The NCAA men's gymnastics championships are contested at an annual competition sponsored by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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to determine the team and individual national champions of men's
collegiate gymnastics among its member programs in the
United States
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.
Unlike most other NCAA-sponsored sports, the men's gymnastics championship is not separated into divisions and uses a single
National Collegiate tournament instead. Currently, only 15 schools sponsor NCAA men's
gymnastics
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teams, with three of them outside of
Division I:
Greenville University,
Simpson College
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,
Springfield College
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(
Division III).
[Schools that Sponsor Men's Gymnastics]
USA Gymnastics. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
Programs
The 15 teams compete in three conferences.
[
]
Big Ten
* 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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ECAC
* Greenville University
* Simpson College
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* Springfield College
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* U.S. Military Academy
* U.S. Naval Academy
* College of William and Mary
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MPSF
* University of California - Berkeley
* University of Oklahoma
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* Stanford University
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* U.S. Air Force Academy
Events
Individual events
* All-around
* Floor exercise
* Pommel horse (side horse)
* Rings (still)
* Vault (long horse)
* Parallel bars
* Horizontal bar
Discontinued events
* Trampoline (rebound tumbling)
* Tumbling
* Rope climb
* Flying rings
Results
Individual champions
Current events
†
Discontinued events
Champions
Active programs
Former programs
See also
* NCAA Division II Men's Gymnastics Championships (1968–82)
* NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships (1982–present)
* Pre-NCAA Gymnastics Champions
* List of gymnastics terms
Notes
References
External links
NCAA men's gymnastics homepage
NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championship Records through 2023
Division II NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championship Records 1968-84
at USA Gymnastics
Division I Men's Gymnastics Institutions
at NCAA
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