The NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships are a gymnastics competition held each year to determine the best men's college gymnastics team. All schools compete in one
National Collegiate
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division because only 13 schools sponsor NCAA men's
gymnastics
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teams. One of the 13 teams is not in
Division I:
Springfield College
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Division III
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).
[Schools that Sponsor Men's Gymnastics]
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Schools That Sponsor NCAA Men's Gymnastics
The 13 teams compete in three conferences.
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* From the ]Big Ten
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: University of Illinois
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, University of Michigan
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, University of Nebraska
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, Ohio State University
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, Penn State University
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* From the ECAC: Springfield College
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, U.S. Military Academy
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, U.S. Naval Academy
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, College of William and Mary
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* From the MPSF
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: University of California - Berkeley
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, University of Oklahoma
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, Stanford University
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, U.S. Air Force Academy
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Events
Individual events
*All-around
*Floor exercise
*Pommel horse (side horse)
*Rings (still)
*Vault
*Parallel bars
*Horizontal bar (high bar)
Discontinued events
*Trampoline (rebound tumbling)
*Tumbling
*Rope climb
*Flying rings
Champions
Individual champions
Current events
†
Discontinued events
Team titles
See also
*NCAA Division II Men's Gymnastics Championships
The NCAA Division II Men's Gymnastics Championships were the annual collegiate gymnastics championships for men organised by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for athletes competing at universities in Division II. The championship wa ...
(1968–82)
*NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships
The NCAA women's gymnastics championships are an annual gymnastics competition to determine the best collegiate women's gymnastics team in the country. Unlike most NCAA sports, the women's gymnastics championship is not separated into divisions a ...
(1982–present)
* Pre-NCAA Gymnastics Champions
*List of gymnastics terms
This is a general glossary of the terms used in the sport of gymnastics.
A
;AA: Abbreviation for all-around.
;AB: A scoring abbreviation for uneven bars, from the name Uneven bars, asymmetric bars.
;A-score: Under the current ''Code of Point ...
Footnotes
References
{{National Collegiate Athletic Association
External links
NCAA men's gymnastics homepage
NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championship Records through 2019
Division II NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championship Records 1968-84
NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship