Some college recruits are out of the gates early with impressive finishes at a handful of November and December L10 meets. Who is grabbing the attention so far?
Krystal Welsh (PSU commit) kicked off the season with a couple of wins. She won her session of the COTC (4th v, 2nd ub, 2nd bb, and 1st fx of 21 competitors in the session) and followed up with a win at the World Class Invite (2nd v, 1st ub, 2nd bb, 1st fx of 11 competitors).
Brianna Guy (Auburn commit) is also off to a great start. She won v, ub, and bb at the COTC meet, but a mishap on fx knocked her into 2nd place (of 21 competitors) overall. She won her session at the World Class Invite (1st on v, 1st ub, 2nd bb, 1st fx of 11 competitors).
Brittany Harris (Oregon St) won the ConocoPhillips meet (1st v, 3rd ub, 1st bb, 1st fx of 6 competitors). She placed 2nd AA at the William Center meet (2nd v, 1st ub, 3rd bb, and 2nd fx of 5 competitors).
Arkansas’ Bailee Zumwalde won her Peppermint Twist meet (2nd v, 5th ub, 2nd, bb, 1st fx of 12 competitors)
Marie Case (Kent State) made a statement with a huge early season AA score of 38.125 and a sweep of her session of the COTC meet.
For the past several seasons, we have made an assessment of each incoming recruiting class and have provided a ranking. This year, the task proved to be especially tough. Today, there is much greater access to information on the athletes, their skill level, level of polish, and of course, their accomplishments, so we cannot rank an athlete merely on her resume alone. The athletes’ college choices also reflect increased parity, making the job of ranking the Top 10 Recruiting Classes quite difficult.
Jordan Naleway, L10 from Aerial Gymnastics in Illinois, has verbally committed to Illinois for the 2011-2012 season. Naleway finished 18th AA, 8th UB at the 2009 JO meet, Jr. D group.
Taylor Huey has committed to SEMO for the 2011-2012 season. Huey competes as an L10 at Prestige in Pa.
Stanford has announced the signing of Canadian International Elite Kristina Vaculik for the 2010-2011 season.
Taline Lahcanski, L10 competing for Rochester Gymnastics Academy, has committed to Brown for the 2010-2011 season. She is a three time JO qualifier.
Megan Walker has committed to Auburn for 2011-2012, according to a site submission. In the Junior C division at the 2009 L10 Nationals, she placed 14th AA, 3rd(t) on UB and 5th(t) on FX. She was also 35th AA at the 2008 L10 Nationals.
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