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New Research Could Prevent ACL and Achilles Tears in Women Apr 30, 2025

Show notes

Preventing Achilles and ACL tears starts with the Brain: How new concussion protocols may be the key to stopping lower body injuries in women's sports.

HEADLINES

Ana Barbosu (ROM) lost a tie breaker on floor to Alba Petisco (ESP)
Which teams have the most NCAA Champions per event?

GYMCASTIC UPDATES

The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles by Aimee Boorman with Fact Checker is topping the sport charts - SUCK IT SPORTS BALLS! If you loved reading the book please leave a review
Scalding Hot Tea: At our Live show in at NCAA Championships where the new WCC head coaches (where Simone Biles trained) talk all about the Paris floor final controversy and what it was like to coach in Romania.Live Show replay tickets available here

INTERVIEW: Dr. Abigail Baldwin DPT

Repetitive head impacts directly correlate to the likelihood a lower body injury, up to 11%, but our guest developed protocols specifically tailored to women. This concussion prevention and prehab program could prevent the most common injuries in gymnastics.

What can coaches and athletes do to prevent ACL and Achilles tears in women
Protocol time frames from implementation to results
Why female athletes more susceptible to concussions and lower body injuries
What are the biggest misconceptions that still persist in women's sports medicine

UP NEXT

Behind The Scenes: Friday May 2nd at noon pacific.

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NEWSLETTERS

RECENT

All April Podcasts and Photo Galleries

RESOURCES

Spencer's essential website The Balance Beam Situation
Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim

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NCAA Team Finals & The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles Author Interview Apr 23, 2025

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The dramatic video review that corrected the NCAA Team Finals (Photo Galleries) and Aimee Boorman and co-author Steve Cooper are here to talk about Aimee's memoire The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles OUT NOW!

GymCastic LIVE SHOW at 2025 NCAAs

What are people saying? Gymnerd808 said, "Hiiiii if youre not on the @GymCastic live show right now …... you're missing out! go purchase a replay ticket immediately. The tea being spilled is piping hot. Patrick is everything."
REPLAY TICKETS: Virtual and In-Person tickets

NCAA Championships

Oklahoma overcame the 2024 vault gremlins and won its 7th NCAA Championship title!
UCLA defied early-season expectations and finished as the runner-up
Missouri went out with a BANG, earning its highest final placement in program history
Utah finished in fourth after a late-meet beam inquiry for Amy Weir bumped Missouri ahead by 0.012
Why Frida Esparza wins the "fighting fascism even when it's inconvenient" award
Our rotation-by-rotation recap of this meet, plus our favorite moments
- Oklahoma's beam domination vs. Utah's beam woes
- Why Chae Campbell is the only person allowed to do a Yurchenko full
- Helen. Motherfreaking. Hu.
- Was UCLA close to upsetting Oklahoma?
- Avery Neff's LEGIT 9.975 on vault

"The Balance" Interview with Aimee Boorman and Fact Checker

The story behind why Simone underperformed at 2013 Classics
What does it mean that Marta was great at discriminated skill selection?
The story Aimee has about *checks notes* cadavers?
How Aimee was able to put up with Steve Penny for all of those years
How Aimee was able to teach Simone the INSANE skills she does
Why this book is a departure from the typical coaching narrative and opens up an honest conversation about vulnerability in elite sports
The toll elite sports coaching takes on family life and Aimee's advice for coaches

Aimee Boorman Interviews

Women's Finals Recap with Aimee Boorman and Christian Gallardo
Aimee Boorman and Maggie Haney: The Olympic Experience
- Aimee addresses her co-interviewee in her book
Behind The Scenes: Aimee Answers More Questions

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NEWSLETTERS

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP EPISODES

RESOURCES

Spencer's essential website The Balance Beam Situation
Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim

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NCAA Championships 2025: All Around, Event Finals, Team Semifinals Apr 18, 2025

Show notes

Helen Hu, Brooklyn Moors, Kailin Chio, Jordan Chiles and Jordan Bowers are NCAA Champions! Utah, UCLA, Mizzu and OU advance. Alabama, Florida, MSU and defending national champion, LSU are out. Photo Galleries

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

GymCastic LIVE SHOW at 2025 NCAAs

How: Virtual and In-Person tickets

When: Between meet days on Friday, April 18. Doors open at 6:30 PM; show starts at 7:00 PM CT

Where: Fort Worth, Texas, or online from anywhere.

