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

Intrasquad was great. They actually fielded two full teams going head to head with 6 athletes (at least) going on each event. Some things that stood out:

1. Looked so much more polished than even 2 weeks ago. They look great.

2. I really think we only saw one full in the vault lineup - from KJ. But it's been two days so there could have been one more. Amari had a huge 1.5 on vault with a big pop off the table. Chase followed her with more height than last year and stuck hers cold.

3. On bars, we finally saw a double tuck dismount! It came from Amari in combo with a clear-hip. Konnor added a pretty 1/2 in 1/2 out dismount and Alyona still had the same dismount, but she did stick on Friday.

4. Beam was a stick-a-thon until Konnor, who had a large leg up on her series and then randomly fell on her low beam choreo. I don't know her routine well enough to know what happened; at first I thought she was hurt but I think that's just the face she made for falling on something like that. Regardless, there were only two girls left and they got rattled. Kiya had a huge bend at the waist on her series and then Aleah fell on her series. Would have been nice to see hits after a fall, so we'll just need to watch that moving forward. But that was the third rotation and we basically had 27-27 stuck routines to that point (little things here in there, but all hits)

5. Did not see Konnor on floor, she did a double on vault to the resi that was kind of low, but would have been to her feet on the floor I think (everyone is always different with how skills translate from resi to floor so without seeing her everyday, there's really no telling.)

6. Saw everyone in an event (that you would expect) except Elena, Jillian, Kai and Bryce. Bryce was only listed for vault but she must have scratched