Gymnastics thrilled to be home
Homesickness would be an excellent explanation for the ASU gymnastics team's performance last week at Washington, when it earned its worst team score in over two years.
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Homesickness would be an excellent explanation for the ASU gymnastics team's performance last week at Washington, when it earned its worst team score in over two years.
To say things didn't go as planned for the ASU gymnastics team during a trip to face Washington would be an understatement.
ASU gymnastics coach John Spini has put difficult tricks in his team's routines since the beginning of the 2004 season. At the start of the year, Spini did not mind if the Sun Devils made their share of mistakes due to the skill level of the routines.
The ASU gymnastics team had been hoping for a "breakout" performance going into its meeting with Oregon State on Friday. Mission accomplished; that is if a season-high score of 196.975 can be considered a breakout.
There have been plenty of sports movies over the years. Unfortunately, many of them have fallen far below my expectations. Most sports movies either take a comedic route and make a complete mockery of the game they portray, or they are based on totally fictional teams or players. What a waste of time!
The ASU gymnastics team has not tallied the scores that head coach John Spini had hoped for so far this season. But the Sun Devils believe their ills will be gone by the time they step on the floor tonight in a dual meet against Oregon State.
As 22 football players made their desires to be Sun Devils official at 2004 NCAA signing day, head coach Dirk Koetter announced that the new recruits would allow the coaching staff to make changes to the team's game plan on both sides of the ball.
Kylan Loney may pride herself on being a defensive gem, but if it weren't for a sharp-shooting performance by the junior point guard, the ASU women's basketball team likely would not have come away with an inspiring victory over its intrastate rival.
Unlike the Super Bowl, the ASU gymnastics team's triangle meet on Sunday was not very close.
ASU gymnastics coach John Spini knows that a conservative approach is no way to attack one of the top teams in the nation.
To stay, or not to stay? That is the question that had plagued a plethora of college football players until Jan. 15, the date when they had to declare for the NFL draft.
After an upset victory over Stanford in its season opener last week, the ASU gymnastics team's performance fell, literally, during a visit to Northern California on Friday night.
A year ago, the ASU gymnastics team enjoyed one of its finest seasons in the program's history. The only problem was the Sun Devils picked an inopportune time to have their second-worst performance of the year - the NCAA championships.
ASU women's basketball coach Charli Turner Thorne didn't take a maternity leave when she gave birth to her third son earlier this month. For a coach whose players say nothing fazes her, labor and delivery were no different.
In its first competition of the season, the ASU gymnastics team was able to accomplish something it couldn't do in nine previous tries: defeat perennial Pac-10 powerhouse Stanford.
Signing day may not be for another month, but ASU football coach Dirk Koetter has already landed what he calls "his biggest recruit."
Today the ASU women's basketball team can call itself a champion. A champion of the 2003 Wells Fargo Holiday Classic, that is.
ASU junior point guard Kylan Loney said, "A team is truly measured on how fast they bounce back."
If anyone has ever made more than 300 tackles and still flown under the radar, ASU's Jason Shivers has done it. Soon, however, the junior free safety may be making waves on a national level.
The 2003 campaign was a trying one to say the least for the ASU football team.
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