Sunday Morning Sports Talk - January 18, 2026 - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
White along with Larry Vault and not proud to be
joined by UK Gymnastics juniors, Cresling Bros. And Delandy Rodriguez.
Good morning ladies. Hi, glad to have you all back.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thanks for having us.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Well, Larry hooks these type of things up gets and
y'all righting the kickoff of the season, because you had
a match yesterday, right Friday, Friday, Friday. See my days
run together. I don't sleep very often. So you guys
had a match Friday. Was was that the first regular match?
Because last week you guys had what is that thing

(00:45):
called you got four different.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Quad meet quad meat.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Yeah, that was just our first home home meet of
the season.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
So the quad me counts as a regular season yes, okay,
And so how are you guys feeling right now? Cresling,
I know you haven't been able to perform. Uh, hopefully
we should get you back sooner. Larry. I wasn't at
a Friday's event, but Larry said that you were still
active and you're still supportive, so we'd like to have
you there, but we want to see you out on
the mats and things like that. So how are you doing.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I'm doing good.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
I'm doing much better. I'm so excited and ready to
be back. I will definitely be back this coming week
at LSU. I'm not sure if I'll be on all
the events that I've been training or not, but that's
the goal.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
And well see that we do have to have you
back because you guys are so young. You juniors are
like the cause. We got one senior, right, Isabella got
one senior. So you guys are like the big do
like the bosses. So we got to get you back.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, yeah, we need her back.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
We're ready unless you can hold it down by yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
To Lanny, No, no, we want crestling. We need crestling.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
But aren't you all around?

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yes? And you not to put anybody down, But aren't
you like to all around? Queen? Queen?

Speaker 4 (01:56):
I was going, I guess you could say so.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
Yeah, she's won both all around titles this season so far.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah yeah, so all American status on the way.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
So and she won two individual events this week, yes, yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
After you weren't on the beam there?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yep?

Speaker 4 (02:16):
I won I think beam and.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Floor Okay, yeah, see I gotta make it there, Yeah,
you do yeah, but if it's going to be as
hard as it is for Larry to catch apart, how
does that make you? Guys feel that when people want
to come to your events, it's kind of like going
to UK basketball event, like there's nowhere to park. Larry
Vaught has to beg and ask for a part.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
I know, No, it's great. The crowd on Friday was amazing.
It was sold out, And whenever we have just like
sold out crowds like that, always just like to look
around and just take it all in because you know,
you see people all the way at the top and
it's just it's insane to see how many people just
want to come and support us, and if it feels
really great.

Speaker 6 (02:51):
What flauren'saning is to watch the young girls just jumping
and so enthusiastic during the during when you feeding, which
I don't guess you get to watch that, but they
are so excited, and then after the match in it's
like a stampede to get to the floor to get
autographs and all from you all.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, and I think it also just feels really great
to just no matter the outcome, these little girls like
look up to you no matter what. And I think it.
You know, we're signing autographs and they're just so excited
to get to meet you and take photos and stuff.
So again, yeah, no matter the outcome, they're always just
going to look up to you, and I think it's
a really great feeling.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Do you guys have a time limit?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
And I know you guys wouldn't just walk off and
leave the kids, But is there kind of like because
you guys have obligations and probably meetings and treatments after
where do you guys have like a process or if
they stay there for two hours, you're going to sign
off for two hours. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Normally we stay kind of as long as we get
everybody's like give them a signature, just because you know
they came.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
To the meet. We want to be able to give
them that.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
Sometimes I think like security might be like, hey, guys,
like got to get it moving, we got to close up.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
But we try to stay as long as we can
to get everyone. Yeah, huh, you.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Get one, Larry or you don't. Are you beyond getting
because you got pictures, You got pictures and stuff with me.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
I'm embarrassed to go down there, and I ask I
wanted Allis to sign me one of those fucking put
up at home and all like that. But I feel
like I look a little older than the normal person
is down there getting the autographs. But the thing is
they get right down on the floor with them and
talk to them. I mean, that's why it takes so long.
You don't just sign, You talk to anybody and everybody
that comes. And I mean, I think it's a really

(04:25):
neat thing. That's why nobody leaves. I mean, nobody ever
leaves a gymnastics. It's not like in other sports. Nobody
ever leaves because they all want to go do there
and get those autographs and pictures after the match ends.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
I think that is pretty neat. One thing I did
notice that you talked about the excitement, how many people
were there, and Larry Vaughan, I don't know if we've
ever talked about this, but I don't know if you
know this or not. My mom did a lot of
traveling when I played. But she always thought, no disrespect
to my mom, because you know, there's no disrespect. She
always thought that I would not play the game unless

