LSUgymfan420

I assume there is no actual story here - other than it’s time for her and her boyfriend to be in the same city?

I for sure did not have that on my bingo card…anyone have any details about it?

I think others who have seen me post on this board know I am not shy from criticism in the name of it being too harsh on athletes (specifically because in any other male sport that happens all the time; this is a high level and should be treated the same).

I will say, I knew it was going to be hard as soon as we got the number one seed and never felt good about it (even though that is also an amazing accomplishment). I think the girls should hold their heads high, though. That wasn’t a bad meet for them - it just wasn’t good though on the day. We can talk about the tenths lost on bars, the tenths left by Aleah on beam, and the tenths left by Konnor and Sierra on floor - but in no way wa that a complete melt down. It was a mediocre day in the day they couldn’t afford to be mediocre. And sometimes that happens. I am so proud of them for trying to fight - for Aleah hitting floor after this season and the. That beam routine. This has been a special two years and I am really proud of them, even if it didn’t end as we hoped.

I am hopeful that we can recreate lightning in a bottle over the next few seasons. And I think OU probably runs away with it if they have in night - when they are on the only two teams who have gotten close are us and FL. Utah was lights out as was ucla last night(ans we know very hard to replicate that two days in an row) and Missouri won’t really challenge on an even playing field.

Edge to Michigan state with the last rotation; we need some help from Utah and UCLA or the best vault rotation anyone has ever seen.

They are going to need to find some landings, make it through beam, and capitalize on the generous floor scoring, which should only get more generous as the night goes on.

It will probably, as for Florida, come down to vault.

To add to this; we have the harder semifinal by far too. It should be basically a cakewalk for Florida and OU to make it out of theirs.

I have never understood why they didn’t red shirt her - given her bouncy vaults and limited floor I think she had a counting score 3-4 times. It’s seems like a waste of her talent this year.

I think at one point Jay mentioned in a press conference she was ready to go on beam and floor as well, if needed

I think the actual answer here is that it is, in fact, above their season average, though a tad lower than the last couple performances.

I believe she had some nagging injuries. However, I posted after a meet a few weeks ago questioning whether she had an issue with her shoulder, because she vaulted that day but was then scratched from floor. I wondered whether she hurt her shoulder because on espn it looked like she had her arm wrapped up in a team huddle…so my general guess is that this is something that is more acute given her absence from lineups since then.