(GYM) Gymnastics 2024 - 2025

The neutral deduction is for out of bounds. Victoria was charged with the OOB on her first pass, but the replay showed that she didn’t step OOB but the extra mat confused the line judge. In the end, it didn’t matter since her score was dropped.

 

I think the deduction was because she missed her sissone element at the end of her first pass because she stumbled. Not for out of bounds.

 

Ferris has been ill this week and sat out meet. She is not injured. Lazzari took her spot. The Gators still scored 49.550 without our most consistent vaulter. Not sure about Lily Bruce.

 

On replay, Nguyen was clearly not OOB. The judges took a while to post score One judge thought she was OOB on 1st pass.
Dr. Sam PhD posted on Twitter:
Nguyen FX: Front double full over rotated and sissoned very forward. 1.5 to lay. Nice other than the first pass.
On College Gym News Live Blog:
Nguyen (UF): Bounds forward in the attempted sissone out of the front double full. Clean switch ring to switch half. Great height and control on the back 1.5 to front layout. 9.5

 

Friday Night Meets Scores of Interest

team VT UB BB FX total
@Ohio St 48.950 48.775 48.825 49.200 195.750
Michigan St 49.450 49.100 48.900 49.300 196.800

@BYU 48.775 48.550 48.975 49.025 195.325
*Utah 49.200 49.250 49.350 49.175 196.975
*Next week's opponent @West Virginia 02/02/25

SEC

@Auburn 49.100 49.175 49.450 49.400 197.025
Oregon St 49.125 48.950 49.575 49.325 196.975
AA Jade Carey 39.625

@Arkansas 49.250 49.250 48.850 49.525 196.875
LSU 49.350 49.375 49.025 48.850 196.600

@Alabama 49.075 49.150 49.200 48.875 196.300
Oklahoma 49.300 49.275 49.575 49.400 197.550

 

With #3 Florida's score of 198.125, our season average went up from 197.063 to 197.417
#2 LSU's 196.600 dropped their season average from 197.500 to 197.275

 

Love that LSU lost to Arkansas.

 

This is Selena on her beam dismount.
This does not show the live version on my phone, but it is a great routine.

 

After our first meet of the season, Selena said she was as nervous as she was in her very first collegiate meet as a freshman with the extra pressure she had put on herself from wanting to look good in her Gator Nation debut. In the Georgia meet, Selena looked calm and relaxed. After an uncharacteristic fall by Leanne Wong on Beam, in front of a near capacity O'Dome, Selena was as cool as an ocean breeze after a summer shower as she leaped, flipped and turned confidently on the 4" wide apparatus (BTW, her Beam routine has a high level of difficulty that only a very few gymnasts attempt in NCAA). Skye and Kayla's potential high scoring abilities are indispensable and Jenny needed to minimize the differential between them and put together the best lineup to maximize potential scoring. It is easier to replace one gymnast, but two elites who are also two of the best in the NCAA was going to be really tough. Shuffling lineups to replace injured gymnasts is a required job skill as a coach, and Jenny is a seasoned veteran. Since recruiting was over for the 2024 class, the transfer portal was Jenny's only option. Enters Harris-Miranda. In only a couple of days, Jenny had weaved her charm and magic and convinced this west coast gal to move from a thirsty brown desert that's always on the brink, across the country to rainy and lush north central Florida. An elite gymnast of this level of talent doesn't come every year. Selena's consistency of high scoring, high flying and controlled twisting-thru-air and cat-like ability of landing on her two feet glued to the mat is a game-changer, and gives the Gators a much-needed boost with recovering the potential high scores we had lost from the two injuries. Selena is the greatest transfer pickup ever for the Gators IMHO. But there's more: In November, 5-star recruit Ly Bui decided to enroll a year early. She is a potential AA but hasn't had enough time to train. Still she was able to make the Vault lineup and has already scored a 9.9. That's how talented she is! Then Skye Blakey's rehab and recovery from her devisting injury has been going so well, she's ahead of schedule and is in the Bars lineup improving every meet. Skye could be in more lineups, depending on her rehabbing, as the season progresses.
The season is not even at the half-way point. There are a lot of tough meets ahead. Still, there's a feeling of swag coming from the team. An aura of excitement and confidence. I'm starting to have a very good feeling for our chances.

 

On Monday, Jan 20th, Utah, our next opponent, had another meet. This was their first meet since their talented freshman Avery Neff was injured.
Here is their result:
VT 49.375
UB 49.525
BB 49.525
FX 49.525
Total 197.975

Utah used 3 AA's
AA Makenna Smith 39.725
AA Grace McCallum 39.600
AA Camie Winger 39.475