Get ready to immerse yourself in a sea of pink because George Washington is hosting its first-ever Barbie-themed pink meet. The Colonials are coming off a season-high win against LIU last week at a 195.575. Towson is also coming off a 196.300 season-high, surpassing the 196-mark which is something The Colonials have yet to do this season. The Tigers have never beat The Colonials at their home meet, could this be their year?
Kent State has been having an incredible season. The 197.725 that the Flashes posted at that Tennessee meet was a bit of a fever dream, but they’re also coming off a 196.925 against Northern Illinois last week, the team’s third-highest score in program history. Will Kent State be able to break into the 197s here and win the meet?
Rotation 1: Kent State Vault, New Hampshire Bars, William and Mary Beam, Towson Floor, George Washington Bye
Each team seems is appropriately decked out in pink. Looks like William and Mary brought back *THAT* leotard…
Faulkner – William and Mary: Slight hesitation on full turn, solid BHS LOSO, switch half is quite short of 180 and has a wobble, solid aerial, gainer full off with some piking
Weinhurst – Kent State: Powerful FTY, some piking and a hop back
Bainer – Kent State: Stuck FTY – leg separations in the air and some piking down
Brown – New Hampshire: Clear hip, bail to handstand with an arch, blind change into Markelov, blind full into double tuck
Gilbert – Kent State: Yurchenko 1.5! Unfortunatly is very underrotated and lands it on her bottom
Frazier – William and Mary: I think BHS LOSO, the stream JUST cut to her routine, front toss to beat jump, 1.5 dismount. Nice!
In the year 2024 and scores still aren’t working cool cool.
Gorgenyi – New Hampshire: Maloney to bail handstand, clean, stuck full-in dismount.
Tisler – Towson: Front layout to Rudi, lunge back, 1.5 to floaty layout, good finish.
Ngo – William and Mary: Lean in the full turn, BHS LOSO, lean, cat jump to hesitation to aerial, gainer full with a step back. Apparently there’s a 9.5/10.0 SV discrepancy uhm…
Halsell – Towson: Piked full-in, HUGE, front pike into double tuck.
Huang – William and Mary: Exhibition, BHS LOSO, split jump to straddle three quarters, slow connection, cartwheel, gainer pike with a hop.
After 1: Towson 49.025, Kent State 48.775, William and Mary 48.575, New Hampshire 48.400
Good opening rotation for each team: Towson showed impressive tumbling to break into the 49s, capped off with Halsell’s 9.875. William and Mary was solid on beam for a 48.575, a season high for them.
Rotation 2: George Washington vault, Kent State bars, UNH beam, William and Mary floor, Towson bye
York – GW: FTY, piked down and a bounce back
Bainer – Kent State: Maloney to bail handstand, some arching, stuck double tuck.
Bauman – New Hampshire: Cat leap to front toss, landing is a bit crunchy, sheep jump to beet jump
Penzi – William and Mary: Double pike, lunge back, 1.5 to front layout, a bit deep.
Silverman – George Washington: Good FTY, arms are bent on the table and takes a bounce back.
Katz – George Washington: Yurchenko half, nice body position in the air and takes a hop.
Fuertez – Kent State: HUGE Tkatchev, reminds me of Nia Dennis, I think she did an orphan bail, I missed the dismount but it was a hit
Divencenzo – New Hampshire: Front toss to beat jump, gainer full dismount with tiny hop
Whitman – George Washington: FHS front pike half, legs in the pre-flight and hop back.
Burke – William and Mary: Stuck double tuck, front layout to full to finish
Zois – George Washington: flaired out FTY, finds the landing and almost gets the stick
Gilbert – New Hampshire: Wonderful floaty Tkatchev directly into the bail, great, stuck dismount.
Gorgenyi – New Hampshire: BHS LOSO, solid, good aerial, switch leap with a bobble, split jump to straddle quarter, misses the 180, gainer tuck full off.
