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The Team USA fund is the one that helped Gracie. ...
Thanks for your reply.
I think you mean a Team USA fund within U.S. Figure Skating?
(As opposed to a Team USA fund that is part of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.)
... Also, I am sure some Sectionals skaters and skaters at other events have expectations. But I have seen people skate with no expectations and it is awesome. The young lady who finished last at Collegiates had been in a car accident several months prior and was happy to be alive and skated into last place with great joy. She said she had fun and learned a lot. And I very much enjoyed her performance. ...
What I was/am trying to say is that I do not think that skating with great joy is possible only for competitors with zero expectations.
I think that it is possible to have some expectations of oneself + associated stress/nerves AND to compete with great joy.
In other words, I do not believe that joy has to be mutually exclusive from expectations/stress/nerves. YMMV.
(I have never attended sectionals or collegiates, but I am thinking [for example] of competitors at U.S. Challenge Skate, which I have attended for three years.)

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