Nastia Cup 2025

[rlayt]

OZONE to serve as official leotard partner of the Nastia Liukin Cup • USA Gymnastics

The longtime partner of the event namesake, OZONE will serve as the official leotard partner and presenting sponsor of the Nastia Liukin Cup through 2028, USA Gymnastics announced Monday.

usagym.org

 

[RedBirdie]

Curious if that means the Nike Leo's we saw at the latest national team camp were manufactured by Ozone, not GK.

 

[irichluck21]

Not sure, but also the NLC isn't for elite/ national team either so maybe NLC is Ozone and NT/NIKE= GK.

I also heard that NIKE was going to begin producing gymnastics leotards and expanding their swim line as well. But who knows if that is true.

 

[irichluck21]

Lacie Saltzmann and Audrey Snyder are competing at NLC so it looks like they have stepped down from elite.

competitor list: https://nastialiukincup.com/qualifiers/2025/

 

[RedBirdie]

I had suspected as much, given how frequently I saw both their names on level 10 meet lists. Once Saltzmann announced she was going to Minnesota a year early I was certain she was done with elite.

 

[MaryClare]

Elizaveta Grebenkova is qualified. She is the daughter of 2004 Olympians Lyudmila Yezhova and Georgy Grebenkov

 

[RedBirdie]

I didn't realize they lived in the US!

 

[MaryClare]

I didn't realize they lived in the US!

I think initially they emigrated to Canada and coached alongside Lyudmilla and Katya Lobaznyuk but have been in Texas around 10 years now

 

[Rich]

I think initially they emigrated to Canada and coached alongside Lyudmilla and Katya Lobaznyuk but have been in Texas around 10 years now

I wonder what citizenship she has

 

[MaryClare]

I wonder what citizenship she has

Russia for sure as she was born there. I don’t know if her parents have become US citizens but I think it’s likely, they seem very integrated

 

[Denn]

Hopefully, she learned beam from her mom and vault from her dad.

 

[MaryClare]

Hopefully, she learned beam from her mom and vault from her dad.

They don’t coach her. Debbie Kaitschuk does and she looks like Debbie Kaitschuk coaches her. Her parents used to coach her and she had some nice stuff, now not so much

 

[RedBirdie]

Whhhhhhhy would anyone send their child to Debbie Kaitschuk? Ugh.

 

[MaryClare]

Whhhhhhhy would anyone send their child to Debbie Kaitschuk? Ugh.

I think they coach at the same gym? Maybe they didn’t want to continue coaching their daughter. Personally I would hate coaching my children. (They are nice children! I just think it’s very difficult to be a coach and a parent)

 

[RichardL]

omg I didn't even realize Debbie was still coaching. What a world

 

[RedBirdie]

If you need a good laugh, I highly recommend the AIM Athletics "About AIM" page. Tells me nothing about AIM, but it's a fascinating hagiography of Debbie and Deana.

AIM Athletics Gym located in The Woodlands, Texas

AIM Athletics Gym located in The Woodlands, Texas

www.aimathleticstexas.com

 

[Matilda23]

Where did the Kaitschuk sisters train in the live-in arrangement under an Olympic coach? Was that Grossfeld’s gym in Connecticut, where Marcia Frederick trained?

The biography spells a few gymnasts names wrong Lindsey Wong and Baily Key.

 

[MaryClare]

That biography, sorry, generational saga is wild

 

[cftmoonlight79]

That was a fantastic read.

 

[RedBirdie]

Where did the Kaitschuk sisters train in the live-in arrangement under an Olympic coach? Was that Grossfeld’s gym in Connecticut, where Marcia Frederick trained?

The biography spells a few gymnasts names wrong Lindsey Wong and Baily Key.

I'm curious, too. Based on their biography, I think Donna Turnbow is their younger sister. Donna was the 1977 national champion and she is listed in old results as competing for KIPS. An old article says she trained in California. I know nothing about KIPS, but I bet someone here remembers it.