re: #8 Cal at #4 LSU Gymnastics Meet Thread: LSU WINS

My positive is that I’m extremely proud of them for fighting back after vault, and especially during the beam rotation where there are new faces. I thought the judges scored beam much tighter for both teams.

Overall, the team was better at 101, so I know there were first meet jitters and some uncharacteristic mistakes. I could tell how nervous Ruby and Edwards looked before their vaults and I knew the falls were coming. I think they definitely felt the nerves, and was just thinking about it too much. I do worry about form issues for Dean on bars and beam. I’m not sure if she will be able to score much higher than a 9.825-9.85 on beam and a 9.8 on bars. Christina is not conditioned enough on floor just yet in my opinion. I’m sure she will be better by midseason though.

I have to also add, I hope Florida has their usual slow start since that meet is in two weeks. I do wonder if they are already at a disadvantage by not having a meet this weekend.