Jessica and Spencer are joined by former professional musical theater boys turned super choreo-coaching duo, Daymon Jones and Patrick Kiens to discuss Celine van Gerner's iconic Cats makeup, the Paris Olympic FX final from their perspective as Romanian team head coaches, choreographing in over 15 countries combined and the 2025 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships of course. They will also take your (virtual and in-person) questions live!

Live Show Season Pass now available (until 8 am Pacific Friday, April 18th)

2025 NCAA Championships Report Live The All-Around, Event Finals, Team Semifinal Post-Meet Show

This is our live post-meet recap and Q&A episode. Today we are in Ft. Worth for NCAAs. We will go live after the meet (right here, on this page) Thursday, April 17th at 10:30-ISHpm Central/11:30pm Eastern (as soon as we can after the post-meet press conference). Login to reveal the full show.

- Full meet schedule. Watch the meet on ESPN2, follow scores
- Here's how to ask questions live.
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Every week we do a live Q&A, right here on this page to discuss our immediate thoughts about the week or the meets. For more info on how to watch your favorite elites, Olympic and World medalists in college and all year long, check out The Balance Beam Situation's schedule with links. College & Cocktails combines our weekly Behind The Scenes Q&A live podcast with a college meet of the week. It's all part of the bonus content for our Club Members who support our work year around.

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  - 2025 College & (M)Cocktails menu (including mocktails of course)

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GymCastic Store: clothing and gifts to let your gym nerd flag fly and even "tapestries" (banners, the perfect to display in an arena) to support your favorite gymnast!
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NEWSLETTERS

FANTASY GAME:

- GymCastic 2025 College Fantasy Game now open. Never too late to join!

RESOURCES

Spencer's essential website The Balance Beam Situation
Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
Kensley's all things men's gymnastics: Neutral Deductions

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2025 NCAA Championships Preview & Journalist's First Gender-Diverse Gymnastics Meet Apr 14, 2025

Show notes

The Elite season is heating up, we look ahead to this week's NCAA Championships, and chat with Will Graves about his piece on trans and non-binary athletes in NAIGC gymnastics

LIVE SHOW at 2025 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

How: Virtual and In-Person Tickets

When: Friday, April 18, Doors at 6:30, Show 7:00 CT

Where: Ft. Worth, Texas or online from anywhere

Live Show Virtual Season Pass now available (For a limited time, four live show tickets for the price of three)

Updates

Meet and Show Schedule for NCAA Week
- Thursday, April 17 - All-around, Event Finals, Team Qualifying & LIVE Podcast
  - Semifinal One: ESPN2 at 4:30pm ET/1:30pm PT featuring Oklahoma, Florida, Missouri, Alabama
  - Semifinal Two: on ESPN2 at 9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT featuring LSU, Utah, UCLA, Michigan State
  - After awards and press conference, we will go live for a post-meet podcast for club members after semifinals. The top two teams will advance to finals
- Friday, April 18 at 7 pm CT - GymCastic LIVE SHOW
  - No meets, but our first live show of 2025! Expect games, shenanigans, and interviews
  - Got a question? You can submit it with a virtual or in-person ticket
  - Want to upgrade to an in-person ticket? Be sure to do it before Friday!
- Saturday, April 19 - Team Finals & Podcast
  - 4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT on ABC
  - The four teams battle it out for the 2025 NCAA title
  - Join us after the NCAA Finals press conference and award ceremony for our live reaction podcast

Headlines

A mixed-gender gymnastics event is coming to LA 2028!
- We spent 300 hours discussion options on Behind The Scenes: Mixed Team Event Added to LA28. We still don't have details on the format, but expect more information in May after the next FIG meeting
Livvy Dunne spoke at the House NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) settlement hearing about being consistnetly undervalued and not having a say in the process.

GYMTERNET NEWS

Italy won the team final Jesolo!
- Manila Esposito won the all-around with a 55.750
- Zoey Molomo suffered a knee injury on vault during training
- Both of the D'Amato sisters made their return
Osijek World Cup
- First-year senior Jun Iwai tied Tokyo Olympic Champion Artem Dolgopyat for the floor title
Naya Howard announced she is transferring from Georgia
Badass woman alert: Marta Pihan-Kulesza won the Polish national championships for the thirteenth time
Carly Baumann and Reyna Guggino (University of Michigan) announced they will be returning for a sixth year
Morgan Price (Fisk University) makes history again for HBCU gymnastics, repeating as the USA Gymnastics All Around Champion
The University of Iowa opened its new $20 million training center for its spirit squads and gymnastics teams