(04:57):
I made eye contact worder before the game, she would
always come down to the rail issue a yell my name, now,
mind just seventy eighty hundred thousand people there, and I
would always say hi to it. So, Delane, did you
recognize that or does it my own come to a
lot of you.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Evis Yeah, yeah, my parents always try and make it
out oh from Vegas.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
And when I compete and stuff, I always try and
look up at them. I know, last meet, before I
was about to compete on bars, we had a fall
right in front of me, and so the judges took
a little bit longer to put up that score. So
I had a lot of time before I went up,
and I always just I was looking at my parents
and they are just yelling for me and stuff, and
it kind of just calms me. So I always try

(05:35):
and make sure I look up at them and stuff.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
Yeah, good Crest. When you're not competing, what's going through
your mind? Is you're watching good or bad when one
of your teammates is performing.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
Yeah, Well, when I'm not competing, I want to make
sure that I can bring all the energy I can
because in order for them to do their part, I
need to do my part, which is taking up a
new role and just being that energy that I can
like give them all the that they need for that routine.
So yeah, good or bad, I don't change the way
that I cheer or the energy that I give.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
That's look then. And Delaney, I was really impressed Friday
night again you won the all around title again, but
you just look so confident at everything that you were doing.
And when we talked before the season, you thought you
were gonna be ready for a really good year because
it even started better individually than what you maybe would
have anticipated.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yeah, I would say absolutely. I think confidence is super,
super big, especially on our team this year. I think
that's something that US juniors have really been trying to
tell these younger girls, is to just be confident in yourself.
We had a whole preseason and we had an amazing preseason,
and I think that's just something that our team needs
to work on. And I think Chres and I have,

(06:51):
you know, great confidence and we can give that advice
to those girls.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
And you guys said, uh, you have you had a
couple falls on Friday. You haven't had falls in six
years or was it six I.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Don't know specifically how many years, but I know since
Kres and I haven't been here, we have never had
account of fall and I think even before that, it's
been a while in a.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
While, yeah, yeah, See, that's when I was getting to Chris,
I'm gonna call you Chris because you keep calling it
chres On. So that's the point I was getting to
because Larry said, what, So what do you guys? This
has never happened with you guys at the University of Kentucky.
So I don't know what Coach Garrison, Taylors, you all,
but what do you say? Once one way? After one
I could kind of see a speech, But after two, Chris,
what are you saying? Like, is there anything you can say?

Speaker 7 (07:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (07:33):
I mean, after like all the falls are happening, I
kind of pulled my team and and just kind of
told them like, hey, like in order for kind of
what I just said, in order for them to do
their job, we need to do our job. That means
we do not change the energy no matter the result.
Right now, obviously, like the falls are not what we
want and that's not what we're going to let Kentucky be.
But we can't change the past. So we got to

(07:54):
continue the meets, not over until it's over. So we
got to make sure that we are just giving it,
are all, so crestlwin.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
Now, I'm gonna keep calling Crestlin. That's just what I do.
When you do get back. I know you were talking
about it again in the preseason kind of. I mean
last year you were the floor is what you were
best known for, but you wanted to add more to it.
So if you're completely clear and able to do, what
events do you anticipate you're going to be doing once
you get back out there, hopefully Friday.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
Yeah, I'm hoping by Friday I can be back in
Beam and Floor. Those are the events that I've been
doing for the past two years. But I would love
to maybe try and get in bars at some point
this season, if not next.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
And you two are household names as far as we're
concerned in on a Sunday morning sports talk scene and
Sharon Lee's one of the But if we're not doing
karaoke because last year we did karaoke before the season started,
so I guess we already in the flow a season.
Are we not going to get a karaoke session here?

Speaker 2 (08:49):
I mean, hey, who knows I love good karaoke?

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yes, you did, Larry, what you need to work? So
who are some of the people that you guys are
grooming to come in and performed next to you, you guys,
LSU's a juggernaut. So who's some of the other people
we can look forward to seeing that you guys have
Since you guys are so young, you the seniors, because
you guys are the juniors.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
Well, let me know there's one we want them to
talk about, because Anna flann cation is that is that
her license cashing She started out on the Vault title
back to back weeks have been very impressive. And she's
a sophomore who got hurt early last year and then
kind of didn't compete again. So talk a little bit
about her and then maybe some of the others. As

(09:32):
Anthony was saying.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, Anna Flynn is an amazing vaulter. She's also really
stepped into a great like leadership role this year. I
love how vocal she is, and yeah, she's an amazing vaulter,
so good, one of the best in the NCAA's and
we're really proud of, you know, all of the injuries
that she's overcame, especially last year. I know last year
wasn't easy for her, and she just kept a positive

