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By Caroline Medley The first analysis in our Pac-12 potential lineups series focuses on Arizona, who brought new life to its program last season with their new coach, Tabitha Yim. They’ll lose seniors Danielle Buchanan, Shelby Edwards, Lexi Mills and Jessie Sisler, and while Buchanan has been injured the last season or two, Edwards, Mills and Sisler will leave major holes on all four events. Hopefully the large class of incoming freshmen will be able to help. On vault, the Wildcats will miss seniors Edwards and Sisler and theoretically would return only one 10.0 start value vault — Lauryn Mattson’s Yurchenko arabian. Unfortunately, in the new rule revisions that were recently released, the Yurchenko arabian, along with a number of other vaults, will be devalued to a 9.95 like the full that the rest of Arizona’s gymnasts competed last season. Maddy Cindric, Selynna Felix-Terrazas and Gabby Laub will all return useable Yurchenko fulls, and incoming freshmen Isabell Hutchins, Jenny Leung and Heather Swanson will all bring fulls to the team as well. However, the real star should be new Wildcat Madelaine Leydin, who competed for Australia at worlds last year. She competes a Yurchenko 1.5 that will give the Wildcats a 10.0 vault once again. In addition, Arizona did not use now-sophomore Brittany Robertson last season, who is a former New Zealand elite. If she competes this season, she could also contribute a solid full. 2016-2017Alyssa Baumann: Florida
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