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The End of an Era: When a Child Abandons a Sport
by Sports Girls Play
posted January 17, 2012 at 4:58pm

This is a guest post by Laura Amann My days of gymnastics are over. So are my long hours at the gym. My nervousness and anxiety. It’s all in the past. No more ponytails woven with ribbons, no more glitter spray, no more bleacher analysis. My daught...more

Next American Girl Doll of the Year Is a Gymnast
by Sports Girls Play
posted December 20, 2011 at 1:32am

Call it a coincidence or call it savvy marketing, but either way call it $$ signs for the American Girl company as their Girl of the Year for 2012 vaults into the limelight just in time for the London 2012 Olympic Games! That’s right, McKenna Brooks...more

Day to Day: How to Cope with Injuries within Youth Sport
by Sports Girls Play
posted November 27, 2011 at 2:15am

It has been a month of drama around here. While I know that injuries are just part of sports, it still stinks when it happens. My older daughter has been a gymnast since she was a baby (she is now 13), having grown up in the gym while I was coaching. It ...more

[Video] Gymnast Jordyn Wieber Wins All-Around Gold At 2011 Worlds
by Pretty Tough
posted October 15, 2011 at 12:06pm

Tokyo, Japan, FIG Gymnastics World Championship American Champ Jordyn Wieber wins the championship by a hair (well actually by .033 of a point) over Russia’s Victoria Komovo. ...more

Congratulations to the Gymnastics World Champions – Team USA
by Sports Girls Play
posted October 13, 2011 at 3:46pm

What do you get when you put the best gymnasts in the World in a competition and make team finals a three routines up, three routines count format? You get a pressure cooker! And when you are Team USA and you have lost two of your veteran competitors to i...more

Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone lands UA sponsorship deal
by Pretty Tough
posted August 20, 2011 at 3:41pm

We’ve always loved Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone so were excited to learn about a multiyear marketing deal with Under Armour on Thursday. The athletic company says in a press release Sacramone is the first gymnast to sign on with the brand. In addi...more

Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson’s comeback ahead of schedule
by Sports Girls Play
posted June 30, 2011 at 12:49am

Olympic champion Shawn Johnson has been working on her comeback to competitive gymnastics after time off, winning Dancing with the Stars, and keeping up with her busy media schedule. Originally she was schedule to make her comeback debut in August at the ...more

Women 100 years ago Exercise Workout Video
by LostCentury
posted May 11, 2011 at 1:53pm

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1896 article - "In a Girls' Gymnasium"
by LostCentury
posted May 1, 2011 at 11:10am

1896 article in Munsey's Magazine by Jean Pardee-Clark , "In A Girls' Gymnasium" (excerpts). Illustration by J.M. Gleeson....more

1900 Woman's Physical Development and Emile Zola
by LostCentury
posted April 26, 2011 at 10:30am

1900 Woman's Physical Development magazine cover with motto "Ugliness a Sin, Health is Beauty," and article by Emile Zola, "Why Modern Sports Benefit Woman."...more

1896 article - Regular Exercise for Girls
by LostCentury
posted April 25, 2011 at 10:23am

  January 14, 1896 – Harper’s Young People Regularity in bodily training is the “golden rule” of all physicians and gymnasium teachers. “A little exercise every day, taken at a certain time,” is worth more than all the spasmodic exertio...more

Alabama Crimson Tide gymnasts take 5th NCAA title
by Sports Girls Play
posted April 17, 2011 at 7:18pm

Congratulations University of Alabama gymnasts on your 5th NCAA National Championship title!! I watched the NCAA Championship meet online yesterday and without a doubt, that was one of the best Super Six meets I have seen! The level of gymnastics was ahh...more

Legendary Obstacle Course Needs the Best Female Athletes to Conquer it
by MarQFPR
posted April 13, 2011 at 1:17am

It has been called the most difficult obstacle course in the world, and only 3 men have ever conquered it. Now there are seeking female athletes to conquer Mt. Midoriyama. G4’s hit show “American Ninja Warriors” is looking for male and...more