(09:54):
mindset through all of it. So we're really proud of her,
and even like a lot of our freshmen, I mean,
Gabby's been contributing on through the events. She was an
amazing club gymnast, and she's coming and really kind of
stepped up. So we're really excited to see how she
goes throughout the rest of the season.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
How was my buddy Sharon doing.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Saren's great.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
Yeah, she's still still thriving at Beam. Obviously, like with
the first meet, wasn't the exact result that she wanted,
but she really stepped up this past me. Little wobbles
here and there, but I mean, hey, it's hard going first.
I mean, Delaney could definitely definitely say more on that.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, I was about to say, she did take my
lead off role this season, and I can definitely, you know,
speak on that because I was lead off on Beam
the past two years and it is definitely not an
easy position to be in. It's you know, it sets
the tone for the whole lineup, and she's done amazing
this whole entire preseason. She's an amazing Beam worker, and

(10:51):
I'm really proud of her for, you know, stepping into
that role this year, and she's gonna be great, you know,
I think it's just experienced. I think she'll get used
to it as we just continue on throughout the season.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
So I'll tell you what she did do Friday night, Anthony.
What she do Photographers are not where they were supposed
to be. Guess who went down and moved them? Sharon Lee.
I looked over here and she's telling them. She's moving
them all around her, telling them where they can stand,
where they can shoot from, and all Sharon's moving them.
I don't know who was supposed to be doing it,
but Sharon didn't like where they were, so she just
moved them. But you're not surprised, right.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
She was my favorite because when we were doing karaoke,
I didn't want to do no karaoke. Y'all were having
a good time, and she grabs my hand and said,
come on, you're gonna come see next to me. So
she has no problem taking control. Larry Vaughter, you should
have remembered that.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
I will and I noticed it.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Okay, we will continue the conversation after this break. You
were listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday morning sports talk on
news radio six thirty WLAP. This is the Home of.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
The Wildcats, six thirty w LAP Welcome.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony White
along with Larry Vault. Stockyards Bank is your trusted partner
since nineteen hundred and four. Head on over to syb
dot com and we're still joined by Crestling Bros. And
Lanny Rodriguez Junior gymnasts of kicking the season off? What
are we two meets in? Yes, we're two meets in

(12:11):
there in studio with us, and we were talking about
I think kind of the preparation. I'm kind of more
on the anxiety part of it, just because I haven't
played an individual sport in a long time. But you
were talking before about being the lead off on certain
events and now you're sharing take it over because she's
the one who takes Charles Larry Vaught, moves the media
where they need to be, brings the media on the

(12:33):
stage if we're gonna do karaoke. But is that something
that you guys get to choose, does coach get to
choose or you guys feel like it's kind of like,
I guess a lead off here where the picture has
thrown one hundred and ten, one hundred and five, Now
that by the fourth or fifth inning, his arms getting
little tired, and now we're looking at ninety eight or
ninety mile Privory, is this something like that or you

(12:54):
guys feel on that day if you feel like, look,
I'll go first, I'm feeling good. Or is it already predetermined?

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Yeah, we don't get to decide lineups, so the coach
our coaches determine all of that. But I think throughout
the preseason we kind of have a general idea who's
gonna lead off for anchor and all those kind of spots.
Sometimes in between it changes, but for the most part
not really.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, and we were talking about the vault before, kind
of sticking along those terms. You warm up on vault
or can do you have you personally you both have
the ability to change your routine in the middle of
a meat or you've practiced it all week going to LSU.
That's what I'm going to do because we were talking
off air about some of complications maybe in your warm
ups where it just doesn't feel right. Can you change
your can you change your routine or the difficulty of

(13:40):
your vault meat or is this something you have to
be prepared for.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, I would say it's more of like a preparation thing.
I know we were talking and I had in my
one touch on vault, I had fallen on my one
in half, And typically I would say, we don't really
change skills in the middle of a meat because it's
you know, I've been training to do one and a
half my whole entire season to preseason, so to change
it like in the meat is kind of sporadic. But yeah, no,

(14:06):
so I fell and then I mean, I wasn't gonna
change it because I knew I had it down. I've
been working the whole preseason just because I felt once
isn't I'm not gonna let that determine what I'm going
to do in the meat.

Speaker 6 (14:15):
So, Chris, when we were talking in the preseason, one
thing you told me that kind of jumped out that
I just didn't really know. But did you tell me that,
like mental blocks were a lot more common in gymnasts
than probably what somebody like myself would ever think about. Yeah,
just talk a little bit about that or how big
a thing that is.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yeah, I think mental blocks are actually really common. But
a lot of times, obviously, like just watching people on TV,
don't realize they might have one, and a lot of
times people can get over them, which is great for me.
I've struggled with it a lot throughout my whole like
gymnastics career, so I've been able to just figure out
skills that work best for me that like I don't

(14:56):
do like a handspring layout on beam, I do like
a front toss back handspring because I get nervous going
backwards like twice on the beam.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
So you just kind of have to figure out what
works for you what doesn't.

Speaker 5 (15:05):
And luckily with gymnastics, you can get super creative like
with your skills as long as it just hits the requirements.

