The freshman quartet of Katie Carlisle, Brittany Furuyama, Cori Rechenmacher and Sydney Waltz makes up Tim Garrison’s first class fully his own.Recruiting in gymnastics starts so early that Garrison has waited until the fourth year of his Kentucky tenure for the moment they arrived on campus. That means they are carrying the weight of some serious expectations.”There is a little bit of pressure on us, but we all know we have the confidence, the talent in general and we go great together, the four of us,” Rechenmacher said.It’s a good thing they do, otherwise this group of freshmen would surely not be able to contribute as much as they’re being asked so soon.Two meets into UK’s season, the four newcomers have been counted on for seven routines. The first time around in a win at Washington, Garrison said they grew out of being freshmen before the meet was over. In their second meet on Excite Night, they performed more like seasoned veterans.”Going through the preseason, I was fairly sure they were going to contribute and contribute in a big way,” Garrison said. “To this point in the season, it’s really turned out to be so.”Counting scores on six of the seven routines performed by freshmen, No. 13 UK came in second in Memorial Coliseum with a score of 195.600, beating Arizona State and falling short of No. 2 LSU’s 196.600.”I guess taking second to No. 2 team in the country is some consolation, but not much,” Garrison said. “It still doesn’t feel good to not win, but a 195.6 at this point in the season considering the fact that we’re based solely on score for our rankings, I guess we’ll take it for now.”The score represented a marked improvement from the season opener and the highest so early in the season in Garrison’s time in Lexington. The freshmen had a lot to do with it.On vault, Furuyama and Waltz posted scores of 9.800 and 9.850, respectively, to close out a strong performance on the apparatus. On bars, Carlisle and Waltz went 9.800 and 9.875 before Rechenmacher turned in a 9.850 as the fifth of UK’s six performers.”She’s almost the anchor on bars right now,” Garrison said. “That’s pretty good. That’s pretty solid for a freshman.”Rechenmacher wouldn’t go as big on beam, the second of her two events, but her score was even more important.After redshirt junior Alexis Gross tallied a score of 9.050, Rechenmacher stepped up with no margin for error in the fifth spot in UK’s lineup. Unfazed, she managed a 9.725 to sustain the momentum the Cats built on vault and bars.”I just knew I had the confidence in myself,” Rechenmacher said. “I’ve been doing great in the gym this week and I knew I just had to do it for Lex. She was a little upset with herself that she fell and I understand that, but I just wanted to make it for her and help the team.”It’s perhaps the most impressive thing about this freshman class that its members are already placing team before self. Along those lines, they’re setting some ambitious goals.”Hopefully we have the power to get this team to nationals,” Garrison said. “That’s our goal and I think we definitely have it. We’re all so talented and just improving day in and day out in the gym. I think we can take this team pretty far.”That’s exactly why Garrison recruited them.”I’m seeing a lot of fight,” Garrison said. “I’m seeing a lot of toughness. I’m seeing a lot of what I want to see from our freshman class and everybody else on the team, also. It’s a team effort, what we’re doing right now, and I think there’s a lot of great things in store for us this year.”