2016 MICHIGAN GYMNASTICS

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1 2016 MICHIGAN GYMNASTICS MICHIGAN ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS Scott Kemps Men s Gymnastics Contact SKemps@umich.edu MGoBlue.com 2014/15 NCAA & BIG TEN CHAMPIONS SIX NCAA TITLES 17 BIG TEN TITLES UNIVERSITY INFORMATION Location...Ann Arbor, Mich. Founded Nickname...Wolverines Colors...Maize & Blue Conference...Big Ten President...Mark Schlissel Interim Athletic Director...Jim Hackett Enrollment...43,710 Athletic Department Phone...(734) Ticket Office Phone...(734) HISTORY All-Time Record/Years /68 NCAA Titles ,1970,1999,2010, 2013,2014 Big Ten Championships...17 All-Americans Big Ten Championships/Last... 17/2014 Champions...29 Big Ten Individual Championships...93 Academic All-Americans...75 COACHING STAFF Head Coach...Kurt Golder Alma Mater, Year... Michigan, 77 Career Record at U-M / Years /20 Ass t Coach...Geoff Corrigan, Michigan 05 / 7th Year Ass t Coach...Xiao Yuan, Beijing, 88 / 11th year Administrative Ass t......stacey Ervin 14 Athletic Trainer...Tim White... Chris Rancourt TEAM INFORMATION 2015 Overall Record Conference Record / Finish /3rd Lettermen Returning / Lost... 10/9 Newcomers Postseason... NCAA Championships/ 4th place All-American s (3 )...Nolan Novak (PH), Dmitri Belanovski (HB) ARENA INFORMATION Home Arena...Cliff Keen Arena Capacity...1,800 Twitter...@UMichGym Facebook.../MichiganMensGymnastics at Invitational PAVILION (CHICAGO, ILL.) SUNDAY, JAN. 17, 3 P.M. CT The University of Michigan men s gymnastics team (0-0) opens the 2016 season at the 45th Invitational, facing the likes of No. 2 (0-0), No. 6 (1-0), No. 8 Minnesota (0-0), No. 9 Iowa (0-0) and the host school, No. 16 (0-1). U-M will begin the competition on vault, which takes place at 3 p.m. CST at the Pavilion. Season Preview Head coach Kurt Golder, in his 20th season at U-M, will have the youngest team in his career with 15 freshmen (13 true freshman, two redshirt freshman). U-M brings back a pair of 2015 NCAA All-Americans in sophomore Dmitri Belanovski (high bar, 2015) and Nolan Novak (pommel horse, 2015). Tristian Perez-Rivera (vault, 2014) will miss the 2016 season due to a knee injury. Additionally, 2015 All-Big Ten second team member and junior Anthony Stefanelli returns for added punch on floor and vault, while fifth-year seniors Colin Mahar (still rings specialist) and team co-captain Michael Strathern provide leadership. Strathern, whose ability has never been in question, has missed portions of the last three seasons due to injury and will focus on floor, vault and high bar in his redshirt senior season. The freshman class will be led by both Anthony McCallum as well as Emyre Cole, both of whom possess All-America capabilities on multiples events and will be leaned on as all-around performers from the get go. Each excel on vault and floor and are well-balanced on the other four events. In addition to Cole and McCallum, Matt Whitaker possesses the potential to contribute in the all-around as a freshman, with strength lying in floor and vault, and is also a gymnast with an extremely high ceiling. Uche Eke fills voids on high bar, pommel horse and parallel bars, while Samuel Su will be looked upon to step into the pommel horse lineup. Other newcomers Ryan Dunning (still rings), Justin Hopgood (high bar) and Matt Beck (floor exercise) are expected to fill holes in a lineup that returns only seven of 25 routines from the 2015 NCAA Team Finals lineup. Wolverine Bites Michigan has attended the Invitational in each year of the Kurt Golder era and owns five titles, two of which have come in the past three seasons. U-M ALL ABOUT THE WOLVERINES has not finished worse than third in the event since Last season, U-M took second with a team score of U-M will host a treacherous stretch in the early going of the season, hosting the preseason No. 1 Sooners on Jan. 23 and following with a matchup against the No. 2 Buckeyes on Jan. 30 in a meet that will be televised the Big Ten Network. Both teams are looked upon as the frontrunners for the 2016 NCAA title. The Wolverines the only U-M squad for the 2016 season that will don the Ferry Field gates and the University of Michigan 150th anniversary logo on the back of their uniforms. [ Kornacki Feature: Ferry Field Gates ] Gymnasts to Watch Dmitri Belanovski -- The 2015 team MVP and All- American enters his sophomore season primed to break out. Coming off the heels of a career-high on high bar at NCAAs last season, Belanovski is regarded as the team s best all-arounder. According to Golder, he enters the season in great shape, and is, as ready for a season as anyone I have ever coached at this point in the season. Marty Strech -- Strech, who was forced to sit out the majority of the season and earned a medical redshirt, is an example of an athlete that if on his game, can make a major impact not only in the Big Ten but nationally as well. A top recruit in the 2014 class, he is regarded as a technically sound, clean, aesthetic and consistent when healthy. Capable of partaking the all-around, he excels on rings as well as floor. Additionally, he is a three-time Junior Olympic champion on pommel horse, but his place in the lineup depends on his comeback from last season s injuries. Nolan Novak -- The 2015 NCAA runner-up on pommel horse, Novak is the top competitor on arguably the most important event in all of men s gymnastics and is one of the handful of U-M gymnasts that possess the skill to shoot for an title Recap The 2015 squad concluded its season by finishing fourth at the NCAA Championships and collecting three All- American honors. Nolan Novak finished runner-up on 2016 MICHIGAN MEN S GYMNASTICS SCHEDULE AND RESULTS DATE OPPONENT RESULT FLOOR POMMEL RINGS VAULT P-BARS HIGH BAR 1/17 at Invitational 1/23 vs. OKLAHOMA 1/30 vs. OHIO STATE 2/6 at 2/18-20 at 3/4 at Puerto Rico vs. PSU/ Puerto Rico 3/12 at 3/19 vs. PENN STATE 3/26 vs. 4/1-2 at B1G Championships 4/14 at 4/15 at & AA Finals 4/16 at NCAA Event Finals *Season high

