Heading into the gymnastics team’s quad meet at Rutgers University with the Scarlet Knights, the University of Pennsylvania and Ursinus College on Saturday evening, coach Umme Salim-Beasley and her coaching staff had an idea.
She has wanted her squad to work on regulating and maintaining its energy levels for the duration of meets, so Salim-Beasley decided to provide snacks throughout the meet.
“That really helped keep their energy up,” Salim-Beasley said of the tactic. “It was good that we were on calm events first and then had our high-energy events, floor and vault, back to back. It was nice that we didn’t have to bring our energy level up and then bring it down and up again.