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

I agree. Honestly we need to press u til we get two more scores at least over 197.5, but hopefully at least 197.8-ish.

Also, I am totally fine with Aleah not doing bars, wrist or no - because her dismount is not consistent enough to routinely score well (“well” is relative, but it is very hard for her to go over 9.85 with that dismount).

I feel similarly about the omelianchik and hope to see Brock (or even any of the others) trying for another 1.5 in place of her vault. It’s beautiful, but very hard to plan and so harshly scored comparatively.

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We should be in the mix this year, with a really good shot. When you get to nationals, it's up to the judges.

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If we can start sticking landings, we should be favored. Other than that, Oklahoma has nothing on us. No sticks, no championship. I really feel it all boils down to that.

Haleigh and Jay Interview

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I hope she doesn’t come in too injured. This is the reason I like the level 10 more in general. Also one of the reasons I think ok has so much success.

ehh their greatest gymnast ever is Maggie Nichols, an injured elite. Reagan Smith currently on roster same thing. Jordan Bowers iirc had injury problems as a level 10.

KJ Kindler is just the Saban of college gym. She and her staff know how to identify talent who has the mentality to fit their program. They are doing something and train in a way that no other program in the country has seemingly tapped into. What that something is? I have no idea that is the million dollar question if it was so easy every program would replicate it

Lily lippeat looks like desiderio a few seasons ago. Practically her whole leg is wrapped. She looked great on beam though.

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I think Maggie Nichols is also the reason almost every gymnast in the country is doing 2 pass routines now and I’m not a huge fan of those. Also when Regan came in she was only doing an event or 2. When Maggie came in they had plenty of other talent to cover. Also jay is, happily, very cautious with his freshman.

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Jay is def using his freshmen this year, Drayton is doing 2 events and Konnor likely will be doing 3 in post season. I'd say its a fair amount of routines for year one. We have so much depth and talent we dont need any freshmen doing AA

Coen not competing doesn't surprise me, she had been out with injuries the previous two years. Hopefully with another full offseason she can contribute somewhere. She was terrific in JO. The incoming recruiting class for 24 is loaded between Chio, Miller, Lincoln, Zeiss. Two of those likely are going to make the olympic trials

I feel like Coen will have a breakout sophomore year once she gets to full health. She should be in contention for the bars, beam, and floor lineup next season.

Did Chio ever say what kind of injury she suffered last month? I saw her post in a boot and on crutches but didn't hear anything else. I'm quick to assume Achilles.

Lippeat and Beard were initially part of the same LSU class…one lost her scholarship and is now competing 2-4 events per week and the other seems to only be training one event and is barely seeing any lineup time :/

I am curious - why does our beam NQS matter? (I mean, I certainly want us to improve), but I thought the NQS was the NQS for overall scores, not the NQS as calculated by adding the four event NQS’s together. So I am curious if that’s right - or if there is another reason the event NQS is important.