Brockport Men's Gymnastics

The College at Brockport finished their regular season competition at home against William & Mary on Friday night and scored a season high 286.6 The Golden Eagles scored season highs on Still Rings, Parallel-Bars, High-Bar, and set a new school record on Vault.

Senior Brian Gildemeyer led the team on four events and in the all-around. On Floor Exercise Gildemeyer tied his own school record for the 3^rd time this season with a score of 13.6. He scored a season high 12.1 on Pommel Horse, and led the team on both Parallel-Bars and High-Bar scoring 12.6, and 12.0 respectively.

Junior Ron Ayello led the team to a new school record on vault with a season high score of 12.9. Gildemeyer and freshman Alec Chatterton both scored 12.7s, and freshman David Albaranes scored a 12.2 to give the team a 50.5, breaking the school record the team set earlier in the season at Michigan.

The Golden Eagles next competition is the USAG Collegiate National Championships at the U.S. Air Force Academy March 30^th-31^st.

The College at Brockport traveled to Minneapolis, MN this weekend to compete against the Minnesota Golden Gophers and the Iowa Hawkeyes in the annual MIGSP invite.

The Golden Eagles scored a season high 284.3, while setting a new school floor exercise record with a 53.2. The team was lead by Senior Brian Gildemeyer, who tied his own school floor exercise record (13.6) for the second time this season.  Gildemeyers 73.9 all-around was good enough for a third place finish behind Iowa’s Broderick Shemansky and Minnesota’s DJ Repp.

Brockport finishes their regular season competitions this Friday at home against William and Mary.

Brockport traveled to Philadelphia, PA  to compete against the Temple Owls and the Air Force Falcons this past weekend.  After having their first full team score the prior week at Michigan, the Golden Eagles would compete without freshman All-Arounder  Dave Albaranes. The team went on to score 257.6 points which gave them their needed second qualifying score to compete at the USAG Collegiate National Championships.

The team was led by senior Brian Gildemeyer who had the team high in the all around (73.4) he also had the team high on every event, sharing vault with junior co-captain Ron Ayello on vault (12.8).

The team travels to Minnesota this weekend to compete in the annual MIGSP meet, Brockport will face off against Minnesota and Iowa. It will be the first time the Golden Eagles compete against the Hawkeyes and the second time against the Golden Gophers.  The Big Ten Network will be televising the meet, tape-delayed, on March 10th at 3:30pm.

               The Brockport Men’s Gymnastics team returned to action this weekend at Michigan with Ohio State, after having three weeks off of competition.  It is the first time in school history the Golden Eagles and Michigan Wolverines have faced off on the competition floor, and only the second time that the Golden Eagles have faced the Ohio State Buckeyes.  With the rookie debut of Junior Andy Cowan and the return of Senior Brian Gildemeyer, the Golden Eagles competed their full line-up for the first time this season.

                Brockport set a new school record on vault on their way to a team score of 275.7, just below last season’s average, in their first meet with a full line-up.  The team continues to struggle on both Pommel Horse and High-Bar, both events for the team have no room for error since they only have four competitors on each.

                Gildemeyer returned brought an immediate impact to the team, leading the way with team highs on Floor, Pommel Horse, and in All-Around.  The teams main driving force is the continued improvement of Junior-Captain Matt Power, who has seen an increase to his all-around totals in each meet so far this season.

                Brockport travels to Philadelphia,PA, this Sunday  for a tri-meet at Temple with the U.S. Air Force Academy.

The Brockport Men’s Gymnastics team traveled to the United States Military Academy, for their second meet of the season, to compete in the 2012 West Point Open. The meet included Penn State, Temple University, U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Military Academy, Arizona State, Springfield College, as well as the British Army.

The Golden Eagles saw an improvement of over 40 points from one week  ago.  Senior Paul Ferraro made his season debut  and led the team on the Still Rings with a score of 12.1. Freshmen continued to lead the charge as David Albaranes led the team on 3 events as well as the all-around, and Alec Chatterton led the team on Pommel Horse and was second in the all-around.  Albaranes improved on his all-around score by over six points and Chatterton improved his all-around score by over fourteen points.

The Golden Eagles are still missing the teams top all-around competitor in senior Brian Gildemeyer who should be making his season debut when the team travels to Ann Arbor, Michigan to compete against the University of Michigan Wolverines and the Ohio State Buckeyes on February 18th.

The Brockport Men’s Gymnastics team began its 2012 season on Saturday as they traveled to Annapolis, MD  for the 2012 Navy Gymnastics Open.  The Golden Eagles faced off against: Navy, Temple, William & Mary, and Springfield College. Unfortunately the Golden Eagles did not compete its full team and would finish the meet in 5^th place. Both seniors Brian Gildemeyer , and Paul Ferraro were unavailable for the competition.

Team Captains Matt Power and Ron Ayello, both agree that the team had a positive start to the season, but need to continue to work on the details especially in a short week before heading to West Point next weekend.

The team leaned on their freshmen, and they delivered. David Albaranes scored team highs on 5 of 6 events as well as in the all-around, and Alec Chatterton was the team high score on Still Rings. Junior Ron Ayello returned to the lineup after missing the entire 2011 season, competing on both the Floor Exercise and Vault.

