GYMN-L Digest - 11 Jun 1996 to 12 Jun 1996
There
are 9 messages totalling 290 lines in this
issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Lisa McCrady
vs. John Macready
2. sour grapes
3. (Fwd) Re: Makuts
4. Worlds Photo Gallery -- finally,
eh!
5. Mikeing
Coaches
6. GYMN... radio
7. Katie Teft
Update
8. Boginskaya's
comeback
9. Katie Teft
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 22:00:15
CST
From: ***@MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU
Subject:
Lisa McCrady vs. John Macready
">Does
anyone know if John Macready and Lisa Macready, formerly of
>Univ. of
Nebraska women's team, are related?
They kind of look a
>like."
Shawn,
no, they are NOT related. (Notice
that Lisa's maiden name is not
spelled the same
way at all. It's McCrady.) Lisa
is from the Minneapolis
area & I judged her
for years before she went to Nebraska.
She trained
under a number of coaches,
including Joan Moore & Joan's former husband Bob
Rice. Lisa was also a Minnesota state high
school champion. She is now
married & has a young child and lives in the same suburb
I do. (Eagan,
Minnesota) I've seen her a few times at the
health club where I work out.
--Robin
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:02:05
-0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
sour grapes
In the last few days (and much too frequently the rest of
the time), people
on this list have bashed and
bad-mouthed the men's team, specific men's
National team members, Bela, Dominique M, and Geza Pozar's choreography to
obsession. You people are an embarrassment to a
proud and difficult sport
that has some of the
most dedicated and hard-working people associated with
it
that you will find anywhere. Since
none of you have made anywhere near
the
accomplishments of these gymnasts and coaches, you are wasting our time
reading this trash.
Gina
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:04:24
+0000
From: ***@DORSAI.ORG
Subject:
(Fwd) Re:
Makuts
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I was asked to pass along the following information.
Thanks
for your time.
Ken
BOGDAN MAKUTS
UKRAINE
COACHING/TEACHING
POSITION DESIRED
I am a past Olympic, World, European and
World Cup champion. I now work
as
a coach in the city of Lvov, Ukraine. I am also a fully certified
international judge and have judged the recent world
championships in
Sabae, Japan.
I am
looking for a position as a coach, assistant coach, or instructor. I
am open
to a variety of arrangements.
I speak English, Russian, Ukranian and Polish.
I can be reached at the
following address:
Bogdan Makuts,
Ukraine 290016
Lvov, Dekarta Str 2/14a.
My phone and fax numbers are as follows:
011/0322-33-07-60
and 011/0322-52-57-79-21-64-80.
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:21:47
-0400
From: ***@CAPITALNET.COM
Subject:
Worlds Photo Gallery -- finally, eh!
Okay, after sufficient nagging
and organization, I have finally posted my
gallery
of photos from Worlds in Puerto Rico.
There are 21 up there now,
mostly action
shots, but I have tons more photos to scan in and upload, so
if you have a favourite gymnast
that you want to see a photo of, please let
me
know! I'll do my best.
The
gallery page is at http://www.capitalnet.com/~chiug/96worlds/gallery.html
Enjoy!
Regards,
Grace
P.S. I'll be hauling my bucket of doubles
down to Boston to sell during
Oly Trials/Congress June 27-July 1.
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:31:27
-0700
From: ***@SONIC.NET
Subject:
Mikeing Coaches
>"The way NBC miked the coaches during the broadcast of the women's
>nationals was more than just annoying -- I found it
insulting as
>well. I can't recall any other sports broadcast
that has placed so =
much
>emphasis on the coach *during* the athlete's
performance."
Hear, hear!
From a coach who was there. The show at any
competition =
should be the athletes, not the
coaches. Coaches, however, are not the =
only ones
that I have had ruin the enjoyment of a meet with distracting =
BS. I find
NCAA Women's meets even worse.=20
One of my
former coaches put it well when, after attending a NCAA =
Women's meet
(trying to show some support for the Women's program at the =
University),
he asked me why the women found it necessary to stand as a =
group around the FX mat yelling, clapping and screaming
during every =
performance. He said he couldn't
hear even hear the music and the =
gymnasts
blocked the view of many spectators making the whole affair =
rather difficult to enjoy. He was rather puzzled by the
whole affair, as =
I must say I am also. I like enthusiasm as much as the
next person, but =
I appreciate it in the performance of the athletes, the
excessive and =
rowdy cheering on the side lines
is very bush league and a distraction.
