2025-26 US Pairs Discussion - Milano-Bound By Way of Beijing & St. Louis

[Stephanie]

I assume there was also pressure and/or expectations from USFS for them to go to help earn spots for US pairs teams next year. Maybe they felt they couldn’t say no to USFS in order to stay in their good graces.

 

[Sylvia]

Haven and Brandon were pretty successful in seniors with a national title

And a Junior World title in 2013.

Junior international careers for many pairs often are developmental and long-term partnerships from Junior (and lower levels) to Senior (Denney/Frazier, Martins/Bedard) are rare. Jenni Meno started pairs when she was 19, for example, when she paired up with Scott Wendland and Todd Sand later.

Sorry if my comment sounded snide, my point was not to demean any pairs who have not stuck together, just to say that if this or any junior team were to split as some seem to be hinting could be happening

Apologies if I appeared to be hinting that I know anything definitive about the future of Flores/Wang - I don't.

Sometimes it seems amazing to me that any teams stay together at all.

Yup!

 

[Rukia]

I assume there was also pressure and/or expectations from USFS for them to go to help earn spots for US pairs teams next year. Maybe they felt they couldn’t say no to USFS in order to stay in their good graces.

This is more along the lines of what I was thinking. I mean sure, they could turn it down, but it's a worlds competition (even if junior) and they could have been getting pressure from the fed. Or maybe it felt like a good idea at the time and then they got into changing programs and realized it was not as chill as they had first thought it would be. Things change quickly sometimes.

I don't have any insight into whether they'll stay together or not. I just don't think junior worlds was any indicator yes or no.