wanted to transfer to eventually committing. It’s a super exciting and interesting process so we ho...