NCAA Championships 2025: All Around, Event Finals, Team Semifinals

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Helen Hu, Brooklyn Moors, Kailin Chio, Jordan Chiles and Jordan Bowers are NCAA Champions! Utah, UCLA, Mizzu and OU advance. Alabama, Florida, MSU and defending national champion, LSU are out. Photo Galleries

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GymCastic LIVE SHOW at 2025 NCAAs

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When: Between meet days on Friday, April 18. Doors open at 6:30 PM; show starts at 7:00 PM CT

Where: Fort Worth, Texas, or online from anywhere.

Jessica and Spencer are joined by former professional musical theater boys turned super choreo-coaching duo, Daymon Jones and Patrick Kiens to discuss Celine van Gerner’s iconic Cats makeup, the Paris Olympic FX final from their perspective as Romanian team head coaches, choreographing in over 15 countries combined and the 2025 NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships of course. They will also take your (virtual and in-person) questions live!

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2025 NCAA Championships Report Live

The All-Around, Event Finals, Team Semifinal Post-Meet Show

This is our live post-meet recap and Q&A episode. Today we are in Ft. Worth for NCAAs. We will go live after the meet (right here, on this page) Thursday, April 17th at 10:30-ISHpm Central/11:30pm Eastern (as soon as we can after the post-meet press conference). Login to reveal the full show.

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Every week we do a live Q&A, right here on this page to discuss our immediate thoughts about the week or the meets. For more info on how to watch your favorite elites, Olympic and World medalists in college and all year long, check out The Balance Beam Situation's schedule with links. College & Cocktails combines our weekly Behind The Scenes Q&A live podcast with a college meet of the week. It's all part of the bonus content for our Club Members who support our work year around.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome behind the scenes. We have qualified teams. They are Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, and UCLA.
0:10.0	Just like everyone predicted.
0:12.0	Exactly. We are live from the first day of the NCAA.
0:18.0	This is our live behind the scenes Q&A show. And today's show is
0:22.6	brought to you by big time pregnant Jordan. We were still being strong enough to pick up
0:28.4	Joss Robertson while pregnant. And by Frida as far as a standing up to oppression by kneeling
0:35.0	during the national anthem, even when Moore is on the line for your team.
0:38.3	You can listen to this show anytime in your favorite podcast player.
0:42.3	You don't have to join us live.
0:44.3	Instructions are in the form in the show notes.
0:46.3	This show is rated PG-14 because this is our behind the scenes and we can talk more freely about our feelings.
0:53.3	It's April 17th still by 30 minutes.
0:56.5	And Spencer, thank you to the people who are staying up until 90 million o'clock and doing
1:03.9	this live with us because it's what you have to do after the insane day of the national
1:08.8	semifinals that we just had.
1:12.4	What a freaking day.
1:13.3	Yeah.
1:14.9	Okay.
1:24.2	The biggest surprise to me, number one, was MSU, after the first rotation or second rotation,
1:26.8	MSU was winning and LSU was in last place.
1:27.3	I was like, what? There was a point where MSU was winning in LSU was in last place. I was like, there was a point where MSU was winning and LSU was in last place.
1:31.3	And then they both ended up in last place.
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