Sports, huh?

Just like we all predicted, Dulcy Caylor won the all-around yesterday and automatically locked herself onto the world championships team. Now, we enter day 2 looking for the other 3 members of Queen Caylor’s Court.

I imagine Wong and Roberson are in the best positions still, given their 2-3 AA results from nationals as well as yesterday, plus their potential to go as vaulters (and floor for Roberson). The big focus for me today is on Skye Blakely’s beam.

Roberson, Wong, and Hang are all vaulting to try to make that case, and Sullivan is the only one doing floor, which is the event she could make an argument for. Caylor, Rose, and Hardie are doing only bars, which I’m reading as Rose and Hardie already knowing they’re out of contention, so why bother trying two events.

Let’s see if the stream we pay for works this time.

Rotation 1

I think we only missed one vault, which is an improvement. We started at the time I feel the most comfortable, 15 minutes early.

They’re like, oh you thought our stream was “too late” yesterday, just because we started “in the middle of the second rotation at a different link”? Well, today we’re starting an hour early.

Hang – VT 2 – Lopez, no Cheng, step, better layout shape that at competitions earlier this year.

14.150 avg total

Wong – VT 1 – lands the Cheng solidly, a little more forward than yesterday with a hop as she tried to control the landing, knee form

Wong – VT 2 – lands the DTY today without much trouble, lunge back

14.400

Roberson – VT 1 – Cheng is shorter, landed but chest down and a hop forward

Roberson – VT 2 – DTY – hit, large bounce back to try to control

13.950

Looks like we’re over to bars to warm up there now. Four people on bars: Blakely, Hardie, Rose, Sullivan.

Rotation 2

Rose – UB – Yezhova,legs apart – Maloney to clear hip full, past, connects to Tkatchev – Ray, got it – Pak, legs apart – van leeuwen, smaller leg break – DLO 1/1, chest forward, lunge. 13.850

Sullivan – UB – weiler 1/2 to Maloney to giant full to tkatchev to Pak, solid height, some leg separations – toe on to van leeuwen, legs – DLO 1/1, hop back, some pike. Form but hit solidly. 14.000

Blakely – UB – stalder full to Church, a little close – Stalder tkatchev piked to Pak – very close again – muscles up to toe full and van leeuwen – toe higgins to front giant to double front 1/2, stuck.

Got through it but the close Pak was a big issue. Yesterday she didn’t get van leeuwen credit because it was her 4th toe-on element, no such issue on that today. She doesn’t get the toe 1/2 at the end for the same reason, but never intends to. 14.450

Skye getting an 8.250 E with that Pak is something.

Hardie – UB – off immediately on Weiler attempt – resumes with Stalder full on low, pulls back an arch – shaposh to pak is hit well – van leeuwen – toe 1/2 to jaeger, good height and feet – cast 1/2 – DLO, small hop back. 12.450

On to the beam warmup.

Rotation 3

Wong – BB – switch mount, hit – side aerial – switch to switch 1/2, wobble, leg up – switch ring, ends up with a pretty big lean to the side – bhs loso is secure – wolf double, solid – aerial to split to straddle, gets series bonus – side somi, check – gainer tuck full, hop. some wobbles, better connections than yesterday. But 10 elements of C+ when you can only count 8. There’s got to be a better way. 13.200

Caylor – BB – switch mount, lean – bhs loso loso, secure, knees in bhs – L turn – side aerial through to switch straddle – aerial to split to korbut – wolf double – double pike, lunge back. 13.550

Hang – BB – candle mount, hit – wolf double, little correction forward – side aerial, pause before split and straddle, pause before loso, secure individual elements but didn’t get the whole combo – bhs tuck full, stays on leg up wobble – switch to switch side, hit – double pike, step. 13.000

Blakely – BB – shoulder roll mount – wolf triple, hit – back tuck full, secure – fhs front tuck, step forward but keeps it on with a wobble, tentative but survived it – switch to switch 1/2, holds, small pause – aerial to split, pauses before bhs – side aerial – double tuck, great stick. Didn’t get absolutely everything but that was definitely a hit. 14.050

Roberson – BB – back tuck full, little step back correction, hit – switch to switch 1/2, tight, no back tuck afterward – side aerial to loso loso is solid – full turn – onodi, wobble before straddle to pike jump – double pike, step back. One of her tighter ones in trying to get her combos, but without major balance breaks. 13.100

So that’s almost everything. Sullivan the only one doing floor, so she’ll have a rotation of her own.

Sullivan – FX – switch full ish side ish – doubel double tuck, step back OOB – switch – tour jete 1/2 to popa, good height, a bit out of control with a dance cover, she’s ready for NCAA – DLO, legs apart, step back – wolf double – front full to double tuck, bit of a stumble back, lunge, but stays in. 13.550

So that’s all in terms of gymnastics. Now we wait for scores. My big question is whether they will consider Blakely essentially going 2-for-4 at nationals and camp sufficient. I do, not in small part because her events fit for qualification better. Other things I’m thinking: Sullivan’s floors from nationals makes a case, but her floor scores didn’t make a huge dent at this camp. She’s still largely relying on Tom Forster-itis to get in. Hang beat Roberson on vault here, but these were not competition landings, so is that anything?

So we’ll just sort of…see when they announce the team?

Team is up: Dulcy Caylor, Skye Blakely, Josc Roberson, Leanne Wong. It’s where I would have gone. It’s the post-nationals team, except Caylor automatically became the one who replaced Rivera by winning AA yesterday. Sullivan and Hang are the non-traveling alts.

Cleanest arrangement is Caylor AA, Wong AA, Roberson VT/FX, Blakely UB/BB.

Caylor doesn’t have to be an AAer in qualification just because she won camp, though. You could say Wong and Roberson for AA, then Caylor is just doing floor. Which…I guess? But seems weird. There’s not really a clear “weakest” beamer who wouldn’t go in beam in qualification, but if you’re already leaving Roberson off bars because she’s the lowest score there, then you’d leave her off beam too.