Speaker 6 (15:14):
Your floor routine, which is what I mean, that's what
I think you just excel at and I hope it's
okay to put it that way. But do you create
all that yourself? I mean, does somebody help put all
that together for you and delighting all or do you
all do all that on your own?

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (15:30):
When it comes to skills, we all just kind of
do the skills that we've been training like our whole life.
I mean, I've been doing the skills in my routine
for the probably the past like six years, so I
haven't really changed those. But then when it comes to choreography.
We have one of our teammates, her name is Cadence.
She's choreographed almost all of our floratines and she's an
amazing dancer, amazing choreographer and also just an amazing gymnast

(15:51):
and teammate as well. So yeah, we kind of it's
just kind of like a teamwork effort when it comes
to creating routines.

Speaker 6 (15:58):
So all you all trust Cadence.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Oh, I trust her with my life when it comes
to choreography.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
Wow, that's such a big part of it. I mean,
and I had no idea. I thought that was something
the coaches did.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
No.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah, I mean a lot of a lot of teams
the coaches do choreograph. And our new assistant coach, Anna,
she just she also choreographs as well. So it's been
nice for Cadence to have that as like a help
as well. But yeah, no, Caidence, she she's done so
many of ours this past season.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
So that's what I say.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
And you know, anythink when when Cresslin, especially it's on
floor and she likes to show off, I mean you
can just tell that she enjoys it. But you know,
I didn't find out till again the preseason. I was
talking to her, ask her why she wants to eventually
be one day?

Speaker 1 (16:41):
What do you want to be one day?

Speaker 2 (16:43):
My dream is to be an actress.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Really, Yeah, she has that, Yeah, she does have that.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
The showmanship. Yeah, she has a big smile when she
comes to a corner and turns around. She's smiling out there.

Speaker 6 (16:54):
Oh yeah, So why an actress?

Speaker 2 (16:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
I've had this dream since I was six years old,
and as I've gotten older, the dream just kind of grew.
I never really took an acting class when I was younger.
I didn't even do theater, so I'm not really sure
where that came from. But I've always been more on
the creative side. But then as I've gotten to college,
you can take more creative classes. So I've been taking
acting classes and I've just fallen in love with it
even more. And now I'm like trying to create a

(17:20):
career after college for it.

Speaker 6 (17:21):
Yeah, and then young Delaney's sitting right here at heart
is really an old So why you say that? Because
you know that she can go in a do you
even know what a dark room is?

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah? I think you ain't there where you the emotion
on the film for pictures and stuff.

Speaker 6 (17:39):
Yeah you developed, you developed with film. Delaney can do that.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, she's really cool.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
You're so you're into graphics or just old school photography,
like the old black and whites and stuff.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, I love film photography. I actually took a class
here at UK and I learned how to develop my
own film and yeah, I learned how to do all
this stuff in the dark room and it was really cool.
I loved it. That's like my favorite class I've ever taken.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
See that sounds she's on relaxing outside of doing gymnastics.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
It sounds she's the only person under foury I even
know that he even knew what a dark room was.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yeah, and it's awesome because I was talking to all
the people in like the arts building, and I think,
like UK is one of the only college like universities
that has a dark room. So I was like, wow,
I just lucky coming here because they had a dark
room also. And I mean, I love film photography. I
always have, even in high school and stuff. That's always
been like a great hobby of mine.

Speaker 6 (18:30):
So she's really good. I've seen some of her pictures
are really good.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
I thought you might have thought it was where they
go to play laser tag. Oh yeah, Uh, this is
going very well. If you would like to join the show,
you can call in to talk to Krez and Delaney.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
You can reach us at eight five nine to eight
zero two to eight seven. That's eight five nine to
a zero Old Calves. We were talking to UK junior
gymnasts after two meets in. We're hopefully getting rolls back
pretty soon.

Speaker 6 (19:01):
Larry that neither they go up against twenty twenty four
national champion LSU on Friday and then come back a
week from Friday and take on twenty twenty five national
champion Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
As you see, it's a tough place to play.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
We yeah, definitely did bras back continue.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
We will continue the conversation of this year listening to
Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on News Radio six
thirty WLAP.

Speaker 7 (19:23):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on Anthony
Whyelong Larry Vaughts still joined by Creslin and Delaney. We
are talking UK gymnastics. But this hour Sunday Morning Sports
Talk because I always brought to you by Country Boy
Brewing and Crestlon When we were on break, we were
talking a little bit about your acting skills.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
And I don't know if you know this or not.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
If you not, I don't know your acting skills, but
you're just your future in acting. I don't know if
this was part of your plan. But do you know
who Jackie chan Ish? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (19:59):
I do.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
You know?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
He does all of his own stunts.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I do.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
So you got to hear his start if you want
to be an actor, because you don't have to get
a stunt double, you can do them yourself.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yeah, I know, honestly I did not.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
One of one of our coaches, Chad his like some
of his teammates when in college they went into being
stunt doubles, and I think they've been able to go
into acting from them because he makes so many connections.
And I think I could be wrong, but I think
one of his teammates was the stunt double for Tom
Holland and Spider Man.

