This weekend's meet is more of a reality check and a tester, to see how everyone looks." "This sport is all about being consistent, so when you're off for a month, it shows.
"We've been here four days a week since we've been back," Kappel said, noting the five-week Christmas break over the holidays didn't help. The team held its last practice before the competition Friday afternoon at its gym in The Plaza in Lynchburg. "It took them a little while to adjust to my style and it's been a learning curve for me as well, trying to find the right proportions of how hard to push it and where you can grow with it," he said. Kappel, who also owns Pure Gymnastics in Lynchburg, said the transition for athlete and coach has gone smoothly and he is pleased with the results so far. What we're trying to do is to take it pretty seriously and step up the level of how it's being done."
"It would be my goal to see this program run just like an NCAA program as a club team, to start leaning it that way. "I personally have never been on the floor of an NAIGC competition," said Kappel, who has trained numerous elite gymnasts to NCAA scholarships. First-year Head Coach Tim Kappel is setting the bar high for Liberty University's men's and women's gymnastics teams, which will open their seasons at the National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs (NAIGC) sanctioned Buckeye Blast, Saturday from 11 a.m.
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