We’re officially through Week 2 of the 2024 NCAA gymnastics season and if there’s one thing we’ve learned so far, it’s that Oklahoma remains the team to beat.
The Sooners, the reigning two-time NCAA champions, opened the year with a dominant performance during their meet at the “Mean Girls Super 16” — and they followed up this week with an even more impressive victory at the star-studded Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad in West Valley, Utah. Competing against LSU, UCLA and Utah, Oklahoma earned the highest team score of the season at 197.900 — three-quarters of a point better than the second-place Tigers.
Oklahoma took the lead after its first rotation on vault, and never lost it. Audrey Davis, who finished second in the all-around, had one of the most memorable performances of the day with her near-perfect bars routine that earned a 9.975:
THAT’S OUR BARS QUEEN.@AudreyDavis132 sticks the landing for a near-perfect 9.975! pic.twitter.com/0FQVZdHgwW
— Oklahoma Women’s Gym (@OU_WGymnastics) January 13, 2024
After the second week, the Sooners have two of the year’s top three all-around scores and rank in the top two in the country on vault, bars and beam. While the team did announce it would be without junior Danae Fletcher, a contributor on bars,…