2018 Champs Camp

[alexaa]

Camp Group picture

https://twitter.com/USFigureSkating/status/1030989452716335106?s=20

Some updates of the wedding in Jason’s IG story

https://www.instagram.com/jasonbskates

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

Do we have any strong pairs coming up? Are Haven and her partner Brendan the only promising team?

cain/leduc

 

[bennorii]

Group picture

https://twitter.com/USFigureSkating/status/1030989452716335106?s=20

From the pic, I'm guessing Megan Wessenberg got the TBD spot!

 

[lurkz2]

Camp Group picture

https://twitter.com/USFigureSkating/status/1030989452716335106?s=20

Does this mean all of the TBDs for SkAm have been finalized? I honestly can’t identify everyone.

 

[bennorii]

Does this mean all of the TBDs for SkAm have been finalized? I honestly can’t identify everyone.

From the picture, I can pick out Megan Wessenberg, Jimmy Ma, Calalang/Johnson, Digerness/Neudecker, and Manta/Johnson, who all were not initially selected for GP spots. They might be the TBDs.

 

[pandatours]

I’m so excited to see Gracie there, though I’m slightly sad she is back to full blonde.

 

[ice coverage]

The keynote speaker was three-time Olympic bobsled medalist Elana Meyers Taylor. :luv17: :hap85: (Who also is President-elect of the Women's Sports Foundation.)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmpEcntlVRw/?taken-by=slaterlv

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmpRm9IF9SJ/?taken-at=900460​

Elana's 3 Keys To Success, per Ashley/Tim USFS Instagram takeover:

1. Embrace the entropy
2. Choose your team
3. Enjoy it!​

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I think Madi/Zach received their PSA EDI awards tonight. (The physical awards.)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmpHAHJlwW8/?taken-by=slaterlv​

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… But it looks like they are doing a secondary camp for promising junior skaters as confirmed by this Lynn Rutherford tweet:
https://twitter.com/LynnRutherford/status/1030854756099477504 ...

Sounds good. #usfsIsAllAboutTheCamps

 

[Bluediamonds09]

Maybe Megan Wessenberg has learned new jumps and more difficulty? Maybe that’s how she got the spot? Who is her coach?

 

[megenta]

Yey, Gracie! Things finally get interesting.

 

[Axelsk8r]

The younger one, the one not doing the GP series are not staying although the camp. I believe they will be done Sunday.

 

[StitchMonkey]

Megan is 9th on the summer best list. Everyone ahead of her other than Amber either has a GP spot or is a junior. To be honest I thought Megan was still going to compete on the JGP this year but she has aged out, so had sorta discounted her from the SA TBA. She was really the only senior lady other than Amber without one. Glancing at UnseenSkater, it looks like Megan's score is higher than Amber's other scores other than her bang on premier. At the same time not sure Megan has competed more than once this summer.

At this point i just hope Amber is doing ok. I actually thought they may still give it to her. But I am also not surprised my Megan getting it.

 

[bennorii]

The younger one, the one not doing the GP series are not staying although the camp. I believe they will be done Sunday.

How do you know that?

 

[Bluediamonds09]

When will we get word on programs????

 

[Sam-Skwantch]

Feels like I always have to wait forever to find out what music Mariah is skating to :angry1:

 

[StitchMonkey]

Feels like I always have to wait forever to find out what music Mariah is skating to :angry1:

I seem to recall hearing she went through a few SP options last season... so maybe she is just indecisive.

 

[Bluediamonds09]

Champs camp is asking the skaters about their favorite health food and what they like to travel with. How riveting. no footage on anything exclusive or fun.

 

[Mrs. P]

Champs camp is asking the skaters about their favorite health food and what they like to travel with. How riveting. no footage on anything exclusive or fun.

There are still four more days.

In addition, they're not going to show monitoring and that sort of thing to the public. I'm guessing we didn't see much today because of that. (Though I'm sure Lynn Rutherford will give reports of how people are skating).

ETA: Chris Knierm posted a photo on his IG story of all of them watching Yuna Kim's SP from Sochi.. wonder what that's about.

 

[Arriba627]

Do we have any strong pairs coming up? Are Haven and her partner Brendan the only promising team?

Mervin Tran has teased us several times with photos and video clips of himself skating with Olivia Serafini. They look great together from what I can see.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl8s35KF8lM/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=ss9judrlj636

https://www.instagram.com/p/BiTD3k4jaIl/?taken-by=skate_moivo

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

Champs camp is asking the skaters about their favorite health food and what they like to travel with. How riveting. no footage on anything exclusive or fun.

The public is not going to get much insider footage of the test skates etc.

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

There are still four more days.

In addition, they're not going to show monitoring and that sort of thing to the public. I'm guessing we didn't see much today because of that. (Though I'm sure Lynn Rutherford will give reports of how people are skating).

ETA: Chris Knierm posted a photo on his IG story of all of them watching Yuna Kim's SP from Sochi.. wonder what that's about.

To answer about the Yuna video, it's a learning experience type seminar.