NAMES 'N' NEWS Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women has announced that the DGWS National Intercollegiate Gymnastics Championship for 1972 will be held March 30, 31, and April 1, 1972 at Grand View College, Des Moines, Iowa 50316. Mr. Charles Jacobson is the Meet Director. FIRST WOMENS NISSEN AWARD .. . To Kathy Gleason of Buffalo ... Kathy Gleason became the first recepient of the Nissen Award , to be given annually to the Nation 's outstanding senior collegiate woman gymnast. WEDDING BELLS • • . Kathy Hill (N)) one of the most outstanding gymnasts of New Jersey and graduate of Montclair State Coll ege is now married and presently residing in Utah. Now we know where Kathy is. NEWS AND NOTES •••••••• Maria Bakos of Hungary now resides in New York and is teaching at Vanderbild Athletic Club .. .. and lehman College, Hunters •••• will be at the New England Gymnastic Thanksgiving Clinic. Moderne Gymnastics competition is bei ng started on the east coast. The 1972 Olympics free ex area will be covered with a new pad of synthetic fibers (such as carpetin). It will adhere to the floor and beat board and on the vaulting run. . .. . A survey of the Pan-Am games indicate that in the individual championships crowned at Winnipeg four years ago only 11 champions retained their titles including Linda Metheny in floor ex in women 's gymnastics .
NEW ZEALAND,WHERE IS IT?
Dan Speraw
This fly-speck on the world is the most beautiful place this Los Angeles hative has yet seen or imagined . It is a coach's dream. The gymnastic community here has labored hard and well, but they are working well below their potential. It has been my experience to enter a gym , say a few words to the already fit gymnasts, and reap the satisfaction as they 'pick-up' sKill after skill. However, on a sad note, New Zealand has the difficulty of unwanted isolationism because of its geography (its closest neighbor being Australia) ; so competitors must be resigned to compete among themselves. To compund the problem , the coaches and gymnasts have a difficult time raising money to send themselves to world competitions. Referring now to life in general , many customs are as upside-down as the seasons (for Christmas comes in the middle of Summer). But the people are exceptionally friendly , the country very beautiful; an atmosphere easily lending to happiness.
NATIONAL SUMMER CLINIC National Summer Gymnastics Clinics at Michigan State University: Over twenty instructors met with participating gymnasts on Sunday, August 8th. Each group was taken systematically through each event and tested. The goal was to put each gymnast into one of a possible 10 ability levels. In two and one half hours it was done! Being that there were over 20 different people judging almost 300 gymnasts it was absolutely amazing, later in the week, to see how well these gymnasts did fit together in their groupings. Boys 'and girls were given expert instruction in all Olympic events plus trampoline and tumbling . Girls were also given classes in ballet, modern dance, and Gymnastique Modern. All
gymnasts were given opportunity to obtain individual help on their areas of special interest. Teachers and coaches who attended were given valuable lectures every day and also given ample opportunity to go out on the floor and learn to spot and teach any skill in which they were interested . The judging courses for men and women w ere held as planned with Ted Muzycko leading the men and Delene Darst teaching the women. Mrs. Darst patiently went through each event. Participants were encouraged to ask questions. Wedn esday night participants judged routines in each event . Everyone threw in their scores. Then the routines were analyzed and one could tell just where one was going astray. Both the men ' s and the women 's judging courses ended with National Certification exams . There was something for all at this very worthwhile and well organized gymnastic clinic. Jr. Olympics ••• Girls Gymnastics Championships Report by Kathy Thomas Fifteen year old Tammi Sepaspour repeated her outstanding performance of last year and won the title in the 15-18 age group at the Jr. Olympics Regional Meet Saturday at Diablo Valley College. Miss Sepaspour a member of the Diablo Gym Club, sponsored by the Pleasant Hill Park and Recreation District and coached by Jim Gault won the right to represent the State of California at the National Jr. Olympics for the second year in a row at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. Tammi competed in the 13-14 age group last year, winning the national title in vaulting . The EI Cerrito Lass placed first in all events : Floor Exercise, Balance Beam, Vault, and Uneven Bars winning 1st All Around. The 13-14 age groups winner was Debbie Fike, KIPS Gym Club, Los Angeles and Kim Sue Greaves of Fresno won the 10-12 age group. Diablo Gym Club members who placed were 10-12 Diane Dunbar, 2nd all around, 1st floor exercise, 1stvault,3rd uneven bars, 4th balance beam (tie). Kim Fisher 6th all around , 4th balance beam (tie) 6th uneven bars. 13-14 . . . Lisa Buttrill, 3rd all around, 1st vault, 2nd floor exercise, 3rd balance beam. Charlene Thomas 15-18 3rd vault. The Diablo Gym Club will be presenting an exhibition of gymnastics along with the Pleasant Hill Rec. Dept. Boys Gym Team on July 30 and 31 at Diablo Valley College. The public is invited and they expect to have other outstanding Olympic stars as guest performers .
INTERNA TIONAL WOMEN'S ALL AROUND RANKINGS August 1971 compiled by Dr. Josef Gohler (Editor of Olympish Turnkunst) 1. Turischtsceva (USSR) 2/6. Karasseva (USSR), Lasakovitsch (USSR), Burda (USSR) , Petrik (USSR), Voronina (USSR) 7/13. Rigby (USA) , Ceampelea (Rumania) , Matsuhisa (Japan), Kadolph (DDR) , Noack (DDR), Schegolkova (USSR), Brazdova (CSSR) 14/19. Kelemen (Hungary). Keri (Hungarv), Dornakova (CSSR), Poser (DORY, Bujnackova (CSSR) , Dronova (USSR). 20/30. Bekesi (Hungary), Goreac (Rumania), Grafe (DDR), Fritschi (Sc hweiz ), Chase (USA) , Veisova (CSSR), Stodulkova (CSSR) , Rimnacova (CSSR), Moore (USA) , Bartunkova (CSSR), Hirashima (Japan), Hellman (DDR), Leffs (DDR). 31/40. Schorn (W .Ger.) , Oltersdorf (W .Ger.), Banfai (Hungary), Sljepica (Yugoslavia), Csazsar (Hungary) , Nagy (Hungary) , Dornea (Romania), Grigoras (Romania), Koman (Romania), Apateanu (Romania), Turcu (Romania), Sche ibe (DDR), Schafer (DDR), Gehrke (DDR) , Hanyu (Japan).