Almost as bad as mikeing a coach
bjcorr
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:59:38
-0400
From: ***@CAPITALNET.COM
Subject:
Re: GYMN... radio
Gymnastics coverage on radio wouldn't be too bad if
the commentary is good
and there are a lot of
interviews. This is what I
discovered while I was a
Worlds and had made some new chums with the
Beijing radio fellows.
They
describe everything in great detail,
and interview their athletes almost
daily. In China, not everyone has television
and newspapers generate
voluminous waste
(environmentally not just propoganda), so radio has
to be
comprehensive. What really gelled for me, though, was
when Liu Xuan's bars
score
in finals was posted (9.70 out of 9.9), they turned on their tape
recorders to capture the crowd booing!
Regards,
Grace
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 01:57:26
-0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Katie Teft Update
Hi folks,
My name is Patrick,
I am the women's program director and head coach
at
Queen City Gymnastics in Cincinnati, Ohio.
I just got on the gym list
recently and
this is my first post. I probably
won't post very often, but in
this case I thought
some accurate info would be appropriate.
Katie Teft is coached by John and Kathryn Geddert. They were, until just
before U.S. Classics, employed by Great Lakes
Gymnastics. John and Kathryn
were released/quit, for reasons I will not go into here (as
it isn't public
business), and have decided to
open their own gym. The new gym is
going to
be called "Twistars"
and will be located in the Lansing, MI area. At this
time,
their new gym is not truly open to my knowledge, but should be as soon
as possible.
Getting back to the point, however, Katie elected to continue
training with the Gedderts as
opposed to staying at Great Lakes.
So, while
it appears as though Katie has
changed gyms just before the Olympic Trials,
she
has not changed coaches. At this
point that is about all the information
there is
on this subject, except to wish Katie the best of luck in training
for Trials.
Hope this was helpfull.
Respectfully,
Patrick
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:14:49
+0200
From: ***@CTI.ECP.FR
Subject:
Boginskaya's comeback
It is a real pleasure
to see "old" gymnasts like Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller
or Svetlana Boginskaya compete and win medals. And it is all the more
pleasant
as
they don't lack personality.
As far as Svetlana is concerned, I
met her in the South of France in August 1992
after Barcelona
in a private swimming-pool. She was living in a hotel with
Tatiana Gutsu.
One day, they came to the swimming-pool and spent about an hour
sunbathing and
swimming. To my mind, Gutsu was very bad at diving then ! They
just ate an ice-cream before leaving. I managed to get an
autograph from both
of them and I can remember Boginskaya
looked very shy and even embarrassed. I
think she
couldn't speak English, but she might have understood the word
"congratulations"
though (she was probably pretty disappointed with what had
happened in
Barcelona ...). She actually looked far more self-confident later
for their
exhibition.
It seems everything has changed now as all the
interviews I have read convey an
image of
happiness. Moreover, Svetlana really seems to believe in herself and
enjoy herself
very much. That is why I am a bit disappointed at reading
comments, like Marinescu's, saying that Svetlana should retire. It is a
pity
people
should be biased against 20-year old girls : would they tell Bogi to
stop competing if she was 15 ? It is not that I particularly
enjoy Svetlana's
style but her sportmanship
deserves everyone's consideration.
Sophie
PS : well done Shannon !
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 03:50:57
-0400
From: ***@SATURN.EXECULINK.COM
Subject:
Re: Katie Teft
Well I know I haven't posted
to the list for a long time so i may as well
start with an introduction.
My name is Gord Pinkney, and i am Head Coach at the woodstock Gymnastics
Club in
Ontario, Canada.
Woodstock is in a small city (only 30,000
people) but we have a strong
base (600 kids per
year) and boys and girls competitive programs from
regional
to national level.
My main reason for posting this message is to let
everyone know that my
wife and i
have a homepage with some gymnastics information on it. (as
well as many other things) It includes pictures of some gymnasts
from my
club as well as a few of my favourite gymnasts.
I plan to update it
regularly with results
and pictures from around southwestern Ontario, as
well
as with interesting links i find. Anyways if you want to check it
out please do:
The URL is:
http://saturn.execulink.com/~gpinkney/
Come by our site and be
sure to sign the guestbook before you leave.
--
Gord
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