re: Remove

The NCAA rules mandate the number of hours he schools can have athletes under official practice. I believe it is 20 hour per week. The unsupervised aspects such as weight lifting and some conditioning is lef to the athletes, although subtle indicrect methods can be utilized to " encourage " more attention to these details as well as diet management.

All but two of the gymnasts were on last year's team which did not have such issues. Was Mia a more influential leadrr than the current seniors?

It may just be a series of injuries which have limited progress, but once they are healed a big move upward can occur. It may just be that paeaking later will be more beneficial as this seemed to work for other teams.

We have gotten spoiled with 23-1 SEC records over the last three seasons. Sometimes its just not your night and hopefully we will begin so see some upper trajectory regardless of who wins this Friday.

Thanks for the Level 10 updates. Don’t give up on this LSU team just yet. Personally, I’m ok with the slow start. In years past, we always started so strong and seemed to somewhat fizzle out in the end and look flat going into post season. 2015 being a perfect example. As long as they continue to improve, which they did this past meet, I’m okay with it. i believe in this team!!

I agree with you. They did stand up vaults but two gymnasts on bars scored much lower than week 1 due to their inconsistencies,floor had many mistakes in landings and beam was not recognizable in comparison to week 1. Week two was far from the LSU quality we are accustom to seeing week after week. Let's hope for brighter days ahead.

No guesses from me but Rabalais’ article today had Kelley on vault and floor.

I’d say there’s a lot to be happy about after last nights meet. It’s never nice to lose but the improvements were great and the best part is they still didn’t didn’t even hit close to their full potential. They can expect higher vault scores from basically everyone except Sarah f, bars was great, beam we expect higher scores from Sarah, and I’d say Christina and Sami too, and then floor was not even close to their best. Kennedi, McKenna, and Lexie can get much better scores and I believe Christina is in their ideal post season lineup there. Any thoughts?

Y'all Elena Arena's dad at the end








Bad bad look for Georgia. Suzanne is frickn insane. Sami and her mom must be thrilled to be far away from that crew.

Sierra Ballard but up the highest beam score at the JO level this past weekend at the New Orleans jazz invitational!!

9.800


For those who want to see top JO scores, just look here

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You can then select individual events to see who's been putting up top scores on each event as a JO competition this year. And for those who think the scores are lower, JO is judged much differently than college. 9.7+ at the JO level is pretty much 9.9 type routines.

Is anyone going to the Meet at Alabama? Trying to buy tickets but do not know which section will have the most LSU fans. LOL

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How did the LSU recruits do at this past weekend’s invitationals?

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Sierra Ballard Beam Routine-Jazz Invitational

Here is Ballard beam routine. Her improvement in all areas over these last two years has been outstanding, which is why offers have come pouring in at her.

Kiya Johnson had another monster performance winning the all around with a 38.900, won vault, beam and floor titles, 2nd on bars.

Elena Arenas won the all around again at Star Struck again in New Jersey. Won the vault title, finished 2nd on every other event. She had a phenomenal beam set. Her bars have been a little shaky the first couple meets but we all know what she can do on that event.

Emma Kelley and Caitlin Smith have struggled. Emma competed in New Jersey as well. She fell on bars for the 2nd meet in a row. She has really struggled on every event not named vault. Caitlin competed in Nevada. Her floor was okay, not great but not horrible. Her beam was not good, she fell on her Onodi and on her series. She needs to get it together over these next 6 months before LSU.

Bryant doesn't compete again until February 2nd at the Buckeye classic. She did not compete in the Atlanta crown invitation after sustaining an injury. Don't have word on the severity of it yet.

LSU's most recent commit Kaytltyn Johnson has been really doing well at Texas Dreams, winning her all around. Her bars have improved drastically, she is very good on floor and vault. Working on a double twisting yurchenko. Beam will be fun to watch. TD knows how to develop beamers.

The other girls are all elites just training and working on upgrades. Olivia Dunne and Aleah Finnegan have looked phenomenal in training. Aleah's bars have improved a lot over this short break, with some big upgrades including a Shaposh 1/2