Vault
Brandie Jay (UGA)
Lindsay Mable (Minnesota)
Lindsey Cheek (UGA)
Ashleigh Gnat (LSU)
Rheagan Courville (LSU)
Sachi Sugiyama (Michigan)
Maileana Kanewa (OU)
Haley Scaman (OU)
Kat Grable (Arkansas)
Olivia Courtney (UCLA)
Bridget Sloan (Florida)
Georgia Dabritz (Utah)Bars
Lindsey Cheek (UGA)
Kristina Vaculik (Stanford)
Rheagan Courville (LSU)
Joanna Sampson (Michigan)
Taylor Spears (OU)
Shona Morgan (Stanford)
Samantha Shapiro (Stanford)
Bridget Sloan (Florida)
Kim Jacob (Bama)
Macko Caquatto (Florida)
Alaina Johnson (Florida)
Sam Peszek (UCLA)Beam
Taylor Spears (OU)
Hanna Nordquist (Minnesota)
Maddie Gardiner (OSU)
May Beth Box (UGA)
Lindsey Cheek (UGA)
Sydney Ewing (LSU)
Chayse Capps (OU)
Kristina Vaculik (Stanford)
Kim Jacob (Bama)
Sarah DeMeo (Bama)
Alaina Johnson (Florida)
Macko Caquatto (Florida)
Hollie Blanske (Nebraska)
Jamie Schleppenbach (Nebraska)
Jessie DeZiel (Nebraska)
Emily Wong (Nebraska)Floor
Joanna Sampson (Michigan)
Maileana Kanewa (OU)
Haley Scaman (OU)
Brandie Jay (UGA)
Jessica Savona (LSU)
Lara Albright (OU)
Kat Grable (Arkansas)
Kim Jacob (Bama)
Emily Wong (Nebraska)
Lauren Beers (Bama)
Diandra Milliner (Bama)
Becky Tutka (Utah)
Nansy Damianova (Utah)The surprises:
VT – no Milliner, Mable, Delaney or Wilson
UB – no Davis or Dabritz
BB – no Nush, Peszek, Sloan
FX – no Hall, Mable, Dabritz, Hunter, Peszek or even Sawa.ohalia on College Gymnastics Board
It’s time for the annual moaning about idiotic NCAA judging that tries to rank hit routines between 9.80 and 10.00.
John Roethlisberger on Facebook:
No one loves collegiate gymnastics more than I do, but until collegiate women’s gymnastics starts using legitimate scoring, you all are going to be beating your head against the wall. Don’t get me wrong, I am still a fan and I enjoy watching but if I had a vested interest I would be frustrated. For example, on Floor, there is .2 separating 1st and 41st.
Really?
In real gymnastics terms, with real deductions, do any of you think there is really only .2 separately 41 people? I like seeing 9.9’s and 10.0’s as much as the next guy, but there needs to me more separation. And I’m not even saying the results are wrong, I honestly have no idea, but if real deductions were taken, it would be more clear. …
I’m less unhappy with the final rankings than usual. I’d say Nebraska truly did deserve to move on ahead of Utah and UCLA. That was one incredible Beam rotation for them. Utah gave it away on Vault.
Biggest problems I saw in prelims:
• Vault judging does not reward the best vaults.
• Home court advantage makes a big difference. Alabama should not have matched Florida.
• Big name gymnasts gain as much as 0.05 / routine
• “safe” routine construction is too much rewarded. e.g. Oklahoma
With so much parity now between the top teams, it is time to make more differentiation between the highest scores.
Vault should have (relative to gymnast size) increased height and distance requirements. Yurchenko 1/1 scores should be lowered, perhaps lowered to a 9.95 start.
On Bars, overshoot not taken to handstand should be deducted 0.05 as should a squat-on, jump to high. Those transitions look out of place.
I’d like them to continue the emphasis on landing, actually. These young women are at high risk of Achilles and ACL injury. The more attention paid to landing, the safer.
For some reason even the very best WAG “landers: are less skilled at it than any average MAG.
A more realistic solution would be to allow judges to award increments of 0.05 at major competitions like Regionals and Championships.
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