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vault won’t be valued higher than the rest of her teammates’ purely on difficulty. The rest of the returning Bronco vaulters compete Yurchenko fulls, including Sandra Collantes, Shani Remme, Ann Stockwell and Paige Urquhart. All five of the incoming freshmen also had decent vault scores in their various pre-college experiences, with McGregor boasting the most success. She has silver and bronze vault medals from past Pacific
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Bars may see the greatest loss without routines from Krentz and Jacobsen. Jacobsen was the top-ranked bar worker in the nation at the end of the 2016 season, so she will not be easy to replace. Bennion, Collantes, Remme, Stockwell and Diana Mejia will return bar routines from last year’s lineup,
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all of which scored at least a 9.85 at some point in the season. Of the freshmen, Nilson and Pavicic have solid routines that could be lineup-worthy. Nilson took the bars title at the Level 10 meet hosted by Boise State earlier this year and was the Nevada state silver medalist on the event. At the state championships, she actually lost out to now-teammate Pavicic, whose clean Maloney to bail combination and high double tuck dismount
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On beam, the team loses regular contributions from Jacobsen and McFarland, both of whom regularly scored 9.8 or higher. Collantes, Mejia, Remme, Urquhart and Sarah Means all should return to the lineup, and almost all of them reached or surpassed the 9.85 mark at some point. The variety of routine construction among them is pretty wide, using three different acro series combinations, six different jump shapes, and four different acro elements outside of the series. What’s interesting to note, however, is that all but one of these veterans uses a roundoff to back 1.5 twist dismount. Means dismounts with a back handspring to gainer full, but she’ll have good company next year. Pavicic’s clean routine features perfect split positions and solid landings, including on her back handspring to gainer full dismount. Amado could also potentially contribute with her library of difficult elements from her elite experience. At worlds last year, she did fall, but if she’s able to construct her college routine of the elements that she lands best, she could definitely be a threat on beam.
Jacobsen, Krentz and Wossner are all pretty big losses on floor, all scoring 9.8 or higher on a regular basis. Keeping Collantes, Remme, Stockwell and Urquhart still allows Boise to have three E passes built into their lineup — a full-in and two front double twists. McGregor may also be able to contribute an E pass with her piked full-in if she can clean it up, and Amado, Morrell and Pavicic may all also be able to contribute. Pavicic is the most likely of those three, with high tumbling and solid landings. With all the depth available to them on floor, the Broncos may be able to turn this into a really strong event.
As far as the all around is concerned, Remme and Collantes are likely to again play key roles in all four lineups. Both regularly hit 9.8 or higher on all four events last year, with Remme peaking at an AA total of 39.375 and Collantes at 39.475. As far the freshmen go, Pavicic is actually the most well-rounded of the class, and thus the most likely to make a bid for the all around. McGregor and Amado, as competitors in the all around at the Olympics, haven’t had the best E-scores on their respective weaker events, particularly bars. However, they could surprise — with simplified, clean sets, they too could be major contenders in the college AA field.
That wraps it up for Boise State! For more on potential lineups, check out our page here, or our previous conference-based series here. If there’s a team you’d like to see us cover, leave us a comment or drop us a line on Twitter — we love to hear from you! As a little sneak preview, we can tell you that later this week, we’ll be covering Southern Utah and Eastern Michigan, per your requests. So stay tuned!
