Gymmin' Miel!

1. Denver University (49.100, 49.100, 48.200, 48.975) 195.375
2. Southern Utah University (48.875, 48.925, 48.100, 48.200) 194.100
3. West Virginia University (49.000, 48.525, 47.850, 48.275) 193.650

1. Nina McGee (Denver) 39.250
2. Danielle Ramirez (Southern Utah) 39.200
3. Alexa Goldberg (West Virginia) 38.975
4. Karen Gonzalez (Southern Utah) 38.000

1. Kirah Koshinski (West Virginia) 9.875
2. Rachel Fielitz (Denver); Virginia Brownsell (Southern Utah) 9.850
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4. Maggie Laughlin (Denver); Nina McGee (Denver); Stacie Webb (Southern Utah); Zaakira Muhammad (West Virginia) 9.825
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8. Emily Barrett (Denver); Julia Ross (Denver) 9.800
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10. Danielle Ramirez (Southern Utah); Amanda Bowman (West Virginia); Jaida Lawrence (West Virginia) 9.775
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13. Diana Chesnok (Denver); Robyn Bernard (West Virginia) 9.750
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15. Karen Gonzalez (Southern Utah) 9.725
16. Madyson Blake (Southern Utah); Alexa Goldberg (West Virginia) 9.700
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18. Caitlyn Kessel (Southern Utah) 9.675

1. Nina McGee (Denver); Kirstie Yee (Southern Utah) 9.900
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3. Danielle Ramirez (Southern Utah); Alexa Goldberg (West Virginia); Zaakira Muhammad (West Virginia) 9.850
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6. Katie Menhinick (Denver) 9.825
7. Nikole Addison (Denver); Claire Kern (Denver) 9.800
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9. Julia Ross (Denver) 9.775
10. Caitlyn Kessel (Southern Utah) 9.750
11. Memory Shettles (Southern Utah) 9.725
12. Tyly Bozzuto (Southern Utah) 9.700
13. Jaquie Tun (West Virginia) 9.650
14. Robyn Bernard (West Virginia) 9.625
15. Tiara Wright (West Virginia) 9.550
16. Karen Gonzalez (Southern Utah) 9.500
17. Jaida Lawrence (West Virginia) 9.400
18. Diana Chesnok (Denver) 9.300

1. Claire Hammen (Denver); Danielle Ramirez (Southern Utah) 9.825
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3. Kirah Koshinski (West Virginia) 9.800
4. Stacie Webb (Southern Utah) 9.775
5. Rachel Fielitz (Denver); Tyly Bozzuto (Southern Utah); Jordan Gillette (West Virginia); Alexa Goldberg (West Virginia) 9.725
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9. Katie Menhinick (Denver) 9.625
10. Audrey Tolbert (West Virginia) 9.600
11. Nina McGee (Denver) 9.525
12. Kaitlyn Schou (Denver) 9.500
13. Natalie Trejo (Southern Utah) 9.400
14. Kirstie Yee (Southern Utah) 9.375
15. Karen Gonzalez (Southern Utah) 9.050
16. Robyn Bernard (West Virginia) 9.000
17. Melissa Idell (West Virginia) 8.775
18. Julia Ross (Denver) 8.600

1. Nina McGee (Denver) 10.000
2. Maggie Laughlin (Denver) 9.850
3. Kirah Koshinski (West Virginia) 9.825
4. Madyson Blake (Southern Utah) 9.800
5. Nikole Addison (Denver); Stacie Webb (Southern Utah) 9.775
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7. Danielle Ramirez (Southern Utah) 9.750
8. Kaitlyn Schou (Denver); Karen Gonzalez (Southern Utah) 9.725
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10. Alexa Goldberg (West Virginia) 9.700
11. Zaakira Muhammad (West Virginia) 9.675
12. Claire Hammen (Denver) 9.625
13. Melissa Idell (West Virginia) 9.600
14. Jordan Gillette (West Virginia) 9.475
15. Carly Galpin (West Virginia) 9.200
16. Virginia Brownsell (Southern Utah) 9.150
17. Natalie Trejo (Southern Utah) 9.050

1. University of Florida (49.350, 49.450, 49.375, 49.875) 198.050
2. University of Georgia (49.300, 49.600, 48.450, 49.350) 196.700

It was July 18, 1976, the opening day of events at the Montreal Games, and the Soviet women’s gymnastics team was all the talk, winners of every team competition since 1952, featuring Olympic stars such as Olga Korbut and Ludmilla Tourischeva.
Early on, 4-foot-11 Comaneci stepped up to the uneven bars and put the crowd into shock with crisp, stunning moves. Even Comaneci looked confused by the 1.00 on the scoreboard, and it took the announcer to notify the crowd that those digits actually meant a perfect 10, and it was the first recorded by a gymnast at an Olympics. The crowd erupted.
Throughout the competition, Comaneci showed it was no fluke. She would record six more perfect scores en route to gold medals on the balance beam and uneven bars and a bronze medal in the floor exercise. She became the new Olympic all-round champion. The Romanian team also placed second in the team competition.
Comaneci, though, still sees small flaws when she watches.
“I never felt they were perfect,” says Comaneci, reasoning that the difference between her and the 9.95s in the competition may have just been a little “Nadia’s touch.” “They were very good, but I still could have been better.”

“I was so young,” Comaneci recalls. “I didn’t realize I was doing something no one had ever done, because I was doing the same routines I had always done, just in a bigger arena. People around me would say ‘that kid is so good,’ but I thought adults just told kids they were good at something and patted them a little bit to make them feel good about themselves. I didn’t know how good I was until I did what I did in Montreal.”