Ngo – William and Mary: Rudi to open, good dance series, back 1.5 to front layout, some knees in the layout.
Volier – New Hampshire: Front toss to BHS, cat leap into switch straddle, 1.5 dismount.
Costello – William and Mary: Double pike to open with a hop in place and chest down a bit, 1.5 to layout, flirts with OOB but stays in, Rudi to finish, lunge back.
Mullin – New Hampshire: BHS LOSO, solid, sissone to switch half, doesn’t totally get to 180, fall on the front toss, 1.5 to finish.
Faulkner – William and Mary: Exhibition, double tuck to open, good control, 1.5 to front layout, good control.
After 2: Kent State 97.450, New Hampshire 97.375, William and Mary 97.050, George Washington 49.300, Towson 49.025
Kent State had an impressive bars rotation with Fuertez’s floaty Tkatchev for a 9.800. William and Mary repeats a 48.475 highlighted by Burke’s 9.850. George Washington had a solid start on vault tying its 49.300 season-high.
Rotation 3: George Washington bars, Kent State beam, New Hampshire floor, William and Mary bye, Towson vault
Silverman – George Washington: Piked Jaeger into bail, good, blind full to double tuck, good start
Hoffman – Towson: Solid FTY with a hop back
Dehaan – George Washington: Piked Jaegar into bail, not too much amplitude buts gets the combo, blind full, late, to double tuck
Poblete – Towson: Full-on pike off
Whitman – George Washington: Geinger, leg separations, clear hip to bail, leg separations again, I didn’t really see the dismount but I think it was a full-twisting or double-twisting flyaway?
Geig – Kent State: BHS LOSO with a break, front aerial to split jump, gets the connection, 1.5 dismount
Nice finish for MacDonald on floor
Morgan – Kent State: Front aerial, big break at the hips, tries to repeat the series and does a front toss into BHS, still quite slow in the connection
McMullen – George Washington: Big Tkatchev, full-in dismount. Solid
Peters – George Washington: off on the Maloney, Pak but catches it close and does a little clear hip, blind full to double tuck
Tisler – Towson: Big 1.5 with great amplitude, piked body position in the air and a sizeable step on landing
Stuck gainer full off for Guns but had a miss earlier in the routine
Brown – New Hampshire: Good Rudi to finish, does a bboy freeze as her last pose – love that for her!
I couldn’t tell who it was on floor for New Hampshire but finished with a 1.5 to front layout but pretty low amplitude in the front layout
Knurek – Kent State: Break on the BHS LOSO, wobble on her dance series, looks nervous on most of her sills, stuck 1.5 dismount.
Gorgenyi – New Hampshire: Big double pike with shuffle back, she has great choreography, clean Rudi to finish
New Hampshire: Front double full, crossed legs, good dance series, Rudi LOSO, great finish.
Jazmyn Estrella’s pink/white mismatched suit exudes the most amount of main character energy
After 3: Kent State 145.950, New Hampshire 146.550, William and Mary 97.050, George Washington 97.950, Towson 98.300
George Washington had some struggles on bars with Peters’ fall, but was able to show enough earlier in the lineup for a 48.650. Kent State struggled on beam for a 48.500 with mistakes from Guns and Morgan. New Hampshire had a solid floor rotation for a 49.175.
Rotation 4: George Washington beam, Kent State floor, New Hampshire bye, William and Mary vault, Towson bars
Costello – William and Mary: Tucked FTY, low landing
Silberman – George Washington: I missed a lot of it but she hit
Rankin finishes with a big double pike dismount on floor
Green – Towson: Jaegar into bail, stalder to double tuck, hop on landing.
Zois – George Washington: BHS BHS LOSO, solid, switch to beat jump to straddle quarter,
Schultz – Kent State: Rudi to LOSO, nice, short on the double pike to finish
Vitoff – Towson: I missed most of the routine but nice full-in dismount to finish
Huang – William and Mary: FTY, piked coming down and some legs in the air
Izzo hits beam for George Washington with a 1.5 dismont.
