The fourth-ranked Alabama gymnastics team topped Kentucky by the score of 195.250-193.825, in front of 9.178 fans at Coleman Coliseum Friday night. Terin was one of the standout performers for the Tide's team, competing on uneven bars (9.850) and balance beam (9.850), and finishing first place on both of them.

Terin won silver in today's uneven bars final behind French Emilie Lepennec. Competing last, she scored an impressive 9.662 with a world class routine that included Markelova, a super Gienger and a high double layout dismount. American Courtney Kupets placed third, while Svetlana Khorkina of Russia, a two-time Olympic champion in the event, fell off during her routine and finished last of the eight competitors. Congratulations Terin, we are proud of you!

Sometime early this morning Terin and Courtney were to leave Missouri for a week-long training session in Houston at the Karolyi's Ranch before leaving for Athens. With them they took memories of the outpouring of pride and gratitude from scores of well-wishers during a send-off celebration at Great American Gymnastic Express in Blue Springs on Thursday afternoon. The Odessa High School band played, and the crowd shouted for the gymnasts to go for gold. Terin and Courtney posed for photos, signed autographs and talked with all the youngsters in attendance, while many of the adults were holding giant golden bows.

The funds keep on coming in, making sure the families of Olympic gymnasts Terin and her teammate, Courtney McCool, make it to Athens to watch their girls. Bank Midwest, where Humphrey's father, Steve, is a loan officer in Cameron, Mo, has seen what was initially an employee's-only fund blossom into a systems-wide collection point for contributions. Yes, you go to your local Bank Midwest and donate. A fund supporting the McCool family has been set up at the Bank of Lee's Summit. You can call (816) 508-6512. The Web site http://www.designedbytim.com/mccool/ has raised more than $5.000 for support of the McCool and Humphrey expenses.

And now Sheridan's Frozen Custard, with 12 sites in and around the Kansas City area, is about to get in on the act. From 11 am through 11 pm Thursday, 20 percent of sales on a concrete — it's frozen custard you eat with a spoon, and it costs from $3.20 to $4.50 — will go to support the gymnasts' families' Olympic expense funds. The hope, according to the Sheridan people, is to raise at least $2.500 for each family.

The 2004 US Olympic Team has been named and following her fantastic performance at the training camp Terin has been named on the team! An extremely exciting day for GAGE with teammate Courtney McCool already on the team and coach Armine Barutyan-Fong named co-assistant coach! Also named in the team were: Courtney Kupets, Carly Patterson, Mohini Bhardwaj, Annia Hatch. Congratulations to Terin and all the best with your final preparations for the Games! Terin will be appearing with the rest of the team on NBC's Today Show with the rest of the team on Monday morning between 8am and 9am! Be sure to tune in!

As posted 9 days ago, a fundraising drive has been underway to assist the Humphrey family in traveling to watch Terin compete at the Olympic Games. To date almost $2300 USD has been raised for the Humphrey's. If you are able to spare even a few dollars to donate to the fund and wish to donate you can do so via PayPal.com. You need to register to use the service and send your donations to "mycitrus@pacbell.net". When you donate, please indicate whether your donation is for Terin, Courtney or both girls. You can also leave a personal message for one or both of the girls and if you feel comfortable, you postal address. Your donation will also be acknowledged by paypal via email. Dig deep ... every dollar collected will go directly to helping Terin's family get to Athens so they can share in Terin's accomplishment!

Click here to lend your support. A true expression of the power of the Olympic Games. A huge congratulations to Katrina Martin, Joe McGrath and everyone who has supported this initiative. "The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value." Charles Dudley Warner.

Terin took another important step towards realising her Olympic Dream with her 7th place finish at the US Olympic Trials held in Anaheim over the weekend. Terin was in 4th place all around until the final rotation where a mishap on vault saw her drop in the rankings slightly. As expected she was selected by Marta Karolyi to travel to the National Training centre where the final selection of the 2004 US Olympic Team will take place. Terin finished the competition ranked 2nd on floor and 3rd on beam (including posting the highest score on that event on night 2). Congratulations on a great competition Terin and good luck at the camp! For full results visit USAG.

