In the seconds after the University of Alabama gymnastics team’s 196.7-196.4 loss to No. 10 Arkansas on Friday night, head coach Dana Duckworth was off the floor, on the radio and ready to move on. The two-time NCAA balance beam champion had just watched a potentially season-high meet for her team unravel with three falls from the beam. At that point, her message to the listeners was simple: learn from this and move on.
“The message is the next second is more important,” Duckworth said. “What’s done is done. In a joking way, it’s ‘So what, now what?