2 Wk1 MICHIGAN TEAM RANKINGS NCAA RANKINGS FX PH SR VT PB HB NCAA INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS Top-10 Floor Exercise Pommel Horse Still Rings Vault Parallel Bars High Bar WEEK BY WEEK IN THE CGA POLL Rank Avg./RQS Preseason the pommel horse, while Stacey Ervin and Dmitri Belanovski placed third on floor exercise and high bar, respectively. The team finish marked the third straight year that U-M has finished in the top four nationally. At the Big Ten Championships, U-M tallied a third place finish, while Nick Hunter collected an individual event title on the parallel bars. Ervin and Anthony Stefanelli placed second and third, respectively, on the floor exercise at the event finals as well. Hunter and Ervin were both named to the All-Big Ten First Team, while Stefanelli was named to the All-Big Ten Second Team CGA Coaches Poll Top 10 (3/30/15) First-place votes in parentheses 1. (14) 2. (2) 3. (2) Michigan California 8. Minnesota 9. Iowa 10. Nebraska Keep Up With the Wolverines -- Stay current with everything going on with the Wolverines by following Michigan men s gymnastics on Twitter (@ umichgym) and liking the Wolverines on Facebook! Fans can also follow in-meet commentary via the Twitter channel, and new this season is the broadcasting of meets via Periscope. Additional content will be provided via Instagram (@umichgym), and Snapchat (@umichathletics). INDIVIDUAL EVENT TITLE WINNERS WINDY CITY OKLAHOMA OHIO STATE STANFORD PUERTO RICO ILLINOIS PENN STATE BIG TEN 2016 BIG TEN GYMNASTS OF THE WEEK 2016 CGA GYMNAST OF THE WEEK

3 AT WINDY CITY INVITE 2016 MICHIGAN MEN S GYMNASTICS WEEKLY RELEASE MICHIGAN T.V. ROSTER Brandon Burns Jonathan Chin Emyre Cole Uche Eke Mitchell Gornto Justin Hopgood James Hudson Alec Krystek Colin Mahar Anthony McCallum Nolan Novak Tristian Perez-Rivera Anthony Stefanelli Michael Strathern Marty Strech Samuel Su Brennen Thomas Matthew Whitaker HC Kurt Golder AC Geoff Corrigan AC Xiao Yuan PA Stacey Ervin Corey Aurentz Matthew Beck Dmitri Belanovski Adam Dean Ryan Dunning Jack Jerry

