Arkansas gymnasts seek full meet

FAYETTEVILLE — The purpose for the Arkansas gymnastics workforce tonight is to have a full meet, not 75% of 1.

The No. 23 Razorbacks will attempt to recuperate from a serious stability beam breakdown final week after they host No. 8 LSU tonight at 8 in a Stripe the Barn meet at Barnhill Enviornment.

Arkansas has had three defective performances every of the previous two weeks, on the uneven bars in a winnable residence meet in opposition to Alabama, then the beam at Auburn final week when the Razorbacks had been on the right track to surpass 197 for the primary time this season.

“The main focus for this week is simply placing 4 occasions collectively and doing regular from begin to to complete and never being a three-event workforce however a four-event workforce,” fourth-year Arkansas Coach Jordyn Wieber mentioned.

The Razorbacks have misplaced 9 consecutive twin or tri meets in opposition to SEC competitors. They got here out sturdy on the bars within the opening rotation at Auburn to face down the problems from the earlier week, however they’ll have to attend till the third rotation to get again up on the beam in opposition to LSU in a meet that might be televised by the SEC Community.

“I’m feeling actually good in regards to the course we’re going and I advised the workforce I do suppose we’re proper on monitor,” Wieber mentioned. “We’re experiencing some little moments the place nerves are attending to us and … to be sincere, with the variety of younger ones now we have within the lineup, it doesn’t shock me.”

Senior Bailey Lovett had a number of technical points on the beam, then freshman Cally Swaney needed to put her hand on the beam for a stability examine earlier than senior Kennedy Hambrick got here off the equipment within the remaining rotation. Sophomore Kalyxta Gamiao led off with a 9.875, then sophomore Cami Weaver produced an event-winning 9.95 after the run of errors, and senior Norah Flatley was stable with a 9.9 within the anchor spot.

Wieber mentioned the identical method the Razorbacks took to firming up their bars final week will apply to the stability beam this week.

“As a coach, I used to be very intentional final week to not go within the fitness center and say, ‘We’ve acquired to repair this drawback on bars,’ as a result of to be sincere we didn’t have an issue on bars,” she mentioned.

“So we simply dialed in on the psychological toughness and coping with strain and never letting one mistake flip into one other mistake.”

The Razorbacks will even be trying to break a 25-meet dropping streak in opposition to LSU since a 197.225-to-196.325 win over the Tigers on Jan. 20, 2012, at Barnhill. All 5 of Arkansas’ wins within the sequence and its lone tie got here in a stretch of seven meets between 2009-12.

The Razorbacks have gotten some stable particular person performances within the younger season. Flatley is eighth within the nation within the all-around (39.563 common), sixteenth on the uneven bars (9.9 common), thirty third on the beam (9.867) and vault (9.867) and thirty seventh on the ground train (9.887).

Razorback sophomore Cami Weaver is nineteenth on the stability beam (9.883), and freshman Lauren Williams of Bentonville is twenty eighth on the ground train (9.892).

LSU junior Haleigh Bryant, sixth within the nation within the all-around (39.613), is the reigning SEC co-gymnast of the week with Auburn’s Suni Lee after scoring a ten on the vault en path to a win within the all-around with a 39.75 in opposition to Missouri.

Tigers junior Olivia Dunne is cleansing up on the NIL entrance as a social media influencer with greater than 6.9 million followers on TikTok, and she or he’s develop into a giant draw at street meets.

Like Auburn final week, LSU’s 1-3 document is misleading, because the Tigers have misplaced at No. 3 Utah and No. 23 Kentucky and fell to No. 1 Oklahoma at residence earlier than downing Missouri final week.