Speaker 6 (20:29):
Oh it's pretty big.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
And speaking of acting, you could have been like mcaulay Cocky.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
You could have started when you were like eleven ten
six whatever.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
What made you get into gymnastics and didn't go to
Collie mccacky route.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah, I started gymnastics when I was about two. I
did like mommy and me classes, and then I kind
of took a break and pursued soccer because my family
is a huge soccer family. So uh yeah, I almost
just soccer over gymnastics. Thank the Lord that I did
not do that. But yeah, yeah, So I always wanted
to pursue acting, but I knew gymnastics for me really

(21:04):
always came first, and that is something I really wanted
to do in college. And I knew acting you could
be whatever age and do acting, So I wanted to
make sure that I lived out one dream before I
started the next.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Could you do soccer in you can't?

Speaker 5 (21:16):
Can you?

Speaker 1 (21:17):
I don't know if any Have you ever had known
of any female, even at Valerie Steel or somebody, to
do more than one sport. I've never known a female
to do it college at the University of Kentucky now,
not that I can remember. Now, have you ever been
presented with that opportunity?

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Oh, I do not think I could do that.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
I don't want we don't really have the time, and
I don't think my body would be able to last
long enough to do that because gymnastics. It's so hard
on your body, so we have to do a lot
of time outside of the gym, just like healing and
making sure we're fixing all the stuff. But I could
not do two sports one That'd be so tough.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
Yeah, I told Anthony when I came to the one
practice in the free season, I had ever want to
hear football players that practice what you all go through,
and just a practice, I was astounded. Yeah, I had
no idea.

Speaker 5 (22:04):
It takes a lot of physical and mental toughness, and
gymnastics I.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Can imagine, because you have to clear your head every
time we talked about the fall, even a stumble or something.
But I know I would, I would be scared. How
did you, Delaney, How did you get into it? You
gave up ice skating and working in the black or
dark room. Yeah, how did you choose gymnastics?

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah? So I started gymnastics when I was about five
or six, which is like a little bit later than
I think most people, Like I feel like whenever I
asked gymnasts when they started there like two, I was
like five or six, which I mean it's still pretty early.
But yeah, I did figure skating, My brother played ice
hockey growing up, So I just always remember being in
an ice drink, and so I initially started doing that.

(22:45):
And then my cousin taught me how to do a
back handspring, just like out of nowhere. She's like, let
me just teach you how to do this, and I
was like okay, and I yeah. Then the rest is history.
I got put in gymnastics and I loved it ever since.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
And you guys practices, and I know somebody explained this.
It might have been coach Garrison or you explained it.
That we were talking about. Last year's event came down
to Kreslin's last event because there was nine point nine,
nine point nine, and we're just like a fraction off
of being tens everything. There were tens everywhere. You got

(23:20):
a ten at the end. But I and we were
talking about the judges on Friday. So the level of
difficulty of your routine gets you grace on your score.
Is that how it works?

Speaker 5 (23:35):
Yeah, the goals to start at a ten, because obviously,
if you do a perfect routine, you'll get a ten,
but sometimes people don't start attend. Sometimes it's like a
nine ninety five or nine to nine, which means that
you just can't go any higher than that. So yeah,
the goals to make sure you have enough like skills
and bonus to in order to make that star value.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh so it's not the difficulty, so you have to
but you can do a routine that's not even starting
at a ten. You can do a nine point nine
to five.

Speaker 6 (24:03):
And hit it perfect, but you still get a nine.
That's okay, which is why we don't understand when we're watching, right,
how can I only be a nine or something?

Speaker 4 (24:10):
Which I feel like a perfect example of that which
you see it's more common is on vault. So just
like a full is a nine to nine to five
start right in ninety five, So you can't get higher
than a nine nine to five. I competed that my
whole freshman sophomore year. But when that's like level of difficulty,
So that's more common in college gymnastics. I would say

(24:31):
for the most part, on every other event, most people
start from a tenn O. I think it's just fault is.
It's a hard event.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, so when you uh so, we talked about the
Arkansas meat last year, So say you're in the meat
and you need a ten, and again it's crestling whoever's
up in the last event, if you already routine was
already started at a nine point nine to five, can
you change to a ten because if you don't win
the if you're if you're difficulty, or if you're starting

(25:00):
scores only like a nine nine zero, you don't even
get an opportunity to win the meet. Or is that
something that happens.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Have you ever you guys come up against those things.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
I don't know if we've come up with that where you.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Were already short on points before the last event, like
you couldn't win even if you person.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, yeah, that definitely is more common. But I would
say all of our routines started a tenno, except on vault.
We only we have two foals and those start from
a nine nine to five. But other than that, everyone
on our team has a routine that starts from a tenno.

