Maryland gymnastics’ vault unit was consistent through five meets, but failed to cement itself with a marquee performance.

The Terps now rank No. 30 nationally on vault after back-to-back scores of higher than 49.000 — a mark they did not hit once through the first five meets. The two-week surge was fueled by season-high scores across the board, including standout showings from sophomore Natalie Martin.

“Our team kinda has flipped the switch,” Martin said. “I think we’ve started to believe in ourselves … and we’ve kinda lit a spark from it.”

Maryland’s strong stretch on vault began at Washington on Feb. 14. Sophomore Logan Buckmon and freshman Rayna Engelmayer — both in their first seasons competing on vault — delivered career-best performances.

Buckmon scored a 9.850, and as she stuck the landing, she flashed a look of delighted shock as her teammates exploded in celebration.

“Just the pure joy, the pure excitement on [Buckmon’s] face when she landed that vault,” coach Brett Nelligan said. “I’ll probably remember that for a long time.”

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Engelmayer followed with a 9.825 in only her second collegiate meet to power a season-high 49.125 vault score for the Terps.

Against Iowa on Friday, the younger members of the lineup posted solid scores, but the more experienced latter half of the lineup elevated the unit’s performance.

After Buckmon and Engelmayer both scored 9.725, junior Taylor Rech energized the lineup with the cleanest landing of the day to that point. Rech’s 9.850 marked another season-high for a member of the vault lineup.

Senior Rhea LeBlanc tacked on another 9.850, but it was Natalie Martin who was most outstanding.

Martin averages a 9.864 on vault, the highest on the event by a comfortable margin and a team-high average score for any event. But she outperformed even these lofty standards against Washington and Iowa.

The sophomore posted a 9.925 in both meets, marking her season-high and the second-highest score from any Maryland gymnast in any event this season.

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Since her first meet with the program, Martin has competed in the lineup’s sixth and final slot. She has no one to make up for her mistakes, so she usually enters her routine knowing her score will be counted. Yet, Martin has remained unfazed.

“I’ve never known anything other than six for vault, so I kinda don’t think of it as a pressure spot,” Martin said. “I just kinda think of it like that’s when I go in the lineup.”

Martin has shown she can perform when tasked with salvaging the rotation. In the past two meets, Martin has boosted the Terps’ performances from solid to exceptional.

Nelligan said that a recent emphasis in practice has been eliminating the one or two mistakes that nearly every lineup makes each week. With its two best event scores of the season, the vault unit is one step closer to that goal.

“We set that bar for them, that we need to hit six in a row really strong vaults,” Nelligan said. “And they came out and delivered.”