​FloGymnastics: At your last meet at Penn State, you won your first (event) title
on beam. What was it like, scoring really well and winning your first
individual title?

​Lizzy LeDuc: I personally think it has helped my confidence and
knowing that I can hit in competition. So I just feel like if I just keep going
down the path that I am, then it will go the way I want it to.

​FloGymnastics: At Penn State, you guys had two great rotations at the
end, beam and floor, scored above 49 on both of those. What was it like being
part of those rotations and having everything go so well and everything coming
together?

​LeDuc: I think that was really a big stepping point for us. We
knew that we were down the first half. I think that our mindsets changed going
into the last two rotations. I feel like we came together as a group and
accomplished our goal, so I was really proud of them for doing that.


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FloGymnastics: What do you think the key is to repeating those performances but then also doing better on vault and bars, which necessarily hasn’t been the best for this team, even though you guys are capable of hitting those routines?

​LeDuc: Honestly I feel like we need to be confident in what we
do. We hit them in practice, but we don’t quite do what we do in competition as
we do in practice, and that’s the biggest thing, I think. And so I think it’s a
mindset. We just need to be stronger and do what we do in practice.


​FloGymnastics: How have you been trying work on that in practice? Trying
to replicate competition setting or anything like that?

​LeDuc: We try to do more pressure sets, like pressure situations,
do scoring and stuff like that, so I think it’s helping.