re: Remove

I've noticed in the last 4 meets she rushed the back layout with a fall or a costly wobble. It does indicate fear of pain or uncertainty in performing the skill. Her performance this year has not matched performances in past years...hoping it goes better for her if she competes in post season. We know she can be a beautiful performer on beam.

She is so powerful. It looks like she has committed to West Virginia.
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Cal could not find their landings on bars today. And Watterson had a fall in the 5th spot. Still enjoy watching them on bars. Their pak saltos are effortless.

To help her with the mental part of the dismount, it might help if she does an extra giant before the double layout, help her get more momentum from the swing before she releases for the landing. She’s had that same issue with her dismount since 2018: LINK

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something really has gone wrong in the bars department at lsu for her. I mean, she was this good LINK

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Yea her bars were not where I thought they would be at NCAA. Not as polished as I thought she could be. Maybe that changes by next year. The dismount still needs to be changed and I will argue that until her last routine. I just worry how heavy post season judges will hit for these issues. Usually you see the details like that get hit harder during post season as they try to differentiate between routines.

That said, her vaulting, beam and floor are all far better than I ever anticipated. She’s gonna end up being an all American on vault. Could be on floor next season. She has come such a long way and you can see the work she put it in. Very impressive jump from freshmen to sophomore season. She is the unsung hero IMO for this years team, her leadership has been terrific as well.

Ironic that a potential US bar worker specialist weakest event in NCAA is bars. The transition from elite to NCAA is interesting sometimes. Bars was Finnegan's weakest event as an elite and she is a 2 time national champion on that event.

Alyona should just forget about release moves.

Maloney - Pak
Stalder Shap 1/2 (even better if she can connect it to the Pak for the "wow" factor)
Toe-on - Double Tuck

She can do this in her sleep and score 9.9.

Totally agree. A lot of gymnasts hit a growth spurt once they take a “break” from gymnastics. Alyona’s was unfortunately due to rupturing her Achilles. The same thing has happened to Olivia Greaves. I read where she injured her meniscus last year and took a few months off. She admitted that she had to relearn a lot of her skills because her body changed.

Elena was training bars today. Interesting

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WCC

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Will gladly take Zoe Miller, Amari Drayton in addition to Konnor

You are correct. According to the standings on LINK after looking at the daily results, Michigan is now .088 ahead of us. As much as it sucks to move down a spot in the rankings heading into SEC Champs, I can't be mad about it, especially if things stay that way heading into regionals. That would mean Michigan gets what the FIFA Soccer World Cup calls "The Group of Death", with Cal, UCLA and Arizona State and heads to Morgantown, West Virginia and we get Utah, BYU, and Kentucky in Salt Lake City. For me personally I would rather have that because selfishly it makes travel costs much cheaper for me ( ) but also having Utah and Kentucky in our regionals takes the mental game out of it a little bit more for the girls knowing that we've beat Utah in regionals before in 2019 (granted it was at home and now Utah is hosting), but we can also beat Kentucky outright. If things stay this way with the rankings after SEC Champs, Utah is probably our biggest obstacle on the way to nationals.