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Not related to the current injuries, but what happened to Ashlyn that she missed an entire season? And what has kept Juliana out the past few meets? I hope she’s available to vault tonight in place of Lexie and/or Sarah.

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Tigerbait - anything to add about injuries/sickness for the meet tonight? I am very concerned if Lexie/Sarah are out. Have you heard anything more definitive than what the paper reported?

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Lexie is banged up right now, she is my main concern! She reaggravated some of her injuries in practice. Not sure what we can expect her to do this weekend. She says she can push through it but we need a heathy priessman at nationals.

Finnegan is under the weather with a bug right now so her issue is only temporary. We might just take her out an event or two. Just put cannamela in on vault.

Cannamela isn't fully healthy either but if she could give LSU just a decent full she will have done her job. Campbell LSU has to be careful with, they can't afford to knock her out the beam lineup.

It certainly all has the recipe for diasaster but just go out and hit your routines (doesn’t need to be perfect) LSU will be fine to advance. Only way we do don’t advance (knock on wood) is if we have multiple falls on the same event! The back ups are fine, they just need to do what they normally do

If both Sarah and Lexie are out, god forbid, who can fill in on bars besides Dean? Do we even have anyone else?

If neither Sarah nor Lexie can vault, I’m sure Julianna and Bailey can step in. Bailey hasn’t vaulted well all year but her vault is at least useful. McKenna can step in on beam and Bridget has a usuable floor routine. I’m not too worried about tonight.

So proud of this team. Sami is a stud for competing with not one, but two, broken fingers.

The injury to Cerio was just heart breaking. She was the only one competing so I was watching her and our seats happened to have us facing right where she landed on her first pass. I immediately screamed and turned my head. Most around me didn’t quite see it. She was landing short in warmup and I was already worried about her. I heard she broke both legs. Just horrible. Auburn gave us a run for our money tonight. If they repeat tomorrow they can upset us or Utah.

I thought the scores for LSU on beam and floor were extremely tight and not representative on how well they did. It obviously wasn't LSU's cleanest meet but they were clearly the best team of everyone yesterday. Just hit our routines later and we are fine.


Also Olivia Dunne is on campus

Kennedi’s landings weren’t her best. She took a small step to the left on her double Arabian and she was a little crunched on the double tuck with a small step. I could see a 9.875 for her routine, not a 9.825.

Now beam, I feel Durante, Dean, and Campbell were all underscored. I had Durante and Campbell in the 9.9-9.925 range. Dean had the smallest balance check on her front aerial and then an arm swing on the dismount. Those small adjustments do not amount to a 9.775. Maybe a 9.85-9.875.

Now that I’m not sure. I think the soft hands and pointed toes starts in the very early years in training. I notice this technique especially with Gage and Texas Dreams gymnasts. Gage gymnasts always have pointed toes and poise. Texas Dreams gymnasts have the best leaps. Most other gyms don’t seem to teach the small details, often opting for difficulty over precision. But that’s just my opinion.

So this is how the NCAA semis will look like:

SF 1 - UCLA, LSU, Utah, Michigan
SF 2 - Oklahoma, Denver, Georgia, Oregon State

SF 1 looks like the tougher one on paper but as long as Finnegan is healthy, we should be all right.

I worry about our vaulting. We haven’t found landings all year. Well, only Finnegan. I wish we had at least one more reliable 10.0 start value. McKenna is gonna be hammered for her low chest position. Counting 3+ plus in the 9.8 range is not good.

Also, I’m praying we get Lexie back for bars. She’s a routine we gotta have to at least have a chance at Nationals.