Event 2025 US Nationals Junior Women Day 2 (Sunday, August 10, 2025)

[Ginger]

Re Sophia Buechler, I just don't understand what Graba is doing.
Unlike NETE coaches (who messed up Roberson and Parker), he's not novice elite coach.

 

[mle]

I wonder why they didn't just go ahead and add Kylie and Addalye to the National team since they will do it before Pan Am's (especially since they did add Livi).

ETA: And then they post this:


I guess maybe they went home, but they didn't announce them in the arena unless I missed it on the broadcast.

 

[Passion]

They are on the team, they just didn't announce them in the arena because they weren't there. I guess they went home already? Livi didn't go home because Vivi is still there.

 

[MaryClare]

Re Sophia Buechler, I just don't understand what Graba is doing.
Unlike NETE coaches (who messed up Roberson and Parker), he's not novice elite coach.

Yes, but he’s a gymnastics coach in the Midwest, not a genie in a lamp. It’s one thing to develop a gymnast to a high level, entirely different trying to salvage something from someone else’s poor coaching

 

[Ginger]

Yes, but he’s a gymnastics coach in the Midwest, not a genie in a lamp. It’s one thing to develop a gymnast to a high level, entirely different trying to salvage something from someone else’s poor coaching

She was 11 years old when she switched to Graba's gym, so I suspect Graba is the one who pushed all the elite difficulty on her, without fixing (or attempting to fix) all her form issues first.
He also made the decision to have her compete junior elite in 2023 when she still could do Hopes (and be somehow successful doing so) for two more seasons.

 

[cftmoonlight79]

Maybe she has really pushy parents

 

[makam]

Maybe she has really pushy parents

Hopefully her team looks at the scores from this event and starts a course correction. Once you've been established at having bad form, even minor repairs to it are going to be overlooked because you are known to be messy. Maybe they should pick an event or two and have her only compete those while they go back to basics on the others. Though I guess as a junior, you have to do AA to qualify for anything. It is too bad because she obviously has the fight to overachieve but she is going to be held back and I think even colleges are not going to be interested with her current form.

 

[cftmoonlight79]

Yes there is no way NCAA coaches are impressed with the form.

 

[Laura722]

Gorgeous leo and beam work from Anzola: