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September 8
Freshman Danielle Spencer performs a back gainer tuck full off the end of the beam. In a world of side gainer fulls and round-off one and a halves, this dismount is a nice change from the norm. |
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September 15, 2015
Freshman Lauryn Mattson is training a Yurchenko half on vault, which now only starts from a 9.95 with the new rule modifications. Her goal will be to perform it as cleanly as possible as she will already be at a disadvantage to those competing vaults with 10.0 start values. |
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September 17, 2015
Arizona got its 2016 season officially started Sept. 17 with its first mandatory practice of the year. It’s the first day of a long preseason before competitions can finally get underway in January. |
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September 18, 2015
The GymCats are working hard on floor tumbling, and it’s showing. The team has multiple E-level passes including a beautiful triple twist and a double Arabian. There’s also an back double full to front tuck combination thrown in. |
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September 18, 2015
If the team keeps this up, it’s going to turn heads in 2016. And not just because of its improved gymnastics but for its variety in skills too. On bars, the GymCats have a piked jaeger, straddled jaeger to shoot over, double layout dismount and double Arabian dismount to name a few. |
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September 22, 2015
Skyler Sheppard, sister of Michigan’s Austin Sheppard, is a freshman at Arizona. This preseason, she’ll be working toward a spot in the lineups come 2016. |
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September 28, 2015
Freshman Skyler Sheppard works her release on bars during fall training. |
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September 29, 2015
Freshman Brittany Robertson, a New Zealander, works acro skills and choreography on beam in the latest clip from Arizona. |
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