re: Remove

She's here. I'll defer to Jays judjment on this. Lets move along.

I thought Jay said that Kiya would not compete AA until the Auburn meet. Hopefully, he rests her. That Georgia beam seemed to be cursed too. I counted 6 falls. Let's hope that does not continue on to this week.

I try to watch as much as possible but really havnt seen her much on TV. I'm guessing shes a clone of her sister? Sahra was beautiful on the floor and a rock on the rest.

Some more footage of the intrasquad from Friday LINK

Didn't get to see Tori's vault in the stream, but you can see in this video that her 1.5 was really good here. Great form in the air and a slight hop. Aleah looks really strong on beam, and I could possibly see her being our anchor by the end of the season. KJ's power blows my mind, crazy how underrated she was coming into the season. Just needs more experience to gain confidence. Looking forward to seeing these freshmen show what they are made of.

My guess is that by the end of the season our vault lineup will be:
Kam/Chase/Tori/Aleah/Kai (as much as I love Kai I’d opt for one of the first 4 to be in the lineup since they have a 10.0 SV vault)
Sarah/Alyona
Alyona/Sarah
KJ
Kiya
Haleigh

That’s a stout lineup!

If her 1.5 is consistent with the landing, especially moreso than the others, I’d personally go with Chase over the others. I think regionals last year, she proved that she can hit under pressure when the team needs it most and she’s the only one of that crew to have had a full post season so knows how to handle it

I would like to see them put Kam on the back for a few meets to see her confidence go up. We know she can do it she just needs to know she can do it when it matters.

We need this weeks meet bad. Should be a good opportunity to get these girls back rolling with a W on the road in a loud environment.

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"When these issues began to surface I involved Ashleigh Clare-Kearney Thigpen, our Athletic Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and I said can you help me navigate this and see if I even need to move forward with this."

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"I've enlisted Ashleigh Clare-Kearney to help me with that. She and I individually talked through a lot of things as well. As she interviewed the kid [Jeffrey] and the father and then we involved Dr. Lori Williams [LSU Deputy Athletics Director for Leadership and Strategy]."

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"I told her I'm not married to this. I don't want to interpret this one way and be on the wrong side of it. They both came back and said, no we think you're right to move forward."

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Sounds like Jay and LSU did their diligence, consulted the team as well as individually (especially the POC) and had multiple POC from the administrative side walk through it all as well and approved moving forward with this.

If ACK and the POC gymnasts are in agreement with this decision based off the information they have. We should be too. Jay said they will not tolerate any type of discriminatory behavior and it will end immediately if anything were to ever hypothetically come up. Any anger should be towards UCLAs side for not being transparent about the situation. People going to social media and making vague comments isn’t helping the situation

Interestingly Jay said the things going around on social media were "Wildly contrary" to what LSU was being told by gymnasts from UCLA and Jeffrey's side.