4 2016 MICHIGAN WOLVERINES Wolverine Events Ht. Year Hometown (Club) Corey Aurentz FX, HB 5-9 Fr. Herndon, Va. (Gymnastics World) Matthew Beck FX, VT 5-2 Fr. Cheshire, Conn. (NewEra) Dmitri Belanovski AA 5-6 So. Milwaukee, Wis. (Swiss Turners) Brandon Burns FX, SR, VT 5-9 Fr. Madison, Ala. (Southern States) Jonathan Chin AA 5-5 Jr. Santa Monica, Calif. (SCATS) Emyre Cole AA 5-6 Fr. Las Vegas, Nev. (Go For It USA) Adam Dean FX, HB 5-10 RJr. Rochester Hills, Mich. (GTC) Ryan Dunning FX, SR, VT 5-8 Fr. Corrales, NM (Eagle Ridge) Uche Eke FX, HB 5-10 Fr. Brookeville, Md. (Fairland) Mitchell Gornto PH, PH, HB 5-9 Fr. Burlington, N.C. (High Point) Justin Hopgood FX, VT, HB 5-5 Fr. Hudson, Ohio (Gymnastics World) James Hudson VT, PB, HB 5-9 Fr. Austin, Texas (Crenshaw Athletic) Jack Jerry PH 6-1 Fr. New Boston, Mich. (Mills Gymnastics) Alec Krystek AA 5-9 RFr. Lake Orion, Mich. (flipspot) Colin Mahar SR, VT 5-5 Sr. Dearborn Heights, Mich. (MAG) Anthony McCallum AA 5-3 Fr. Columbia, S.C. (USOTC) Nolan Novak PH, HB 5-11 Sr. Albuquerque, NM (Eagle Ridge) Tristian Perez-Rivera AA 5-5 Jr. Caguas, Puerto Rico (Mihai Academy) Anthony Stefanelli FX, VT, HB 5-2 Jr. Holbrook, N.Y. (Gym-Nest) Michael Strathern AA 5-8 RSr. Bartlett, Ill. (Bartlett) Marty Strech AA 5-7 RFr. Fountain Valley, Calif. (Azarian) Samuel Su PH, SR 5-5 Fr. Tallahassee, Fla. (Trousdell) Brennen Thomas AA 5-6 Fr. Commerce, Mich. (MEGA) Matthew Whitaker AA 5-8 Fr. Phoenix, Ariz. (North Valley) Coaching Staff Head Coach: Kurt Golder (Michigan 77) Assistant Coach: Geoff Corrigan (Michigan 05) Assistant Coach: Xiao Yuan (Beijing 88) Program Assistant: Stacey Ervin (Michigan 16) Athletic Trainer: Chris Rancourt (Bowling Green 11) ROSTER BREAKDOWN BY YEAR FRESHMAN (15) Aurentz Beck Burns Cole Dunning Eke Gornto Hopgood Hudson Jerry Krystek (RS) McCallum Strech (RS) Su Whitaker SOPHOMORE (2) Belanovski Thomas JUNIOR (4) Chin Dean Perez-Rivera Stefanelli SENIOR (3) Mahar (RS) Novak Strathern (RS) BY STATE ALABAMA (1) Burns CONN. (1) Beck MARYLAND (1) Eke NEVADA (1) Cole N.C. (1) Gornto S.C.(1) McCallum ARIZONA (1) Whitaker CALIFORNIA (2) Chin Strech FLORIDA (1) Su ILLINOIS (1) Strathern MICHIGAN (5) Dean Jerry Krystek Mahar Thomas NEW MEXICO (2) Dunning Novak NEW YORK (1) Stefanelli OHIO (1) Hopgood PUERTO RICO(1) Perez-Rivera TEXAS (1) Hudson VIRGINIA (1) Aurentz WISCONSIN (1) Belanovski

5 COREY AURENTZ Fr. Herdon, Va South Lakes Aurentz s Meet-by-Meet Scores MATTHEW BECK Fr. Cheshire, Conn. Cheshire 4x Connecticut State Champion on FX 2015 Connecticut State AA Champion Beck s Meet-by-Meet Scores

6 DMITRI BELANOVSKI So. Milwaukee, Wis. Nathan Hale 2015 NCAA All-American (HB) 2015 Team MVP Belanovski s Meet-by-Meet Scores /7/ /7/ /27/ /17/ /21/ /7/ /7/15 1 BRANDON BURNS Fr. Madison, Ala. Homeschooled 2015 Alabama State FX Champion Burns s Meet-by-Meet Scores

