Auburn Gymnastics Updates

News Updates

2021-22

5-star & Team USA member Olivia Greaves signs with Auburn Gymnastics
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Auburn enjoys a successful Preview Meet
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Video: Suni Lee reflects on experience in Auburn Arena for the first time
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Nah no thanks lol

Wife and daughter are all on board. Imagine I know what's gonna be on my TV on Friday nights.

Yeah I’m actually excited to follow this season. Would love to beat Bama. Suni is a star

Olympians Suni Lee, Caeleb Dressel Win SI's Athlete of the Year

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MEET WEEK

01/07 at UNC (North Carolina Quad Meet), Chapel Hill, 6:00pm

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- NC State has withdrawn from the quad meet at North Carolina, which will now be a tri meet with Auburn and Bowling Green.
- Suni will compete during the regular season but in a limited role. She will focus on the post-season and the goal is reaching the Final 4.
- Suni: “I have to save myself in order to be ready for the postseason," Lee said. Helping Auburn compete for team titles is the priority. Auburn's roster is overloaded with returning seniors, so Lee can afford to ease in.
- Graba: “It's a realistic goal for us to get to the final four”
- Auburn ranked No. 14 in preseason poll

This is a good question and I was wondering the same thing. Anybody?

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as an olympic gold medalist wouldn't that naturally put her leaps and bounds above your average collegiate gymnast?

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Um, yes.

Suni has had access to THE top coaches in the world preparing her for the Olympic Games. Training for the Olympics is also basically a full time job for them prior to the games.
She did Dancing with the Stars, not sure if that was what she considered her “break” but to say she’s out of practice is sort of laughable. She is a multiple Gold medalist against the best gymnasts in the world

Bar and beam are typically Suni’s strongest events. Floor is what is said to be one of her weakest yet she stepped right in for Biles and won the gold all around.

Know how many times Suni practiced that floor routine? Zero. She drew up new choreography Thursday morning, performed it Thursday night and won gold with it.

She is one of THE most impressive gymnasts the US has had compete.

Yes, other gymnasts are at a disadvantage against her talent and her experience as she has been on the biggest stage there is.

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I'm a bit ignorant on this but as an olympic gold medalist wouldn't that naturally put her leaps and bounds above your average collegiate gymnast? Or did she take some time off to tour post Olympics / decompress? I imagine she's going to fully benefit from the new NIL regs.

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Technically, Suni could and will show some unique skills which will be NCAA premieres (however, other former elite gymnasts have the same skills. Utah, Florida, UCLA, among others have Olympians and World Champions who have the same skill levels. College gymnastics is insane and many world class gymnasts are flocking to NCAA teams now. The avg college gymnast cannot compete here).

However, “Perfect” 10 is the maximum score (and L10 or college gymnasts are used to perform the required typical college skills), which means, you can show the greatest skills but cannot get any bonus points (this is different from the Olympics with its open scoring system), Nevertheless, eventually Suni and other top gymnasts will have to show some insane skills because they can’t afford to lose their skills because some of them will compete in the Olympics and World Championships in the future. It also generates hype and sells tickets :)