NCAA NCAA Women's Regionals

[Coach Kate]

What a nail biter in Seattle!

I know! I wanted to go but I live in a suburb pretty far south and traffic is brutal on Friday afternoons.

 

[bookworm]

Arizona and Arizona State are really bringing it! Georgia fell apart on beam but they're not out of it yet.

Last time Georgia fell apart and had 3 falls and cost them moving forward in NCAAs cost Jay Clark his job....but he "failed" up! I am surprised at what a wild card Kara Eaker is and now that she has fallen twice on that mount (that she doesn't even need) hopefully it gets removed from her routine going forward.

 

[Coach Kate]

Last time Georgia fell apart and had 3 falls and cost them moving forward in NCAAs cost Jay Clark his job....but he "failed" up! I am surprised at what a wild card Kara Eaker is and now that she has fallen twice on that mount (that she doesn't even need) hopefully it gets removed from her routine going forward.

They gave Kupets a ton of time though so I'm inclined to think they'll want to see what Cecile (and Ryan) can do.

 

[bookworm]

They gave Kupets a ton of time though so I'm inclined to think they'll want to see what Cecile (and Ryan) can do.

Oh I'm not suggesting they fire Cecile! I think she's done a great job with Georgia, except maybe with Eaker...I might have pulled her out of line ups when she was getting less reliable...she was an elite gymnast so Cecile has dealt with that type of athlete but on the whole, you can tell she coached before. I think Kupets just wasn't ready to become a Head Coach of any team, never mind that she set tons of records at UGA, because she had never coached before....bring her in as an assistant and do the Jordyn Wieber progression but that whole scenario when Kupets was hired had disaster written all over it from the get go.

 

[Coach Kate]

Oh I'm not suggesting they fire Cecile! I think she's done a great job with Georgia, except maybe with Eaker...I might have pulled her out of line ups when she was getting less reliable...she was an elite gymnast so Cecile has dealt with that type of athlete but on the whole, you can tell she coached before. I think Kupets just wasn't ready to become a Head Coach of any team, never mind that she set tons of records at UGA, because she had never coached before....bring her in as an assistant and do the Jordyn Wieber progression but that whole scenario when Kupets was hired had disaster written all over it from the get go.

Eaker also had a whole year off of competing before this. Definitely a team to watch coming up though.

What is up in Seattle though? So many falls in the first semifinal and now Nebraska with two beam falls and Auburn on bars.

 

[bookworm]

Eaker also had a whole year off of competing before this. Definitely a team to watch coming up though.

What is up in Seattle though? So many falls in the first semifinal and now Nebraska with two beam falls and Auburn on bars.

The shocking thing to me in Seattle is that Oklahoma didn't break 9.9 on any vault, and they shouldn't have ....Yeah there have been more falls than I would have expected but maybe pressure got to people.

The other thing I noticed is judges not giving connection to series on beam that are not connected, a la Lily Smith from UGA ...definitely not connected. It's about time.

 

[Coach Kate]

The shocking thing to me in Seattle is that Oklahoma didn't break 9.9 on any vault, and they shouldn't have ....Yeah there have been more falls than I would have expected but maybe pressure got to people.

They haven't really put vault together yet this year. And vault scoring has been pretty tight here.