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Gymnasts Find Recipe for the Perfect Routine

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The gymnast, utterly still save for a beating heart, is carefully poised on the edge of the sprung floor. Cirque du Soleil suddenly blasts from the arena sound system and the athlete is off, twisting and twirling in ways you never imagined possible. A hearty “Red!” mingles with the swells of the melody as she launches herself into a series of mid-air rolls and whirls and tumbles. An instant later, miraculously, her feet find the mat and she is planted upright and beaming.

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Gymnastics Wins Meet, Nearly Breaks Record

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In close to a season-best mark, the Cornell women’s gymnastics team handed the Rutgers Scarlet Knights their first-ever regular season loss against Cornell on Saturday afternoon, in a tri-meet at Teagle Hall. The Red also defeated West Chester to claim the meet in an impressive 191.45, a mere 0.35 points away from their season record.
Rutgers was second with 187.80 points, and West Chester was a distant third at 168.125.

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Gymnastics Vaults Past Competition at Ivy Classic

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While the number of spectators in Newman Arena drastically decreased from Saturday’s basketball game to Sunday’s gymnastics competition, the level of energy and excitement was equally intense as Cornell claimed the Ivy Classic championship with a blazing, season-high score of 191.80. This score signifies the team’s fifth consecutive improvement on their season-high mark. Coming in second place was Yale (189.05), followed by third-place Penn (188.025) and fourth-place Brown (186.725).
Superior performances on the uneven bars and balance beam put the women ahead after two events and in a much better scoring position than they have been early in previous meets.

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Gymnastics Takes Second After Slow Start

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The boys of summer and the women of the Cornell gymnastics team have one major thing in common: a little voice inside their heads saying “Don’t look back, you can never look back.”
The Red has bettered its overall score for the fourth consecutive week, earning another season-high mark of 190.525, good for second place at the Shelli Calloway Invitational at Towson University on Friday night. The host Tigers won with a 192.550 score.

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Gymnastics Finishes Second to Towson

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This weekend was a bittersweet one for the Cornell women’s gymnastics team, as a disappointing pair of losses morphed into a monstrous, season-high mark of 190.20 for the Red.
Cornell hosted Towson, Bridgeport, and Ithaca College for the Big Red Invitational on Saturday afternoon in a packed Teagle gymnasium, where the Towson Tigers claimed their fourth straight title with a 191.875 final score. Cornell finished second to last year’s USA Collegiate Gymnastics Champions by a miniscule one-and-a-half points.

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Red Dominates Penn in First Home Meet

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With spirit that could rival Cornell’s cheerleading squad, the women’s gymnastics team lined up to shout, “When we say Big, you say Red!” during the last event in Teagle Hall on Saturday afternoon, and they could not have been more accurate. Everything about this year’s team is big, and this weekend was no exception. The Red rolled through its first Ivy competition with a final score of 189.75 to Penn’s 183.825. Not only did the Red boast a significantly larger margin of victory than the 1.65 point win over Cortland last week, but 189.75 is the highest score the women have posted all season. In fact, it was good enough to boost the squad’s national ranking up four places to No. 5 amongst national scholarship schools.

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Gymnastics Rallies for Win After Slow Start

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Everyone needs a little balance in their lives and for the women’s gymnastics team it was incredible balance on the beam that earned them a victory over Cortland State Sunday afternoon. A huge point margin on the balance beam late in the day launched the Red to a, 185.150-183.500, triumph after a rather shaky start.
It appeared that the Red left its confidence in Teagle as only one out of six gymnasts made their routine in the first competition on the uneven bars.

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Fencing Travels for Second Scored Match

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In addition to their bodies, the women on the fencing team will have to protect an undefeated record as they head to Waltham, Mass. for the Brandeis Invitational tomorrow.
The Red came out of the Cornell Invitational last Sunday with a 3-0 victory over the competition and looks to ride the momentum against some tough teams this weekend.
“I think we should do pretty well because our last two tournaments had really good results,” said sophomore Tasha Hall, who finished 7-1 overall in epee last weekend. “We beat all of the teams at our competition here.”
As the first team-scored competition, the home invitational guided the women’s training this past week in preparation for the upcoming Brandies Invitational.

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Men’s Squash Hosts Top Squads, Earns One Victory

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Predictions for the men’s squash team performance this weekend were about as accurate as Ithaca weather forecasts, as the squad defeated no. 5 University of Pennsylvania (5-4), and fell to no. 7 University of Western Ontario (7-2) on Saturday.
The Red entered its first contest of the weekend against Penn with a No. 9 ranking. senior Mike Gelinas sophomores Chris Sachvie, Steven Peever and Chris Vernick and freshman Will Hartigan won their matches, earning the team its single point victory.
Sachvie and Hartigan were the only players to return to the courts later that day and conquer their Ontario opponents.
“We just kinda flip-flopped the match we thought we were going to win and lose,” Sachvie said.
The physical challenge of two matches contributed to the team’s loss.

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Polo Squads Roll Over Yale and Vassar

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Although the horses may be veterans, their riders certainly were not as the men’s and women’s polo teams swept the competition this weekend with rookie lineups. For the Red men, who defeated Yale 13-9, the recent injury to freshman starter Max Constant allowed some of the younger players to experience their first collegiate polo game. Junior Tim Scott and sophomore Dan Grew mounted their horses in uniform for the first time, riding alongside junior standouts Rich Weidel and Bobby Harvey, who is currently ranked No. 2 in the nation.
“It was a [chance] for the younger guys to experience what a real game’s like and what actually happens out there, how practice translates to a game,” Harvey said.