North Carolina State University Athletics
Gymnastics Climbs up in Rankings
3/8/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Gymnastics
March 8, 2005
Raleigh, N.C. - There will be no laying on the beach during spring break for the NC State gymnastics team, as the Pack will travel to California for its last road meet of the regular season. The Wolfpack moved up to No. 23 in the national rankings after coming back from Georgia with another top road score. The meet with the Bulldogs, and especially its huge home crowd, was a new experience for many of NC State's gymnasts, as assistant coach Todd Henry tells us this week in Inside the Chalk Box.
Henry: Hey fans! The NC State gymnastics team has moved up to No. 23 in the country and currently sits in first place in our conference after a really fun weekend. The team returned from Georgia and had a great meet minus bars. Bars was our first event in front of 8,000 Bulldog fans! Our kids were a little off in warm ups on bars and continued that trend through the competition. This is the first time many of the gymnast have competed in front of a crowd that size, so it was understandable.
After we got the first event out of the way, the Wolfpack started cooking! Beam, floor and vault were fantastic and exciting. We even set a new season high on vault which everybody was proud of. Our theme this year is "49 Day". Each event we have begun to chant "49" before we begin. A 49.000 is the golden standard for scoring. If you can reach that team total on each apparatus, then you will be in the game by meets end. We have begun to inch up around that total every weekend.
Anyway, we travel to Berkeley on Wednesday for a meet at California. Our focus is to get another solid away score to count towards making regionals. Until next time.............remember: Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose site of the shore.
