With week one of the 2025 college gymnastics season finally here, it’s a great time for all the at-home judges and fans to review the rules.
Your first stop is the newly updated College Gym News Code of Points, which you can find in our NCAA Gym 101 dropdown from the home page. This incredible resource has been revamped and updated for the 2025 season, including to special requirements, tables of common NCAA elements and their values, and the most common execution, composition, and artistry deductions. For a summary of the rule changes for the 2025 season, check out this article.
NCAA gymnastics rules are based on the published NCAA Rules and Modifications, which are the official rules in conjunction with USA Gymnastics’ level 10 rules. As you can imagine, there are sometimes points of confusion for both coaches and judges with the hundreds of different rules and infinite number of routine combinations and situations. To help, judges and coaches can submit questions to the NCAA Rules Interpreter, with the answers being published every two weeks along with clarifications. I reviewed the notes and pulled out some of the most notable ones for the 2025 season.
Notable Clarifications
Equipment FailuresThe beam cap controversy from last year has been clarified: A beam cap…
