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I want to go to an D1 college for gymnastics. I don’t want to be an all around gymnastics I only want to compete floor and vault in college. When I look at other floor specialists in college before they got to college they did all four events. If I am a floor and vault specialist before college will that lessen my chance to get into a college?Please help me out :)
 
Yes, it will limit your opportunities. It doesn't mean that you cant reach your goals though. In the context of recruitment, floor specialists are non-existent. In college scoring there is very little differentiation (a ton of people clustered at the 9.9-95 band) on the floor, so most programs have plenty of athletes who can score well. Vault specialists do exist in recruiting, as a fair number of college teams still do not have full 10.0 SV rosters. So teams will be interested if you have a solid 10.0 SV college vault. I don't know how far you are from recruitment year but things may change a lot in the next couple of years in how schools look at building a roster. Roster limits are going up which might change schools' approach. But if you're set on specializing, I would focus on vault with either a Y1.5 or a 10.1 SV front entry vault.
 
My gym's girls who went on to college teams competed VT, BB, FX specialists as 10s, so it should not affect your chances, it will be a lot harder though. You just have to make sure those events really standout to get recruited (have 10.0 SV).
 
Yes, it will limit your opportunities. It doesn't mean that you cant reach your goals though. In the context of recruitment, floor specialists are non-existent. In college scoring there is very little differentiation (a ton of people clustered at the 9.9-95 band) on the floor, so most programs have plenty of athletes who can score well. Vault specialists do exist in recruiting, as a fair number of college teams still do not have full 10.0 SV rosters. So teams will be interested if you have a solid 10.0 SV college vault. I don't know how far you are from recruitment year but things may change a lot in the next couple of years in how schools look at building a roster. Roster limits are going up which might change schools' approach. But if you're set on specializing, I would focus on vault with either a Y1.5 or a 10.1 SV front entry vault.
Thank you so much this really helps
 
If you have a 10.0 vault, a yurchenko 1.5 or front handspring front pike half I don’t think it would limit you that much.
 

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