Live Broadcast of NCAA Gymnastics Championships
ESPN has added individual apparatus streams and a new scoring interface to its first live television production of the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships airing April 15 and 16. ESPN networks have carried the competition since 2011, one of 24 NCAA Championships the network airs each year.
Lexus Demers of Auburn
“We’ve learned a great deal televising regular-season gymnastics live, and have seen some incredible opportunities for growth of the sport on television,” said Meg Aronowitz, ESPN coordinating producer. “The biggest hurdle in producing the sport live is scoring and we believe the graphics interface we’ve developed makes that challenge obsolete.”
ESPN built its first gymnastics scoring interface in 2014 for regular-season dual meets. The team went back to the drawing board this year to produce a version for a quad-style (SEC Championships) meet and a modification for the NCAA Championships, which features six-teams at a time.
| Fri, April 15 | 2 p.m. | NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Semifinal Bart Conner, Kathy Johnson Clarke, Laura Rutledge |
ESPNU |
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Semifinal “All Around” view (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Semifinal Individual Apparatus view: Bars (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Semifinal Individual Apparatus view: Vault (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Semifinal Individual Apparatus view: Floor (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Semifinal Individual Apparatus view: Beam (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| 8 p.m. | NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Semifinal Bart Conner, Kathy Johnson Clarke, Laura Rutledge |
ESPNU | |
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Semifinal “All Around” view (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Semifinal Individual Apparatus view: Bars (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Semifinal Individual Apparatus view: Floor (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Semifinal Individual Apparatus view: Vault (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Semifinal Individual Apparatus view: Beam (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| Sat, April 16 | 9 p.m. | NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Bart Conner, Kathy Johnson Clarke, Laura Rutledge |
ESPNU |
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship “All Around” view (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Individual Apparatus view: Bars (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Individual Apparatus view: Floor (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Individual Apparatus view: Vault (live link) |
ESPN3 | ||
| NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship Individual Apparatus view: Beam (live link) |
ESPN3 |
