Monday, April 20, 2009

Queensland in, Utah Out.

Looks like Chloe Sims is not headed for collegiate gymnastics after all. From the Salt Lake Tribune:

The Utes have just two freshmen coming in next season, Meg Whitney and Katelyn Mohr. The third member of their signing class, Australian Chloe Sims, passed the SAT and had solid grades but didn't have all the necessary core classes to get through the NCAA Clearinghouse and won't join the Utes.

(Thanks to Swoop for the heads-up)


In addition to learning that piece of news, I was contacted by a Queensland source yesterday who told me Chloe was spotted at a Level 1 coaching course in Brisbane over the weekend and is looking like taking up a coaching position in Toowoomba, where I'm told she has recently moved (from Brisbane). She was there representing a particular club and did some skills for demonstration. She remarked that she had been out of training for some time and 'out of practise' but still performed diligently for the gathered coaches-in-training.

Best of luck to her, good to see she's still sticking close to gymnastics.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good luck Chloe, I'm super bummed you won't be joining the Utes next season :( You and Dari Bijak have such similiar styles.

Becka

The Couch Gymnast said...

Dang! Dang! Dang!! Chloe Sims at Utah was the little ray of NCAA sunshine i was so looking forward to! Double Dang!!

Step It Up: said...

So sad to hear that Chloe won't get to experience the NCAA style gymnastics enviroment that I think she is built for but glad to hear she will still be involved with gymnastics and I hope to see her around at various Brissie/QLD comps with her gymnasts.

Anonymous said...

Anyone know what they mean when they say "didn't have the core classes"?

Anonymous said...

She didn't take the right subjects to fulfill NCAA requirement. So, like Aussie university courses have certain pre-requisites, the NCAA requires that athletes take subjects in English, sciences, maths and social sciences right through to year 12 to qualify for NCAA. And if you're missing one, then you can't just take the missing subject in year 12 and call it even, you'd have to go back to the point where you dropped that subject and start again, which could take a few years. American schools demand that students take a mix of subjects from these areas, because they continue taking a broad range of subjects in the early years of university, but Aussie schools don't because the universities don't need them to.

Anonymous said...

sounds like that's something the Aspire teams and Athlete career development people need to take note of. Our girls are encouraged to drop classes at school to manage their training schedules, but someone needs to help them understand what they can't drop if they aspire to US college gym at some point in their careers. I know this pathway is relatively new, but it seems a real shame for someone like Chloe to have a door shut for a non gymnastics reason.

Wolfie said...

Sad for Chloe, but very interesting re. the university requirements. I must admit that I definitely see merit in students having to continue English, maths, sciences and social studies all the way through their secondary education. It's too limiting to expect teenagers to choose their career subjects at such a young age.

I would love to have seen Chloe in the NCAA.

Nic said...

what A bummer thats so annoying I didnt realise you had to have a whole range of yr 12 subjects under your belt
oh well good luck to chloe in whatever she decides to pursue

Anonymous said...

chloe has shaved her hair of and has a nose ring looks kinda strange but i guess if thats wat she likles go for it! but yeah is a shame shes not going!