38 thoughts on “Week 7 Rankings, Notes, RQS Update”

1. Bless you. You do God’s work. I’ve learned so much about this sport from you.

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2. Good call on Stanford. If anyone can copy the Kentucky gymnast (Jenny Hanson) from years ago and go to NCAAs without a team and win the AA title it’s Price.

   Heck, perhaps a solo Price at NCAAs will score 10s on vault, bars and floor and a 9.95 on beam.

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   1. Have her rotate with Oklahoma, LSU, Florida, or UCLA! She would definitely get the high scores then!

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      1. But it would be a better story if she rounded with a Boise St. or Denver or surprise NCAA qualifier Washington.

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   2. True, but are we even sure Price will compete AA this year? She seems to have near constant injuries and I fear the Stanford coaches will start to get desperate and will bring her back before she’s ready leading to something more serious.

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      1. I can see the Stanford coaches actually limiting Price this year to vault/bars and maybe just a FT on vault, since they have to know this is a down year.

         But the current freshman are actually pretty good and next year’s freshman class is supposed to be really good, so they could want a strong and healthy Price as a senior with lots of good freshmen/sophomores.

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3. AHHH UCLA. When I was watching today I said to myself oh, the can even count a fall on floor (or even just 1 less fall) and go mid-196… and look what happened.

   But yay Macy!

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4. The real miracle is that their floor total could very well have been worse as they took Sonya out of the line-up and put in Ohashi and her 9.9. UCLA and floor..*sigh*

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5. Anyone else like the looks of the Washington Regional if the RQS standings were to remain somewhat the same as today?

   @ Washington would be:

   6 – UCLA
   7 – Georgia
   17 – Washington (host)
   18 – Cal
   Minnesota
   31 Stanford

   Both UCLA and Georgia are possibilities for having a disaster rotation and Washington is much improved this year and score better at home than on the road, plus Cal, Minnesota and Stanford are all capable of being out of things early for a 193 or 194 or having a shockingly good 197 meet.

   Plus then it might pit the Gymdogs against the Gymdogs for the 2nd seed, assuming the judges get 10-happy for UCLA’s Olympians.

   Speaking of similar nicknames: When is the SEC going to have a Tri-meet to determine what Tiger is the fiercest? LSU. Auburn. Missouri.

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   1. I’d like that but… no way will it happen. UCLA will probably jump to 4 this weekend with a home meet chance to drop the 195, and Washington has two road meets next and will probably jump 3-4 spots too.

      (Plus, they don’t score significantly better at home, and longtime Washington fans have always bemoaned the total lack of home scoring – they usually average .3-.4 better in road meets! The scores are a bit misleading in that respect – the team just started performing way better in the last month, and the one away meet in that time had a fluke fall situation :P)

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6. Don’t forget about Jessie Peszek (yes, Sam’s sister) from Western Michigan who got a 9.925 on bars this weekend for a career high!

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   1. If she keeps getting scores like that she’ll be a Gator in 2018… Hey Florida went “shopping” at Eastern Michigan last year, so why not try the Western side of the state this year. 🙂

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7. At the risk of sounding like an asshole, I wish UCLA would tell that volunteer coach(?) who acts like a hype man to chill out a bit.

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   1. Ha, but every routine deserves a 10! They seriously start yelling ten after nearly every routine. It’s so annoying!

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      1. It is annoying when they yell 10 after every single routine.

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      2. Yes, forget about chalk. I wish the NCAA would crack down on teams trying to influence judges with the 10 hands and shouting 10 BEFORE the score is put up. It should be an automatic .3 deduction for teams that do it.

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      3. UCLA and Florida are the worst at this!!! Every meet. Every rotation.

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8. If nothing else good came out of that disaster of a floor rotation for UCLA, I hope it will at least indicate to them that they need to get Stella Savvidou out of the floor lineup. It pains me to say that because her routine is beautiful and she has such nice lines and toe point, but she has had ample opportunity to prove herself and just doesn’t seem to be able to deliver.

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   1. Eh, I think they know what they’re doing. We said the exact same thing about her bars last year and that turned out fine. She just takes a while to get comfy competing.

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      1. Out of all the girls with floor disasters, Stella’s was the least disastrous – and she competed floor twice in one weekend (as well as twice on bars and debuted vault). All in all not the worst offender of a disastrous floor.

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      2. As a veteran NCAA gymnastics watcher I will say the floor lineups UCLA and Alabama put out during the regular season usually look very different in the postseason. And in Alabama’s case they’ll debut a new routine on beam in postseason (It might’ve been SECs but I think it was NCAA semis) – talking about M-L Sanders here.

