"It's my least-favorite event, but I don't mind training it and trying to learn new things," she said. "Bars is a mental thing for me that hopefully we can conquer this summer. It's a possibility. I think that would be pretty cool to do all-around.

"It's not a major priority for me," said DiLuzio, who was an all-arounder in club, "but I'm hoping that if I play with it this summer and get some new skills I will have a routine that will work good for me and also score good, too.

"I could prove to myself that I could be good enough to be an all-arounder."

For now, though, the goal for DiLuzio and her teammates the goal is just to clean up the small mistakes that creep into everyone's routines.

"We're trying to focus on just making the 24-for-24 (hitting every routine), trying to improve each week," said the sophomore known as "Doozie."

"That's hard to do, but if each person takes something little and fixes it, that can add more to the team's score. That's what we try to do. When we see that person that's been working on something so small that only we would probably notice, if they fix it in a meet, we get so excited because toward the postseason, that's what counts is all the small stuff."

This is a more together club than the 2007 model that had trouble most of the season but put things together to win the West Regional at California and then placed second to Georgia in the national championships at Utah.

"We're feeling more confident and trying to have good practices, as many as we can, sticking together as a team, trying not to get too distracted by other people," DiLuzio said.

North Central Regional

At Minneapolis
Saturday, 5 p.m.

No. 2 Utah
No. 11 Arkansas
No. 14 Arizona
No. 23 Iowa
Southern Utah
Minnesota

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