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I thought I would post this due to the unique nature of this years team. After they peaked in 2011 and finished 12th in the country with two of the better all around gymnasts in Kent history (Christina Lenny and Marie Case) they have slowly declined. They finished 6th in the MAC in 2018 and 4th in 2019. They haven’t had an all arounder of note for a few years. Some very good gymnasts but nobody that could compete in all four events. This year they recruited 3 freshman Karlie Frank, Olivia Amodei and Rachel DeCavitch who have already competed as all arounders. DeCavitch and Frank in both meets to date and Amodei in one of the two. Today they finished 1,2,3 in a quad meet at George Washington. Also competing were Cornell and Penn. I watched them compete in a home meet against NIU and they appear to be the real deal. They had two bad routines on bars that day but 2/11 is pretty good for your first meet at home in front of a 1000 or so people. They were 12 for 12 today on the road. The team scored 195.325 which is pretty good for the second meet of the year. It will be interesting to see how we do over the next four years. Now if we can just get the wrestling team back on it’s feet.