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Ute Gymnastics Team Is Preparing To Fight The Opposition
10/30/2001 12:00 AM | Gymnastics
Oct. 30, 2001
SALT LAKE CITY -
The Utah gymnastics team has incorporated something new into its training regimen. Under the instruction of strength and conditioning coach Jason Veltkamp, the Utes are now boxing as a part of their conditioning. The boxing has been useful in terms of aerobics and abdominal work, among other benefits.
Veltkamp's strength and conditioning program is sport specific and, in the case of gymnastics, includes multi-joint training, progressive overload, variation (such as the incorporation of boxing), flexibility and proprioceptive training (injury prevention). The gymnastics team works with Veltkamp and his staff on Wednesday and Saturday mornings.
The team is getting ready for its usual tough schedule, one that begins in Salt Lake City on Friday, January 11 against Ohio State. The 2002 Utes, who annually compete against one of the nation's best schedules, go into the season with a record 22-year, 165-meet regular season home win streak.
In other Ute news, junior NCAA champion Theresa Kulikowski will be the subject of a Discovery Health Network special, to be aired at a date to be determined later. Kulikowski has overcome two ACL surgeries to win three NCAA championships in just two years of college competition. A camera crew will be in Salt Lake City beginning on October 30 to document Kulikowski's story. As a freshman in 1999, Kulikowski won the NCAA all-around and balance beam championship and was runner-up on vault and floor. She had just returned to gymnastics training that fall, following rehabilitation from her first ACL surgery. In January of 2000, Kulikowski tore her other ACL and missed the remainder of the season. She returned on two events last year and repeated as the NCAA balance beam champion, while taking third in the nation on the uneven bars.
The Utes will be minus junior Leah Sabo, who has left the team for personal reasons. Sabo has withdrawn from school and has returned to her home in Hubbard, Ohio.
Junior Kim Allan is out for 10 days to two weeks with a hand injury. Allan received five stitches on October 24 after cutting the palm of her hand while opening a can.
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