Hong – Towson: good Jaeger, bail, misses handstand, double front dismount. Really close to the bar on the dismount that almost made me jump out of my seat. Small step.
Burke – William and Mary: Good amplitude on Yurchenko half, step forwards.
Whitman – George Washington: Front aerial to roundoff, questionable connection, switch leap to split jump, front full dismount.
Fuertez – Kent State: Big bounce back on the double pike, front layout to front full, big lunge forwards.
Minnervini – Towson: Tkatchev to Pak, nice! stuck double layout. Amazing! One judge flashes a 10.0, 9.975
Guns – Kent State: Rudi, great positions in leaps, controlled double pike to finish
Peters – George Washington: Wolf turn, solid, aerial LOSO, solid, cat leap to switch leap to straddle jump, short of 180 in some of those positions, switch leap to gainer pike, shuffles on the dismount. 9.925 is HIGH
Franz – Kent State: Rudi to BIG LOSO, short on the double tuck
Kiner finishes a solid beam routine for George Washington, just some hesitations in some of the connections. Masse has shows some big tumbling for Kent State with a double pike and double tuck but could use some more control in her landings.
After 4: Kent State 195.125, Towson 147.550, George Washington 147.250, New Hampshire 146.550, William and Mary 145.050
Rotation 5: George Washington floor, Kent State bye, New Hampshire vault, William and Mary bars, Towson beam
Lynch – George Washington: Strong double tuck
Keener – Towson: Solid BHS LOSO, big break on the front toss, smooth in the dance series, step back on the gainer full dismount
MacDonald – New Hampshire: Yurchenko half, hop forwards
York – George Washington: Opening 2.5, some crossed legs, 1.5 to front full, solid landing
Sipes has a strong double layout to finish for William and Mary
Hong – Towson: Smooth through the aerial to aerial combo, stuck dismount.
Burke – George Washington: Biig double front! A little deep on the landing but gets it, double tuck, good control, floaty 1.5 to layout to finish
DeVincenzo – New Hampshire: Good amplitude on her FTY, hop back
Mullen – New Hampshire: Another strong FTY, hop back
Jaroh – Towson: Solid BHS LOSO, aerial to 1.5 dismount
Gorgenyi – New Hampshire, floaty FTY, small hop.
Bayer – William and Mary: Half turn to Tkatchev to bail, blind full to double tuck
Silberman crashes her double tuck dismount on floor
Weitz – Towson: Smooth through dance series, break on front aerial, BHS LOSO, gainer full stuck
Blatchford finishes with a clean double tuck on bars for William and Mary
Meta – George Washington: Rudi, stuck 1.5 to layout, floaty layout, adjustment on wolf jump full
Wozniac – William and Mary: blind full to Geiger, double layout with step
Vallancourt – Townson: standing front tuck, slightly deep, smooth rhythm in her dance series, solid dismount.
Whitman – George Washington: Huge double front! Slightly short on the landing, front double-full to layout, finishes with nearly a stuck double-full
Williams – Towson: Front aerial to beat jump, cat leap to switch half to beat jump, short of the 180, stuck gainer full dismount
FINAL: George Washington 196.625, Towson 196.600, New Hampshire 195.675, Kent State 195.125, William and Mary 193.250
George Washington obliterated its previous season-high for a 196.625 with new highs on vault, beam, and floor. Kent State had some mistakes on beam for a low 195. William and Mary had a great meet for a new season-high of 193.400. New Hampshire finished the meet with an impressive vault rotation showing great amplitude for a new season high allowing the Wildcats to break into the 195s.
VT: Katz (George Washington), Gorgenyi (New Hampshire), Tisler (Towson) 9.900
UB: Minervini (Towson) 9.975
BB: Peters (George Washington) 9.925
FX: Whitman (George Washington) 9.950
AA: Gorgenyi (New Hampshire) 39.375
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