re: Remove

Gunter and D’Antonio were the top in state performers and both had about a 5 year track record at LSU’s gym camp working and holding their own in the top group. Tops is a huge boon to in state kids and keeps LSU with a couple of really good just not world class athletes in reserve. Both kids have had injuries since getting to LSU. 20 years ago they would be contributing now with Jay’s recruiting it will be hard to break a lineup. Both would be solid contributors at a smaller college.

I’ve been saying it for a while but they need to water down the difficult leaps on beam. Scores could be maximized by doing easer combinations. They were ranking the Difficulty of all the teams at nationals this year. LSU had more than twice the difficulty of the next closest team on beam. Desiderio should not be doing the switch leap to the switch half, never hits 180. Give her an easier leap combo, everything else is pretty much perfect.

Dean has some flexibility issues, hopefully she can improve her leaps this offseason, as well as Durante.

Campbell needs a new dismount. I can’t tell you how many 9.95-9.90 scores she missed all because of the dismount.

Good news is Kiya is a phenomenal beam worker and will fill a hole at the end of that lineup. Hopefully Kai can make some noise on this event, she is super capable

Did Dowell do an Onodi or a Kotchetkova?

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. With that being said, with Gnat gone, who is coaching beam?

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Beam has always been handled by DD

That said, there are a lot of changes I would make on this event. I see way too many combination that are not very easy to do along with poor skill selection choices. Unless the girls are constantly doing those skills in their sleep well, they shouldn't be forcing them onto a competition routine. Take a page from OU, water down the routines and focus on the artistry/presentation of it. Make it flow and look good. Not that I don't enjoy our beam routines but some of them are very 'robotic'. Compare Cambell and Finnegan with the rest of the pack. Yes they do have a couple routines that have some difficulty but its only a couple kids out of 6 routines.

Gunter just posted on her Instagram a video of her doing a bail handstand on bars. It actually wasn’t so bad. Makes me excited for the bars depth. Hopefully she can continue to progress.

I saw it too, I thought it looked pretty strong. Her release is a tkatchev and dbl lay dismount. Would love to see whole routine

I don't think you can successfully talk about OU beam without mentioning those "Jurassic Park-esque" bird landings. I literally think my chin was on the floor watching them land their 1.5 dismounts with wide knees and rear ends 20 ft in the air. Granted they didn't move, but there's also nothing artist or graceful (or even controlled) about landing in the same position you would make when using a public restroom.

Aleah's vault during podium training

That’s great that Aleah gets to go on floor too, I thought they’d just put her in for vault!

Btw, did anyone else find it odd that Emma Kelley is at a cheerleading camp? (Or so it seems from social media)

Watching broadcast recorded last night. Really disappointed they did not show Aleah's Vault. It was the highest for the USA and of that entire Subdivision.

You would think they would show it. I guess with broadcast being controlled by Peru and the fact that she's new on international scene played into it

She did however get alot of camera facetime