It all starts tomorrow, the USA's top men and women artistic gymnasts will compete at the US Olympic Team Trials, June 24-27 at The Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim in Anaheim, California. The top two women from Trials are automatic to the Olympic Team, pending verification of readiness at a July selection camp. Additional members to each team will be nominated by a selection committee to ensure the highest possible team scoring formula. The Trials will be broadcast by NBC Sports with the women's prelims from 8-10pm ET on June 26, the women's finals from 7-9pm June 27, and the men's finals scheduled to air from 1-3pm on July 3. Good luck Terin!

Terin followed up her strong first round at Nationals with an even better performance to finish third all-around to total 75.450 points. Courtney Kupets and Carly Patterson shared the all-around title. Terin strongest performance came on balance beam where her spectacular routine earned a 9.600. Solid results on vault (9.425), uneven bars (9.450) and floor exercise (9.300) rounded out the highest all-around finish of her career. The top 14 athletes were named to the 2004-05 Senior National Team, while the top 12 athletes will advance to the 2004 US Olympic Team Trials. The final 2004 Olympic team will be determined by committee following the Olympic trials and subsequent training camps. Congratulations on a great performance Terin! For full results visit USAG.

The 2004 US Nationals are underway in Nashville, Tennessee! The event has drawn one of the strongest fields ever assembled in the United States and is serving as an initial Olympic Trials of sorts with only 12 athletes from Nationals able to progress to the actual Trials scheduled for late June in Anaheim. Terin performed extremely well in the preliminary round. Posting strong scores over the four events she is currently sitting in 4th place all around. Her best performance came on floor exercise where she scored 9.500 - the 4th best performance on that event of any athlete in the competition. She was also awarded a 9.425 for her new double twisting yurchenko with few but known vault specialists scoring higher! Solid results on bars (9.450) and beam (9.300) rounded out her competition. All in all a great night for Terin who had this to say after the competition: "I feel comfortable in my routines. My goal coming into the competition was top five.". For full results visit USAG. If you are in the USA be sure to tune into NBC on Saturday at 1:00pm to catch all of the action from the prelims!

The official roster is finally set and Terin along with other world class gymnasts will be participating the 2003 T.J. Maxx Tour of Gymnastics Champions for a nine-city swing through portions of the United States in October. 2003 World Champions Terin, Chellsie Memmel, Carly Patterson, Hollie Vise and Ashley Postell make up the women's roster. The men are led by World silver medalists Raj Bhavsar, Jason Gatson, Brett McClure, Alexander Artemev and Guard Young. For more information about the tour please visit the official 2003 T.J. Maxx Tour of Gymnastics Champions website!

Terin, who is a strong senior student at Odessa High School, has started her recruiting trips to colleges. Sources close to the Alabama Gymnastics program report that Terin gave a verbal commitment today to the Crimson Tide after having a great recruiting visit over the weekend during the Alabama-Oklahoma festivities. She elected not to make visits to UCLA and Stanford, which also recruited her heavily.

The Members of USA women's gymnatics gold medal team, the "Fab 5" or the "Fabulous 5" as the interviewer called them, was featured on the Today show this morning plus the team's alternate Ashley Postell. They showed highlights from team finals, the team members got to introduce themselves and a few questions was asked, mainly from their team captain Tasha Schwikert.

Despite the setbacks and after losing three world medalists to injury and illness this week, Terin and her fellow four remaining teammates performed flawlessly to win tonight the first team gold ever at World Championships for the USA, men or women. Terin performed only on floor exercise, but with a smile throughout set for an amazing 9.300 to help the team USA (112.573) to top defending world champion Romania (110.833) by 1.74 points. Australia (110.335) finished third to win the first world team medal ever for the country. "This is great," Terin said at the press conference after the team finals. "Our team is all about the team. We pulled together at the right time. I was a little nervous, but after a while it got better. The crowd helped me a lot." Congratulations on a great competition Terin and all of the USA team members!

The USA team member Courtney Kupets injured her left Achilles tendon during afternoon training on Tuesday at the Worlds and has withdrawn from the rest of the event. Courtney, who was in the line-up to compete all four events in team finals, will be replaced by Chellsie Memmel on vault, Carly Patterson on uneven bars, Hollie Vise on balance beam and Terin on floor exercise, where she will be performing her beautiful Armenian Tango routine.

Annia Portuondo Hatch has been removed from the USA's World Championships team lineup, after a training accident left her with a dislocated knee, a torn ACL, and torn medial and lateral meniscus. She will be replaced by alternate Terin who will compete in two events, vault and floor exercise, where she last year placed in the top 11 in the World on both of those events.