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

Zeiss gettin on 1st team vault was not on my bingo card! WTG Lexi!

I’m worried if we have to use both Sierra and Kylie on floor in post season. I’ve been really impressed with Kylie, but neither she nor Sierra are going to get us the 9.90+ scores that we need in post season. I’m not sure why, but it seems like that has been the case so far. I know Sierra has had some 9.90+ this year, but it’s so much harder to do in post season. For that reason, if Konnor is ready, I’d love to see her! Same with KJ but that seems to be a pipe dream lol.

Regarding floor, Kaliya seems to be out of the picture now. But if we can get Konnor back, that would be a game changer.

Why is she out? I thought they were resting her and then for sec’s she may have actually been sick and still a little weak. If we could replace Kylie or Sierra with Kailiya then we should be fine. Also replace KJ vault in nationals with Alyona or Kaliya also better. They will not reward a full at nationals! Must be really frustrating for her.

Question - does Aleah need the punch front out of her last pass for start value ? If not, I would scrap it (though of course muscle memory is a thing). I am too tired today to calculate it, lol

Im not worried about Arkansas at all. They are home floor merchants. They are not very good when they are not at home doing the floor event. Even then, people want to say they beat the #2 team twice this year, but it wasn't so much they won as it was LSU and Florida had bad meets. Arkansas didn't put up good scores in those big "wins" either. They finished last in the SEC for a reason.

Arkansas can go ahead and be pissed and play angry. When you play angry, you make mistakes. It's why I don't understand people clutching and saying "oh great Arky or OU are gonna be upset and do x,y,z" this ain't football you can't go impose your will on the other team and punch them in the mouth. Fact is Arkansas were the worst team in the SEC this year and OU has lost the last 2 post season meets they were in and looked like a shook team under pressure both times.

LSU just needs to do their normal and do their job. If they can do that, then there is nothing Arkansas (or anybody else not named OU) can do to match them.

Should be a three team race between us, Oklahoma and Florida. But Oklahoma showed last year anything can happen. If we just do our normal, we will be hard to beat. Scores early in the season showed how valuable Hailey is. They used her sparingly because of her injury. If they use Conner in the floor lineup, and she performs like last year, watch out

Looking at their scores, they hang around the 196.9 range. Think they broke through the 197. Barrier once. So they are no where close to the level they were win they won the championship a few years ago.

Yes, I know Wojik and co were gone; I am surprised they didn’t have more depth/recruiting, but know they have been plagued by historically small classes as well as some rumors of a bad environment (I know alyona’s sister medically retired early and Alyona changed her commitment from them to us). My main question really is, if everything went right for them, could they put together a meet that would rival us 1) if we hit and 2) if we don’t. Sounds like definitely not if we hit and probably not wven if we have a bit of a subpar meet (though probably not one where we would have to count two falls)