NCAA Will this lessen my chance?

[Emi2894]

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

 

[gym_dad32608]

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.

 

[Mthegymqueen]

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).

 

[Emi2894]

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

 

[GymnastMomX2]

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.