Speaker 6 (25:30):
So in a close meet, I mean Friday night because
of what happened on being but in a close meet,
when you get down like to the last event or two,
are you all scoreboard watching or do you avoid doing
scoreboard watching? Or does Tim tayus scores or I've always
wonder how that kind of work because They're right up
there for everybody to see. So I don't know if

(25:50):
you watched look ignored.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
Yeah, I mean at home meets for me normally, like
floor is the last event and that's like the one
I compete, so I'm not really paying attention to the score.
So I actuallylast year, I had no idea that like
I needed to get a ten in order for us
to win. I knew that it was so close, but
I didn't I didn't know the like if I got
a ten or if I didn't, what would that like?

Speaker 2 (26:10):
What would that do? I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
I also think like we're not really adding it up
while all the meat's going on, you know, because you have.

Speaker 6 (26:16):
To add you don't have to.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah, But like overall and stuff, I don't think we
really try and focus on that. I mean obviously I
think once for me, at least personally, whenever I'm done,
I always like to know what I got. But that's
not the first thing that I'm thinking of because again,
sometimes just the scores don't define exactly what you did,
and you can't really you can't change it a score
as a score, you can't you know, fight soon for

(26:40):
a score. So it kind of just see it. You
move on and go on to the next event.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
You know, how we can gauge if if you guys
did a good on your fan Larry, how how do
we gauge if they get good on their attempt?

Speaker 6 (26:51):
How does usually gauge? But how Tam reacts.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Exactly because it's.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
That is true.

Speaker 6 (26:59):
Yeah, he does not to hide his emotions at all. Yeah,
and if you're not doing well, he doesn't hide that either. Yeah,
he's looking straight down. They kind of just I don't
want to say, don't words you, but he just kind
of looks down at the floor, and you know, good.
I guess it's just disappointment with you all understand.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
Yeah, I mean for the most part, like, no matter
what the outcome is, I feel like we've always been
taught to have like a smile on our face and stuff,
because even like in a Florentine, if you mess up
and stuff, the floratine is still going on and you
still want to It's not over till it's over, so
you still want to try your hardest until the very
very end, and even like you just want to smile
and be like, oh, yeah, that was so great, even

(27:36):
if it wasn't because the judges, you know, I don't
they don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (27:40):
Now I've got a question text into me that I
don't know if either one of you are brave enough
to answer or not. No, no, no, But I have
a listener that would like to know. Since Tim and
his wife coach together, is there ever tension between the
Garrisons of practice or in meats?

Speaker 5 (27:56):
No, they're the like, like absolute best duo ever. They
were works so well together.

Speaker 6 (28:01):
Even at work they get alone, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (28:03):
Yeah, but a lot of I mean the coaches are
like spread out because events, like Rachel coaches Beam, Tim
coaches Bars, so that's like opposite sides of the gym.
But yeah, there's zero tension you come in there. It's
like pretty lighthearted all the time. So yeah, they work
great together. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
So like you don't know, the night when Beam wasn't
going well, Tim didn't come over like to Rachel's like
what the hell is going on? I mean he just
leaves that to her and stays away.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:26):
I mean, I honestly, I don't know what conversations that
they have, but they don't show it to us.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
So now that's a how to say I never really noticed.
But also I think we're mostly focusing kind of on ourselves,
at least for me, like I was going last, so
it's not like I'm standing near the coaches and stuff
to ask them because I'm still trying to prepare myself
to go.

Speaker 6 (28:46):
So yeay, But it is kind of an unusual situation
husband and wife coaching together like that. I mean, I mean,
I love my wife, I'm not sure I want to
spend all day and then all night both with her.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
No very great.

Speaker 5 (28:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, we called him and Rachel mom and dad and
Chad the funny uncle.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, and uh, you guys talking about I guess your
routines and whether you want to be uh, whether you
want to be notified only your final routine.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
I guess Flora floor is always final for.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
You all at home meets, I was gonna say, at
home meets floor is always the last event we do,
but away meets we don't.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
We normally would start on bars.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah, so we end on beam out of way meets.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
So it's already predetermined. Or because we're strong ger on floor,
we do that at home work. That's just kind of
a league thing.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
It's just kind of predetermined.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
The only the only time that event order changes is
at quad meets.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
I got that.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
So like at the first meet, we started on beam,
which at a duel meet you either start on vault
or you start on bars.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, gotcha. So my question is you guys are too
young to remember this. But Lebron James and the playoffs
at the free throw line and Gilbert Arenas comes and
taps him on the heinie and sai good luck and
he has one in one free throws and he misses
the free throw when they lose the game, And so
he was talking about it, and Gilbert Arenas was trying
to get in Lebron's head. So I know you guys said,

