Season Review: 2022 Michigan Men's Gymnastics
5/16/2022 9:00:00 AM | Men's Gymnastics
• Team Captains: Cameron Bock, Alan Gerdov, Jacob Moore
• Record: 24-3, 3-0 Big Ten Conference, Big Ten Regular Season, Postseason Champions
• NCAA Team Finish: Third
Under the leadership of interim head coach Yuan Xiao, the University of Michigan men's gymnastics team won both the Big Ten regular-season and postseason championship, coupled with a third-place finish at the NCAA Championships. The Wolverines also earned 11 All-America honors, a pair of NCAA titles and a trio of Big Ten individual championships.
Highlights
• Interim head coach
• Paul Juda earned Big Ten Gymnast of the Championships, and interim head coach Yuan Xiao was named Big Ten Coach of the Year. Juda (high bar), senior Jacob Moore (floor exercise), and sophomore Evgeny Siminiuc (parallel bars) each won Big Ten Individual titles as U-M repeated as Big Ten champions in State College, Pa., on April 1-2.
• Juda, Moore and Siminiuc also earned first team All-Big Ten honors. At the same time, sophomore Javier Alfonso (still rings) and junior Adam Wooten (high bar) earned runner-up finishes on their respective events to garner second-team honors.
• Michigan was a perfect 3-0 at home on the season, with wins coming over NIU, Nebraska and Penn State.
• Senior Cameron Bock found through injuries the majority of the season, competing in only five meets and competed only 15 routines on the year. He missed the Big Ten Championships, but took part on four events at NCAA Finals.
NCAA Recap
Paul Juda took the all-around win with an 85.298 and scored 15.000 on vault on his way to tying Sam Mikulak's modern-era school record of six All-America honors. Juda also placed in the top eight on high bar (second, 14.566) and parallel bars (fourth, 14.366) and finished eighth on both floor exercise and still rings.
The win for Juda was U-M's first all-around title since the 2014 season (Mikulak) and first title overall since Anthony McCallum in 2019 (vault). The all-around win is the sixth in team history, while the vault title is the sixth.
Michigan had three additional top-three finishes. Senior Jacob Moore scored a 14.633 on floor exercise for a runner-up finish, sophomore Javier Alfonso took third on still rings with a 14.366, and sophomore Evgeny Siminiuc placed third on parallel bars with a mark of 14.400.
Other All-America citations were awarded to junior Adam Wooten on high bar (seventh, 14.000) and freshman David Wolma on vault (eighth, 14.566).
The All-America haul of 11 gives the Wolverines 244 in program history and double digits in each of the last two seasons (13 in 2021).
• In the team competition, U-M sat in second for most of the meet, holding narrow leads over host institution Oklahoma until the fifth rotation on still rings, when the Sooners passed the Wolverines and took a lead of .133 into the final rotation. The Wolverine vault group compiled a 71.299 to a 71.231 for the Oklahoma floor group, but U-M could not make up the difference, finishing in third by a narrow .065 margin with a season-best 414.490. Stanford ran away with the meet, leading wire-to-wire with a 423.638 to win the team title by more than nine points over the Sooners (414.555).
Honors and Awards
Javier
Alfonso
Cameron
Bock
Nick
Guy
Paul
Juda
Jacob
Moore
Evgeny
Siminiuc
David
Wolma
Adam
Wooten
College Gymnastics Association
Regular Season MVP: Paul Juda
NCAA
All-Americans: Paul Juda, Jacob Moore, Javier Alfonso, Evgeny Siminiuc, Adam Wooten, David Wolma
Big Ten Champiopnships
Gymnast of the Championships: Paul Juda
Big Ten Conference
Gymnast of the Year: Paul Juda
Coach of the Year: Yuan Xiao
Sportsmanship Award: Adam Wooten
Big Ten Weekly Awards
Gymnast of the Week: Nicholas Guy (Jan. 10), David Willett (Jan. 17), Evgeny Siminiuc (Jan. 31), Paul Juda (March 8, 14)
Big Ten Freshman of the Week: David Wolma (Jan. 10, 17)
Academic All-Big Ten
Javier Alfonso, Soph., undeclared
Crew Bold, Junior, Sport Management
Casey Cummings, Junior, Psychology
Alan Gerdov, Grad., Electrical & Computer Engineering
Paul Juda, Junior, Psychology
Steven Lukasik, Soph., Mechanical Engineering
Miles Miller, Senior, Biopsychology, Cognition & Neuroscience
Jacob Moore, Senior, General Studies
Chris Read, Soph., Applied Exercise Science
Markus Shears, Junior, Communication & Media
Evgeny Siminiuc, Soph., undeclared
Kyle Shuttle, Soph., Cognitive Science
Colin Stenger, Soph., Aerospace Engineering
Virgil Watkins, Junior, Material Science Engineering
David Willett, Junior, Biomedical Engineering
Adam Wooten, Junior, Business Administration
Edward Yao, Soph., undeclared
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