Last weekend, the nation’s top level 10 athletes competed in the Nastia Liukin Cup, featuring several of the top class of 2025 and 2026. To get an idea of how they might fare on some of the nation’s top teams once they enter college, our resident former judge, Rhiannon Franck, re-evaluated each class of 2025 recruit on one event.
For each athlete, she summarized some ideas of how they could best transition their routine from excelling in level 10 to dominating in the NCAA, and rescored the routine using NCAA deductions, bonus, and start values. For the most part, the routines on bars and vault generally stayed the same. However, the beam and floor routines tend to be more difficult in NCAA than level 10, due to differences in composition and bonus requirements.
Vault
Allison Cucci (Arkansas ’25)
Start Value: 10.1 (level 10), 10.0 (NCAA)
Suggested Composition Changes: None; it’s a good-looking Yurchenko one and a half
Execution Deductions:
- Leg separation on the table (0.05) and in the air (0.05)
- Late twist completion (0.05)
- Hop on the landing (0.1)
Nastia Cup Score: 9.850
My Score: 9.750
This will be a great addition to Arkansas’s vault lineup next year, especially if she can finish her twist a little…
