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That’s is terrible! Keeping them in my prayers!!

Sad news. Several recent gymnasts have lost their fathers , Lexie Priessman, Sarah and Aleah Finnegan, Sidney Ewing and now Olivia. These men all raised their daughters right and these ladies were fortunate to have them in their lives.

It’s all so horrible to hear. I’m 40, and my dad is a walking POS on earth still alive at nearly 70. Breaks my heart the good ones go so fast, and more importantly, all our gymnasts that won’t have their father walk their daughters down the aisle. In my own experience, i walked my sister down the aisle a few months ago (again, see loser father above (side note: i also wrote a lot of checks for that wedding which was just as painful)) but it pains me those amazing people will never experience that who had amazing fathers. If you have a good dad, call him tomorrow to tell him you love him!

Has anyone watched the first looks or intrasquads from other teams this week? Here are my impressions (I’m by no means a gymnastics expert):

Michigan: picking up right where they left off; they rely very heavily on 3-4 all-arounders, although this obviously worked last year

Florida: showed 6 10 start value vaults plus Savannah is coming back from injury; obviously have a lot of depth this year so I do expect them to improve over last year. Got the “highest intrasquad score ever” for Florida LOL

Oklahoma: bars look amazing already but they are lacking depth and only showed 3 10 vaults. No Ragan on floor and no routines from Olivia Trautman or the two freshman L10 stars. If they can’t get those three in line ups I don’t think they’ll make four on the floor this year

Georgia: not impressed with the first look today (although I missed vault, which seems to have been the highlight). Team seems to once again be injured and lacking depth

Yeah, I definitely laughed at that Florida team score... What they did post looked ok for this time of year. Here's the link below.

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Still not sure how they do math in Central FL, because what I saw wouldn't come close to the 197.800 they posted.

Does any of you know what music alyona and haleigh chose for their floor routines this year? I still can't find it anywhere on the internet and ofc couldnt attend gym 101

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Lsu with number one recruiting class for 2023 on college gym news. Don’t agree with their ranking system generally but they definitely got this decision right.

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I mean they have 3 national team members and the top level 10 gymnast committed. Would have been pretty suspicious if they weren’t up there. The fact that they have Zoe miller and Amari Drayton as 3 stars

On a recruiting note, National team member Kailin Chio is supposed to come to a meet this spring. I would love to have her and Kaliya Lincoln for 2024

I think it will all work itself out, I think you have a core group of 5/6 teams that are capable of pulling off a natty. Will come down to executing when it matters most.

Will be interesting to see how beam progresses this year. I think there is going to be a lot of open competition in areas.

RIP Marc McClain (Konnor’s father). you can tell from the peacock series and social media how much he would have loved watching her compete as a tiger. Such sad news to wake up to this morning.

Hey everyone!! It’s meet week!! I know there are a lot of people on this thread that follow LSU gymnastics but don’t understand the scoring. Trust me, you’re not alone, but Spencer from the Balance Beam Situation posted another quick (albeit deep) tutorial for everyone on each event.

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First off, if you don’t read his content, start immediately. He’s hilarious and stays very unbiased and tells it very much like it is. Secondly, don’t worry if all his terminology goes over your head. Just keep it in your back pocket, and as you learn more and more about gymnastics, it’ll begin to make more sense to you.