As we move ever closer to the NCAA season, I’ll be spending the next month-ish looking into the 2017 freshmen on both major and minor teams and proceeding to make wild and unfounded claims about what we should expect to see from them.
We’ll begin with Georgia’s trio of newbies, Rachel Dickson, Sabrina Vega, and Jordyn Pedersen.
Here are the routines and RQS/averages Georgia returns from the 2016 season.
| GEORGIA | |
| VAULT Marino – 9.880 Snead – 9.880 Broussard – 9.830 Johnson – 9.810 Vaculik – 9.755 |
BARS Snead – 9.870 Schick – 9.855 Vaculik – 9.850 Cherrey – 9.795 Johnson – 9.625 |
| BEAM Broussard – 9.875 Vaculik – 9.810 Babalis – 9.805 Schick – 9.604 Cherrey – 9.269 |
FLOOR Marino – 9.905 Snead – 9.850 Babalis – 9.850 Reynolds – 9.819 |
This year, Georgia finds itself with at least three legitimate openings on each event and must unearth at least one or two big new scores on each one. The freshmen have jobs to do. They won’t have the luxury of “oh well, it’s her first year, getting acclimated, blah blah blah.”
Rachel Dickson has the least name recognition of the three freshmen but may end up being the most important to the team….is a thing I love to say. I do it all the time. At the very least, she doesn’t suffer from the extreme level of Question Mark Syndrome that a name-brand like Sabrina Vega does. Continue reading 2017 Freshman Preview: Georgia