2025 Covid year YAY or NAY (final year of Covid +1 year)

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Davis is definitely back for a 5th year


Adeline Kenlin is back for a 5th at Iowa (really, that's the picture they chose? That leo is at least 2 sizes too small)


Gabby Gallentine is also taking a 5th year
 
Huh, cupping is still a thing?

also, i guess yay for the returning 5th years? Can't get all that excited--I like it better when teams have to learn to do without their previous stars.
 
Just projecting my personal thoughts on all the eligible athletes for 5th years (in other words, if it was me), why the heck would you not take an opportunity to stay in a sport for one more year that you have been intimately involved with for probably 13+ years? The only reasons I could see someone not:
1. Injury
2. Burned out or dislike of program/staff and too much effort to transfer for one year
3. An opportunity to start your next phase of life that you cannot delay or is too good to delay

I mean even if you are never going to see the line-ups or rarely see the line-ups, its kinda a bonus year that you get to go out on your terms in a way.
 
For some it's definitely injury, but a few others it has to do with their intended major. Some are too intensive to manage sports too, especially med school. With how long that takes to do, how long do they really want to put it off?
 
Frida Esparza returning for 5th year at UCLA
 
diary room yawn GIF by Big Brother UK
 
Yeah I think she is going for the NIL money and can get to work on a masters for free essentially.

She originally posted she was not returning for a 5th year. Wonder what changed her mind?
Maybe a chance at repeating as team champion?
 
I'm fine with Livvy taking a fifth year if that's what she wants. Jay won't be favoring her over newcomers for places in the lineup the way he has with some of the previous fifth-years, and that matters more to me than her social media presence.
 
I'm fine with Livvy taking a fifth year if that's what she wants. Jay won't be favoring her over newcomers for places in the lineup the way he has with some of the previous fifth-years, and that matters more to me than her social media presence.
Yep he knows what he is doing. I assume she’ll be out there warming up bars at every meet…then not competing.
 
Summer graduation commencement at LSU.
Jay Clark was the commencement speaker.

Sierra Ballard graduated undergrad. The others with their Masters
 

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