Jayla Hang seemed to struggle across all 4. I guess it’s to be expected given she’s coming back from an ankle injury. Lots of falls on bars. I missed her beam and floor tumbling, just a dance-thru on floor unlike most of the others. Highlight was a stuck DTY at the end of the rotation. Simone Rose is lovely to watch, but fell on most of her Maloney-Hindorff attempts, really lacking counter rotation. She upgraded to a nice 1.5 on vault.
Hezly with a new Maloney-Ricna combo on bars. She did some good full-ins in her practice routines then seemed to struggle with it afterwards. Her new floor music is a downgrade from the one she used at Jr Worlds imo, and endurance seemed to be an issue with her last two passes. Claire Pease only did bars, not a single dismount. She must have an injury.
The GAGE juniors, Bui especially, stood out to me as ones to watch for next quad. Tyler Turner’s stalder uprise looked fantastic to me.
Kieryn Finnell struggled on bars, and her dbl pike on beam was scary, the on-the-beam stuff was nice.
Lacie Saltzmann vaulted a tsuk pike and fhs front like it’s 1980. I don’t get how KZB couldn’t manage to upgrade her to something more than that since last nationals.
It was impossible to tell Isabella Anzola/Gabrielle Hardie apart without looking at their coaches- it didn’t help they were in similar leos. Anzola (I think?) has a nice toepoint.
Some of these athletes would probably be better off sticking to L10, but that seems to be a perennial thing with the junior division.