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Skye never really impressed me before. Granted, her front tumbling on beam is really awesome and a huge point getter, but again, she never hit it, so what's the point. But... she's on fire right now and hitting everything - and who knew she had a Cheng?? Before this year, she was one of those recruits that I wish we had, but I wasn't sore went somewhere else. But now... It hurts she's going to Florida. I think she makes the team this year and might even knock Jade out. Trials is going to be crazy in a good way!!

Intrasquad was great. They actually fielded two full teams going head to head with 6 athletes (at least) going on each event. Some things that stood out:

1. Looked so much more polished than even 2 weeks ago. They look great.

2. I really think we only saw one full in the vault lineup - from KJ. But it's been two days so there could have been one more. Amari had a huge 1.5 on vault with a big pop off the table. Chase followed her with more height than last year and stuck hers cold.

3. On bars, we finally saw a double tuck dismount! It came from Amari in combo with a clear-hip. Konnor added a pretty 1/2 in 1/2 out dismount and Alyona still had the same dismount, but she did stick on Friday.

4. Beam was a stick-a-thon until Konnor, who had a large leg up on her series and then randomly fell on her low beam choreo. I don't know her routine well enough to know what happened; at first I thought she was hurt but I think that's just the face she made for falling on something like that. Regardless, there were only two girls left and they got rattled. Kiya had a huge bend at the waist on her series and then Aleah fell on her series. Would have been nice to see hits after a fall, so we'll just need to watch that moving forward. But that was the third rotation and we basically had 27-27 stuck routines to that point (little things here in there, but all hits)

5. Did not see Konnor on floor, she did a double on vault to the resi that was kind of low, but would have been to her feet on the floor I think (everyone is always different with how skills translate from resi to floor so without seeing her everyday, there's really no telling.)

6. Saw everyone in an event (that you would expect) except Elena, Jillian, Kai and Bryce. Bryce was only listed for vault but she must have scratched

Intra squad on Friday looked great. Everyone hit - no falls.

We have 11 Seniors!! I had to list a roster just to get my head around it all.

Seniors

Elena Arenas
Sierra Ballard
Chase Brock
Haleigh Bryant
Olivia Dunne
Cammy Hall
Jillian Hoffman
Kiya Johnson
Kai Rivers
Savannah Schoenherr
Alyona Shchennikova

Juniors

Aleah Finnegan
Alexis Jeffrey
KJ Johnson
Tori Tatum

Sophomores

Annie Beard
Ashley Cowan
Bryce Wilson

Freshman

Kylie Coen
Amari Drayton
Konnor McClain
Leah Miller
Zoe Miller
Brooke Simpson

She’s a 5 star??? That’s Exhibit A for why CGN rankings aren’t accurate.

I can see her walking on at LSU or another top program, but i feel like scholarship offers will not come from any of the power programs.

Powerful athlete, useful vault potential, but everything else has too many built in deductions beginning with her round off all the way through her toes on almost every skill.

Ok y’all, i have seriously stopped following this post because everyone is so negative. But… that said, the beam rotation grew a ton tonight. However, I think more credit should be how much Gnat grew! She’s understanding how to get her rotation prepared to compete - you just don’t randomly hit 5 routines in a row… that’s coaching too! Good job Gnat!!

Ugh these down votes… really hoping they’re just bitter UCLA fans.

Ok, for tonight, let’s make sure we’re all realistic. There’s going to be lots of rust and a few big scores not available. I think we all need to remember, any improvement over Week 1 should be viewed as a good thing. Let’s all stay positive and although this team is incredibly capable of going 198+, I’d still be happy with a 197.1

Whoa!! I missed all this Alexis stuff! But to answer your question, if Alexis transfers and is enrolled she can compete with the team. Classes start this week - so, it’s a complete possibility. There is no mandatory waiting period anymore.

But… just because she has a routine from UCLA, doesn’t mean Jay would compete the same routine. I imagine she spends a few weeks just getting adjusted and reworking routines.

Yeah, a lot of weird down votes lately. Obviously, other schools who are so jealous of us all they can do is stare at our blogs all day. Remember, people hating you is a sign of respect

AUGH!!! Like an idiot - i wasn’t paying attention at the 1/2 time portion of the lady tigers basketball game. Imagine my surprise when i do look back to see Jay talking lineups for tomorrow. He said to expect to see Sami in the AA (like wow!!) and to not expect Aleah tomorrow night. But that’s literally all i caught!! Anyone see any more of it that can comment on what he said?

Edited: I put a note below, he was talking about alyona but they were showing video of Sami