#katelyn jong

[lobaznyuk]

Katelyn Jong, U.S. Classic 2024

[mihaisvacuum]

tim daggett stopped commentating out of fear of katelyn jong

[bqstqnbruin]

Like seeing Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles, Shilese Jones, Suni Lee, Joselyn Roberson, Konnor McClain, Kayla DiCelio, Leanne Wong, Katelyn Jong, Skye Blakely IN PERSON??????? Fucking wow

[tchousovitina]

throwback to when (allegedly) tim daggett was being a hater about katelyn jong while i was also (not watching the commentated broadcast) being a hater about katelyn jong on my irrelevant blog in a colossal failure of reading the room. and now you all are rooting for her out of spite because you hate tim daggett but i never heard what he said i just still think she’s a bad dancer.

[freifraufischer]

Do you think that the drop in new talented juniors during the Tokyo quad could also be due to more gymnasts not attempting elite/going to level 10 earlier? With all the scandals surrounding usag I certainly wouldn't blame them. Plus college gymnastics seems to have gotten even more popular the last few years.

I think there is more lag in this than that. I think the Nassar scandal and upheaval at USAG doesn't make people switch quite that fast but I think relative lack of depth in this (the Paris) quad can be attributed to that.

So these are the medal winners at junior US Nationals for the last 10 years:

2013: Bailie Key (Texas Dreams), Laurie Hernandez (MG Elite), Amelia Hundley (CGA)

2014: Jazmyn Foberg (MG Elite), Nia Dennis (Buckeye), Norah Flatley (Chow's) - Laurie Hernandez is injured

2015: Laurie Hernandez (MG Elite), Jazmyn Foberg (MG Elite), Regan Smith (Texas Dreams)

2016: Maile O'Keefe (Salcianu Elite), Riley McCusker (MG Elite), Gabby Perea (Legacy Elite)

2017: Maile O'Keefe (Salcianu Elite), Emma Malabuyo (Texas Dreams), Kara Eaker (GAGE)

2018: Leanne Wong (GAGE), Kayla Di Cello (Hill's), Sunisa Lee (Midwest)

2019: Kayla Di Cello (Hill's), Konnor McClain (Revolution), Olivia Greaves (MG Elite)

2021: Katelyn Jong (Metroplex), Madray Johnson (WOGA), Kaliya Lincoln (WOGA)

2022: Madray Johnson (WOGA), Jayla Hang (Pacific Reign), Alicia Zhou (Love Gymnatics)

I don't know that you can read a switch path narrative to anyone that's already reached this level and even if you wanted to with Dennis and Flatley they were seniors before the scandal broke. What this doesn't show is the army of juniors Texas Dreams in particular had during this period.

[kylarossnation]

Katelyn Jong had such a laborious floor. They said she took a month of training.. she should have just done a layout for the last pass.

[an-apple-a-day-or2]

Ok Katelyn Jong with the Russian (tm) bar composition

[adricthemindnimon]

Dayum, standing full on beam from Katelyn Jong? Her feet and knees give me conniptions in her tumbling series but that full was cool.

[an-apple-a-day-or2]

No but a group of 6-8 are the front runners for that spot and i would be shocked if main team members come outside of them.

"3rd AAer" - jordan / leanne / Kayla / skye

FX/VT - Jade, maybe jordan if she has an upgrade

BB/?UB - Suni (even without a 15 UB routine, that beam is hard to leave) ; MAYBE Skye if she gets it together but suni would be the "taken for BB" girl if they decide to do that

FX - Kaliya if Jade doesnt upgrade (its hard for her will just 1 event with Shi looking so good there)

Needs something big to happen to have a chance - Gabby NEEDS a big UB at this point, i really think her BB composition is terrible and isnt getting her on the team and VT is her best rn and good DTYs are a dime a dozen among the contenders; Trinity (FTY hurts her, and she isnt getting on the team with 3-5th ranked UB), Josc (her ankles may no longer exist) ; Tiana looks like a prime alt candidate along with Katelyn Jong

So barring injury or something catastrophic, I think Simone and Shilese are locks for the 5 member team. Do we think anyone else is a lock?

[aerialgymnastics]

Katelyn Jong (Metroplex)

2022 US Championships (Day 2)

[twoflipstwotwists]

Katelyn Jong wins the 2021 U.S. Classic junior division by 3.000 points, the largest margin of victory since 2008. Jong nearly swept the entire meet, earning first-place finishes on vault, bars, and beam, and a second-place finish by 0.100 points on floor.

