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Post Meet Commentary: Auburn (Friday, January 18, 2008)
(Alabama: 196.425; Auburn: 195.900)
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Alabama Crimson Tide vs Auburn Tigers: Post-Meet Notes

The Alabama Crimson Tide (196.425) maintained their unbeaten streak of 93 consecutive victories over the Auburn Tigers (195.900) despite a challenging and inspiring performance by the orange and blue that just came up short.  It was great to see Bama go 24 of 24 routines but it should be noted that they had some surprising execution errors on floor that made this meet closer than it should have been.  Freshman Kayla Hoffman won her first of what promises to be many all around titles, going 39.475, followed closely by sophomore Kassi Price (39.400), who also scored the meet's highest individual score on any event with a 9.95 on uneven bars.  Sophomore Morgan Dennis was back in magnificent form on the floor, tallying a 9.90 to match Hoffman's score on this same event, while junior Brittany Magee and sophomore Casey Overton anchored the balance beam "total team effort" with matching 9.85 scores.  Another highlight of the evening was sophomore Jacqueline Shealy's successful return to competition on the uneven bars, where she nailed a soaring Tkatchev release and a new Comaneci dismount for a respectable 9.725.  Her parents' presence and loud cheering made the moment that more special.  Senior Terin Humphrey sat out the meet to continue resting her back but is expected to reenter the line-up in the next few weeks.  On to the highlights... 

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Kayla Hoffman: Floor: 9.900
"Simply awesome. Pike full in to open, 2 1/2 to punch layout for her second pass and closed with a superb double pike, great landing as well. Dance, showmanship, immaculate toe point - this routine had it all."
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Casey Overton
Jac Shealy returns with a 9.725
Uneven Bars Score Post Meet Commentary on Skills Executed and Deductions
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Kaitlin White
View the video for bars: Kaitlin White: 9.775 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Kaitlin White: 9.775 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.750 Solid opening routine but we think this scored lower than last week because her pirouetting was not as sharp and on top of the high bar and her dismount had a hop back on landing (full turn to double tuck).  
Amanda Montgomery
View the video for bars: Amanda Montgomery: 9.800 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Amanda Montgomery: 9.800 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.725 This routine had better rhythm, speed and she stuck the double tuck dismount, chest high.  Full turn to a Gienger release (legs together throughout).  It's great to see her growing confidence on this event and how her hard work in the off-season has paid off.
Jac Shealy
View the video for bars: Jacqueline Shealy: 9.725 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Jacqueline Shealy: 9.725 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.800 A gratifying return to competition on this event in front of her parents and the strong UA crowd that traveled down for the meet.  Beautiful front giant work and a soaring Tkatchev release with excellent toe point, extension and amplitude.  Handstands will require more work in the gym but her new Comaneci dismount looks like a good substitution for the always scary 1 1/2 twisting flyaway.
Morgan Dennis
View the video for bars: Morgan Dennis: 9.850 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Morgan Dennis: 9.850 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.850 Much better effort this week with her handstands and just missed a perfect stuck landing of the double front (cowboy form also noted).  Pike Jaeger release had her usual amazing form and amplitude.
Kayla Hoffman
View the video for bars: Kayla Hoffman: 9.900 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Kayla Hoffman: 9.900 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.900 Improvised again this week but more confidently completed the 1 1/2 turn and then another giant to Tkatchev release, very nice straddle toe-shoot transition back to the high bar, huge double layout dismount that she whipped around quickly and with great distance, one step back on the landing.   Handstands, toe point, extension set this routine apart.
Kassi Price
View the video for bars: Kassi Price: 9.950 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Kassi Price: 9.950 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.950 Just a terrific routine from start to finish.  All handstands were vertical, the rhythm, pacing was smoother and all big skills were nailed (Hindorff release, pirouetting, double layout dismount). Kassi's overall form appears to have improved as a result of not pressing or jerking the big element moves as she had a tendency to do last year.
Ex Cassie Martin
View the video for bars: Cassie Martin: (Exhibition) (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Cassie Martin: (Exhibition) (Normal Bandwidth)
9.700 Toe-on toe-off to Tkatchev to Pak Salto combo, full turn to double tuck dismount.
Team Total 49.275
Vault Score Post Meet Commentary on Skills Executed and Deductions
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Ricki Lebegern
View the video for vault: Ricki Lebegern: 9.700 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for vault: Ricki Lebegern: 9.700 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.700 Y 1/1: Went in a little flat and was again off center from the vault table, also one controlled step on the landing.  Form and twisting looked solid enough to garner a little bit better score despite these noticeable deductions.
