re: LSU Gymnastics Recruiting Thread (2024 and 2025 Recruiting Classes)

Yea and we probably won’t even put chase in unless sav is hurt.

semifinal is LSU, Cal, Arkansas, and Stanford.

That is about the best case scenario we could have hoped for considering it could have been LSU, Cal, Kentucky, UCLA.

Literally just stay on the equipment, do their normal gymnastics, and the final four is a lock.

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What do you think happened with Tori? She was almost a regular in the bars lineup last year.

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Tori has not competed enough to give a truly proper evaluation this year but her bars seemed a little more labored this year than last year in the limited sets I’ve seen but I don’t know if anything else is going on

I’d say Aleah easily has the best routine on bars on the sideline the issue is that dismount is so unpredictable.

One thing to add is I wonder if Brock gets another shot on vault at nationals. We need more from our 10.0 vaults not named Haleigh this week. LSU should get to four on the floor but when they get there landings are everything across the board and they are gonna need big scores in certain places to knock off OU

I have said it before and I’ll say it again - but I think it’s gnat. They have not been able to put together a championship level beam team since she has been there. I will give her credit that she got them *relatively* consistent this year, but Sierra is a 9.8 on her best day and if Alexis has her best today and judges blink on her wonky form she can get a 9.9 1 time out of ten. Savannah probably peaks at a 9.85 on her best day because of that switch 3/4 and she hasn’t seemed too stable either of her times out, though she has been serviceable. However, you don’t beat OU, or even Cal, with serviceable on beam.

Don’t get me started on Kiya/Aleah. Both of them have been huge disappointments on beam this year. I have given Kiya a pass since coming back from injury but her being generally a 9.85 max has hurt us as compared to before her injury. Aleah’s issues have been well documented this year, and that routine would have been 9.95+ yesterday if she had managed to stick her dismount (the dismount that every other college gymnast always sticks because it is the easiest one possible to do)

I think even with the talent of this team, it will take a minor miracle to beat OU, or even put pressure on them in the final, given they will like get Olympic order.

Aleah was flying out of that dismount in warmups. I don’t think she’s an option either on bars.

Re: Chase. She landed short quite a few times. I think that’s why they didn’t use her again and instead went with Kiya.

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semi one definitely doesn’t have the best rewards in terms of line up order for the next day at finals start on beam or end on beam ??

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For the final four, it is not based on NQS but on finishing scores in the semis from both sessions according to the model.

idk a part of me wonders if it is a GAGE athlete thing. Do they just make stubborn athletes/set in their way. Aleah and Alexis do things that they cannot reliably execute. Aleah's bar dismount, Aleah's series on beam where she could easily remove an aerial, Alexis' bar dismount and her front tuck on beam.

or is it our coaching staff is too player friendly and lets them do what they've always done without coaching them and correcting them? Aleah's beam dismount is a lack of focus the beam coach is not getting thru to her. That is the coaches job to be able to get the athlete zoned in.

and I don't want these things to sound like I'm coming down on Aleah because I sincerely believe she has the potential to go down as a top 3 LSU gymnasts of all time if she just made a couple of corrections

[quote]I hope they are not worried about the rotation order. That’s something they have no control over. Besides, we started on beam in regionals and advanced. They have more important things to be concerned about, namely not sticking landings. That is something they do have control over, and I hope that’s what they focus on this week. It will probably all come down to that for the natty.

AGREED,TigerFan112! My post was responding to a question that was asked by ELT29.

Lily Smith from Georgia AA will be rotating with LSU in Session 1 at the semi final. She is beautiful on beam and hopefully will add incentive for our beam squad.

Arkansas begins on beam and Cal ends on beam.

[quote] Lily will be wearing purple and gold leos next year. When she nails her landing and Savannah puts the stick crown on her head and she is embraced by the team and experiences the Tiger culture she will replace one of the three seniors.


Lily would be an asset for sure. I heard Jay say in an interview that he didn't have anymore schollys for next year so that would probably be a roadblock.

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