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1. | LSU | 197.825 |
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2. | Oklahoma | 197.750 |
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3. | Florida | 197.100 |
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4. | Alabama | 196.700 |
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5. | Utah | 196.625 |
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6. | Missouri | 196.225 |
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7. | Denver | 195.875 |
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8. | UCLA | 195.700 |
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9. | Oregon State | 195.575 |
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10. | George Washington | 195.550 |
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11. | Michigan | 195.525 |
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12. | Arkansas | 195.350 |
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13. | Auburn | 195.275 |
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14. | Kentucky | 195.075 |
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15. | NC State | 194.925 |
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16. | Northern Illinois | 194.825 |
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17. | Minnesota | 194.725 |
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18. | Penn State | 194.625 |
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19. | West Virginia | 194.400 |
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20. | Ohio State | 194.375 |
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21. | BYU | 194.225 |
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22. | Illinois | 194.200 |
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22. | Iowa | 194.200 | |
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24. | Michigan State | 194.175 |
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25. | Arizona | 194.025 |
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Oklahoma and LSU proved by far the farthest along at this point in the season and, some crazy home scoring notwithstanding, have jumped out ahead of the rest of the pack. It’s not over yet. These things will even out as the slower starters round into shape, but Oklahoma and LSU were the stars of the weekend.
Florida, Alabama, and Utah won’t frame these meets, but it’s the first week of January and they did what was necessary to look like viable contenders. UCLA and Michigan will be able to play the “the silver lining is we’re still ranked pretty well even though we had bad meets and will do better soon” game.
Missouri established itself as the upstart team of the first weekend with a 196 even without Porter, though I’d caution patience until we see what happens at away meets. Maddie Karr is already the favorite new toy, having pulled Denver through to a solid season start. And then there’s Marla Hooch. And by Marla Hooch, I mean Georgia.
Balance beam situation of the week
WINNER: Georgia
Who else could it be? The once, present, and future champion. Coming off the shocking triumph of hitting beam in Super Six last year, Georgia said, “Back to garbage!” and managed to hit 1.3 beam routines against LSU, doing a swan dive off Niagara Falls at every available layout stepout. Dickson, Broussard, and Schick all fell on their layout stepout series, and Vega went all Disney-on-Ice on hers. Babalis doesn’t have a layout stepout series, so she opted to stumble backward into a swamp on her double tuck dismount. Sydney Snead hit for 9.800, receiving seven diamond tiaras and a shower of doubloons for being the queen of all things.
Georgia’s final beam total was 47.225 for a 193.600 meet score, the team’s lowest since 1999.
RUNNER-UP: UCLA
Georgia’s horror spared UCLA, who didn’t actually fall from the beam (somehow) but reminded us that it’s never boring when it comes to the Bruins. Ever. It’s always a show. I guess UCLA thinks beam is too easy (have you seen your Februaries?), so they need to handicap themselves by having Kyla try to connect out of a switch ring to fulfill her leap combination requirement, which just seems to be inviting problems for exactly no reason, and then having Peng do that damn pi-layout and Ohashi do the layout 1/1. Both Peng and Ohashi managed ridiculous, laudable saves, but saves that cover up the untenable position this lineup is currently in with regard to difficulty.
Non-famous stars of the week
Gymnasts without name brands from lower-ranked schools who scored above 9.900
Kirah Koshinski, West Virginia, Vault – 9.925
Koshinski stuck a 1.5 to rank 4th nationally on vault.
Sabrina Garcia, Penn State, Bars – 9.950
Garcia stuck a floated DLO dismount to rank 2nd on bars.
Madeleine Huber, Missouri, Bars – 9.925
A toe-pointy Jaeger and her own stuck DLO earned Huber the #3 ranking
What happened to Ruby at LSU (no routines)?
She had the flu as of Gym101 so she may still be recovering from that. She probably wasn’t able to train much while she was sick.
I hear she was being introduced slowly due to a lengthy summer Olympics schedule….
I’m confused on Florida using Rachel Slocum as an exhibition. Like, her VT was better than like most of the lineup and same with her floor?
supposedly she was hurt during the week so they decided to have her only do exhibition but this week she will be in lineup.
Good! My fantasy team needs her 10.0 start.
@Jackie – do you know any more than that because I can’t figure out how exhibitioning instead of main lineup would be any less impact đ
If she was hurt, she probably didn’t train as much, so Jenny Rowland probably didn’t want to risk it, since there are a lot of other capable vaulters on Florida’s roster
Why do vault and floor at all though? Surely the risk of injury is the same whether in competition lineup or exhibition?
Any idea what the prognosis is on Angi Cipra? I heard rumor of a heel injury? Hopefully not serious… my fantasy gym VT/FX lineup desperately needs her. đł
Dang, Georgia didn’t even make the Top 25…. hopefully, they pull it together quick
Likely won’t happen, but if the current Top 12 teams made NCAA nationals this year it would be interesting and intriguing (though Stanford, Cal haven’t competed yet). Some of the usual contenders with a nice package of newcomers.
NorCal Classic:
Sacramento State finishes at 194.475.
I was actually really impressed by Sac State last night!
what do the red and green arrows represent?
If they moved up and down from the preseason rankings I believe?
What happened to Kiera Brown?
(I need her in my lineup)
Concussion, out a couple of weeks
OMG “Marla Hooch”! đđđ
Oh wait, Hooch could deliver under pressure. đ
NIU – went to the meet this weekend and they were so good! Can’t believe they beat Iowa. Hoping they continue to rock this year!
If you seeded the top 18 teams right now, Kentucky, N.C. State and Northern freakin’ Illinois would be seeded – and Georgia and Stanford would not.
There’s a lot of time left, but boy, do Georgia and Stanford need it.
Um, Stanford was beaten by UC Davis? I honestly didn’t even know they had a gymnastic team. (Also why was Ebee not on floor? Trying not to panic, but …)