Carly Woodard's First Perfect-10 Beam Routine For Oklahoma Gymnastics Is a Must Watch

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Never in Carly Woodard's NCAA gymnastics career had she scored a perfect 10. She was close, with a few 9.95s on beam — but the University of Oklahoma fifth-year senior finally earned that 10.00 in a home meet against Denver on Jan. 30.

In the video ahead, you'll see Woodard's gorgeous beam routine featuring side aerial to back handspring step-out and front toss (or kickover front) to beat jump combos. Watch as she keeps her toe-point throughout the entire performance and flows through choreography. The stuck aerial to full-twisting back layout dismount is the exclamation point this routine needed to make it perfect on paper!

"Going into the routine it's the same thing that I think every week. It's trust your training," Woodard said in a press conference statement sent to POPSUGAR. "I do this so many times in the gym, so many times a day, and just relying on that to come out in the competition. During the routine it's one skill at a time. I think about doing one skill, hitting that, moving on to the next skill. And then afterwards it was obviously really great, landing it was a good finish, and so I was super excited. And it was just a hit routine for me, and it was the best one I've done obviously for me to get that ten, but it was a surreal experience."

Carly Woodard with a PERFECT 10.0 🙌✨ @carlyw_19#ThatsaW | 📺 ESPN pic.twitter.com/fhcToGlY8s

— espnW (@espnW) January 30, 2022

This isn't the first time this season Oklahoma gymnasts earned perfect marks. Sophomore Katherine LeVasseur and senior Allie Stern racked up back-to-back 10.00s on vault in their season opener against the University of Alabama (watch a video of those vaults here). This is, however, Oklahoma's first 10 on beam in 2022, and getting a perfect score on that event is arguably the hardest feat to accomplish in the collegiate sport. After all, the beam is four inches wide, and the judges have a clear view of gymnasts' skills while they flip and twist with precision, trying not to wobble and give up tenths of a point. It's the tightrope of gymnastics — and Woodard showed it who's beam queen.