re: Remove

Also, pre meet notes are out. I’m not going to read too much into it.

wdym? we can't watch through the ESPN link provided by balancebeamsituation? sorry, im out of the U.S.

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the meet thread

Great meet overall - happy to see landings on beam really improve and on floor ! Christina much improved on second pass and Sierra was really great this week as well as haleigh and kiya - great to see her back out there! Hope we can get past a few of beam nerves and also bars needs some tweaking. Need to get some consistency in that second spot as it seems to throw the rest of line up off when there is an issue. If Elena is not going to do bars I think Bridget should go - although she has form issues she is solid and generally reliable. Olivia seems to really struggle when there is an issue before her. Wish we could put kiya later in the line up but no one else is as solid as her to go in that 1 spot! And haleigh finally stuck her vault for that well deserved 10! Happy for team to get another great nqs score! Also kamryn again was amazing on vault! Would love if we could get her in our regular line up if coaches feel she is consistent enough!

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So basically it was Bryce Wilson over Selena since they’re in the same class right? Both 2023 kids. I know Bryce has a lot of potential but she struggles with consistency. Selena is more solid. But congrats to her. She’s going to do well at UCLA.

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Bryce is suppose to walk on from what I heard unless they free up scholarship money. She is from Louisiana actually.

Its still a massive steal though, many other schools have offered her. Her potential is through the roof. Another year of polishing before LSU.

Interesting that jay pulled Reagan from the beam line up not because of injury but indicated that others were performing better than her in her post meet interview on tiger tv. Said it was one of most difficult decisions he had to make in his coaching career to pull her on senior night but that if he didn’t follow the metrics that he is uses to determine who should go they would be meaningless. Guess she must have been off in practice and she hasn’t been performing that well in meets. Hope this will light a fire under her to get better for rest of season but know a lot may be down to injuries. Feel kind of bad for her as she is great but just not been doing her best so far this season. Really hope she can figure it out and end on a high even if they water down her routine

Well that is intersecting - on the one hand, I am glad Jay is making decisions based on certain metrics, but am sad for Reagan that she didn’t get to try for senior night. I think this season has just been so unfortunate for her, healthwise. Does anyone have a link to the Tigertv interview- I have trouble finding those online.

So my bars lineup would be in this order
Bridget
Olivia
Haleigh
Alonya
Kiya
Sami
I think this is the way to get the max scores. Bridget might not have the best form but she is just as consistent as kiya and will allow kiya to move back in the lineup.

Unfortunately I don't get to see the practices this year due to COVID and restrictions. That said, previously I heard Elena was training bars unless she is having issues with her shoulder/wrist which is holding her out. She does have her chronic pains as well so who knows.


I hope this offseason, we can address some of our routine construction choices. For bars, I think Dunne should consider the other dismount she trained on bars (no form issues with this one). Alyona should be doing a pirouette to a double tuck (Jay needs to swallow his ego here). We need to make some type of priority this offseason for Bryant to develop her bar dismount with the half twist, her current one kills her bar scores.

Beam, I don't think its rocket science but the switch half should not be in the majority of these routines that its in. Honestly, that is the only thing you can deduct in Desiderio's beam. Dunne, Kiya, Ballard, D'Antonio should not be doing the switch half either, its more built in deductions. Kiya has had a major break on the switch half in half of her beam routines this season. Give her a simple leap she can hit.

IMO they sat Campbell on Friday because of her injuries and probably struggling some in practice with a little bit of consistency. I'd be surprised if she isn't back come SEC's.

Hopefully Kai can come back healthy for next year. She was a big loss IMO, especially the depth she provided across the board. We have been able to manage without her on vault, but her bars are badly missed right now. If she is healthy, thats gonna be another major punch for us. If she can do floor, her, Kiya, Bryant, Finnegan.... my god.