7 JONATHAN CHIN Jr. Santa Monica, Calif. Santa Monica Winter Acadmemic All-Big Ten (2015) Won HB with a against in first collegiate meet (2014) Chin s Meet-by-Meet Scores /21/ /21/15 1 * denotes exhibition EMYRE COLE Fr. Las Vegas, Nev. Las Vegas Academy Junior Olympic All-Around Champion (2015) Won vault and took fourth on FX and HB at 2015 P&G Championships Cole s Meet-by-Meet Scores

8 ADAM DEAN RJr. Rochester, Mich. Rochester 2015 Winter Academic All-Big Ten Team Member Earned a career high on high bar against (Mar. 21) Dean s Meet-by-Meet Scores /21/15 RYAN DUNNING Fr. Corrales, NM ASK Academy 2015 Junior Nationals All-Around Finalist New Mexico State Gymnastics Champion Dunning s Meet-by-Meet Scores

9 UCHE EKE Fr. Brookeville, Md. Our Lady of Good Counsel 5th on high bar and 6th on vault at 2015 Junior Nationals 3rd on parallel bars and 4th on vault at the 2015 Region 7 Championships Eke s Meet-by-Meet Scores MITCHELL GORNTO Fr. Burlington, N.C. Western Alamance 5th on high bar and 6th on vault at 2015 Junior Nationals 3rd on parallel bars and 4th on vault at the 2015 Region 7 Championships Gornto s Meet-by-Meet Scores

10 JUSTIN HOPGOOD Fr. Hudson, Ohio 1st in both floor and parallel bars and 2nd in the all-around competition at the 2013 Whitfield Classic Hopgood s Meet-by-Meet Scores JAMES HUDSON Fr. Austin, Texas St. Andrew s 2015 Junior Nationals Competitor Hudson s Meet-by-Meet Scores

11 JACK JERRY Fr. New Boston, Mich. Gabriel Richard USAG Academic All-American First Team ( ) 1st on vault and 2nd on high bar at the 2015 Michigan Men s State Championships Jerry s Meet-by-Meet Scores ALEC KRYSTEK Fr. Lake Orion, Mich. Lake Orion Did not compete as a true freshman, earning redshirt season Qualified to 2014 Junior Nationals, placing third on vault and 10th on high bar Krystek s Meet-by-Meet Scores

12 COLIN MAHAR RSr. Dearborn Heights Crestwood 2015 Winter Academic All-Big Ten Team Member Teams top SR performer Mahar s Meet-by-Meet Scores /28/14 ANTHONY MCCALLUM Fr. Columbia S.C. Abington Hill School 1st in floor and vault and 5th all-around at 2015 Junior Nationals Selected to compete in 2014 and 2015 Challenge McCallum s Meet-by-Meet Scores

13 NOLAN NOVAK Sr. Albuquerque, N.M. Valley NCAA Runner-up, 2015 All-American (pommel horse) Winter Academic All-Big Ten Team Member Novak s Meet-by-Meet Scores /21/15 2 TRISTIAN PEREZ-RIVERA Jr. Caguas, Puerto Rico Notre Dame Will miss 2016 season due to knee injury suffered in preseason Perez-Rivera s Meet-by-Meet Scores /28/ /14/ /22/ /24/ /28/15

14 ANTHONY STEFANELLI Jr. Holbrook, N.Y. Sachem East All-Big Ten Second Team (2015) Marked a on floor and a on vault at Finals Stefanelli s Meet-by-Meet Scores /21/ /7/15 2 MICHAEL STRATHERN RSr. Bartlett, Ill. Bartlett Team Captain ( ) Has missed portions of the last three seasons due to injury Strathern s Meet-by-Meet Scores /21/ /19/ /20/ /9/ /2/13 2

15 MARTY STRECH So. Fountain Valley, Calif. Connections Academy Missed portion of 2015 season due to injury Set new career highs on both the floor exercise (14.85) and the still rings (14.65) against (Feb. 14) Strech s Meet-by-Meet Scores /14/ /14/ /24/ /14/15 SAMUEL SU Fr. Tallahassee, Fla. Lawton Chiles High bar finalist at 2014 Junior Nationals Finalist in all-around, floor, pommel horse, and high bar at 2013 Junior Nationals Su s Meet-by-Meet Scores

16 BRENNEN THOMAS. Commerce, Mich. Walled Lake Northern Did not compete in 2015 USA Gymnastics Academic All-American (2014) Thomas s Meet-by-Meet Scores MATTHEW WHITAKER Fr. Phoenix, Ariz. Cactus Shadows 3x Arizona State Champion on numerous events Two-time regional placewinner Whitaker s Meet-by-Meet Scores