Wasyliniuk , a high bar, P-bar and long horse performer. Freshmen for the team are George Olsen (Michigan high school AA and FX champ), Rick Restanio (Michigan high school P-Bar state champ and second in AA) and Rick Leyshock (Michigan high school runner-up on high bar). There are two seniors on the team captain Lanny Mills, an AA pelformer, and side horse man Chuck Harvey. Four juniors include John Ciaravino, who will work rings and P-bars; Don Peters , Vince McDermott, P-bars and rings , and Jim Curtis , a ring man. Sophomores will back the team up with ring man Bill Cilk, FX Mike Fronimos , all-around performer Dennis Sawtell , side horse specialist Joe Trimai and AA gymnast Dan Witz. Eastern Illinois: Eastern Illinois will start the year with 18 men. They suffered four losses. Captain Bill Cook graduated along with Jay Johnson , FX ; Noll Cryder, LH and PB. AIIaround man Jerry Konicek transferred. Eastern was fortunate to receive Tom Beusch , an all-around man who was Iowa High School state champ in floor exercise, P-bars and vaulting. Working all around this year, along with Beusch , will be freshman Robert Bass , sophomore Keith Fuerst (1970 NAIA still ring champ) , junior Dale Simon and freshman Mark Watman. FX specialists include seniors Wally Eyman and Gene Everett, who have freshmen Mike Fessel , Kim Moore and Gary Powell backing them up. Side horse has two freshmen specialists: Richard Cousins and David Sakata. Still rings will have freshman John Valentino while P-bars have specialists John Armfield, a junior, and Peter Klein , a freshman. High bars will have Tom Sterling, a sophomore leading the way. Wisconsin Parkside: The only upperclassman on Wisconsin Parks ide's gym team will be Warren McGillivray , a JC transfer student. With a new school , team and coach , Wisconsin Parkside is off to hard work and high hopes. Its first year will have four all-around men - Doug Anderson, Dan Boswein , Warren McGillivray and Fred Wolnerman. One specialist will be Warren Vogel on rings. These five men will face such teams as Southern Illinois. Indiana State and Kansas State. The new head coach at the University of Wisconsin-Farkside campus is Bill Ballester, formerly of Waukegan High School in Illinois. Bill coached many outstanding high school performers who later went on to collegiate greatness. Wisconsin Parkside is indeed fortunate to add a man of this calibre to its coachinp staft.
RegiOn Five
Regi9" 5 - Iowa State Univ., Kansas, Mis路 souri, Nebraska, North . J)Qkota, Oklahoma. South Dakota.
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Big 8 Conference Iowa State University - With virtually every point returning from last year's NCAA score (1/10 pt. out of first place) , the Iowa State Cyclones are expected to be rated as favorites to capture the 1971 title. Experienced seniors are expected to cover as many as 13 of 30 event positions. Of the I I lettermen returning , four are all-American (Dennis Mazur, Russ Hoffman , Mason Buck and Dave Butzman) , and one (Brent Simmons) was selected as a member of the U.S.A. World Team. These men will be defenders of one NCAA and five Big " 8" Conference individual titles.
2. A first for Coach Ed Gagnier to have been honored as national coach of the year. 3. Russ Hoffman was the first Cyclone to win a n NCAA side horse title and the first Cyclone to win any NCAA title as a sophomore. 4. Brent Simmons has become the first Iowa State gymnast to make a World Games team. 5. Cyclones had the highest prequalifying score recorded for the NCAA championships (165.55 pts.). 6. A record of four all-Americans in one season. University of Colorado - This appears as though it will be a building year for UC as they suffered some severe losses and have very little depth.
OLYMPIC AA , BiG 8 1970, 1st-BRENT SIMMONS, IOWA STATE, 108.15 2nd-KEN SNOW, KANSAS STATE, 106.90 3rd-DAVE BUTZMAN, IOWA STATE 104.50 4th-DAVE MAWHORTER, KANSAS STATE, 91.75 5th-JOHN BREVILLETTE, KANSAS UNIVERSITY, 89.95 6th-DICK RAINER, OKLAHOMA, 89.50
With well-balanced depth in every event, the Cyclones could easily come up with two or three favorites in most events. With the exception of the side horse, which will be led by NCAA champ Russ Hoffman , and long horse , which will be led by NCAA runner-up Mason Buck ; the remaining four individual events will be dominated primarily by men who work allaround. In the all-around category we will again see a close contest between seniors Brent Simmons and Dave Butzman. With three all-around gymnasts to be used in each competition, we'll be expecting to see a great deal of action from Jim Stephenson, Dennis Mazur, Jim Gilberto and Pat Davy. In the specialist department we can look forward to seeing a great deal of Stewart Buck in floor exercise and vaulting and Jeff Levin on parallel bars. The Cyclone freshmen will be led by Bob Roth and Bruce Keeshin , who have both been recruited as all-around men. Keeshin , who is a product of former ISU great Jerry Fontana, earned Illinois State title honors in his senior year. Ralph Hernandez, top side horse specialist, should come close to replacing Doug Peak , who was the Cyclones' only loss through graduation. 1970 - A Year of Iowa State "Firsts" in Gymnastics
I. First undefeated dual meet season.
Losses were in the person of Pat Edward and Gary Pomeranz, two fine gymnasts. New personnel include Mark Christensen - AA ; Mike Jones - SR ; Rod Locke - FX ;- Jeff Meskan - PB , and Tom Murphy - H B. AA: Dave Forman , Mark Christensen. FX : AA + Rod Locke, Mike Harrison, Dennis Berg. SH: AA + Bob Kagohara , Jim Lane. SR: AA + Mike Jones, Randy Schumacher. LH: AA + Tom Murphy , Harrison, Locke. PB: AA + Jeff Meskan, Lane. HB: AA + Locke, James Bonner, Murphy. University of Oklahoma - Coach Russ Porterfield submits the information that OU will field a very young and aggressive team. A team that will lack depth after the third man but which expects a higher finish in the Big 8 after it completes the toughest dual meet schedule ever. AA: Pat O ' Brien , Dick Rainer, Mike Cahill , Wayne Crockett, Mike Caldwell. FX: AA + Steve Von Ebers , Odess Lovin. SH: AA + Fulton Loebel , Greg Kripple. SR: AA + Mike Michalco, Kevin Lindsey , Bob Medlin. LH: AA + Yuen , Rob Webb. PB : AA + Mike Torez, Gary Hearstfield. H B: AA + Torrez, H earstfield. Kansas State University - Coach Dave Wardell and assistant coach Kirk Rose expect that KSU's chances for success in the coming season hinge on the outcome of how unproven