(GYM) Gymnastics 2024 - 2025

At the start of the season when CJR botched the floor score in the opening meet by changing the floor team going into the final rotation, gatornharlem asked if UF had fallen to 3rd in the SEC? The SEC regular season is over so now we have an answer:

1. Oklahoma 198.040
2. LSU 198.005
3. Florida 197.860

The difference between the 3 teams is less than 2 tenths at .180.

Yes, the Gators did fall to 3rd by the conclusion of the regular season. However, those are NQS scores after the team's week 11 performances. UF is also the 3rd best NQS in the nation. The SEC tourney is next week so those scores will be added into the final NQS for NCAA seeding.

SEC Records:

1T. Oklahoma 8-1
1T. LSU 8-1
3. Florida 6-3
4. Missouri 6-3

LSU and Oklahoma share the 2025 SEC Regular Season Championship breaking a string of 7 straight championships by Florida. LSU finished 2nd in 2024 and then went on to win the national championship. The Gators are capable of doing the same.

 

There just weren't that high of deductions as that is a 9.70 combined with a 9.75. The judge that graded 9.70 saw a different performance than I did. However, Skye has something on tape judges scored to work on which is why you have exhibitions. The important thing is we will have Skye available for the post season on beam. Yay!

 

Don't like this one bit. I think the SEC should just tell ESPN the conference will not prohibit team 9 from performing in the SEC tourney choosing to override TV objections to have a bye rotation in the afternoon session when teams 5-8/9 perform:

No. 16 Arkansas To Miss SEC Gymnastics Championships Due To Conference Realignment

Gymnastics Championships - Southeastern Conference

When the SEC, Big 12, and Big Ten championships occur next weekend, the Razorbacks will be sitting at home in Fayetteville, unable to record another total to boost their National Qualifying Score (NQS). Just like that, Arkansas now loses control over its postseason destiny. The reasoning? Their conference is too large and too strong.

With their current NQS, Coach Wieber’s team would rank second in the Big 12, third in the ACC, and fourth in the Big Ten. In the SEC, they’re dead last.

As Coach Clark succinctly stated: "The SEC’s focus has to be on how we best prepare our teams to move into the NCAA postseason.” But with the nation’s 16th-best team now removed from a vital scoring opportunity, the gymnastics community looks to the SEC to reconsider its controversial format.

All I can say is it sucks to be Arkansas as the excluded team which finished last in the SEC but ranks in the top 15/16 in the nation depending on how week 11 finishes up. I agree that the SEC tourney should be to prepare SEC teams for the NCAA tourney, not put them at a disadvantage as the SEC did to Arkansas in 2025.

 

Correct:

From article at floridagators.com:

• Selena Harris-Miranda earned her first balance beam 10.0 tonight. Her previous high of 9.975 was posted twice, including earlier this season.
• It is her second 10.0 of the season, as she turned in the nation's first vault 10.0 on Feb. 28.
• She's found perfection seven times in her career – vault (5x), bars (3-16-24) and now beam.

Selena will get the gym slam before her UF career is over in 2026 if not in 2025. Getting 10s are harder to come by in post season when additional judges are added with the high and low tossed out. She is just too good to not get a 10 on floor. I've seen several this season that I thought were 10s but the judges saw differently.

Selena's 39.875 AA score last night is the highest AA score of the 2025 season. That should be good for standalone SEC Gymnast of the Week when combined with her 10 on beam.

I just checked Skye's beam score. The judges messed up:

Score Card:

Skye Blakely
Judging:
9.725 average

SV1: 9.80
J1: 9.65

SV2: 10.00
J2: 9.80

Δ 0.15
Neutral Deduction:
Final Score:
9.725

The head judge should have overridden judge 1 with the 9.80 start value. CJR could have lobbied for a higher start value, and she would have IMO won the argument. There was simply too much difficulty for Skye to be started with anything less than a 10.00 start value. Before the SECs and NCAAs, it must be found out why judge 1 started Skye with a 9.80 start value. Skye should never do anything less than a 10.00 start value.

