NEBRASKA

Rank in 2024: 4th

2025 Pre-Season Rank: 4th

First Meet: January 18 at Air Power, Rocky Mountain Open (Full Schedule: https://huskers.com/sports activities/mens-gymnastics/schedule)

Inside Gymnasium Outlook: Led by a slew of robust recruits, Nebraska’s fortunes have been on a gradual rise the previous few seasons and, given very robust signing courses, ought to proceed that trajectory this season and past. The one different NCAA staff to ever win five-in-a-row, Nebraska is itching to maintain progressing up the rostrum and got here inside half a degree of third in 2024. They’re additionally maybe essentially the most skilled squad within the subject, with eight seniors on their 2025 roster.

Head Coach Chuck Chmelke’s Take…

Key Athletes: “In truth, our complete senior class. We’ve essentially the most seniors, if not ever, not less than since I’ve been the pinnacle coach. We’re going to be counting on them. They’ve been by way of the gauntlet many occasions and know what it’s all about. If I needed to choose a single individual, in fact it might be Taylor Christopulos, again for a fifth 12 months and I really feel very fortunate that we get this further season with him. However, total, the entire senior class goes to be critically essential to the place we end on the finish of the 12 months.”

Secret Weapon: “Chase Mondi, who’s a sophomore out of Kansas Metropolis. He competed two occasions for us final 12 months, however he’s had a beautiful summer time, and he’s performing some fairly good gymnastics proper now. Our complete sophomore class, simply having a 12 months underneath their belt, are doing excellent. They’ve paid their dues, carried out the whole lot proper, and I believe you’re going to see that in competitors.

“At Nebraska we’re very huge on hierarchy—giving alternative to those that earned it. Build up with laborious work and expertise. I actually wish to reward these guys who’ve been on the market, confirmed us what they’ll do, and put within the work.”

2024 Reflection: “We have been very proud of how we carried out at NCAAs. We began off with two misses, however the guys dug in, and we simply obtained on a roll after that, which is what you need to see. We had an awesome mixture of youthful and extra skilled guys competing, they usually all dealt with it properly. We had 10 All-People, which is near a file.

“Now, we’re simply making an attempt to proceed that trajectory. It took a variety of work to get into this place, the place we’re recurrently ending high 4, high 5, and we’ve loved the satisfaction of that. We had two guys who have been this near particular person Nationwide Championships, ending second after tiebreakers, in order that’s one of many issues pushing us, to place ourselves in place to win these particular person titles, in addition to maintain transferring up as a staff.”

2025 Targets: “Hold our head within the zone, and that momentum going. The primary aim is at all times to get into the highest six, into staff finals, after which from there, to deliver house a trophy. Now that we’ve had that fourth place a pair occasions, in fact the aim is to get increased. However I do know that, as I say that, the groups that have been fifth and sixth try to beat you, and seventh and eighth are simply making an attempt to make into finals. 

“I can speak about getting this place, or that end result, however our actual aim—what we speak about day-after-day within the gymnasium—is efficiency. Hitting routines, and sticking dismounts—as a result of that’s what we are able to management. The judges, what the opposite groups do—that’s out of our palms. What we are able to management is how Nebraska performs. So, the aim is at all times to have our guys in the perfect place to hit routines, and hit them properly, when it issues most.”

Technique of Enchancment: “It’s revaluating yearly and making an attempt to determine what went unsuitable and studying from that. We’ve modified a few of our methods due to that, but it surely’s additionally only a course of. As our guys work laborious, our outcomes enhance, which ends up in recruits seeing Nebraska in a different way.

“That’s at all times the push. As we improved, higher athletes begin us extra. Then, we get a type of higher recruits, then two, then three. There’s probably not a secret to it, simply laborious work. Placing within the hours, each within the gymnasium, and in recruiting. Everyone—the athletes, me, my assistants—working in direction of the identical aim, and it actually goes again to these children who, ten years in the past, took an opportunity on us once we weren’t on the degree we at the moment are. These children are the superheroes. They might have completed eighth, however they labored their butts off to get there, and that helped us recruit the subsequent group, which does slightly bit higher, and helps us recruit the subsequent. That’s the way you proceed to enhance. These guys who took an opportunity on Nebraska and gave it their all—I really like them to loss of life for it and at all times will. They’re instantly accountable for the staff we’re right now.”