The favourite to win NCAA Championships?
With two-time NCAA All-Around Champion Courtney Kupets sidelined with a ruptured Achilles tendon, the competition for this year’s all-around title is wide open.
The natural selection as the favorite to replace Kupets rests with two-time all-around runner-up Ashley Postell, but if regionals proved anything, then the all-around championship is still very much up for grabs.
A favorite has emerged over the past month, it’s an Ashley of a completely different spelling.
After LSU’s Ashleigh Clare-Kearney posted a 39.600 to win the all-around competition at the SEC Championships on March 29, she followed it up with a 39.875 to win the Central Region’s all-around competition. In a sport where the winner and loser are often decided by a hundredth of a point, Clare-Kearney’s .275 bettering of Postell’s regional all-around score has made the LSU junior the woman to beat come April 23. …
Gymnastics: All-around title up for grabs – Daily Utah Chronicle
Here’s an interview with Ashleigh after she scored 10 twice in one meet.
Originally coached by Maureen Chagnon at New England Gymnastics Express, more people are going to know this name in a couple of weeks.
Ashleigh vs Ashley?
NCAA Championships 2008, Athens, Georgia
Ashleigh Clare-Kearney – LSU bio
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i think Ashleigh
i met her at the NCAA National Leadership Conference this past summer, and she is a great girl, and great leader, and an amazing gymnast. She definately deserves it!!
[...] The favourite, Ashleigh Clare-Kearney from LSU, had a fall on beam and did not show her best vault. Her coach, D-D Breaux, noted that Ashleigh will be back on the Floor Friday. D-D is asking her team to “compete with reckless abandon” in their first Super 6 Final. [...]
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