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Some recent training videos of Jordan doing some of her elite skills below. Not sure if she's just playing around or keeping them fresh for a return down the road. In 2022 she came back at nationals so she might do the same this year. My hope is that she takes this year off from elite - she's...

What’s the qualifying score to US classic?

That's a huge get for UCLA

That makes more sense than Emily transferring. She’s been such a champion of UCLA and the team.

Leanne is a beautiful gymnast and she's also had consistency issues for the past few years in major team competitions. We saw what just happened in the semis, she also struggled on beam at SEC's this year. In 2024, she fell on beam in the final four. In 2023, she stumbled out of bounds on...

I almost never watch the awards ceremony but did this time. Unfortunately one of the things that stuck out was Selena HM ignoring Emma Malabuyo when Emma came up to give Selena a hug during the beam awards. It was so tacky and only reinforced the narrative about the childish/mean girl behavior...

Do you what the rotation order is?

I thought the top 8 coming into regionals would produce a great nationals and it was also clear that Cal was the most at-risk of getting left behind with Bama at home. Regionals tends to be that meet where a small number of teams have a great meet and the others that make it through tend to grit...

UCLA looked nervous to me. This season was so focused on responding to what happened last year - the inconsistency, the internal issues, and getting knocked out in round 2 of regionals. I hope they can now relax a bit and just go for it at nationals.

Fletcher and Scheible's injuries certainly reduced their depth. I thought we'd see more of Slade but she hasn't been looking great and, when they've put Siegfeldt in, she's been inconsistent. My best guess is that they're sticking with the top 6 on each event and, for this year, that's meant a...

Update on Macy McGowan: “She (McGowan) had a back flare-up that we’re managing. It’s nothing serious,” McDonald said. “We felt like what was best for her was to rest her today, to make sure that she’s feeling as good as possible, hopefully, as we look forward to the national championships.”

Maybe it could be a conference equivalent to NQS using only in-conference meets or even an average score of those meets.

The final session has the top 4 seeds by NQS so that one ended up more typical

SEC in general has gotten very loose in their scoring

For UCLA, after last year's inconsistency and a tough first meet this year, to have hit every meet since above a 197 and entering NQS in 2nd place has to be a huge boost of confidence.