Kaitlin White
View the video for vault: Kaitlin White: 9.725 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for vault: Kaitlin White: 9.725 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.725 Y 1/1: Went in powerful but came out flat as well, hop back on the landing as well.  Greater distance from the vault table may have garnered her the slightly higher score than Ricki's.
Kassi Price
View the video for vault: Kassi Price: 9.800 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for vault: Kassi Price: 9.800 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.800 Y 1/1: Strong vault, solid landing but some split leg, soft knees during flight.
Brittany Magee
View the video for vault: Brittany Magee: 9.725 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for vault: Brittany Magee: 9.725 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.725 Y 1/1: Pretty in the air form-wise but she seemed to pike this down too quickly, almost seeming to jam the landing a bit.  Off center a bit from the table as well.
Kayla Hoffman
View the video for vault: Kayla Hoffman: 9.875 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for vault: Kayla Hoffman: 9.875 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.875 Y 1/1: Very nice amplitude, form and extension throughout, hop back on the landing too.
Morgan Dennis
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9.850 Y 1/1: Lots of amplitude but she piked it down at the end, perhaps in hope of sticking it.
Ex Alyssa Chapman 9.500
Team Total 48.975
Floor Exercise Score Post Meet Commentary on Skills Executed and Deductions
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Ashley O'Neal
View the video for floor: Ashley ONeal: 9.775 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for floor: Ashley ONeal: 9.775 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.775 First pass was excellent - front tuck through to a round off to bhs to high double pike, great landing.  Second pass of front to front full twist to front layout had a controlled balance step forward; she landed the final double tuck pass with chest down a bit and a step forward to balance, hence the most likely deductions in her final score.  Leaps, dance and showmanship were excellent but the music may need a kick-me-up for the final tumbling sequence so she can finish strongly in front of road crowds.   The routine music-wise just seemed to end a bit flat despite Ashley's strong effort.
Kaitlin White
View the video for floor: Kaitlin White: 9.675 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for floor: Kaitlin White: 9.675 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.675 Confused by this score initially we think we can explain some of the deductions after reviewing the video, but not all of them.  First, Kaitlin's music had to be restarted when the first few notes were clearly not her timed rendition.   The opening pass of a double pike was landed well but she had her head down and took a small step in place to check herself (at first we thought maybe she had slightly jarred herself on landing).  The second pass was a whip 1/2 to front full, a form deduction taken likely on the second element as she appeared to bend her legs early in anticipation of the landing and took a controlled step forward into the corner; final pass of running punch front layout to immediate 1 1/2 was landed chest high, one foot back to control the landing - no obvious problems here.  It should also be noted that Kaitlin definitely did not have the same panache and showmanship this week with her routine that we saw last week at home against Illinois, and this may have affected the scoring too.  She usually glows and really sells herself on the floor and she clearly wasn't this week.  Her start value perhaps with the second pass being questioanble in execution may be where the judges took off the most.  We did not notice any missed dance or leap elements.
Brittany Magee
View the video for floor: Brittany Magee: 9.550 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for floor: Brittany Magee: 9.550 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.550 Wow, what a superb opening tumbling pass of the whip-whip-bhs to double pike (super high, great form and a perfect landing).  Unfortunately, her second pass had problems, when she completed the front to front full but left out the front tuck out of this because she landed the second element with a deep knee bend (thus not having any momentum to even try the third element) - this reduced her overall start value.  Her final pass was a double pike, landed with knees bent, requiring two small shuffle steps to her left to adjust.  Brittany also lost herself a bit in the final dance sequence as she closed out the routine, so she was likely deducted a little here too.  This routine simply needs more reps to perfect.  We learned later that she was apparently starting to come down with a bug and may have run out of energy on the last two passes, but kudos to her for standing them up.  
Kayla Hoffman
View the video for floor: Kayla Hoffman: 9.900 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for floor: Kayla Hoffman: 9.900 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.900 Wherever the deductions were in this routine we could not find them.  Simply awesome.  Pike full in to open, 2 1/2 to punch layout for her second pass and closed with a superb double pike, great landing as well.  Dance, showmanship, immaculate toe point -  this routine had it all.
Kassi Price
View the video for floor: Kassi Price: 9.875 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for floor: Kassi Price: 9.875 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.875 Smile smile smile Kassi and you'll break a 9.90!  Strong tumbling sequences of a 2 1/2 to punch tuck, double tuck (very high, well controlled landing too), finished with a double pike, slight leg split mid-air, but again well controlled.  Nice dance and great music to accompany it.  A little more sassy smiling at key points in the routine will notch this score up.
