2013 NCAA Champs EFs Live Blog by @CattyComments

Kittens it's me! Catty Comments! It's the most... longest time... of the year! NCAA event finals with 24 billion vaulters! Let's get started!

All of the lineups, scores & vid links are at the same link they've been at the past two days! Clickety on these words!



We'll get started, and everything has already started! Because it's loooooong, and Catty was gay brunching like a champ.

First of all, how is first vaulter Courtney (who stuck her fty cold and appeared to have good height & form in the air) below second vaulter Courville, who had a stutter on her landing and did not appear to have better dynamics?

I was bummed Morrison for LSU didn't stick her dismount, because she hit the hell out of the rest of the routine. NCAA fun fact for Sarie Morrison: she is the tallest gymnast here today at 6'8", and is on the draft radar for the Knicks as a shooting guard.

For leotard fashionistas, the fleur de lys leo LSU is wearing today is lovely. I'd so have that be the Supah Six leo over the V for Victory I Located Booblandia leo worn yesterday.

1:28pm - Katie Baer on vault for the Bruins. Lovely fty, her usual preflight leg separation, stuck with legs apart. NCAA fun fact for Baer: she was the designated Valkyrie blonde on the team until fellow Indy teammate Peszek arrived, and now she is a soft brown hue.

1:31 - Sloan hits her routine and sticks the landing. Sloan NCAA fun fact: she should incur a leg separation deduction at the bottom of every giant swing. Dickerson on vault for the Chompers sticks the landing, but funky preflight makes me hope she'll be deducted for it.

1:34 - I'm already tired of watching the vaulters equal to the population of Mexico. Sarie Morrison now has to vault 10 milliseconds after dismounting bars. She sticks her fty cold and had a lovely preflight.

1:36 - It's Macko of the Caquatti - hitting the hell out of everything, and takes a step on the landing. Sob. NCAA fun fact: her best chomps are reserved for Caquatti. Millner sadly takes a tiny foot slide on her 1.5Y.

And warming up vault now - the female population of China! The first 7,5 million vaulters are in this ranking:

Vault ResultsTop

Place	Gymnast	Team	Score
1	Diandra Milliner	Alabama	9.9250
1	Rheagan Courville	LSU	9.9250
3	Olivia Courtney	UCLA	9.9167
4	Kaelie Baer	UCLA	9.9083
5	Ashanee Dickerson	Florida	9.9000
5	Lindsay Mable	Minnesota	9.9000
7	Sarie Morrison	LSU	9.8917
8	Kaitlyn Clark	Alabama	9.8750
9	Maliah Mathis	LSU	9.8667
10	Joanna Sampson	Michigan	9.8583
11	Kytra Hunter	Florida	9.8500
12	Moriah Martin	Denver	9.8250
12	Alaina Johnson	Florida	9.8250
14	Brandie Jay	Georgia	9.8083
15	Chelsea Davis	Georgia

And the two bars competitors are ranked:

Uneven Parallel Bars ResultsTop

Place	Gymnast	Team	Score
1	Bridget Sloan	Florida	9.9000
1	Georgia Dabritz	Utah	9.9000
3	Mackenzie Caquatto	Florida	9.8875
3	Erica Brewer	Oklahoma	9.8875
5	Sarie Morrison	LSU	9.8250
6	Nansy Damianova	Utah	9.8125

Btw, Dabritz "No Gloves" had cleaner form than Sloan. Imagine what she could do with gloves.

1:44 - And we're back! Spoiler alert - Zam is wearing the 2010 diagonal leo with pastel colors.

1:52 - And we're back! Zam hopped her fty but we still want her to win anyway. Johnson hit a lovely bars set with a lovely tan for the Chompers. NCAA fun fact about Alaina Johnson: back microfractures are healed through tanning.

1:57 - Tori Wilson on vault for Utah, fty, bounces in place. The Ute leos are a puzzle - all shiny, bronze on top & maroon on the bottom. It's a lotta look even for Heidi "Front of my dress? What front of my dress?" Klum.

1:59 - Wong for Nebraska - shows what fty flair is - gorgeous preflight, height, flared the twist and stuck the landing. NCAA fun fact for Wong - humans can indeed have a negative bodyfat percentage!

And your vault winners are Millner and Courville and the SEC! Congratulations!

Vault ResultsTop

Place	Gymnast	Team	Score
1	Diandra Milliner	Alabama	9.9250
1	Rheagan Courville	LSU	9.9250
3	Olivia Courtney	UCLA	9.9167
4	Kaelie Baer	UCLA	9.9083
5	Ashanee Dickerson	Florida	9.9000
5	Lindsay Mable	Minnesota	9.9000
5	Vanessa Zamarripa	UCLA	9.9000
8	Sarie Morrison	LSU	9.8917
8	Tory Wilson	Utah	9.8917
10	Emily Wong	Nebraska	9.8833
11	Kaitlyn Clark	Alabama	9.8750
11	Lauren Beers	Alabama	9.8750
13	Maliah Mathis	LSU	9.8667
14	Joanna Sampson	Michigan	9.8583
14	Nicole Dayton	Stanford	9.8583
16	Kytra Hunter	Florida	9.8500
17	Moriah Martin	Denver	9.8250
17	Alaina Johnson	Florida	9.8250
17	Lindsey Cheek	Georgia	9.8250
20	Brandie Jay	Georgia	9.8083
21	Madison Mooring	Oklahoma	9.7917
22	Lichelle Wong	UCLA	9.7833
23	Chelsea Davis	Georgia	9.7500

And congrats to Alaina Johnson, your double NCAA champion while competing under 5 routines this year!

