Auburn lost its first meet of the season against the defending national champions and current No. 4 Florida Gators, by a score of 197.075-196.225.
Despite the loss, Auburn seems to be moving in the right direction with an improvement on its season opening score by 1.35 points.
"We were talking about grit tonight and the girls just trying to stay focused, they did a much better job of that," Head Coach Jeff Graba said. "Much better performance for the girls, it was actually a lot of fun to watch some grit and determination against a really good team."
Auburn opened the meet with a strong 49.4 performance in the vault event, which not only beat Florida's vault score but also was only one tenth off from the school record in vault.
Junior Bri Guy almost had a perfect score, landing a 9.95 out of 10.
"I think it was an improvement from last week," Guy said. "All of us settled down more and found our landings."
Even though Auburn had a high vault score, Graba believes that everything else "needs to improve considerably."
What does Auburn need to improve on most?
Although Graba said that all the events could use improvement, the biggest factor in order to get the chance to improve will be the team getting the chance to compete on the road.
"Getting on the road will allow you as a group to settle down and get to know and trust each other," Graba said. "It seems like we're trying to make up for each other's mistakes right now and you can't do that."
Auburn will be traveling to Baton Rouge to face LSU next Friday Jan. 24 in their first road meet of the season.
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