Owners of Colorado Springs gymnastics clubs say their facilities are safe places to train, despite a recent overhaul at a local complex that was run by a convicted sex offender and had a coach with a checkered past. Still, former national team members are pressuring the sport's national governing body to increase control and implement stricter regulations. It has been more than a week since Mike Zapp agreed to sell ArtSports World, a 26,000-square-foot center on Vondelpark Drive that has specialized in trampoline and tumbling for 21 years, in fallout from his hiring - and subsequent firing - of Doug Boger, a Springs resident placed last year on the permanently ineligible list of USA Gymnastics.
Kim Krupinski wanted to be a college gymnast. She chose to attend Radford University and planned to spend four years competing for the Highlanders. She left her Casselberry, Fla., home last August to begin her new life. Troy Fine wanted to play college lacrosse. He left his suburban Houston home two years ago to play for Radford and eventually earned a partial scholarship.In November, the Radford board of visitors voted to drop the women's gymnastics and men's lacrosse teams at the end of the school year and add women's swimming, approving a recommendation made by the school's Intercollegiate Athletics Committee the previous March.
Moser School of Dance scores 15 national championships - The Moser School of Dance and delivered 15 national championship performances at the USTA Power Tumbling National Championships June 14-19 in Springfield, Ill. Sixty-nine of the school's 105 entrants earned top-10 finishes. The championships featured close to 4,500 events through five days of competition.
AROUND THE LEAGUES North Jersey Gymnastics League-A
Missouri gymnast Mary Burke knows pressure. Gymnastics Saturday
RESULTS from the Wanganui-Manawatu artistic competition in Palmerston North at the weekend: Clubs -- Waitara (Wait), Hawera (STJ). Level 6: K. Blackledge (Wait) 2nd, vault, 3rd floor, 4th bar, 5th beam, 5th o/all; level 5 - - S. Roberts (Wait) 1st vault, 1st bar, 1st beam, 1st floor, 1st o/ all; C. Lawson (Wait) 6th beam, 4th floor, 3rd o/all; S. Sy (Wait) 2nd bar; D. Pemberton (Wait) 4th vault; 1st team (Wait) Roberts, Lawson, Sy, Pemberton.
ATHLETES TO WATCH NASTIA LIUKIN
Florence Chittenden is as special as the Special Olympics gymnastics team she coaches. You've heard of the horse whisperer -- she's like the child whisperer," said Terry O'Hara, of Guilford, whose daughter Anna Reagle, 8, is on the team. "She has a technique that makes it look so effortless.
MARS HILL You cant tell by just looking, but less than three years ago, a Blaine woman started a revolution within a modest building that once housed a department store. And ever since Allison Wheeler helped her first youngster take a tentative tumble through All Star Gymnastics on Main Street in Mars Hill, the reverberations of that movement have been felt across Aroostook County. Wheeler, a former gymnast who has taught the sport for four years, has founded The Countys only gymnastics facility. What began with a group of 20 students in Bridgewater has now expanded to involve more than 300 students who take classes at four locations across the region, including at the flagship facility, which operates full time inside the former J.J. Newberry store.
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