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Time heals all wounds, apparently even a short amount of time.

Utah's gymnastics team, which was so down and out after its performance at the NCAA Regionals in which four big breaks nearly cost the Utes a trip to the NCAA Championships, has righted things in practice since that near debacle.

The Utes have responded so well that coach Greg Marsden sounds much more confident in his team's ability to have a good showing at the NCAA Championships than he did a few days ago.

Utah competes in the afternoon session on Friday along with Florida, Stanford, UCLA, Georgia and Michigan at the championships in the Forth Worth Convention Center. The top three teams move on to Saturday's Super Six.

"We had a really excellent week of practice," he said. "They seem much more focused and determined to do a better job the next time around."

Utah's coaches have relied a lot on the senior class to make sure the team is in the right frame of mind. While Corrie Lothrop and Georgia Dabritz have taken the lead, having Tory Wilson, who is recovering from injuries suffered in the Pac-12 Championships, around has helped too, Marsden said.

"She has been involved a lot in the background," he said. "I think everyone is trying to do everything they can to make sure we are as ready and in as good place as we can be going into this."

Lothrop said she has emphasized moving forward and focusing on the upcoming competition rather than what happened in Berkeley.

"We only have a few practices so we need to make good use of them," she said. "There is no point in trying to change what happened. We have to do all the little things we can do to make sure we are confident going out there this week."

Utah's Baely Rowe said a meeting with the team's sport psychologist helped the team, too.

"We talked a lot about going into the arena and taking it over," she said. "Going into regionals, we knew we were good and we were confident we could beat those teams but we didn't show that with our posture and the way we carried ourselves. We want to go in this week and show what Utah gymnastics is all about."

Physically, the Utes are as ready as they can be. The Utes have made few adjustments to their routines in recent weeks, meaning they can focus more on the little details, such as getting accustomed to competing on a podium, where the competition floor is raised.

The SEC uses a similar setup for its championships but the Pac-12 doesn't, so the Utes have been practicing with mats under the balance beam.

"It makes it more wobbly and that is what the podium does, it isn't as stable," Marsden said. "The beam feels different, the bars feel different and we need to adjust to those differences the best we can."

The physical adjustments have been made, just like the mental ones.

"If we go in and do what we are capable of, we should make the Super Six," Rowe said. "That is what we are aiming for." —

NCAA gymnastics championships

O Friday and Saturday, at Forth Worth, Texas

Friday's schedule

Afternoon (noon MDT) • Utah (balance beam), Florida (bye/floor), Stanford (bye/bars), UCLA (floor), Michigan (bars), Georgia (vault)

Evening (6 p.m. MDT) • Oklahoma (bye/floor), Oregon State (bye/bars), Alabama (floor), Auburn (bars), LSU (vault), Nebraska (balance beam)

Note • Opening rotation is in parenthesis after each team.

Top 3 teams from each session move on to the Super Six on Saturday.