Heard she was DQ'd after the officials learned she was still doing practice ice when the competition has already started. Too bad she's a really good skater. Missed the opportunity to compete at the Junior nationals. Why Inna (the coach) didn't know about this rule baffles me.
Re advancement to the National Development Team, it says the top 4 in the section per level go to the camp. Does anyone know what happens if one of the 4 medalists in the sectional is from a different section? With dance in the Eastern and some of whom compete in singles as well; and we have pairs people coming to the midwestern some of whom compete in singles. I noticed this in Novice men in midwestern sectionals where the #4 is from the Pacific section. Does this mean Pacific gets to send 5 novice men to the High Performance National Development Camp while the midwestern section only has 3? Or Pacific gets to send their 4 novice men winners + this guy who medaled in Midwestern for a total of 5; while Midwestern will bring in the #5 guy so they get to have 4 in the national development camp? So confused! LOL
This is what I figured happened. There aren’t many ways to get DQed at the Novice level. The coach and/or skater really should know better. This is a rule for Regionals and up (so all qualifying) starting at Juvenile. Though she isn’t the first skater to get DQed because of it. The rule is that you cannot practice once your group starts, so the Novices took about 3 hours, she couldn’t be on the ice during that time (except warm up and competing).
I’m rooting for Jacob and Kirk. Jacob is on shaky ground though, and the long is unfortunately not his strength
I like Jonathan and glad to see him do a good long. Jacob seems to have some growth spurt issues or something, though early this year Ilia told him to come to Reston so Tatiana can fix his lutz and his dad Roman can improve his flip
He skated at Cranberry and got 2nd although I guess that’s not considered am International assignment.
