- Joined
- Mar 16, 2019
No don't worry, she (and Kromykh) are listed on the novice team, and it just mean they don't have as much funding as the junior team. But believe it or not, Shcherbakova was in the same position one year ago. And also, there's only like 6 girls listed on the junior team, and they invite a lot more than that to test skates. Usacheva will definitely be invited to test skates.
Shcherbakova didn't make the junior national team for a different reason though... She was injured and took almost a whole year off, they couldn't let her on the junior team, when she almost missed the whole season.
Usacheva and Khromykh, I thought they had quite a good season, so I was surprised they didn't make the cut in terms of funding.
But I agree that they still have a high chance for jgp assignments nevertheless.