… second-highest score at an NCAA Championships in program history (197.250) to finish fifth …
Sophomore Carinne Gale on the Super 6:
What a day. What a year. What a team. …
We’ve been reminiscing a lot about the start of this season, the infamous 193 in our first meet, and how amazing it is that we’ve come so far.
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On to bars. Wow. Again. Killed it.
Beautiful from top to bottom, and I’m about 99.9 percent sure everyone lost their voice from some crazy excited cheering. Seriously, you ought to watch videos of our bar rotation and it will make you cry of happiness. … Sami, who, in her last performance of her gymnastics career, competed about as beautifully as you possibly can and broke everyone’s heart with her celebration.
Last rotation: beam. Not to be overdramatic, but SWG on beam is basically the most beauty and grace and power you’ll see from anyone in the country. Becky closed out her career in a wonderfully exciting way with a fantastic beam routine along with Kristina in a clutch performance that was beautiful despite the pressure.
Ebee made her collegiate beam debut and did so a huge fashion with no wobbles and a great double pike dismount. …
And then there was Ivie.
Between her second-to-none-except-maybe-Sami’s toe point, her difficulty, her awe inspiring lines, and her completely unshakeable mindset and form, her score of a 9.975 accurately showed just why everyone on the team, everyone in the crowd, and even the judges were entirely captivated.
And just like that, it was all over. I’m not exaggerating a bit when I say that not one of us cared what place we ended up. No matter what the results said, we were content and proud and overjoyed and overwhelmed. …
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