Uneven Parallel Bars ResultsTop

Place	Gymnast	Team	Score
1	Alaina Johnson	Florida	9.9125
2	Bridget Sloan	Florida	9.9000
2	Georgia Dabritz	Utah	9.9000
4	Mackenzie Caquatto	Florida	9.8875
4	Erica Brewer	Oklahoma	9.8875
6	Chelsea Davis	Georgia	9.8500
7	Sarie Morrison	LSU	9.8250
7	Rebecca Clark	Oklahoma	9.8250
9	Nansy Damianova	Utah	9.8125
10	Randii Wyrick	LSU	9.8000

2:08pm - Marissa King on FX - gorgeous high double layout with a delightful British accent. Gay techno music party time into ridiculously easy fhs, front layout front full. Easy double pike, Chomper nation is thrilled.

2:10pm - World vault champion Williams on beam, just because. Step up mount. Was that a bobble after the front flip. Hits the acro series cold. Gorgeous ro 1.5 with delayed twist as she spots the landing.

2:11pm - It's Sloan time! NCAA fun fact: Bridget thinks this music is Eminem's "Move Yourself." She hits the passes including sticking the last pass cold. Great routine.

2:13 - Backbrace for the Gophers on beam, and nails a gorgeous side aerial layout stepout acro series. Backbrace is impressive in a shiny gold & maroon leotard. Apparently side aerials are her thing, because her dismount is side aerial layout full off the end of the beam.

2:16 - Jacobs fx for Bama - messes up the last pass and has to bend her knees. It's kind of a desperate routine, like if Domi did the Georgia Devil routine right now in the arena.

2:18 - Macko. Fun fact - she makes the rest of the team aside from Sloan look like a wobbly mess with nervs of steel.

2:19 - Millner on fx - and STICKS THE ARABIAN AGAIN! 3x in a row - this is getting gaudy for her. Literally everyone is just watching this routine. And she has the best hair in the arena. Huge closing double pike, and wow.

2:21 - Sheheyyyy for Iowa State on beam, violating fashion rules and mixing her metals with a maroon, gold AND silver leo. Rocking acro series of front aerial, layout stepout, but a step on the dismount.

2:22 - Wong 100% sinew drops her opening triple full front the sky and kicks out a stag jump after her 2nd pass. A meh rudi to end. I'm sorry, closing rudis just don't do it for me in EFs.

2:24 - Zurales hits her side aerial back handspring acro pass, and a huge clean sheep herder jump, then lands her ro double full dismount stuck cold. That shit should be in the running.

2:26 - Grable for Arkansas milks her zero-melody poorly mixed techno routine for a 9.88752489.

2:31 - Mable Syrup for Minnesota mounts fx after the break with a high double pike and dramatic film music to go with her shiny Gopher leo. Working the music involves smiling and kicking. 1.5 front layout to finish and Gopher Nation comes to life.

2:33 - Brewer of OKalathehoma mounts beam and inexplicably Bruno Mars starts BLASTING. She wobbles her 3 acro series (bhs lso lso) and she falls on her jumps. There are a lot of camera flashes because the arena cares so much about EFs they didn't mention it. Continuing the ironic hipter tradition, she sticks her double back dismount.

2:36 - Sloan about to crush beam since the last competitor fell to keep Bridget in her comfort zone. She wobbles the acro series and the flashes continue from idiot cameras.

2:38 - DAYM-E-YANCANCOOK-OVAH mounts floor with her tango music and rocks the first two passes. Sloan goes 9.9 on beam. Ute nation is swooning over her dance.

2:39 - Birthdy girl King mounts beam with her delightful British accent and is determined to stiff-arm swat any bug in her way, and is almost off on her acro series - leg up to keep the balance.

2:42 - Courville cowboys her double Arabian too much and takes a large step forward, then sticks the middle front to double tuck cold.

2:44 - The last beam of the day, and the arena comes alive because it's NUSH! Big leap series. SHE THROWS AND STICKS THE SIDE AERIAL!!! And is off on a regular front aerial. SAD FACE. That was freaking awesome. Thank you for thrilling us today!

2:46 - Weinstein starts fx for the Illinihi and stumbles her first pass. It's all up to Olivia Courtney on fx now - no other competitors.

2:48 - Courtney starts big by killing the double Arabian, then kicking a huge layout stepout at the end of her middle pass. Arena going nuts now, and she lands the double pike low. Sad face, but they spent alllllll of their energy qualifying to Supah Six at home. Great show everyone!

And we're DUNZO! And to my utter shock, the arena turns into an actual gay disco with a live singer! And the UCLA young male assistant leaps up onto the vault, other gymnasts leap onto the podiums, and we have a flash mob! How fun! Kristen Maloney is dancing on the beam podium with Shethehealy, and yelly UCLA ANNOUNCER GUY! is back, but on the floor and out of the crowd. And they're honoring the seniors by another crowd wave. Really dude?