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The Dismount: Week 10

What a final weekend of the regular season! Scores soared to even greater heights (somehow), and some teams did what they needed to to get more comfortably in regionals position while others didn’t hit the mark. Catch up on all the senior night emotions, big routines, memorable moments, and more below.

Superlatives

Prettiest Fall

Of course it was a bummer that Maile O’Keefe fell on choreography when her team was still in it to win the meet, but at least it was a pretty fall? In fact, one judge gave the Utah senior a “perfect” 9.500.

Awkward Mixup

Iowa competed at Southern Utah with San Jose State in a tri meet on Friday, and it sounds like the broadcast may have mixed up the two gymnastics schools from the Hawkeye state. The Hawkeyes can rest easy though knowing it’s the winner of this year’s Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series.

Most Heartwarming Senior Moment

 

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We recognize that this happened last week, but we couldn’t let it pass by without recognizing it. Our favorite part of senior nights are when those seniors that don’t get to compete as much get to perform an exhibition routine one last time. Utah State took it to another level, letting team manager—and NAIGC gymnast—Daniel Barclay do a floor routine, which opened with a huge full-twisting double tuck.

Best Judge Shade

While she may technically be incorrect about it being a 10, Olympic champion and gymnastics GOAT Simone Biles got in on the gymternet fun of calling out judges on Twitter, posting about elite teammate Jordan Chiles’ fantastic stuck Yurchenko double at UCLA’s senior night meet on Saturday.

Best Quote
“I hate to use the phrase ‘just suck it up and do it,’ but that’s what they do.” – Jason Butts on how his West Virginia team handles physically and mentally taxing double-meet weekends.

Biggest Rule That Needs Changing

Regular season championships are already pretty silly for a sport where wins and losses don’t matter until the postseason. However, if conferences insist on awarding that trophy, at least break the tie with head-to-head matchups, NQS, average, high score—really any of the plethora of ways the sport has to settle such matters. Once again we had a four-way tie for the Pac-12 champion in 2023, this time between California, Oregon State, UCLA, and Utah. If everyone gets an award, is it really worth awarding?

Results

Click and expand the events below to see results from each meet, as well as individual career highs and team program records.

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Around the Gymternet

Interested in a more in-depth breakdown of how the USAG and NCGA teams performed this week? Check out recaps and results in our other respective Dismounts.

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2 comments

  1. Mailie’s fall was one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen, at least since Myk fell on her bars mount at regionals in 2019. In both cases we are talking about gymnasts that had never missed a competition routine on that apparatus in their college career. For Myk, you could see that it was a problem with her grip, but Maile’s fall is completely inexplicable. Also Miale had never scored less than a 9.775, this just amplifies how strange this was. She is the consummate perfectionist and I think this will just be more motivation for her, but it was heartbreaking to watch “Superwoman” fall from the sky. I am sad to see the way this meet turned out as the Red Rocks have worked so hard to have the title alone this year, but it sure makes a lot of people happy that the other teams got a piece of the pie. It does bring up my least favorite part of NCAA Gym, that is people rooting against the other team. I love to watch these amazing women achieving the best they can be regardless of the leo that they are wearing. I do think that the post season will be amazing on many levels, and from here on out it is four judges on every event which seems to make the scoring much more fair and consistent.

  2. This was truly one of the greatest tragedies of the scoring year. The implications of this scoring debacle are far reaching. It not only affected the placement for the regular season Pac 12. It bumped in Utah out of fourth into fifth behind UCLA. It is generally agreed throughout the NCAA bloggers, including this channel that the scoring for Oregon, particularly on bars, was outrageous. it was not Utah’s best meet however the scoring was so lopsided that all bloggers commented on how bad it was. This was a truly unfortunate meet. It is to be hoped that the Pac 12 championship will be fairly and professionally scored. Again, we hear all the time about over scoring, but this particular meet shows how devastating it can be. Let’s hope something can be done about it in the future. I love NCAA gymnastics, but it is broken and needs to be fixed.

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