2008 Superlative Skills (W)

Skills of Note in the 2008 Season (W)

The following is a listing of high level skills performed by Women in the 2007 Season.  To make this list, the skill had to be successfully competed in a meet sometime during the season.  The skill competed must have an FIG rating of "E" or "F" or "G", or an FIG Vault Difficult Value of 5.4 or higher.  

The issue of escalating difficult leading to higher injury rates and more wear and tear on the athlete is important.  The purpose of this list is not to encourage or foster unreasonable risk or other threats to the safety of the athletes.  In fact, many of the skills on this list were only competed in special circumstances.  This list simply serves as an archive and collection of skills actually performed by the athletes.

This list is incomplete.  Please submit your additions and corrections to admin@collegegymfans.com.

Superlatives for Prior Years:  2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

VAULT

UNEVENS

Yurchenko Layout 2/1 

Yurchenko Layout 3/2

Kristina Baskett, Utah

Amanda Castillo, Florida


Cassidy McComb, UGA

Christine Nguyen, UNC

Brandi Personett, PSU

Ashley Reed, Florida

RO 1/2 Front Layout 1/2

Front Handspring Front Layout 1/2

Front Handspring Front Pike with a Full Twist

Comaneci

Grace Taylor, UGA

Shushunova

Angela Walker, Minn

Full Twisting Double Layout Flyaway

Courtney Butler, DU

Julie Dwyer, DU 

Emily Peacock, Arkansas

Ashley Reed, UF

Kara Wright, UNC

Hindorff (clear-hip reverse hecht/Tkachev)

Kassi Price, Bama

Melanie Sinclair, UF

Ricna (Stalder reverse hecht/Tkachev)

Laura Ann Chong, Oregon State

Ray (toe-on Tkachev)

Courtney Kupets, UGA

BEAM

FLOOR

Round-Off, Layout to Two Feet Mount

Switch Ring Leap 

Nicole Childs, UGA

Courtney McCool, UGA

Holly Vise, OU

Back tuck 1/1 twist

Nicole Harris, ASU

Arabian Front Tuck

Back Layout Two Foot

Brooke Barclay, Oregon State

Sarrie Rubin, UNC

Grace Taylor, UGA

5/2 Turn in Wolf (Humphrey)

Terin Humphrey, Bama

Double Front Tuck

Back Double Pike

Amanda Castillo, UF

Kassi Price, Bama

Tatjana Thuener-Rego, Michigan

Melanie Sinclair, UF

Full Twisting Double Layout

Double Layout

Morgan Dennis, Bama

Julie Dwyer, AU

Emily Parsons, NU

Brandi Personett, PSU

Kiwi Redmond, OU

Maria Scaffidi, NU

Nicola Willis, UF

Double Front

Daria Bijak, Utah

Stephanie Neff, Utah

Arabian Double Front

Dani Bryan, Pitt

Ashleigh Clare-Kearney, LSU

Carly Janiga, Stanford

Courtney Kupets, UGA

Christine Nguyen, UNC

Ashley Postell, Utah

Kyndal Robarts


Mandi Rodriguez, Oregon State

Tiffany Tolnay, UGA

Triple Full

Marina Borisova, Sac State

Annie DiLuzio, Utah

Corey Hartung, UF

Ricki Lebegern, Bama

Jessica Lopez, DU

Ashley Postell, Utah

Casey Rohrbaugh, PSU

Abby Stack, UGA

Decelia Willacy, Towson

Tricia Woo, NU

Karin Wurm, Arizona

Tuck Full In

Kylee Botterman, Michigan

Carmelina Carabajal, Minn

Morgan Dennis, Bama

Lauren Elmore, Stanford

Lauren Klein, LSU

Brittani McCullough, UCLA

Rochelle Robinson, MSU

Ashley Reed, UF

Katie Rue, Florida

Jennifer Simbhudas, Iowa

Tasha Smith, Oregon State

Half In Half Out

Brittany Magee, Bama

Sarah Specht, Arizona

Tasha Schwikert, UCLA

Tuck Full Out

Pike Full In

Kristina Baskett, Utah

Amanda Castillo, UF

Ashley Houghting, UW

Kassi Price, Bama