Pommel Horse Gymnastics

Boys gymnastics | State meet: Wheaton co-op, MacDonald lovin' it

2013-05-10 19:16:00

Wheaton's co-op won the boys state gymnastics championship last spring without arguably its top performer. David MacDonald settled the argument while Wheaton remained on top. A junior participating in high school gymnastics for the first time,...

Boys gymnastics | State finals: Wheaton South's MacDonald back, four more

2013-05-11 20:01:00

David MacDonald left Lincoln-Way East with two state championships Friday night. The Wheaton South junior added four more Saturday. MacDonald capped off a fantastic first season of high school gymnastics with gold medals in the floor exercise (9.75),...

Boys gymnastics | State notes: Big day for Fremd's Patton

2013-05-11 19:18:00

C.J. Patton thought his pommel horse routine Saturday night was better than his 9.7 performance in the preliminary round earlier in the day. But the Fremd senior said all the right things about the 9.55 that was matched by two others. Moments after...

Wheaton dominates boys gymnastics

2013-04-24 00:00:00

One thing became clear at the DuPage Valley Conference boys gymnastics championships last week at Glenbard East High School — the only battle was for second place. The combined Wheaton Warrenville South and Wheaton North team dominated the meet...

Prep sports profile: Dylan Abbott

2013-03-28 14:37:00

High school junior Dylan Abbott is ready to compete at a higher level on Highland Park High School’s gymnastics team. As he works to increase the difficulty of his pommel horse routine, he takes inspiration from other gymnasts in an effort to...

More on Kim Kelly Warren, Joey Peters

2012-06-25 16:25:34

U.S. men's gymnasts hope best is yet to come

2012-07-29 13:38:00

LONDON — Danell Leyva, 20, is from a family that immigrated to Florida from Cuba. John Orozco, 19, comes from the Bronx, a place in the world where gymnastics is not the first sport of choice. Or second, third or fourth or, he said, even 50th....

Olympics: Mikulak, U.S. men fall short

2012-07-30 20:50:00

Corona del Mar High product Sam Mikulak and the other four members of the United States Olympic team finished a disappointing fifth in the men's gymnastics team final contested Monday in London. The Americans were plagued by mistakes on the pommel...

Mikulak waits on announcement

2012-06-30 19:56:00

At the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials, Sam Mikulak, a Corona del Mar High alum, gained more notoriety, especially scoring the highest in the all-around Thursday. Cheers for Mikulak could be heard throughout the HP Pavilion in San Jose, especially from...

Prep scoreboard (3/17-3/23)

2003-03-17 21:50:02

Saturday, March 22 results BASEBALL Argo 14, U-High 3 Batavia 4, Minooka 1 Bishop McNamara 15, Petersburg PORTA 13 Brother Rice 15-15, Chicago Christian 1-2 (both gms. 5 inn.) De La Salle 10, Morton 9 Elk Grove 4-15 Bartlett 3-5 (1st gm. 10 inn.; 2nd gm....

Prep scoreboard (4/7-4/13)

2003-04-07 21:56:35

Saturday, April 12 results BASEBALL Andrew 7, Oak Forest 1 Argo 6-14, St. Joseph 4-2 (2nd gm. 5 inn.) Barrington 8-8 Young 2-7 Benet 15-4, Holy Cross 6-3 Bolingbrook 3-1, Plainfield 1-13 Bradley 3-6, Manteno 1-5 Conant 10, Glenbard North 6 Elmwood Park...

Prep scoreboard (3/3-3/9)

2003-03-03 19:49:10

Saturday, March 8 results BOYS GYMNASTICS Glenbrook North 144.2, Wheaton South 141.1, Fremd 119.2. GLENBROOK S. INVITATIONAL Final team standings: 1, Glenbrook South 140.85. 2, Naperville North 133.6. 3, Homewood-Flossmoor 106.75. 4, Highland Park 99.75....

The pommel horse is a fickle mistress. Just as the women's routines can be disastrous on the balance beam, the men can tank their entire night with a slip up on the pommel. Danell Leyva did just that, dropping to 17th place in the individual all-around after a rough pommel horse.

2012-08-02 09:19:00

American Samuel Mikulak performs his routine on the pommel horse during the men's gymnastics team competition on Monday at the North Greenwich Arena in London.

2012-07-30 00:00:00

China's Weiyang Guo stops on the pommel horse. Guo scored 13.266 on the routine -- second best among his teammates, but a far cry from the day's top pommel horse score of 15.8 by Louis Smith of Great Britain.

2012-07-28 00:00:00