“Dance is super easy for her ... is one of six UF gymnasts who will perform the floor routine in Thursday's NCAA gymnastics semifinals. (Ashleigh Lucas/WUFT News) Since a large part of ...

Floor routines have been the centerpiece of women’s artistic gymnastics for decades, but in NCAA gymnastics, they’ve taken on a life of their own as gymnasts bring more dance elements and ...

dance elements with a cross-sit landing on the balance beam or, in floor routines, acrobatic elements with sideward takeoffs or that land in a forward roll. In women’s gymnastics, there are also ...

They evaluate the routine's technical value, including body difficulty (jumps, leaps, balances), apparatus mastery and originality, dynamic elements (throws and rotations of apparatus) and dance step ...