Correcting the judge 1 start value, Skye's score should have been an average of 9.85 and 9.80 for a 9.825 score which would have been .25 higher than I had her at 9.80.

 

Check my post #1308 immediately above. Would judge 1 have lowered Skye's start value or given a .2 deduction for a missed connection judge 2 did not see? Seems to me that this should have been worked out by the head judge or CJR should have asked for a clarification. I know it's an exhibition but get it right for Skye moving forward. I agree, she is close.

BTW, I didn't see the missed connection.

 

From College Gym News:

Week 11 Results - College Gym News

No. 10 Kentucky (197.725) at No. 3 Florida (198.625)

• VT: Ferris (UF), 10.000
• UB: Arana (UF), Harris-Miranda (UF), 9.950
• BB: Harris-Miranda (UF), 10.000
• FX: Wong (UF), 10.000
• AA: Harris-Miranda (UF), 39.875
• Records: Florida – new 2nd highest team all-around score (198.625), tied 2nd highest team vault score (49.7), tied 4th highest team beam score (49.65), tied 4th highest team floor score (49.725), tied 2nd highest individual all-around score (39.875 – Selena Harris-Miranda), tied individual vault record (10.0 – Danie Ferris), tied individual beam record (10.0 – Selena Harris-Miranda), tied individual floor record (10.0 – Leanne Wong) and Kentucky – tied team beam record (49.575)

 

Graduating seniors, family, support personnel, and coaches:

 

Jade Carey had a night for the Oregon State record books:

Carey’s Record Day Leads Beavers in Front of Record Crowd - Oregon State University Athletics

Vault 9.950
Bars 9.975
Beam 10.000
Floor 10.000
All Around 39.925

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Jade Carey earned a pair of perfect scores as Oregon State gymnastics finished with a season-high 197.700 in front of a program record 9,042 fans at Gill Coliseum.

She finished the day with a career-best 39.925, which included a pair of perfect 10s on beam and floor and came after a 9.950 on vault and 9.975 on the bars. Carey, who swept the event titles, has now won both the all-around and beam titles in all 10 of her appearances this season.

Looking ahead for Oregon State this week, they are hosting Fisk. Oregon State along with Washington State joined the West Coast Conference after they were left behind by the B1G/PAC 12 merger. The West Coast Conference doesn't sponsor women's college gymnastics.

Jade's father is a coach with his own gym, trained Jade and Riley McCusker. I suspect if Jade wants to coach women's college gymnastics, she will someday have a HC home at Oregon State. I don't know OSU gymnastics history, but I can't imagine a better gymnast to ever come through the program.

 

Saturday Night Special Result on Fox at Utah:

Utah 198.1000
UCLA 197.4250

There is a new #4 team this week, Utah. The Red Rocks performed much better than the Bruins and it wasn't just senior night cooking. The Red Rocks are the better team.

Right now, I'm thinking we have a clear top 4 for the NCAA finals so long as the teams don't crash and burn like the Sooners did last season in the NCAA Semifinal:

1T. Florida
1T. LSU
1T. Oklahoma
4. Utah

The Gators have scored four 198s with 198.625 vs. Kentucky being the top score in the nation, 3 in a row with 3 at home and 1 away.

The Tigers have scored four 198s with a high score of 198.575, 2 at home and 2 away.

The Sooners have scored four 198s with a high score of 198.475, 2 at home and 2 away.

The Red Rocks have scored two 198s with a high score of 198.100, 2 at home and 0 away.

The only other team that has scored 198 is Missouri who set a program record 2 weeks ago at home. Several more have come close but haven't scored 198.

I predicted 1. Florida, 2. LSU, and 3. Oklahoma as my preseason top 3, but I think it will be a hard fight for the national championship and final rankings with Utah coming in 4th. UF lost at LSU and Oklahoma but beat Utah on a neutral floor.