I know it’s late, but keep your eyes open because this quad meet features some of 2022’s most intriguing teams. Stanford, the hero of the 2022 postseason, has a potentially extraordinary freshman class. But the Cardinal has posted so little preseason footage that we have no real way to piece together lineups for this team—we can’t even confirm whether many of these athletes are healthy. Conference-mate Oregon State is less of a mystery—Jade Carey is probably going to anchor every lineup!—but Phoebe Jakubczyk, who competed the all-around at last month’s intrasquad, has recently suffered a season-ending injury. The good news for the Beavers is that its freshmen may finally bring a close to its years-long bars odyssey. Few freshman routines were on offer at the intrasquad, but both Francesca Caso and Savannah Miller competed on bars, where new options are desperately needed.
For Georgia, anything could happen. The sky is the limit for this squad’s numerous newcomers, but for embattled head coach Courtney Kupets Carter, is it really as simple as recruiting—and hiring—herself out of trouble? At last month’s First Look intrasquad great potential was balanced by some real struggles, but the fact that there was only one fall the whole meet has to be…
