… starting to appear on YouTube, though it will be weeks before delayed coverage goes up on TV.
Click PLAY or watch Vanessa Zamarripa’s winning Vaults on YouTube.
Looks like she could easily add another twist to both those vaults. They’re so high and extended.
In College Finals the girls must show two different vaults, not necessarily from two different families. Yet they qualify to Finals with only one vault, a safety concern as kids (not Vanessa) “chuck” vaults they’ve hardly done all year. … Or compete vaults of less than 10.0 start value.
It was obvious to anyone who sat through 1hr 40min of Vault Finals on Saturday that the current scheme is a disaster.
I’d have gymnasts compete one vault in Finals, instead. But many people I talked to at Championships, including College coaches, preferred having kids that want to compete Finals, do two different vaults in team preliminaries. Mathematically, that would reduce the number of Finalists.
Update: College Gymnastics Board discussion – Let’s talk vault event finals – how do you fix it?
Aunt Joyce has commentary and links to more videos: Anna Li’s vault, Brittani McCullough’s winning Floor, Hollie Vise’s Floor, Courtney McCool’s Beam. AND Susan Jackson’s very difficult Beam routine to win Finals. Susan killed it, the most convincing win in Finals.
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