Reigning national champ No. 2 Texas Woman’s and No. 3 SEMO are familiar adversaries, and intriguingly SEMO is 2-0 this year in the head-to-head. The Redhawks also have the higher season high and the higher average of these two teams, and the gap in their respective NQSs is razor-thin. That said, Texas Woman’s is a big-stage team and has proven incredibly difficult to beat at championship meets hosted in Denton. The Pioneers are nothing if not clutch and really ought to advance, but if it’s going to go wrong today it’s likely to happen on bars. For SEMO, a momentary lapse in late February resulted in a couple of troubling meet scores around 192.000, but there’s no particular reason to expect a recurrence.
It would take errors from the seeds for either West Chester or Yale to upset today, but West Chester is an underrated and ascendant team that has looked steady in the back half of the season, while the sky’s the limit for Yale if it can finally put the pieces together in a single meet. We also can’t neglect to mention Fisk’s star freshman Morgan Price, who will compete in the all around this session and has a very real look at an individual title.