(30:11):
if you got a choice, because last year Krez didn't
know that it was going to be your routine, Your
last routine was going to determine whether we want or
not because you guys can't do the math, because you
don't have the view that Larry and I got. Larry said,
because we look at the side that the jungle trying
delivery is like you can just look up, like they
can't just look up, Larry, because it comes in.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
I don't doubt that we can we can see it.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
You prefer to not be told. I know you said,
it just happens so quickly. You really don't have time.
Would you prefer for when your teammates come out, Look,
we need your money, we need you.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
I mean, whether or not they come up to me
and tell me it doesn't really affect what I'm going
to do out there on the floor, because I mean
I've trained so like my whole preseason for this, even
my whole gymnastics career for this, so I know what
I'm capable of, and I know that I am instant
and I am confident on this event. So like, no
matter who says what to me, it's not going to
change the results of.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
My floor teen What about you? Man, Look, everybody just
fell off this dog on beam.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Come on, yeah, I mean I think like visually, if
I see people falling off the beam, like the past weekend,
I mean I definitely did feel some pressure, you know.
I was like, oh no, this isn't this is not good.
We got to pick it up and stuff. So I
definitely felt the pressure. I was a little nervous, So
I mean I think that was more obvious, like I could,
you know, see it with my eyes I think like

(31:31):
scoring wise, if you know, I was up and they're like, oh,
you need this kind of score right to win the
meet and stuff like, I don't. I don't think any
of us are just visually aware of like exact points
and stuff like. I don't think we're really focused on that.
I think we're trying to just stay present in the
moment and just focusing on just trying our hardest out there,
no matter the outcome. So I would say that's not

(31:51):
really like the first thing that we're kind of thinking of.

Speaker 6 (31:53):
But yeah, do you ever get a chance to go
to any other UK sporting events? Do you ever have
time to go? Is there any that y'all particularly like
to go to?

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, I think we go to it. We go to
a lot of different events.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
I think it's hard in season, but like all of
us would go to like women's and men's soccer.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Last year, I think that was a big one that
all of us went to.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Hm, well we're gonna take a break. We don't want
to put you guys too short of a last seg
We got one more segment left with Kresly and the
Dead Laney, Larry Watt and I will discuss little music
with them when we come back. You're listening to Stockyards
Bank Sunday one in Sports Talk.

Speaker 7 (32:25):
This is the Home of the Wildcuts. Six thirty w
l A.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
P Bel six thirty WLAP Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday
Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony White, Longwood, Larry Vaught Still
Join it by Creslyn Brose and de Laney, Roy Riguez
Junior Gymnasts. I like this music.

Speaker 6 (32:45):
This is great music, great music, and this is a
Beam song of yours.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
Yeah, this is my Beam song.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
This is so yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
Yeah. Like mentally, I'm like, oh gosh, I'm box.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
This song still makes me nervous because I would allays
go after Delaney the past two years lead off Beam
and so I like always get so nervous because I'm like, oh,
I gotta go next.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
But now I can actually enjoy the song.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah, but hold on. This is not Josh Loan.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Though, right, No, this is not Josh Josh Loan.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
And that's a new a new artist that you listen.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah, this, I would say, that's like my favorite artist
right now. He's a like upcoming country singer. He's from Yeah,
he's from Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
The state or he's from lexingto No, he's from Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
I think Shelbyville, some sm somewhere in Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
We're Shelburn from Larry, you know Shelburn. No, Shelbyville, but
do you know Shelburt.

Speaker 6 (33:38):
He's from Taylor Sale. Okay, but josh was Sloan. I'm
not sure trying to look, but I think Shelbyville is right.
I think it is correct.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, josh the ladies love your music, which I'll give
Have you come on here or something? Is your favorite?

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Oh? I definitely enjoy his music. I don't listen to
him as often as Lanny does. But my music and
my car has been not working recently.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
So what's wrong with your car?

Speaker 4 (34:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
It's like the cold weather. It's almost like my music
needs to defrost. It's kind of weird.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
It's kind of weird, but like when the car is warm,
my music works.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
So I was gonna have Larry take and look at it.
He's a tech guy.

Speaker 6 (34:19):
Yeah right, yeah, yeah, I got the elevator real quick.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
I'm looking up Joshua Sloan. He played at the Burrow
I think about three months ago. So he comes here
to tim.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
I have to go to see.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
Well, next time he's here, bro, you need to fix
him up with tickets.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah, we can do that. So who picture? Uh, Chris,
who picks your music for your routines? Because you said
you got a choreographer and I'm assuming they have to
go hand to hand because that bop that we just
listened to by, Uh, who's the guy Stapleton?