Morgan Dennis
View the video for floor: Morgan Dennis: 9.900 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for floor: Morgan Dennis: 9.900 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.900 No problems this week staying in bounds with the second pass - started with another signature soaring double layout to open, followed by a tuck through to round off to bhs to double tuck and finished with a double tuck, all well-controlled landings.  Morgan has learned how to smile throughout this routine and some of the dance sequences just need some fine-tuning.
Team Total 49.125
Balance Beam Score Post Meet Commentary on Skills Executed and Deductions
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Casey Overton
View the video for beam: Casey Overton: 9.850 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for beam: Casey Overton: 9.850 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.850 Opened the final event for the Tide with another confident set.  Small deductions likely occurred on the slightest shoulder shift during her full turn, a little bend forward at the knees on the landing of the side straddle leap and a hop on the landing of the gainer full twist out of a bhs.
Amanda Montgomery
View the video for beam: Amanda Montgomery: 9.750 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for beam: Amanda Montgomery: 9.750 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.750 The only even slightly noticeable balance check we saw on the video review was during the wolf full jump near the end of her routine (one quick foot shift).  Stuck the dismount of the running front full twist off the end of the beam. This routine continues to have a lower start value, with the judges again possibly not giving her full credit for the one-arm bhs to layout-stepout as her backwards salto.  Amanda otherwise has impressive rhythm and flow with this routine and she never really stops from one element to the next.  It remains a favorite of ours too because of the unique skills she throws.
Ricki Lebegern
View the video for beam: Ricki Lebegern: 9.775 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for beam: Ricki Lebegern: 9.775 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.775 Solid routine until the side Somi - noticeable balance check with the arm to steady and one foot lifted up and back in place; dismount of the double twist also had a step forward as she went for the stick.  
Kayla Hoffman
View the video for beam: Kayla Hoffman: 9.800 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for beam: Kayla Hoffman: 9.800 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.800 More confident effort this week - deducted most likely on the combo front aerial to gainer back layout-stepout (bent at waist on second element but flowed quickly back up out of this to try and cover).  Switch leap to switch leap combination could have used a little more amplitude on the second element; very nice bhs to two-footed bhs to double twist, small hop back on the landing.
Kassi Price
View the video for beam: Kassi Price: 9.775 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for beam: Kassi Price: 9.775 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.775 Almost bent at the waist on her full turn but recovered quickly by shifting one foot to avoid further problems with this element.  The flow of this routine could have been smoother but she appeared to be focusing really hard on completing the elements without a significant break.  Nice front aerial and the bhs to layout stepout continues to show better form, extension, control this year.
Brittany Magee
View the video for beam: Brittany Magee: 9.850 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for beam: Brittany Magee: 9.850 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.850 She also had a shoulder bend and quick roll back up on the landing of her second flight element (gainer one-arm bhs to layout step-out) in the opening series; rest of the routine looked very solid - front aerial, switch leap to pike jump to tuck full jump (perfect execution of these elements in sequence), beautiful gainer layout stepout near the end and a dismount this week of the round off to 1 1/2 twist, balance step forward.  
Ex Morgan Dennis
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9.650 BHS to layout step-out to layout step-out, switch leap to tuck full jump to beat jump, switch leap to beat jump, double tuck dismount.
Team Total 49.050
Final: 196.425
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Kayla Hoffman handles bars for a 9.9
Kassi Price wins bars with a 9.95
Morgan Dennis
Kaitlin White
Ashley ONeal
Amanda Montgomery scores 9.8 on bars 
Alyssa Chapman
Casey straddle leaps to a 9.85
Cassie Martin
Britney Magee
Ricki Lebegern
Kayla adds a 9.8 on beam
Amanda streaks to a 9.75 on beam
Ashley leads off floor with a 9.775
Britney closes beam with a 9.85
Morgan nails floor for a 9.9
Ricki posts a 9.775 beam
Kaitlin strikes for a 9.75 
Kayla ties for floor high at 9.9
Kassi scores 9.775 on beam
Kassi zips thru FL with a 9.875 
Casey leaps to a 9.85 beam score


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Meet Date 03/27
Meet 11) SEC Championship
Jacksonville, FL
First Air Date / Time (CT)
subject to change
Sun 04/04 @ 11 am
Network
espn2
(Ch 25 Comcast-Tusc)