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You get another bonus episode this week! In this episode we catch up on the latest news from Olympic dreams coming true (Emma Malabuyo – yay!) to Olympic dreams ending for Heath Thorpe and Oksana Chusovitina, we also break down the House vs. NCAA lawsuit and what this could potentially mean for the future of NCAA gymnastics. Later in the episode (around the 30 minute mark) we have an interview with Georgia superstar gymnast Lily Smith, who talks about her phenomenal freshman season, the recent coaching change, the meet she is hosting this super and more! 

More on the Gymnastics Odyssey with Lily Smith: https://gymnasticsodyssey.com/ 

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We are so excited to bring you our conversation with the one and only Kathy Johnson Clarke! She’s a world bronze medalist, an Olympic silver and bronze medalist, an American Cup Champion, a national champion with Centenary College, where she competed in 1978 and 1979 — long before it was cool to do elite and college gymnastics at the same time — and of course she’s a beloved commentator who has graced television screens in our sport for 41 years. Kathy shared so many incredible stories with us from helping to bring the gymnastics program back at Centenary, she shares how Friday Night Heights got its start, and of course her retirement as a commentator and all of the emotions that surfaced, a lot of which stem from her experiences as a gymnast.

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You get a bonus episode this week! We’re excited to bring you our conversation with 2024 NCAA vault champion Anna Roberts – Stanford’s first individual NCAA champion since 2018 and a key part of the Cardinal success this season which ended with a trip to the NCAA Championships as a team for the first time in eight years. Anna joins us to talk about the moment Stanford upset Denver to advance to NCAAs, watching semifinal #2 from the audience with the individual vault title on the line, Stanford’s peaking strategy, and more! 

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This week we are back to recap the Core Hydration Classic where we saw some upgrades from many athletes including Simone Biles, we experienced heartbreak with Gabby Douglas and Konnor McClain withdrawing, and we were impressed with people like Jordan Chiles and Shilese Jones – who made their 2024 season debuts here – and the rockstars Jade Carey and Suni Lee who continue to make their case for Paris. Plus we talk about some major NCAA news with Larissa Libby resigning at Iowa and Selena Harris being dismissed from the UCLA team.



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This week we are so excited to be joined by Cécile Canqueteau-Landi, who really needs no introduction if you’re a gymnastics fan! Cecile is a 1996 Olympian for France and a world-renowned coach from World Champions Centre in Texas where she coaches some of the best gymnasts in the world including the most decorated gymnast of all time, Simone Biles, and world and Olympic medalists like Jordan Chiles, Jocelyn Roberson and Melanie de Jesus dos Santos. Cecile is now taking her talents to the NCAA scene as the co-head coach at the University of Georgia! Today we chat about why she decided to make this move and her hopes for the future of the legendary program.  

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This week we are looking back on the historic season that Cal Gymnastics had and we are honored to be joined by the incredible eMjae Frazier. eMjae just finished her sophomore season with the Bears but she’s already primed for the history books. As a freshman she scored the program’s first and only perfect 10 on floor and broke the all-around program record. She decided to one up herself for her sophomore season, adding two more 10s to her collection (one on beam and another on floor), as well as breaking the all-around program record that she set the previous year, twice! eMjae has been an instrumental piece to the success of the Cal team. Aside from the very first week of the season, the bears were ranked in the top three nationally, seven of those weeks they were ranked No. 2. The Bears finished with their highest NQS in program history with a 198.180, won the regular season Pac-12 championship title outright with a perfect 7-0 record for the first time in history, and of course, capped off the season finishing second at the NCAA Championships; allowing them to bring a trophy back to the Bay Area for the first time ever.

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