Thursday, December 5 6:30pm MT – Arizona State – Maroon & Gold –Web Stream
Friday, December 6 4:00pm ET – Towson – Black & Gold 6:00pm ET – Ursinus – Red & Gold 6:30pm ET – William & Mary – Green & Gold 7:00pm ET – Maryland – Red & Black 7:00pm ET – Rhode Island – Maroon & Gold 6:30pm CT – Oklahoma Intrasquad 6:30pm CT – La Crosse v. Winona Exhibition 7:15pm CT – LSU Gym 101 – SEC+ Stream 7:00pm PT – Sacramento State – Flipfest
Saturday, December 7 12:00pm CT – Iowa – Black & Gold 12:00pm CT – Gustavus Adolphus – Black & Gold Meet 4:00pm ET – Michigan v. CMU v. EMU v. WMU Exhibition – BTN+/Flo 4:00pm ET – New Hampshire – Meet the Team 6:00pm CT – TWU – Holiday Spectacular
Sunday, December 8 1:00pm ET – Kent State Intrasquad 1:00pm ET – Ball State – Red & White 12:00pm PT – Cal Intrasquad 2:00pm AT – Alaska – Green & Gold
B. The Only One He Ever Feared
Simone announced yesterday that she’s going to be headlining her own post-Olympic tour next year—with just a few cool people and you better be one of them beyotch.
THE 2019 STORY It’s been a while since Stanford was truly competitive on a national stage, and those years of Stanford suddenly turning great for the last couple meets of the season and surprising everyone to make Super Six are beginning to feel like a vestige of a different era.
Stanford’s 22nd-place finish in 2019 should be regarded as an encouraging improvement over the previous two seasons with fledgling sprouts of new growth emerging, but it still ranks as one of the weaker results in program history. Stanford’s 2020 focus will not be on replacing last year’s routines or keeping pace with that performance but on improving every event.
THE 2019 STORY The 2019 season proved a resounding success for Minnesota. The team endured the pains of a slow-ish January to rise and finish the regular season in 11th place, subsequently advancing to the regional final and giving LSU and Utah a serious fight in what was always going to be a near-impossible task to advance to nationals.
Coming off two weaker seasons post-Mable, the 2019 performance and ultimate 13th-place finish sent the message that Minnesota is back.
THE 2019 STORY Boise State finished the 2019 regular season in 12th place and advanced to the final regional in a tight Oregon State site before being eliminated, ending up ranked #15 in what was a valiant effort to push through after losing team star Shani Remme to injury.
This ranks among the better results in the program’s history, though it is also pretty consistent with what we’ve seen over the last four seasons, with BSU still itching to break through to that next tier.
It’s not all team-by-team previews. A major storyline you’ll have to look forward to in the 2020 season (because I probably won’t stop talking about it) is the race for all-time career record for most 10.0s. Seniors Kyla Ross and Maggie Nichols currently sit in sixth and seventh place respectively, with Ross nine 10.0s away from tying the record. She recorded fourteen 10.0s during the 2019 season.
1
Jenny Hansen (Kentucky)
28
2
Jamie Dantzscher (UCLA)
27
3
Hope Spivey (Georgia)
24
4
Kim Arnold (Georgia)
21
5
Karin Lichey (Georgia)
20
6
Kyla Ross (UCLA)
19
7
Maggie Nichols (Oklahoma)
17
Leah Brown (Georgia)
17
9
Beth Wymer (Michigan)
16
10
Jeanette Antolin (UCLA)
14
Theresa Kulikowski (Utah)
14
12
Katelyn Ohashi (UCLA)
11
Ashley Miles (Alabama)
11
Sarah Cain (Michigan)
11
Kristen Kenoyer (Utah)
11
16
Peng Peng Lee (UCLA)
10
17
Alex McMurtry (Florida)
9
Ashleigh Gnat (LSU)
9
Georgia Dabritz (Utah)
9
Vanessa Zamarripa (UCLA)
9
Kate Richardson (UCLA)
9
Maggie Germaine (Arizona State)
9
Andree Pickens (Alabama)
9
Nikki Peters (Michigan)
9
Kim Kelly (Alabama)
9
Jennifer Wood (LSU)
9
27
Bridget Sloan (Florida)
8
Courtney Kupets (Georgia)
8
Ashley Kelly (Arizona State)
8
Richelle Simpson (Nebraska)
8
April Burkholder (LSU)
8
Mohini Bhardwaj (UCLA)
8
Heather Kabnick (Michigan)
8
Dee Foster (Alabama)
8
Chari Knight (Oregon State)
8
*The usual caveat when talking about NCAA history applies in that this information is correct to the best of my research knowledge going through team records, but the records from the 90s are baaaaaad somehow even though, like, we had computers then. You’ll see a discrepancy with the Hall of 10s in regard to Jenny Hansen because I don’t have dates/years for the majority of her 10s, but Kentucky’s team records credit her with 28 in total—21 on vault, 6 on floor, 1 on beam.
