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The Jr Men aren't making this easy on the USFS at all. I think skaters like Broussard, Kovar, Xie and Fegan have taken themselves out of contention.
Josephine also did very well (at least in free) at Nationals in 2023. I wonder if she is a bad traveler, or something. I would put her on the team.
Oh come on, complain about Skate Canada's assignments all you want, but that's a silly comment. There are two Canadian senior medalists without post-Nationals assignments. One is Fabbri/Ayer, who got the bronze with our #2 & 3 dance teams out, so realistically are CAN #5. The other is Hetty Shi, who got bronze in Sr women. She's not age-eligible for seniors (so no possibility of 4CCs). She didn't get JW, yes, but the two who got it instead are Kaiya Ruiter (Sr gold) and Lulu Lin (Jr gold, higher Nats score than Hetty by a few points). She wasn't passed over for anyone who finished behind her.
Maybe? Her scores haven't been all that great this season, even at Nats. I think Elyce has been mostly consistent but her Nats result was a stinker. The USFS might just decide to stick with the Nats results for the 2nd & 3rd alts.
This'd probably make the most sense at this point, so you'll probably be right in calling this one! I almost forgot about Clare Seo in all of this discussion.
36.11
No. This is the last weekend to earn the TES mins.
After winning NHK and almost medaling at a stacked ladies 4CC field i think she doesn't want to drop back down to Juniors and i don't blame her. I would almost be thinking of replacing Isabeau with Ava right now though. She showed some toughness with pressure skating in a event like this against really good skaters and Isabeau is a mess right now and one thing Ava can do is jump with the proper technique and we know internationally as it was shown at NHK and 4CC the judges will award her big scores if she skates well even if she was a little tight in the LP here.
They did: 36.11, so they’ll be the third team for junior worlds. Congrats to them!
Isabeau had one really bad program this season at Nats. Unless her jump technique is well and truly deserting her, I think what we are seeing is the stress of a perfectionist with high expectations of herself. Her track record is much fuller than Ava’s, whom I love and who should be proud of her season and planning to make the Worlds team next year, especially if she does well on the GP.
Going to Junior Worlds won't do anything for Ava. She's got a good score for the season best list, and she earned more World Standing points for 4th at Four Continents than she could for winning Junior Worlds. The only thing that could help her more at this point would be to go to the World Championships.
Two = short program at the Grand Prix Final, and the free skate at US Nationals - it's the trend at the moment, but she can turn it around with a solid performance at Worlds.
It could potentially help the U.S. with JGP spots and world spots for next year. But it’s neither here nor there since she doesn’t have the Jr. minimums.
It's bit ridiculous that someone who has scored over 200 total points in each of her last international events which included a GP and a ISU championship doesn't quality for Jr Worlds. Seems backwards to me to score that high at the highest level of figure skating competition yet not have the Jr minimums.