NCAA Nationals

Four enter only two survive!
- Semifinal #1: Oklahoma, Florida, Missouri
- Semfinal #2: LSU, Utah, UCLA, Michigan State
What does a victory look like for each team?
Who is each team's secret weapon?
What is each team's biggest roadblock to winning?
Who is our favorite to win the all-around
- You may have heard of her, but we think Jadey Carey has a convincing argument
- Jordan Bowers' 39.900 at Regionals (with three 10s) could challenge Carey
- Chae Campbell won the Big 10 all-around title - how could she fit into the equation?
What about our apparatus champions?
- We pick our likely and our dream winners for each event

Olympic Team Draft: College Edition

If we draft a hypothetical Olympic team made of gymnasts competing at NCAA Nationals, who would be on our teams?
- Round One: Pick any gymnast, but only one per school
- Round Two: Pick ONLY gymnasts who have never competed at a Worlds or Olympics
- Round Three: Using the NCAA code, pick ONLY gymnasts who have never competed at a Worlds or Olympics

Interview: Will Graves

Read Graves' article on how NAIGC gymnastics is provides trans and non-binary athletes an inclusive space to compete and thrive in the sport

Fact Checker Wrote a Book with Simone's Coach Pre-Order Now! UP NEXT

Two podcasts and a live show from NCAA Championships in Ft. Worth
Pre-order Fact checker and Aimee Boorman's book "The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles"
National Championship Fantasy Game is open now!

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- - Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!) for access to weekly Behind the Scenes episodes.
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  - Not sure about joining the club? College & Cocktails: The Friday Night NCAA Gymnastics Post-Meet Show is available to sample (even if you aren't a Club Gym Nerd member yet). Watch or listen here.
  - 2025 College & (M)Cocktails menu (including mocktails of course)

MERCH

GymCastic Store: clothing and gifts to let your gym nerd flag fly and even "tapestries" (banners, the perfect to display in an arena) to support your favorite gymnast!
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NEWSLETTERS

NATIONALS FANTASY GAME:

- Lineups are now open (with new pricing!) Get your teams set before Thursday at 1 pm PT for the chance to win a mini-commission!
- GymCastic 2025 College Fantasy Game. Never too late to join!

RESOURCES

Spencer's essential website The Balance Beam Situation
Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim

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Regionals: Carnage and Courage Apr 08, 2025

Show notes

LIVE SHOW at 2025 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

Live Show Virtual Season Pass now available (For a limited time, four virtual live shows for the price of three)

GymCastic Updates

NCAA Live Show Tickets are on Sale now!
- In-person and virtual ticket options. Purchase your ticket here
We launched a new store! Check it out here

Headlines

We have our NCAA Championship teams! What are the rankings by qualifying score?
What were our biggest lessons from regionals?
- Why note every team is invincible
- Why is the NCAA suddenly so concerned about athlete harassment from sports betting when it didn't say squat about the stalking, racism, verbal harassment, and cyberbullying athletes have already been facing for YEARS
USAG ends its contract with the healthcare provider that employs the National Team doctor, Dr. Marcia Faustin
NIL Settlement News: Livvy Dunne will be speaking at the House vs. NCAA ruling, a multi-billion dollar settlement that will decide how college athletes can get paid
Homophobia allegations from the FIG general secretary during a meeting on gender equity
Russia withdrew rhythmic and artistic athletes from competition

GYMTERNET NEWS

Former Boise State gymnast, Hailey Okula (Gasper), passed away due to complications from childbirth
Injury updates
- NCAA: Chloe Negrete (NC State), Csenge Bacskay (Georgia), Frankie Price (Arkansas)
- Shilese Jones had another surgery
- Kaliya Lincoln had shoulder surgery
Gymnasts are among the 17 women filing a lawsuit against Michigan's ex-football coach, Matt Weiss, who is being indicted on 14 counts of unauthorized access to computers and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft
The president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine said Illia Kovtun and his coach could face consequences for switching nationalities
Gymnastics Ireland is now incorporating anti-racism training into its new diversity strategy
The Italian Federation has fired its rhythmic coach of 29 years after alleged mistreatment of former gymnasts
USAG has announced international assignments for Jesolo, Osijek, and Varna. Who is going where?
Nina Derwael got engaged!

