AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)
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I haven't gotten a chance to watch Mariah's SP yet, but one wonders if having Ashley and Adam gone from Raf's training center is helping her.
Was precisely my thought.
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I haven't gotten a chance to watch Mariah's SP yet, but one wonders if having Ashley and Adam gone from Raf's training center is helping her.
But even in "the lucrative days of the past" novice skaters weren't getting funding from USFSA, aside from a few who might have gotten into the lowest team envelop or gotten need-based aid from the Memorial Fund. Whatever those few would have gotten would have been a drop in the bucket though.
Who is the "we" you are referring to? Even with team envelope funding, skaters (their parents) still foot most of the costs of training. There is no national sports program in the US. Some sports have better infrastructures than others. Swimmers and gymnasts have the YMCA and team format (which doesn't cost near what it costs for skating) to develop talent. Track and field and other sports have competitive high school divisions.
BRAVA to Ting CUI on her ISU personal best score of 70.20! [SP Video] (a mere 0.04 behind Kostornaia in 1st)
Yes, Ting turned 16 earlier this month and has been competing senior in the U.S. this summer - link to her Team USA profile: https://usfigureskatingfanzone.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=63Can she compete at US Senior Nationals yet?
I can see Ting being on the podium at Nationals in the near future if she gets it together. She's a wonderful all around skater with few weaknesses. By the way when's the last time a US Junior lady has scored that high in the SP?
I can see Ting being on the podium at Nationals in the near future if she gets it together. She's a wonderful all around skater with few weaknesses. By the way when's the last time a US Junior lady has scored that high in the SP?
Gracie Gold (76.43) when she won the SP at 2016 Worlds: http://www.isuresults.com/isujsstat/historicbefore1819/pbslsp.htmMore to the point, it appears that no U.S. Senior lady had ever done it in international competition before today.
Mariah skating to Celine Dion in 2018 is a pass though.
Yes, Ting turned 16 earlier this month and has been competing senior in the U.S. this summer - link to her Team USA profile: https://usfigureskatingfanzone.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=63
What kind of big payoff could there be? If there are 12 or more new promising novices every year, and there are opportunities for only 2-3 seniors go to Worlds each year, maybe 12 or so to GP, challengers, and 4Cs each year, and many of the best seniors continue competing at that level for 4-8 years, how many from each year's crop of top novices are likely to make it to the top in seniors, or even make it to Nationals at that level?
From the federation's perspective it's great to have a deeper field of talent than they have opportunities available -- that means there will always be someone worthy to fill any open spots, and the competition provides incentive for each of those talented skaters to try to outdo the others and not just coast on talent.
But from the individual skaters' perspective that means there can never be a guarantee of a long-term payoff, either financially or in terms of prestigious opportunities.
At best, if there is more money coming into the sport, the pie available for senior stars will be larger and some of that money may become available to lower-ranked skaters or junior and novice skaters either through direct funding or through participation in a wider range of international competitions with more opportunities to spread around.
But for the most part, a bigger pie has meant bigger slices for the senior national medalists, not more slices for more skaters.
Could Ting pull a Mirai and win US Seniors Nats her first year? With a SP like that yes. Need to see the Free now 4 weeks since her first JGP.
I think it's highly likely that Pooja is getting a Challenger. She has a top 10 summer score, and if the fed is sending Ashley Lin to Nebelhorn (genuinely not trying to be shady), Pooja will most definitely get a CS. She wasn't going to make the JGPF in the first place with an 8th place, so why not give her some WS points in a senior competition? Even better, assign her to the one in Austria or Tallinn and she gets a bye to her first senior nationals. Plus, if you think about, who else is there to send that is age-eligible that doesn't already have one? Ting will probably be assigned to one as well, but then you get Hannah Miller (who you'd be giving a bye to Nationals because of the proximities of AUT and EST to Nats). You kill 2 (or maybe 3) birds with one stone. Start progressively moving your junior ladies through the ranks: inch by inch raise their PCS and GOE, and covering for the absences of Ashley and Mirai. This really is a developmental period and the fed (imo) has nothing to lose with experimentation, so why not start moving the senior-eligible ladies up through the ranks?
Sorry for the rant...
She might have to defeat three triple axels to do that or a triple lutz triple loop in the free. I think I will just be happy for Ting having a great skate today.
lol huh? what other USA ladies have 3 axels?
This change was made today (9/27): http://www.usfsa.org/story?id=84032&menu=TeamUSAWould you look at that... Pooja has received an assignment to Finlandia as a result of Emmy's withdrawal.
That's why so many skaters are vulnerable to switching nations.