re: Remove

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Not surprising no AA on Floor.

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Kiya and Haleigh have been in and out of the AA all year due to injuries

Floor, it sucks not to have a single AA with the talent we have. KJ may have been one of the few shining moments from that event this year.

Aleah they need to go to the drawing board this offseason and figure out another tumbling pass for her dismount. I struggle to see how she lands it consistently in practice when she hasn't in a competition almost the entire year. Her opening pass Is perfection. That is one routine I felt we dropped the ball on in terms of construction. Aleah is powerful, has good personality but the elements and skill selection in that routine don't make much sense except for her double Arabian.

I wish our freshmen had been allowed to play a bigger role this year. I don’t know if it was injuries or Jay just easing them into it, but I would have liked to have seen more of Aleah and KJ and Tori Tatum on something. Last year I wish Dunne would have been able to do more. Yeah, they’re freshman and you don’t want to expect too much too soon from them, but other teams have certainly put their freshman out there. There are the big names like Suni, Wong, Carey, and McCallum who were obviously ready, but others like Groth from Auburn and Hudson from Bama (among others) who I’d never heard of before that were stars!

The freshmen from Missouri have also been killing it! Our freshmen did have bad luck with injuries and recovering from surgery. Maybe that’s why they couldn’t participate as much. I know they will do great things in the coming years!

Jocelyn Moore!

Those awards are really competitive especially this year with the olympians…you really want to be getting a bunch of 9.95+. But she still has a shot to be an all-American in the post season!

I think this is the issue though - we can’t compete if we don’t have the all-Americans. Christina and Kiya have been relatively the most solid for us - but in comparison to the top 20 (or whatever number) of beam workers in the country, they aren’t the top, score wise.

Someone can do the actual math, but I don’t think that’s it. It is based on beam NQS - so, I think that each of their NQS’ (or at least Christina’s - KiYa may have fewer scores, though I am not actually sure either has fallen this year, either) would not include any falls (ie those scores are dropped, at least I think.

Her scores in general will also be a tad lower than others simply by being first in the lineup.

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Yes, agree with all of this - but The fact of the matter is regardless of the reasons - we don’t have any on beam while Utah and Auburn have two; and Florida, Oklahoma, Minnesota, abs Michigan each have one (between first and second team).

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Utah and Florida has a team of simply pure beamers. Now LSU has some good beamers (Finnegan, Kiya, Haleigh, Desiderio) but 1-6 not at the level of those other teams. Its more then just hitting routines, they have routines that simply show superiority relative to the rest of the field given their extension and precision on leaps and dance elements.

Aleah will end up being an AA on that event when its all said and done. This year it felt like they were playing around with the dismount half the time. I am not mad about that, I think it was a good decision to make the change. Her scores have gone up since they changed her dismount.

Hopefully with Annie and Lilly coming in, (with Jeffrey already here) we see significant improvement next season on that event. But with all that said, beam has been solid all year (#5 in the country)

LSU is #10 on bars and #9 on floor. We were #2 on floor just a year ago.

I've been pleasantly surprised with how beam has gone this season. Gnat seems to be settling into her role well and has done a good job. Agree that changing Aleah's dismount was for the best.

I do hope we can use the freshmen more going forward. Otherwise, we essentially are not using them to full potential for a whole year of their eligibility. It also has knock on consequences, eg the athletes get to sophomore/junior season and some have done very few routines in competition (even in exhibition). We need to get them out there more.