[Jamesy]

This is an incredible achievement that reflects an enormous improvement over the season. Our first meet was on Jan 12 (we scored a 193.625) and we did not break 197 until March 10, 9 meets later (all losses except for one). At that time I never would have thought we'd even get invited to the NCAAs. But the team persevered and got better, and gave 2 great performances at the regional meet.

Gymnastics is interesting in that head to head results in the regular season mean nothing for the postseason. It's all about your national qualifying score which is the average of your top 3 road/neutral site scores plus your top 3 remaining scores with the #1 score dropped. Although we only one head to head meet our scores were good enough to rank 18th and a high ceiling given the improvement over the course of the season. It would take a big down turn in the program (or covid pandemic) to not even qualify for postseason.

[Jamesy]

This is an incredible achievement that reflects an enormous improvement over the season. Our first meet was on Jan 12 (we scored a 193.625) and we did not break 197 until March 10, 9 meets later (all losses except for one). At that time I never would have thought we'd even get invited to the NCAAs. But the team persevered and got better, and gave 2 great performances at the regional meet.

Gymnastics is interesting in that head to head results in the regular season mean nothing for the postseason. It's all about your national qualifying score which is the average of your top 3 road/neutral site scores plus your top 3 remaining scores with the #1 score dropped. Although we only one head to head meet our scores were good enough to rank 18th and a high ceiling given the improvement over the course of the season. It would take a big down turn in the program (or covid pandemic) to not even qualify for postseason.