These ginormous “heads” first appeared last year and re-appeared at the UF vs. Ga. meet.
Balance Beam Situation:
Florida’s big score over the weekend helped them erase one of their lackluster early scores and leapfrog Oklahoma in the RQS rankings. Given their talent level and their ability to hit routines the last few weeks, it’s hard to argue against Florida as the top team in the nation, though UCLA certainly had a few things to say about that yesterday, recording a 198.050 for the top score of the season and their best score since 2004. All of the sudden they proved that the big five beam workers of Peszek, EHH, Zamarripa, Larson, and Gerber can make them the unexpected best beam team in the nation. Now, all they need is a convincing wig so they can introduce new walk-on freshman Vicki Tom as the 6th worker. …
BBS projects Florida, Oklahoma and UCLA as the only teams with a “legitimate claim on the top seed going into Regionals”.
The top-36 teams according to RQS rankings qualify to an NCAA regional.
Lauren Hopkins is another who feels that UCLA deserved the 198.05 last weekend, despite a fall on Beam from Kaelie Baer.
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