by Rick McCharles
Analysis will show that many of those teams that finished lower than projected lost important team members during the season.
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On the other hand, Georgia lost the most important team member of all — Courtney Kupets — and still finished #1.
UPDATE: Heenan wins 2008 Honda Sports Awards for NCAA gymnastics.
Hey, Georgia’s Katie Heenan is engaged.
Katie’s really moving on after a fantastic career. Her performance in Team finals was dramatic:
… Georgia was nearly flawless until the rock in their line-up, Senior Katie Heenan, fell hard on a high release move from bars. This was the first fall from the team.
Georgia moved next directly to beam, the apparatus that has been the undoing of many an NCAA team. Yet Yoculan felt confident. Lead-off Freshman Hilary Mauro hit for 9.80, and the team felt sure they could finish this apparatus strong. They’d been focusing on this situation in training.
To make things right, Heenan came back with a superb 9.95 on beam and mathematically sealed the Georgia victory. Athens 2004 Olympian Courtney McCool was last competitor. A 9.90 that turned out not even to be needed for the team win. …
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