Gym’Backs keep eye on 197-plus

FAYETTEVILLE — Falling concrete at Stegeman Coliseum threw a curve ball into the College of Arkansas gymnastics workforce’s SEC meet at Georgia.

The date and venue needed to be modified, shifting the Razorbacks (3-7, 1-5 SEC) SEC finale from Friday to 1 p.m. right now at Fuel South Enviornment, previously Gwinnett Enviornment, in Duluth, Ga., website of the SEC Championships on March 18.

The Atlanta Journal-Structure citing sources, mentioned some concrete has fallen from the ceiling on the 60-year-old Stegeman Coliseum in latest days.

Coach Jordyn Wieber is hopeful the Razorbacks can put collectively 4 occasions right now, as they’ve been unable to do the final two meets, and push previous the 197 degree once more.

Arkansas scored 197 or higher in three consecutive meets from Jan. 27 to Feb. 11, however the Razorbacks faltered on the stability beam in a street loss at Kentucky and on the ground train in a house loss to Missouri the final two weeks.

Arkansas must push into the highest 16 of the Nationwide Qualifying Rating to earn a nationwide seed for the NCAA Event coming in late March.

“We now have [two] actually nice alternatives for our workforce to maintain pushing workforce scores, gaining confidence, creating these scores which might be going to assist our NQS on the finish of the day,” Wieber mentioned final week.

Georgia, a 10-time NCAA champion, has fallen off over the past dozen years following the top of their five-peat below Suzanne Yoculan from 2005-09.

Georgia leads the all-time collection by a large margin of 37-8-1, however Arkansas is 6-5 within the final 11 meets. The Razorbacks notched their first win in Athens, Ga., at school historical past with a 196.875 -195.95 determination of their final go to on Jan. 29, 2021.