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   2. @Anonymous You’re right that she was the least catastrophic of the floor disasters, but my problem with her floor performance is far beyond just yesterday. She’s competed floor 6 times this year, and 4 of her scores have been 9.70 or lower. One of the remaining 2 was a 9.80, which for a team with as much talent and depth on floor as UCLA, is not extremely impressive (though I don’t mean to say it’s bad). She did have one 9.925, but that was also during the meet where everybody from UCLA got 9.9+ for saluting. I hope Rebecca is right and she just takes a while to get the hang of it because I really do love her floor routine and the beautiful way she performs it, but it’s starting to look like poor floor scores are the rule and not the exception for her.

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      1. I agree and I would replace her with Toronjo. A rotation consisting of Ohashi, Toronjo, Honest, Cipra, Kocian, and Mossett would be great. Then you would have Savvidou, Meraz, Hall, and Ross as back ups (or as a lead in place of Ohashi if necessary)

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      2. You could also throw Preston into the regular floor lineup, assuming she has healed well enough to do that. She did floor in the first meet of the year, and it was a very nice routine.

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      3. Honest is almost as inconsistent. If you’re taking Stella out, which I don’t disagree with, Honest should be taken out too.

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      4. Also, competing exactly once is not exactly consistent – I’d wait on Toronjo before assuming she’s the saviour of the lineup.

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      5. No one is saying Toronjo is the savior of the lineup. I, however, would give her an honest shot at the lineup. Savvidou is gorgeous, but her floor performances have been riddled with inconsistency. That would make me nervous come post-season. A 9.7 or 9.6 (heck a 9.8) won’t cut it against OU or LSU. Compete Toronjo during the next couple meets and see if she can hit consistently. If she can, she deserves to be in. Savvidou has had multiple chances.

         UCLA has a lot of options on floor, but only about 3/4 guaranteed hits.

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9. I felt like the difference in scoring standards was super apparent this weekend. Granted, the scoring for UCLA/Utah was out.of.control but we’ve been saying that for a while now. Compare those scores to say the Kent State/Central Michigan competition and you can really see how unfair those high scores are. Particular on beam where Peng, Kyla, and Katelyn all had visible errors and still scored above 9.8. Compare that to Kent’s beam rotation (I felt Fabry and Hardison were underscored–at least by a tenth each–but can’t find the video) and you see how an overhaul to implement consistent scoring needs to happen.

   Especially when Kent lost to Central by a tenth, some of these tight scores (when other teams are scoring ridiculously high) can be really impactful.

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   1. Are NCAA judges specific to a conference during the regular season? For example, does an SEC judge only go to SEC schools? Etc for the the other conferences.

      If that is the case, the NCAA could pool the judges and send ones from different areas to the meets – so the judges at UGA for a meet would be from across the US (New Hampshire, Florida, Colorado, Michigan, etc.).

      The judges should also receive meet report cards from the head judge (who evaluates everyones work based on committee reports) and this way the top judges will get the plush postseason assignments at Conference champions, Regionals and Nationals and Super Six.

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10. Also, Khazia Hislop from UNC went 9.925 on floor as well! The meet’s not on youtube but highlights are here: http://www.goheels.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?&db_oem_id=3350&id=5973467

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11. Who fell on floor for UCLA?

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    1. Gracie Kramer fell out of bounds on her middle pass, Kyla Ross fell on her last pass, Janay Honest put her hands down on her last pass (not technically a fall, but close to one), and Stella Savvidou didn’t fall, but she went out of bounds on her middle pass and landed low and stepped forward on her last pass.

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       1. Janay fell on her last past more than just touched down, Ross came closer to just touching down.

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       2. It may not be a fall where the athlete is sitting on the mat, but hands down is still a five tenths deduction and considered a fall.

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12. I think I have mentioned this before but I have Majesta Valentine from West Chester on my fantasy team with a 9.925 on fx a few weeks back and nothing lower than a 9.8 since. And I’m loving Caroline Morant! She has been a solid contributor to my fantasy gym roster too.

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    1. Same here! I actually had Majesta fairly high up on my draft list (as she’s easily their best gymnast and is never not going to do the AA), so I’ve been feeling like a genius.

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13. BREAKING NEWS: Claire Boyce (UF Gators, senior) is hanging up her leotard for medical reasons but will stay with the team as a student coach.

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    1. Bummer. She looked like she was in pain when she competed this year. I’m sure it was a hard decision, but it’s a smart one. No point in risking long-term health for a few more meets this year. I, however, wish she could do one event on senior night.

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