2009 Superlative Skills (W)

Skills of Note in the 2009 Season (W)

The following is a listing of high level skills performed by Women in the 2009 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 5.3 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, 2007, 2008

VAULT

UNEVENS

Yurchenko Layout 2/1 

Yurchenko Layout 3/2

Ricki Lebegern, Alabama

Kristina Baskett, Utah

Rebecca Best, Ohio State

Amanda Castillo, Florida

Annie DiLuzio, Utah

Hillary Mauro, UGA


Cassidy McComb, UGA

Christine Nguyen, UNC

Brandi Personett, PSU

Tiffany Tolnay, UGA

RO 1/2 Front Layout 1/2

Front Handspring Front Layout 1/2

Front Handspring Front Tuck with a Full Twist

Comaneci

Grace Taylor, UGA

Shushunova

Heather Purnell, Stanford

Full Twisting Double Layout Flyaway

Courtney Butler, DU

Nicole Cowart, Illinois

Kara Wright, UNC

Hindorff (clear-hip reverse hecht/Tkachev)

Kassi Price, Bama

Melanie Sinclair, UF

Ricna (Stalder reverse hecht/Tkachev)

Ray (toe-on Tkachev)

Courtney Kupets, UGA

Bharwaj (full twisting Pak)

Leslie Mak, Oregon State

BEAM

FLOOR

Round-Off, Layout to Two Feet Mount

Switch Ring Leap 

Morgan Evans, UNC

Amber Hammerschmidt, ASU

Holly Vise, OU

Back tuck 1/1 twist

Arabian Front Tuck

Back Layout Two Foot

Brooke Barclay, Oregon State

Grace Taylor, UGA

5/2 Turn in Wolf (Humphrey)

Double Front Tuck

Back Double Pike

Amanda Castillo, UF

Kassi Price, Bama

Tatjana Thuener-Rego, Michigan

Melanie Sinclair, UF

Full Twisting Double Layout

Brandi Personett, PSU

Double Layout

Brooke Barr, NC State

Ashleigh Clare-Kearney, LSU

Morgan Dennis, Bama

Hilary Ferguson, UK

Emily Green, UK

Heather Hite, UK

Susan Jackson, LSU

Emily Lopatofsky, MSU

Jasmine Minion, UK

Brandi Personett, PSU

Melani Sinclair, UF

Kylie Stone, Nebraska

Double Front

Daria Bijak, Utah

Jessa Hansen, Iowa

Danae Johnson, Rutgers

Arabian Double Front

Kristina Baskett, Utah

Ariana Berlin, UCLA

Ashleigh Clare-Kearney, LSU

Annie DiLuzio, Utah

Samantha Engle, LSU

Deanna Graham, Arizona

Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs, UCLA

Carly Janiga, Stanford

Courtney Kupets, UGA

Hilary Mauro, UGA

Christine Nguyen, UNC

Kyndal Robarts, Utah


Mandi Rodriguez, Oregon State

Tatjana Thuener-Rego, Michigan

Tiffany Tolnay, UGA

Triple Full

Marina Borisova, Sac State

Annie DiLuzio, Utah

Corey Hartung, UF

Alicia Hatcher, Missouri

Ricki Lebegern, Bama

Elizabeth Mahlich, UF

Nicole Pechanec, Stanford

Abby Stack, UGA

Tricia Woo, NU

Tuck Full In or Half In/Half Out

Kylee Botterman, Michigan

Sarah Curtis, Michigan

Lara Evenstad, NU

Erin Grigg, EMU

Jessica Lopez, DU

Cassidy McComb, UGA

Rochelle Robinson, MSU

Taylor Seaman, NC State

Jennifer Simbhudas, Iowa

Sarah (Specht) Tomczyk, Arizona

Tuck Full Out

Pike Full In

Ashley Houghting, Washington

Krista Jasper, UNC

Nicole Ourada, Stanford

Maranda Smith, Florida