Recent content by david

One part of this equation that needs to change is NCAA coaches picking the judges for their home meets. Getting rid of that conflict of interest would release at least some pressure on judges to be generous in their scoring of the home teams that give judges opportunities to do what they care...

I agree and that's been frustrating. I've also been skeptical of UCLA's past claims largely because of who they were relying on to deliver those 10.0 vaults - often athletes that had done 10.0 vaults at some point but it wasn't a real strength or a small number of athletes to get to the 6. The...

UCLA has ten potential 10.0 vaults this season. Hoffman, Callahan, and McGowan are all recovering from lower leg injuries and its unlikely they'll be ready for vault in January but they're all in contention to step in as the season progresses. Tiana is coming back from an ankle injury and...

I agree that if UCLA ends up exclusively relying on their freshman to fill in the blanks from last year's graduates, they could struggle. I think they're going to need help from folks in other classes to fill some of those holes. What I've seen from preseason videos that's looking encouraging is...

I wish Sabrina Mar had been healthy enough to make it onto the 88 team. Nice to know she’s had such a full life post gymnastics.

Yes, and, the poor showing was more about injuries than anything else. Dawes, Borden, Chow, Powell were all out with injuries. Miller and Thompson were competing with injuries. More than anything else that meet indicated that USA would need its A team to vie for the gold in Atlanta and that's...

Yes, she would have been first AA without the beam fall. And, if she had also stood up her vault, she would be way out front in the AA standings.

Wong is really good at qualifying into worlds - she's made it onto the team all but her first try in 2019. But, she struggles to deliver at worlds. Same in NCAA - her performances throughout the year were often very good and at nationals she was inconsistent.

it does seem most likely that its between hang and blakely for the final spot. Sullivan has an outside shot but more likely that she'll get an alternate spot. Whoever gets named, my best guess is that they're not going to assign whose doing what events/the AA until after podium training. There...

i would love to see Nemour win the AA. Aside from what vault she throws, beam is the other big question mark. for the past few seasons she's put up a handful of great beam routines like the one above but hasn't pulled that level of routine off at a worlds or olympics. The good news for her is...

In general the AAers for worlds doesn't feel settled other than Hezly if she continues to hit. What Wong did with the Cheng and her consistency was put herself in much stronger contention but that second spot could be taken by Wong, Hang, Pease, or Roberson. I'm glad that its competitive and it...

I agree with what everyone's saying about Hezly. That said, she has the difficulty to compete for an AA spot and the options in the AA are not great at this point. Last year she had a terrible performance across all 4 events at classics and showed up at nationals looking like a different gymnast...

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