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Quiet dominance: Sydney Snead’s selfless role as lone senior leads to career-best performance

Sydney Snead has experienced a perfect floor routine at Stegeman Coliseum once, and there was a buzz to indicate it may happen once more Friday night.

On consecutive sequences, a belly flop and a double pike, Georgia’s lone senior gymnast knew the execution was flawless. Snead flashed a wide smile as her arms flailed into mid-air and her personality popped to the beat of up-tempo music.

“She really sells it, feels it and is genuinely excited about what she just did,” GymDogs’ head coach Courtney Kupets Carter said.

In this instance, Snead had two groups of people to sell: A capacity crowd and a panel of judges who had given a 9.