NCAA Tiana at UCLA early

[rlayt]

 

[QuietColours]

Sounds like someone had a realistic talk with her about her chances and she decided to go with starting college on time with the rest of her year instead. Sad, though--I really would love to see her on a world stage. I will die on the hill that her beam would have been used in team finals.

 

[Sasha]

Huh, I wonder what prompted the apparent change of plans. Regardless, that's a get for UCLA.

 

[RedBirdie]

Her Instagram says her ankle is still very sensitive and its best that she go to UCLA now and rehab it before the season starts.

 

[Puffin]

I think it's a wise decision to look ahead to the end goal. She looked like she needed some additional time so better to wait and not risk it for an individual Worlds

 

[irichluck21]

She had very little chance to make the World Team so it is a wise decision to rehab and get into school where they have physical therapy options.

I can see her doing bars and beam her freshman year. She doesn't need a same bar release, which was her challenge in elite.

 

[Aeris]

Awaiting her glorious NCAA bar routine:

chow + overshoot + stand on low bar
stalder + C dismount

 

[makam]

She had very little chance to make the World Team so it is a wise decision to rehab and get into school where they have physical therapy options.

I can see her doing bars and beam her freshman year. She doesn't need a same bar release, which was her challenge in elite.

That said, maybe the college coaches can help her have a breakthrough for a good routine. At least good enough to stop holding her back.

 

[irichluck21]

Janelle is an amazing bars coach so she's in one of the best of capable hands to do so.

 

[Aeris]

She doesn't need a "bars coach", just a proper code-hacked routine. Her cast handstands and overall form on the skills she needs to do are already good. She struggles a lot with pirouettes, but those aren't needed in NCAA, nor any difficult releases (including dismount).

The stalder/clear-hip shaposh ridiculously being upgraded to E in NCAA, and the regular stalder circle being a D, provides a very simple 10.0 routine for her. She'll just need a tiny bit of training time for the overshoot (not to handstand, to be clear) since she wasn't doing that in elite.

But I won't be surprised if the coaches give her a dumber routine. I didn't see a single person abusing the Chow/Shaposh + overshoot composition this past season. If they keep her on the Shaposh+Pak train then she's going to need to do a Cast 1/2 to get back to high bar, and that's where the problems will happen. Similarly if they keep forcing a harder dismount instead of the Stalder + C dismount (something I've bizarrely only seen Riley McCusker utilize to date, and only with a double salto. In the current rules you don't even need a Stalder anymore, Toe-circle + any C dismount is now accepted, assuming the interior of the routine has enough bonus already).