Q&A With Lizzy LeDuc: Her First NCAA Event Title And Progressing As A Team
Q&A With Lizzy LeDuc: Her First NCAA Event Title And Progressing As A Team
FloGymnastics: At your last meet at Penn State, you won your first (event) title on beam. What was it like, scoring really well and winning your first individual title on beam
Lizzy LeDuc college gymnastics
Feb 4, 2016 by Amanda Wijangco
FloGymnastics: At your last meet at Penn State, you won your first (event) title on beam. What was it like, scoring really well and winning your first individual title?
Lizzy LeDuc: I personally think it has helped my confidence and knowing that I can hit in competition. So I just feel like if I just keep going down the path that I am, then it will go the way I want it to.
Lizzy LeDuc does a sheep jump on beam during pre-meet warmups before competing against Michigan. FloGymnastics: At Penn State, you guys had two great rotations at the end, beam and floor, scored above 49 on both of those. What was it like being part of those rotations and having everything go so well and everything coming together?
LeDuc: I think that was really a big stepping point for us. We knew that we were down the first half. I think that our mindsets changed going into the last two rotations. I feel like we came together as a group and accomplished our goal, so I was really proud of them for doing that.
FloGymnastics: What do you think the key is to repeating those performances but then also doing better on vault and bars, which necessarily hasn’t been the best for this team, even though you guys are capable of hitting those routines?
LeDuc: Honestly I feel like we need to be confident in what we do. We hit them in practice, but we don’t quite do what we do in competition as we do in practice, and that’s the biggest thing, I think. And so I think it’s a mindset. We just need to be stronger and do what we do in practice.
FloGymnastics: How have you been trying work on that in practice? Trying to replicate competition setting or anything like that?
LeDuc: We try to do more pressure sets, like pressure situations, do scoring and stuff like that, so I think it’s helping.