NCAA Regionals

Who are our team and individual national qualifiers?
What did our eyes tell us from regionals?
- LSU cannot be making mistakes if they want to stay No. 1
- Could Michigan State be the national champions?
- Who are our best teams by event from this weekend and why the best vault team was OBVIOUSLY Michigan State, duh!
- Can someone get the judges a new pair of glasses?
A WTF-off brought to you by the Alabama, Penn State, Utah, and Washington regionals
- BYU and Utah State tried to out-Utah each other by doing a mic'd up feature on the gymnasts' husbands in the audience
- HOT DAMN DENVER. The Pioneers tied Utah to knock out Stanford during round one
- California and Alabama looked nervy in that final rotation
- Florida showed they deserve to be in the top three
- Did Alabama get the benefit of home scoring?
- Did you see that Auburn vault rotation???
- We debrief the close race between Auburn and Missouri for the last spot
- Injuries and unforeseen circumstances: Georgia didn't have a fun time at regionals
  - Explanation please? The Lily Smith beam start value that makes zero sense

Fact Checker Wrote a Book with Simone's Coach Pre-Order Now! UP NEXT

College and Cocktails: Saturday at 6pm-ish Pacific after Regionals
Regionals Fantasy Lineups Lock: April 2nd, 10:30am Pacific
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FANTASY GAME:

- GymCastic 2025 College Fantasy Game now open. Never too late to join!

RESOURCES

Spencer's essential website The Balance Beam Situation
Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim

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College & Cocktails: Regionals Day Four Apr 06, 2025

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LIVE SHOW 2025 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

How: Virtual and In-Person Tickets here

When: Between meet day on Friday, April 18, Doors at 6:30, Show 7:00 CT

Where: Ft. Worth, Texas or online from anywhere

Live Show Season Pass now available (limited time only!)

Welcome to College & Cocktails! The College Gymnastics Post-Meet Show

Day Four of Regionals and we have our first NCAA Championship qualifiers: LSU, Michigan State's 198.00 (!), Utah, UCLA! This is our weekly Behind The Scenes Q&A episode. Today we watched all the regionals. We recorded live on Sat night. Here's how to ask questions live.

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Get your complete 2025 College & Cocktails/Mocktalis menu here!

Every week we pick a college meet to watch, then go live, right here on this page to discuss our immediate thoughts about the meet. For more info on how to watch your favorite elites, Olympic and World medalists in college and all year long, check out The Balance Beam Situation's schedule with links. College & Cocktails combines our weekly Behind The Scenes Q&A live podcast with a college meet of the week. It's all part of the bonus content for our Club Members who support our work year around.

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  - Not sure about joining the club? College & Cocktails: The Friday Night NCAA Gymnastics Post-Meet Show is available to sample (even if you aren't a Club Gym Nerd member yet). Watch or listen here.
  - 2025 College & (M)Cocktails menu (including mocktails of course)

MERCH

GymCastic Store: clothing and gifts to let your gym nerd flag fly and even "tapestries" (banners, the perfect to display in an arena) to support your favorite gymnast!
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NEWSLETTERS

FANTASY GAME:

- GymCastic 2025 College Fantasy Game now open. Never too late to join!

RESOURCES

Spencer's essential website The Balance Beam Situation
Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
Kensley's all things men's gymnastics: Neutral Deductions

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NIL Gymnastics Deals, plus Regionals Debate Club Apr 02, 2025

Show notes

LIVE SHOW 2025 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

How: Virtual and In-Person Tickets

When: Friday, April 18, Doors at 6:30, Show 7:00 CT

Where: Rose Marine Theater, Ft. Worth, Texas or online from anywhere

Live Show Virtual Season Pass now available (For a limited time, four virtual live shows for the price of three)

MINI COMMISSION: NIL Deals

This mini-comission is brought to you by Club Gymnerd member Jonathan who would "LOVE to hear you debate the best/worst/most ridiculous NIL deals and/or entrepreneurial endeavors of NCAA gymnasts. You can also go on a side tangent about dream partnerships from pre-NIL days"
Our favorites
- Jordan Chiles on the face of Lucky Charms? Yes please
- Who wouldn't want a Leanne Wong seltzer water?
- Frederick Richard quashed the "ashy skin" allegations with this CeraVe partnership
- How do we get more gymnasts to do testicle soap collaborations?
The most controversial deals?
- Livvy Dunne and Kayla DiCello doing an AI homework tool deal that didn't go great...
- MLM deals with schools and gymnasts
Our dream NIL deals
- A TV deal for a viral floor routine, featuring the original, Llomincia Hall
- Akash Modi finally getting the Taco Bell sponsorship he deserved
- Suni Lee securing the ultimate pickle sponsorship

