Pak Salto

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Utah leads Stanford 49.3 to 49.0

UTAH (vault)

  • Corrie Lothrop - wonderfully stuck FTY! - 9.85
  • Stephanie McAllister - FTY, a tiny bit piked, rebounded back quite a bit - 9.8
  • Kassandra Lopez - Nice FTY but HUGE rebound, bounced back at least five feet from where she landed - 9.75
  • Tori Wilson - Stuck FTY, good but a little piked as she turned the layout around - 9.9
  • Georgia Dabritz - Another vault with a ton of rebound…perfectly straight form, but bounced back a couple of feet - 9.775
  • Kyndal Robart - Tsuk 1/2 on, pike off STUCK! WOW! Incredible vault - 9.975
  • TOTAL: 49.3

STANFORD (bars)

  • Becky Wing - some form issues here and there, stuck the dismount - 9.8
  • Jenny Peter - handstands aren’t great, looks like she struggles to kip cast, but wow, her DLO was textbook - 9.75
  • Samantha Shapiro - lovely straddle jaeger and beautiful pak salto, dismount a little bent in the knees but stuck - 9.75
  • Shona Morgan - nice piked jaeger, fell back on the dismount and practically sat it but ended up squatting it instead! - 9.6
  • Ashley Morgan - I missed what looked like an awesome connection…it was a release into an immediate pak salto…AWESOME! And her DLO is probably one of the best NCAA dismounts in recent memory…so much height, flight and distance - 9.85
  • Nicole Pechanec - She did a release on the high bar and I have no idea what it was but it was awesome. Must go back and figure it out. It was really cool but also kind of sloppy. Good DLO! - 9.85
  • TOTAL: 49.0