Speaker 6 (34:53):
Right, Chris Stifleton, Chris Stapleton, He's done rather well.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
I'm not good. I'm not good with the artists. I
do know the I'm just not good with the r Yeah,
so who picks your music for your routine?

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Is that something you do?

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Then they choreograph it to it or the choreograph choreography
goes with the music and you just have to adapt
to it.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
We get to pick it.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
So I picked all the music and all the songs
that go into my routine. Cadence also cuts our music
for us too, so she can kind of create the
music and create a visual of like what choreography, what
choreography she wants to put to it. So yeah, she's
awesome at that. She's just like amazing at everything she does.

(35:33):
But yeah, we get to choose it, and yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
What music is off limits? Because what was that women's
basketball they said they wouldn't allowed to play Drake.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Yeah, I think yeah, I mean really I would say,
like I mean, for our floor routines and stuff, there's
no lyrics and stuff. It's just the music. So I
don't really think there's any songs for us personally that
are off limits just because there's no lyrics and stuff.
I think for our beam song and like our Vault
and Bar song, my Christiepleton's song, obviously there is lyrics

(36:07):
in that. So I think, to you know a certain extent,
what kind of songs we play are? You know, they
don't want you to play a really bad song or
anything like that. So I would say it makes sense
for basketball because I'm assuming there's lyrics and stuff and that.

Speaker 6 (36:21):
Yeah, And my daughter in law is corrected that Josh
is from Salllyersville. It makes him an eastern Kentucky gas
So I wish we should we should have figured it
all like that. But the thing I love about gymnastics
as you go and the music is just phenomenal, and
they're not like some of these athletes that have to
have total silence to perform. They're out there crowds going crazy,

(36:44):
music is going crazy, everybody on the side of dates
and yeah and everything. It just makes the atmosphere so
much better.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Everybody's taking dig and other athletes and you are bold.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
Well, well.

Speaker 6 (36:55):
A golfers got to have total silence on the two
foot put total and then like crazy, but they're in
the putt. I mean they're up on a bean that's
a quarter of an inch wide. They got music blaring,
people shouting and all like it doesn't bother them.

Speaker 5 (37:10):
That's one thing I appreciate about our sport is that
it's not silent, because for me, I couldnot compete.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
And I don't know if I would like that. I
think I'd be more nervous. It's silent, and then you
hear like the bounds of the beam be like, oh.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
My god, you can hear the crowd so much more
like the little gas or the little I don't know if, yeah,
I I could do that.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
But also like I think it's nice to be able
to pick our songs and stuff like that Chris Appleton song.
I feel like it's just like a calming song for me.
And when I'm doing my beam routine, that's like really
all I hear, and I think it just kind of
calms me down.

Speaker 6 (37:43):
So, yeah, Sharon's got to need something too. What is
her song?

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Oh, I don't know that. I don't know the name
of it. Yeah, my head right now.

Speaker 6 (37:50):
But I like the one that she is.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah, and Larry Vaught tell me. We got about a
minute and a half. Tell me if this is true
or not. Larry Vaught, I think you all know everybody's routine.
So are they're doing their routine? You guys are on
the side. You got your own routine, so you can
remember everybody's routine who's performing, because I could see some
of y'all mimicking on the side as they're doing their routine.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Yeah, that out.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
I mean we at practice.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
I mean yeah, I know a lot of people, but
at practice we see it every day. So you kind
of like I like to memorize my favorite parts from
people's routines or just like the well known parts.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
Yeah, I want to say, like the it's like the
well known party.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
You know a lot of them.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
I personally don't know all of them, but like the
well known parts and stuff.

Speaker 6 (38:30):
I think, Yeah, well, I like the other day on
floor when some and I don't remember which teammate it was.
It was kind of in the middle of their routine.
You ran all the way around the map, you get
over to the corner diage.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
I did, yeah, because I do that every day in practice.
And I was like, oh, shoot, I'm not there. So
I ran all the way and I was like, you
can do it, you know, cheering for her and stuff.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
So will This has been fun, ladies. We would like
to have you back.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Bring on some other team mates. We're gonna get it.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
We're gonna get in.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Contact with Josh.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
And thanks to Tim and thanks to Tim Garrison for
y Yeah ranking practice of where we could work out.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Okay, Yes, sim is the best.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
Yes, thank you for having us.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Yes, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
And tie time except next Friday at seven thirty because
they were being baton rouged.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
And you can catch them on ESPN too, Larry.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
And in two weeks you can catch them back in
Amorial Coliseums in Oklahoma.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
So you got to you got two weeks of good competitions.

Speaker 6 (39:18):
Will be like the full strength for them.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yes, indeed, for Breslan, for Delaney, for Jack Pilgrim, Larry Vaught,
Bout Robinson for playing the tunes the platters that matter.
I'm Anthony White and this has been Stockyards Bank Sunday
morning sports talk on news radio six thirty w l
a p