GYMTERNET NEWS

We have a Flying Banana Jesus half vault! You have to see Madita Mayr's front layout half from the DTB Cup
LA2028 watch: Gymnastics bids for Crypto.com Arena to host
Give me that money news: USA Gymnastics and Comcast renewed their contract through to 2028
- Check out the Podium Club, USAG's giving society dedicated to support the growth of gymnastics nationwide
The Gymnastics Rebalancing Act: Check out the recording from MIT's Sports Analytics Conference; you might see a familiar face!
The Gymnastics for All Colloquium will now receive patronage from UNESCO

NCAA

Welcome to elimination season! What is the format for regionals? How do individuals qualify to nationals?
Who is going to each regional? Who do we predict will qualify to nationals? Who are our dark horses?
- Penn State Regional
  - Debate club: do we think Michigan State should advance to nationals with LSU over Kentucky or Arkansas?
  - Can Michigan upset Arkansas to make the regional final?
  - Who will make it past the play-in round? Maryland and its pride integrity? Or West Virginia with its stick plunger hat
- Utah Regional
  - Debate club: is the Utah Regional going to be the most boring regional of the four?
  - Do we think Denver was pretending to be bad on beam this whole season to lull everyone into a false sense of security heading into regionals?
  - The stakes of the preliminary knockout round between BYU and Utah State
- Alabama Regional
  - Do we think the Alabama regional judges are going to cook up some home scores for the home team?
  - Are North Carolina, NC State, and Iowa really 197+ teams? Or is that just a figment of our imagination from some crazy scores?
  - Why you have to watch round one between Clemson and Rutgers
- Washington Regional
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Conference Championships Regional Blastoff of 10s Mar 25, 2025

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HEADLINES

IT FINALLY HAPPENED, Brooklyn Moors got her 10!
Jade Carey hard-lanched her girlfriend on Instagram
Morinari Watanabe will not be the president of the IOC
Two new skills at the Antalya World Cup
- Yang Fanyuwei: The full-twisting Jaeger aka the skill Suni competed at 2024 Winter Cup
- Okamura Mana: Piked half-turn to double pike dismount off bars
What happened after Arkansas was booted from SEC Championships?
- Jordyn Wieber released a statement on Instagram
- What does this mean for Arkansas' NQS heading into the post-season?

GYMTERNET NEWS

Why everyone needs to learn a thing or two about longevity from this 74-year-old Danish gymnast
Welcome to the club! Sac State's Grace Gilman joins the long list of gymnasts who shit their pants in competition
LA 2028 Watch: Ellie Black says she has no plans of retiring and hopes to compete at the Los Angeles Games!
Morgan Hurd, Missy Marlowe, Rebecca Sereda, Barry Weiner, Gary Anderson, and Marc Yancey were all inducted into USAG's Hall of Fame
Baby alert: Alice Kinsella announced she's pregnant! She also does not plan on retiring
She can do everything! Peng Peng Lee won music video of the year at the Indie Short Fest
The Utah vs UCLA meet was the 12th highest-ranked program on Fox
The Gymnastics MIT Panel is available to view

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Our conference championship highlights including 11 10's
- Program records
  - After winning SEC Championships, LSU enters the post-season with the No. 1 seed for the first time in program history
  - Missouri heads into the post-season ranked No. 7, the highest placement in school history
  - Florida went 49.85 on bars at SEC Championships, not only breaking its own school record but also the NCAA record
  - HALLELUJAH BECAUSE BROOKLYN MOORS AND RILEY MCCUSKER GOT THEIR 10s!!!
  - Chae Campbell is your Big 10 all-around champion
  - Stanford performed an ancient Celtic ritual and it worked.
  - Stanford, UCLA, and Utah, all former PAC-12 teams, won their new respective conference titles
  - A nail-biting finish for regionals qualification
    - Towson fumbled on bars and just missed Regionals qualification
    - Keanna Abraham came in clutch and nailed her vault to help UC Davis qualify to regionals for the first time in over a decade
  - Jade Carey had her last Oregon State meet and made it out of college as the only American woman to compete in four consecutive NCAA seasons between two Olympics
  - Zyia Coleman (Fisk) has a creative floor routine that is everything we could have asked for
  - Ui Soma (Stanford) showed she can hold her handstands longer than everyone else and got a 10 on bars
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College & Cocktails: Bragging Rights Championships Mar 23, 2025

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Conference Championships drama, Jade's last home meet surprise and was Arkansas blocked from competing in this weekend? We'll discuss everything from the last meet weekend before Regionals.

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