Women's Gymnastics
COVID-19 Cuts Gymnastics Season Short, Leaving Seniors Heartbroken
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Coach Hall said: “You can’t play gymnastics after college, and for most of these kids, their entire life has been gymnastics…”
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/zorahahn/)
Coach Hall said: “You can’t play gymnastics after college, and for most of these kids, their entire life has been gymnastics…”
Although Cornell’s loss may indicate poor performance in comparison to the other teams, its score was actually the team’s third highest score of its eight meets this season.
Each of the six Cornell gymnasts to compete on floor outperformed or tied their Brown counterparts — and Cornell was the only team to break 49.000 in the event.
As the team turns towards conference competition, Hall stressed the need to “[focus on] the little stuff,” adding that improving bonuses and each gymnast’s specific skill set could boost the Red’s scores.
“We had kids that had much better performances than their scores would indicate, Hall said. “Our focus is to clean up our routines and not make any mistakes. Our goal is to have no falls; we had no falls last weekend. It’s all about the details.”
The Ivy rival traveled to Ithaca on Sunday to battle it out in Newman Arena at Bartels Hall. Cornell earned just 187.95 points to Penn’s whopping 192.4 points.
The Red earned three team first-place finishes — in vault, floor and beam, earning 48.125, 47.650 and 48.550 points, respectively. Cornell also earned second place on bars, with a 45.025 finish.
These games bring the women’s record up to 10-4 and the men’s record to 8-4.
Cornell started its season strong, at one point boasting an 11-game winning streak before its first loss to Yale.
Heading into the final weekend of Ivy League play, Cornell is 9-3, behind 10-2 Yale and 11-1 Princeton.