Beam is almost always the best apparatus in NCAA competition. Tonight was no exception.
Performances are amazingly stable.
The maturity and confidence shown is wonderful — especially after watching little girls in FIG competitions chuck as many difficult skills in sequence as they can, regardless of wobbles or falls.
1. Grace Taylor, Georgia
2T. Ashley Postell, Utah
2T. Emily Parsons, Nebraska
full results and photos
I love Grace Taylor, by the way. She was “inspired” by the all the “fun” McCool was having over on Floor. The home town crowd was going nuts for McCool. Grace competed immediately after.
Click PLAY or watch her routine from earlier in the season on YouTube.
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Very polished.
Wonder what it would score at an FIG meet? Can you score it for me?
She does move to the side on her dismount, implying that she twists off of the beam. (A flaw imo.)
She is adorable, and I love her routine, but I think the scoring for her routines was inflated because it was a Georgia home meet. Ashley Postell was a former world champion on this event, and performed a near perfect routine. The only deduction I saw on Postell’s routine was a possible check on her front tuck, which I thought she disguised very successfully as a dance move. She performed a full-twisting back handspring swing down, and a wolf-jump to a 1/4 bhs to handstand — which stood out considerably over the routines that almost seem compulsary after watching gymnast after gymnast compete the same skills.
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