The favourite to win NCAA Championships?
With two-time NCAA All-Around Champion Courtney Kupets sidelined with a ruptured Achilles tendon, the competition for this year’s all-around title is wide open.
The natural selection as the favorite to replace Kupets rests with two-time all-around runner-up Ashley Postell, but if regionals proved anything, then the all-around championship is still very much up for grabs.
A favorite has emerged over the past month, it’s an Ashley of a completely different spelling.
After LSU’s Ashleigh Clare-Kearney posted a 39.600 to win the all-around competition at the SEC Championships on March 29, she followed it up with a 39.875 to win the Central Region’s all-around competition. In a sport where the winner and loser are often decided by a hundredth of a point, Clare-Kearney’s .275 bettering of Postell’s regional all-around score has made the LSU junior the woman to beat come April 23. …
Gymnastics: All-around title up for grabs – Daily Utah Chronicle
Here’s an interview with Ashleigh after she scored 10 twice in one meet.
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-7507076676248159984&hl=en
Originally coached by Maureen Chagnon at New England Gymnastics Express, more people are going to know this name in a couple of weeks.
Ashleigh vs Ashley?
NCAA Championships 2008, Athens, Georgia
Ashleigh Clare-Kearney – LSU bio
Gymnastics Coaching.com 