Raise your right leg if you’re not 100% committed to Stanford’s depth this year.
| Returning Routines – Stanford | |
| VAULT Price – 9.920 N McNair – 9.830 Daum – 9.788 D McNair – 9.780 Fitzgerald – 9.775 |
BARS Price – 9.940 N McNair – 9.865 Maxwell – 9.795 D McNair – 9.775 |
| BEAM Price – 9.850 N McNair – 9.840 Daum – 9.750 Fitzgerald – 9.613 D McNair – 9.400 Spector – 9.375 |
FLOOR Price – 9.905 Spector – 9.845 Daum – 9.750 Fitzgerald – 9.690 N Hoffman – 9.425 |
Or any year. Normal. The Cardinal have lost 10 routines from last year’s postseason lineups, and while they’ll get some of those back from this year’s three freshmen, I don’t expect 10 routines from this group. That means some of the upperclassmen will have to add events for 2017.
But for now, let’s explore how many routines Stanford might actually get from this year’s freshmen.
Obviously, I must begin with Aleeza Yu because of her status as my latest Canasian obsession. Don’t worry about it. Yu boasts the traditional Stanford injury history of all of them. She tore her ACL at 2014 worlds, then returned to competition in early 2016 to directly connect her ACL tear to an exploded ankle. She is still wearing a boot in Stanford’s team pictures, so…temper expectations. Continue reading 2017 Freshman Preview: Stanford