Editors note: This story was updated to more accurately represent the team’s statistics through the season on Jan. 19 2015 
Despite changes in the Tigers’ uneven bars lineup, inconsistency remains an issue.
With the graduation of senior leaders Rheagan Courville and Jessie Jordan, the No. 7 LSU gymnastics team fills the holes with freshman all-arounder Sarah Finnegan and a matured returning class, but the team’s performance on bars continues to be a step behind at times.
The Tigers’ scores in their season opener against then-No. 1 Oklahoma on vault, beam and floor ranked among the top three in the nation. However, the team’s 48.975 bars score ranked 17th. Last season’s scores weren’t much different.
When the team managed to stay on the beam, the lowest team score was found on bars, while vault and floor performances remained dominant.
While 2015’s home nopener against the University of Iowa marked LSU’s best performance on bars of the entire season with a 49.600, the regular season’s final meet score marked the worst being 48.700.
What could’ve been last season’s best event fell to being the Tigers’ second worst after beam.
The first two meets of this season show the roller coaster ride is not over.
“It’s really about hitting handstands and making sure your body is tight in a nice line and sticking dismounts,” said sophomore all-arounder Myia Hambrick. “That’s pretty much what we’re focusing on now — fine tuning and make sure that everything we’re doing looks good.”
LSU coach D-D Breaux said although the team’s 49.350 on bars didn’t indicate it, the team did a better job on the event in their last meet against North Carolina State University at the Lady Luck Invitational in Las Vegas than at home against now-No. 2 Oklahoma. 
Finnegan led the team on bars with a 9.950, followed by senior all-arounder Randii Wyrick’s 9.900, Hambrick’s 9.875, junior all-arounders Ashleigh Gnat’s 9.775 and Shae Zamardi’s 9.850.
It was more of a mental issue for senior Jessica Savona’s 9.125 that led to what ended up being the team’s lowest score on the event and therefore not taken into the final score.
“It’s not necessarily about doing many repetitions, but more about training our minds and bodies to eliminate the little mistakes,” Savona said. 

At their second meet in Las Vegas the Tigers scored a 49.350 in the uneven bars event against North Carolina State. Their most recent score is tied for the fourth-best bars performance in the nation.
Though Breaux said it’s an ongoing training, she is optimistic about future bars performances because she has already seen development throughout the first two meets, and the team shares the optimism.
Hambrick said she doesn’t want to set any expectations based on the first two meets and is confident that the team’s performance on bars will improve throughout the season.
“It’s still kind of early,” Hambrick said. “We’re going to get there. We all have really good difficulty and the potential to make a big impact.”