4 posts tagged “corrie lothrop”

Recently announced:

Pan American Gymnastics Union Individual Event Championships, Rosario, Argentina, Nov. 19-23

Rebecca Bross of Plano, Texas/WOGA
Olivia Courtney of Orlando, Fla./Orlando Metro
Corrie Lothrop of Danvers, Mass./Hill’s Gymnastics
Samantha Shapiro of Los Angles,CA/All Olympia

I'm loving that team right there, especially Lothrop and Shapiro. Likely Bross will be competing all but vault, Lothrop bars and FX (and I'm hoping she's developing a second vault because she could be the vault specialist of the next quad), and Shapiro bars and beam. I'm not too familiar with Courtney's gymnastics to make any guesstimations on what she'll be competing.

International Artistic Gymnastics Challenge, Woluwe Saint-Lambert, Belgium, Dec. 13

Amanda Jetter of Milford, Ohio/Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy
Olivia Courtney of Orlando, Fla./Orlando Metro
Corrie Lothrop of Danvers, Mass./Hill’s Gymnastics

Funny how that Lothrop gets Olympic alternate before we really see her get any other assignments. I don't recall seeing her elsewhere as junior. Good on her either way. Obviously she and Courtney are showing something that Marta is liking to get these two assignments.

Jetter is a junior that will be going senior next year, so this may be good preparation for her. Her gym-mate Cassie Whitcomb was originally slated to go, but isn't now for reasons unknown to me.

Also Notable:

Ivana Hong (who has gone to the media about her complaints with her coach) was off the National Team roster for a short while, but is now back on there under "Independent." Still no definite word as to where she will end up for her 2012 bid. Chow's and WOGA are the loudest rumors, though. I still say AOGC is the best choice.

Chellsie, while not of the pretty gymnastics, will provide the security that one cannot necessarily count on with Nastia or even Shawn (while consistent, was one of the two who fell in TFs at Worlds).

Bridget, yay! She's really taken herself from being the alternate of the group to making herself worthy of the team spot. Good on her!

I am so stoked to see Corrie as alternate! She was not expecting to get as far as even Trials, so you know she was probably happier than the named team members themselves when she was named as alternate. I'm a little disappointed we didn't get an Amanar from her, but I hope we'll see more of her next quad and I'm sure she'll bring it out then. Better to stay safe than to bring out all the guns for a small chance.

Shayla, what rotten luck that was. But she was already so broken that she was a liability in the first place. Better to have happened then than at prelims or TFs when it's too late to bring in an alternate. Here's to hoping she can keep her chin up and heal properly and rock NCAA.

Mattie developed a stress fracture, taking her out of the running. I wonder if TPTB will take a good hard look and continue to think that having Nationals, Trials, and the selection camp so crunched together (and very close to the O-Games, mind you) is a good idea. The girls don't know when is a good time to peak; they have to look good for TPTB so they can be picked for the team, but not show up for the Games exhausted and past form.

Jana, also another tragedy. If she had hit her UB sets, she probably would have been on the team, no problem. Instead, she fell on the same skill both days and everybody, including herself, lost confidence.

Ivana got lucky with alternate status. For a while, people were thinking that she would be left off the team altogether. Frankly, I think that since A.) the Fong-Hong relationship isn't exactly working out, B.) she doesn't want to continue with her family being split apart (father is in CA and mother and siblings in Missouri with her), and C.) she already has such good technique and basics that she should make one more gym hop and give AOGC a try. I think she'd be happier being back with her family. And since she's expressed an interest in Stanford, well, it's there in CA as well.

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Did Vox eat my Nationals Day One post? I swear I made one. Oh well.

Anyway. The Trials have come and gone and to nobody's surprise, Shawn and Nastia locked up the two guaranteed spots. If you were surprised, either you only just started watching gymnastics or I need to start drawing you pictures with crayons.

The 12 girls going on to the selection camp are:
    Shawn Johnson
    Nastia Liukin
    Alicia Sacramone
    Samantha Peszek
    Bridget Sloan
    Ivana Hong
    Jana Bieger
    Shayla Worley
    Mattie Larson
    Corrie Lothrop
    Chelsea Davis
    Chellsie Memmel

The only actual surprise on that list is Lothrop (who is coached by USAG staple Kelli Hill). Lothrop apparently agrees because she was in tears once hearing her name called. Just getting to Trials was a major accomplishment for her. I think she's awesome and wish her a lot of luck.

Chellsie Memmel pretty much sealed her spot on the O-Team, leaving one spot left (aside from the four locks of Johnson, Liukin, Sacramone, and Peszek). Bieger seems to be everybody's current #6 despite not even being on their short list for so long and Sloan, who was the lock up until Trials, is now out. God, we go through these girls like they're fads or something.

Mattie Larson made her case for an alternate position. Larson's FX was the favorite of both evenings and her DTY, while could use some improvement on the landing, is usable. There's the added bonus in that Larson isn't putting a lot of pressure on herself to make this particular team because she knows most of the spots are all but sown up and she has every intent on going for London 2012. Whatever you all are doing to those AOGC girls, please keep it up. Shapiro and Larson are just such a treat. They're what gymnastics should be.

Ivana, Ivana, Ivana. She's pretty much out at this point. An alternate position would be her highest attainable position. Nationals didn't go so well and Trials wasn't much better, culminating in a botched BB dismount that revealed her headcasey side. A damn shame because she's in the same category as Larson: what gymnastics should be. Her double front is a thing of beauty.

Shayla Worley is broken and others have surpassed her on UB, the event that she would have been taken for. I would say that she would be alternate. Too much of a liability to put her on the team.

I don't know much about Chelsea Davis or her gymnastics, except that she is coached by former Golden Girl/World Champion/Karolyi favorite Kim Zmeskal. It's almost nepotism with Davis getting to the camp (I'm only half serious).