Jan. 24, 2025 4 AM PT
Brooklyn Moors battled a classic case of the yips. Call it a hurdle to jump over or an obstacle to conquer — the Canadian graduate student said she couldn’t “flip backward.”
“It’s tough because if you haven’t been through a mental block, such as going backward in gymnastics, it’s very hard to understand,” Moors said.
Enter the Bruins’ new beam coach, Lacy Dagen. Three weeks into the 2025 campaign, Moors is now comfortably executing the back handspring as a part of her beam series, earning co-Big Ten Event Specialist of the Week honors, and No.