LSUgymfan420

I have been quiet this whole season - and I am a student of this sport (I know the skills; and the deductions; the start values, etc) mostly life has been busy, and they were on top (relatively) for the whole season.

In all honesty, it was Florida’s to lose and they did. I thought Oklahoma wa severely overscored on Thursday as compared to us.

Also, my birthday is 4/20; and for the first time in several years (2024), when I didn’t go to post season, they won. On my 40th birthday! While I was out of the country on a trip. As it always falls relatively, close to my birthday, I thought this year, it could be close.

After Thursday, I thought there wa almost no chance. But, during a day full
Of weekend birthday celebrations, I watched on Saturday and they did everything they could. Can’t help the judging but especially for OU on floor, but the team acquitted themselves in an exceptional manner (even more impressive when almost anyone, including the broadcast had written them
Off) And as someone who knows how hard it is when you’re trying to your best (and do well!) and it’s still not enough, I know how hard it is.

I won’t even get into them icing Lexi on beam, because that’s what happened. But Lexi, if you ever read this, hold your head high because the pressure was exceptional and you tried your best. And as Jay said, even if it didn’t end in a win, everyone tried as hard as they could. And this team made it further than I thought they could for the last month.


I agree with Jay, it was amazing and sometimes it just doesn’t fall your way. I don’t want Kailin, Kaliya, or Lexi (especially Lexi) to wear it. I know that will be hard - but no matter what happened, it was an exemplary performance by all (probably one of the best of the season; top 3 at least)

Anyway love this team and hope they take Jay’s message - be disappointed, that’s natural; but don’t drown in despair

Too may misses on landings; Konnor has to work out that release move and to have a shot since I don’t think we can really compete with the scores on beam and bars with Florida we must must stick vault. Amari has got to stop being short on her passes.

OU and Florida barely missed on landings other than vault. Glad Chio was still able to nail hers.

The NQS determines the ceding for the tournament, which includes the regional. All of which are shaping up to be brutal.

Chio criminally underscored - I want to hate that Florida beam routine - and I think probably the second score and diello’s score might have been 0.025 too high, but honestly they didn’t blink. It scoring stays the same on floor (a bit of) we can be close if we don’t blink

That was a tremendous back half of the vault rotation + Konnor. It’s clear that third vault spot is the weak link- Zeiss is a strong opener even with her form issue - she almost had it today, but Victoria was probably over scored at 9.84 and it just doesn’t look as polished. I do hope there is another solution there - or blacks on gets it together

Edited to add: Kaliya should have truly been a ten, superior form and dynamics to everyone, but so so happy for her and Amari!

I was at the meet - was anyone watching on tv and heard Jay’s interview? If so, did he say anything about Kaliya’s beam and his inquiry

I know Valeri’s reputation. However, this, I think may have more to do with Hezly taking a small break post - Olympics that led to a big growth spurt. It’s clear that she is fatigued in her routines as she learns her skills in that body. However, that can be just as hard to overcome physically and mentally.

I wouldn’t say that it is up and coming necessarily ; her daughter is Sydney Johnson-Scharpf who elite and competed for Florida pretty consistently on floor and beam before she tore her Achilles and she also coached Charlotte Booth while she was in the US elite program.

Speaking of which…any word on good transfers we good get - I think with the size of our departing roster we could be an attractive place for some high profile transfers.

My guess with emjae is that she realizes if cal couldn’t do it last year, then they weren’t coming anywhere near it after this year and she wanted to go to a program that could. Social media would indicate she is close to Selena which is interesting given the whole ucla thing.

It wasn’t even that bad of a meet - but Aleah gave away a tenth and they gave away about 3 tenths on bars and Sierra and Konnor gave away about 2.5 tenths between them