Brockport will be back in action next weekend when it travels to Army for the West Point Open. The two-day meet will begin on Friday at 7 p.m. with the team and all-around competition. The individual finals will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

The Brockport Men’s Gymnastics team is off to an exciting pre- season this year. Due to the loss of three very important team members in Yusuke Nemoto, Kenneth Byrd, and Joe Baggetta , the Golden Eagles looked weak heading into this year. However the addition of two new freshman, David Albaranes of Massapequa, New York and Alec Chatterton of Clifton Park, New York, as well as the return of Junior captain Ron Ayello, makes it look as if things are on the upward swing for Brockport. Also returning this year are seniors Brian Gildemeyer, the current floor exercise and vaulting record holder, Paul Ferraro, a still rings and vaulting specialist, as well as Rocco Henderson, a vault and floor specialist. All three of these seniors are looking to add some significant difficulty to their routines to end their college careers on a high note. Juniors Ron Ayello, and Matthew Power have shown significant amounts of leadership in their first two seasons, earning the role of team captains. All the gymnasts have come into the gym ready to work and advancements have already been noted. Brockport Men’s Gymnastics is looking forward to another Record breaking Season. Make sure you come back often and show your support for the Brockport Men’s Club Gymnastics Team!

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One week after posting a season high team score at Ohio State, The College at Brockport Men’s Gymnastics improves by 10.5 points scoring 283.8 at the New England Championships hosted by Springfield College. The Golden Eagles would finish in the top 3 at this invitational as a team for the first time in school history, falling behind Tim Daggets Gold Medal Gymnastics (327.60), and Springfield College (323.05) for a 3^rdplace finish.  Also competing in this meet were club participants from R&R, Andy Valley, In-Flight Gymnastics, Tri-Town, Guigeres, US Academy, Ellis School of Gymnastics, Old Colony, and from Boston University, MIT, the University of Southern Maine, and the University of Vermont. The final team standings were as follows: 1) Daggetts (327.60), 2) Springfield College (323.05), 3) Brockport (283.80), 4) Ellis (281.20), 5) Tri-Town (267.00), 6) R&R (265.30), and 7) Vermont (206.25).

                Seniors Kenneth Byrd and Yusuke Nemoto continue to show their leadership and experience with solid performances. Byrd had another career day as he set a new personal best in the all-around with a score of 74.4. Byrd led the team on both the Still Rings and the Vault with scores of 12.3 and 13.6 respectively.   Nemoto would have his 2^nd best career all-around score with a 72.1 and lead the Golden Eagles on Pommel Horse and Horizontal-Bar with scores of 12.3 and 12.0.

                Junior Brian Gildemeyer led the team on the Floor Exercise with a score of 13.6, which was good enough to finish in 5^th place and to set a new school record.  The record was formally held by current GM A.J. Banker, “I’m extremely happy for Brian, every time a record is broken it just shows the improvement and growth of this program. In two weeks 5 records have fallen, I hope to see this trend continue throughout the remainder of the season.”   Gildemeyer also made his seasonal debut on the Parallel-Bars, scoring a team leading 12.7. He is expected to return to the all-around for the March 11^th home competition versus Minnesota and Air Force.

*Brockport would not compete 2/25 at Springfield w/ Temple due to poor weather / unsafe travel conditions.

Brockports next competition is  March 11th at home against Minnesota and the U.S. Air Force Academy.

After opening the season with back to back dismal performances, The College at Brockport Men’s Gymnastics Team showed signs of life in a head to head matchup against The Ohio State University. Meeting for the first time, the Golden Eagles were no match for the eighth-ranked Buckeyes, losing 348.25 to 273.3. Despite the loss Brockport went on to set new school team records on Floor Exercise scoring 51.95, previously a 51.8 set against Army last year, and Still Rings scoring 48.75, demolishing the previous record of 45.55 set back in 2008. Not all records were good though, Brockport scored an abysmal 31.0 points on Pommel Horse, making it the teams all-time lowest score.

The team was lead by Senior Kenneth Byrd who broke his own school record on Rings (12.9) scoring a 13.2. Also with a score of 13.05 on Parallel-Bars, Byrd would just sneak past former Golden Eagle Karl Jaanimagi who previously held the record with a 13.0. Byrd didn’t stop there, he went on to tie the team vault record of 14.1, a score set by teammate Brian Gildemeyer back in 2009.

Team General Manager A.J. Banker was in attendance at the meet and was impressed with the turn around the team has made. “I’m very proud of these guys. After two rough outings to come and compete against one of the top teams in the country and get things back on track just shows the kind of character this team has. I am particularly proud of the development of our underclassmen and of our rookies: Rocco Henderson, Paul Ferraro, and Matt Power have all made great strides and I look forward to seeing them come the end of season.”           

Sophomore Matthew Power has become an important piece of the Golden Eagle line up as he continues to improve. Scoring a 12.6 on Floor Exercise he tied a career high and with a score of 12.3 he had a career day on Still Rings, which marks the 6^th time this season that he has set new personal bests.

The junior class had a strong showing led by Brian Gildemeyer who returned to action for the first time this season. Gildemeyer competed on Floor Exercise and Vault giving the Golden Eagles the depth and experience they lacked the previous to meets. The team hopes to have Gildemeyer return to All-Around form in time for their home competition against Minnesota and Air Force March 11^th. Joe Baggetta who transferred to Brockport in the fall from Hudson Valley Community College, had career highs on Floor Exercise, Parallel-Bars, and High-Bar.              

  Assistant Coach Ron Ayello wasn’t surprised by the team’s improvement “Every member on this team has the charisma and drive to improve. These two qualities are essential for any team. The route this team is on, is the route to success.”                

 Head Coach Shaun Johnson is looking for continued improvement. “We have finally hit the ground running, and must keep the momentum going as we head into the second half of the season. There is still a lot of room for growth on this team; we have by no means hit our potential. We still have a glaring need for improvement on both Pommel Horse and High-Bar. It’s up to each one of the young men on this team to step up and make the necessary changes.” The Golden Eagles head to Springfield for their next two competitions, The New England Championships 2/20 and a tri-meet against Springfield and Temple 2/25.