NCAA 2026 Week 3: January 12-18

[RichardL]

Also it is WILD that the current World 3rd place champion on vault is not even in the line up for Arkansas on that event.

Elite vs. NCAA vault is such a weird thing in general. No one attempts to stick in elite anymore, everything is scrappy and chucked... I can't stand NCAA routines for the most part on other events, but vault is such a breath of fresh air. Good technique on display, attention to basics, etc

 

[RedBirdie]

I wondered if they were protecting her ankle, but I see she's doing floor. But her vault scores were pretty meh last year. Only scored 9.9 once, and her scores was the dropped score at multiple meets.

Let's be honest, she the current world vault bronze medalist because everything that could go wrong at 2025 worlds on vault went wrong and she somehow was one of the last 3 left standing. Go for her, but she's got to be the weakest vault medalist in a looooooooong time.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

I wondered if they were protecting her ankle, but I see she's doing floor. But her vault scores were pretty meh last year. Only scored 9.9 once, and her scores was the dropped score at multiple meets.

Let's be honest, she the current world vault bronze medalist because everything that could go wrong at 2025 worlds on vault went wrong and she somehow was one of the last 3 left standing. Go for her, but she's got to be the weakest vault medalist in a looooooooong time.

Yeah that was a pretty niche set of circumstances. Though fair fucks to her of course, she can only beat what's there.

 

[RichardL]

Yeah that was a pretty niche set of circumstances. Though fair fucks to her of course, she can only beat what's there.

Yeah, Wong and Deng should have pushed her to fifth at the very least.