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YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013 · yaledailynews.com
YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013 · yaledailynews.com
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IN FOCUS
“Gymnastics taught me everything — life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.” SHAWN JOHNSON 2008 OLYMPIC GOLD-MEDALIST AND 2007 ALL-AROUND WORLD CHAMPION IN GYMNASTICS
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ince its inception in 1973, the Yale women’s gymnastics team captured 14 Ivy League titles under head coach Barbara Tonry. The Yale men’s gymnasts won three Ivy League titles in the years 1978–’80, but the team was dropped shortly later. Today, men can do gymnastics in a tumbling class offered by former Olympian Don Tonry, though some students are trying to re-establish men’s gymnastics as a club sport.
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01: Don Tonry, the husband of the women’s gymnastics team head coach Barbara Tonry, coached the former men’s gymnastics team. He also competed in the Olympic Games in 1960. 02: Gabriel Greenspan ’14 takes part in the tumbling class taught by Don Tonry. 03: Barbara Tonry has coached the women’s team since its inception in 1973 and has made it one of the most successful teams in the history of Yale Athletics. 04: Since the first Ivy League meet in 1977, the Yale women’s gymnastics team has won 14 Ivy League titles. The men’s team won the Ivy League title for three consecutive years from 1978 to 1980. 05: These historical photos show the men’s gymnastics team around the turn of the last century. 06: A photo from 1979 when the men’s gymnastics team won the Ivy League championship.
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11, 12: There currently is not a varsity men’s gymnastics team. However, some students hope to establish men’s gymnastics as a club sport. In the picture: Daniel Aeschliman.
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07: The uneven bars are two bars of different height on which gymnasts perform skills by swinging and changing between both bars. In the picture: Nicole Tay ’14. 08: On vault, gymnast perform a single skill, jumping over a table, making vault the fastest of all events. In the picture: Tara Feld ’13. 09: On balance beam, which is only 4 inches in width, a lot of precision is required when performing skills. In the picture: Morgan Traina ’15. 10: On floor, artistic skills and dance are combined in choreography performed to music. In the picture: Stephanie Goldstein ’13.
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