Somebody educate me on our gymnastics signees for next year.

To be honest, this class isn't near what we have brought in in years past. The only girl that I see ever really contributing is Reagan Campbell, she is pretty good on beam.

Gracen Standley is from Lexi's gymn but she is a complete project. If she ever competes for us it would be her junior year, she just isn't close to being ready at this level at the moment unfortunately.

We also have a girl named Sarah Edwards who was supposed to be a walk on, she vaults solidly but doesn't do much else

I wonder why the class is so weak this year. Jay Clark has been on a tear these past few years

Heard parts of a conversation up at the rec center. Don't quote me. But the words used were, "love child" "Gnat family secret" "Romania" "she's a gymnast too." Stay tuned I guess.

BATON ROUGE – LSU gymnastics head coach D-D Breaux along with associate head coach and recruiting coordinator Jay Clark and assistant coach Bob Moore announced Thursday the signing of outstanding gymnasts Gracen Standley and Reagan Campbell for the 2017 class.

“We expect both Gracen and Reagan to be major contributors right away,” Clark said. “They both have a pedigree from fantastic club gyms. The training that they have had lends itself to a much disciplined style of training.”

Standley trains at Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy in Ohio under Mary Lee Tracy, the former coach of sophomore All-American Lexie Priessman. Originally from Mobile, Alabama, Standley has competed at the Nastia Liukin Cup as well as Junior Olympic (J.O.) Level 10 National Championships three times in her career.

“Gracen is from one of the finest programs in the country that develops outstanding gymnasts,” Breaux said. “She is going to be really solid all-around gymnast, and with her degree of difficulty, she will come in our program and compliment the gymnasts we have next season.”

Campbell is coached by Kim Zmeskal-Burdette and Chris Burdette at Texas Dreams Gymnastics in Coppell, Texas. Campbell is a three-time J.O. Level 10 National Championship qualifier and participant at the 2013 Nastia Liukin Cup.

Campbell owns 11 top-five finishes at J.O. National Championships, including in 2016 when she finished first on bars, fourth on beam and floor, and fifth in the all-around. Campbell owns three second-place finishes on beam over her career at J.O. championships and will make an immediate impact for the squad in 2018 on the event.

“Reagan comes from a fabulous program in the Dallas area,” Breaux said. “She is outstanding on balance beam and should come in and have an immediate impact for us. I look forward to coaching her on beam, and having her in the lineup with Erin Macadaeg and Myia Hambrick will be great. She is a solid all-arounder and a real standout on beam.”

“We know they will be great leaders in and out of the gym and their personalities will fit in with our style and philosophy of loving to have a good time while we work very hard,” Clark said. “We are excited for them to join us for the fall and the 2018 season.”

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I'm guessing we will go the transfer route to help fill some holes for this incoming class. Reagan Campbell can probably put up big numbers on beam, she's solid on floor as well but we are going to need to add a transfer to fill in missing pieces in this class. Next year we gotta add another girl, the only one we have now is Desiderio who is a national team member and was invited to the Olympic trials for the us.

Yes we signed the #1 recruit in the nation. Tessa Tickles. Tess is an Olympic hopeful from Nutsacken, OH. Tess brings her talent and winning way ways to BR this summer. Guys join me in giving this young lady a huge round of applause and let's all go nuts for Tess Tickle.