[gymfanconfessions]

“Zoe Miller and Katelyn Jong coming for those 2024 titles”

[marz-fraziers]

Individual and AA HOPEs 12-13 winners

VT: 1st Rebekah Smith (13.55 FTY) - WCC; 2nd Rafaela O’Neill (13.45 FTY) - Airborne; 3rd Lily Pederson (13.4 FTY) - Flips

UB: 1st Katelyn Jong (13.3) - Metroplex; 2nd Paityn Smith (13.15) - Head Over Heels; 3rd Autumn Reingold (12.85) - Gymnastics Olympica USA

BB: 1st (tie) Michelle Pineda (13.1) - Metroplex/Kaela Yee - Leyva/Lucy Tobia - Parkettes

FX: 1st Ava San Jose (12.8) - Paramount Elite; 2nd (tie) Ellorie Cane (12.75) - Precision/Autumn Reingold - Gymnastics Olympica USA/Paityn Walker - Head Over Heels

AA:  1st (tie) Michelle Pineda (51.1) - Metroplex/Katelyn Jong - Metroplex/Paityn Walker - Head Over Heels

[freifraufischer]

Reading tea leaves - A Round Up of Rumors and Supposition from the September National Team Camp

This was supposed to be a selection camp for the two World Challenge Cup competitions in Paris and Hungary before the 2022 World Championships.  The US women hasn’t historically gone to these competitions in the past and as a consequence a large segment of US gym fans have never paid attention to them.  I actually personally think that’s a bit of a shame because some of my favorite competitions to watch are low stakes competitions with low pressure (not to mention that while the US women have not gone to them the US men have...).

In the past many elite coaches have felt like the travel was to disruptive to training and that they could get better competition at home.  Why are they gong now?  Well as it turns out not competing in front of international judges can cause the sports equivalent of group think where you don’t know about problems that need to be fixed until you are at worlds or the Olympics.  There were US athletes and coaches literally recomposing their routines in Tokyo last year.  This isn’t a new problem by the way.  In 2013 an American missed out on qualification to the floor final at worlds because her music was 1 second too long--which yes they should have caught at nationals--but would have been caught if she had competed internationally.  In 2006 the reigning World Floor champion missed the floor final because her routine missed a basic composition requirement (that woman is now one of the leaders of the high performance program).

We’ve heard from both Alicia Sacramone and Chellsie Memmel, the strategic and technical leads of the high performance program that all of the national team members need to get out and compete more internationally.  So here we are in a new world where the United States is going to world challenge cups.

I thought it was worth touching on some of the questions, rumors, and speculation that has come out of the selection.

Paris is the more attractive of these two assignments, in part because it’s sooner so offers more rest time before worlds trials but also because it’s being held in the 2024 Olympic venue.  Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, and Shilese Jones have gotten this assignment.  Carey is target number 1 for the artistry deductions debate going on right now so USAG would really like to know how much of a blood bath her high difficulty gentle robot routine looks like.  Chiles has a reputation for performing well at home and then struggling at the Olympics.  She’s on a redemption journey and given that domestic overscoring was a problem with her before they are likely looking for a base line for her.  Jones has had limited international experience and has consistency issues.

Addison Fatta, Katelyn Jong, and Levi Jung-Ruivivar will be heading to Szombathely, Hungary.  They are well outside the pool of potential worlds team members this year and it is more likely a general attempt to give them experience and get a read on how they will be judged internationally.

Konnor McClain, the US National Champion, did not participate in selection.  She is rumored to be having shin stress fracture issues (as well as a concussion that took her out of US classic two months ago) and if it was resting and letting her heal that’s great.  But I have my doubts given that no other WOGA athlete tried for this selection either.  I suspect the WOGA coaches are not on board with this “they should compete more internationally” train.

Leanne Wong was injured at US Championships and expected to be added to the national team by petition at this camp.  Psyche!  She didn’t come to this camp.  Maybe she’s resting still.  Hard to tell.  She was seen recently on campus at the University of Florida riding a scooter (the vroom vroom kind not the knee kind).

Jordan Chiles showed a second vault, the 4.80 D score suggests a Tsuk 1.5 given that she’s not been known to have a Lopez.  She scored a 55.699 AA here.  Says good things for her consistency but I’m side eyeing the judging here because it feels very in line with US nationals.  The fact that the four judges here were 4 of the most senior in the US makes me rethink the implication that the overscoring at nationals was about junior judges who don’t get to go out and see the international field.

Shilese Jones didn’t compete vault, but given that this was a selection for apparatus world cups and she doesn’t have a second vault that was sensible.  It looks to me like she had beam troubles again.  7.5 E score.  Oh Shi you are going to give me a heart attack aren’t you?

The other weird thing to note in the scores is Carey did a 5.1 D floor (with a 7.566 E).  Did she mark a tumbling pass?  Only show a dance through?  Is she injured?  Who knows.  She also had the second highest bars E score behind Jones.  Which is a thing that apparently happened.

So if you know the structure of the challenge cups you may be asking something... why is the US sending 3 athletes to each when they can send 4 (2 up on each apparatus).  My best guess is that they didn’t see any scores among the non-national team members that made them desperately want to send them somewhere (or if the did it would be on an event that they have already penciled in athletes that have a higher priority).  There are budget reasons for not just sending athletes because if you get an international assignment you get added to the national team so they likely don’t want to do that willy nilly.

In the end I think this is a good thing but I also don’t know that it will do a lot.  I think the panel will be more serious than the no stakes meets they went to in early spring, but my feeling is that we wont know how much blood Donatella wants to draw until Worlds Qualification.

48 days until the massacre.

[gymnasticscoaching]

USA all-female PanAms delegation

Chellsie Memmel: … Obviously, there’s a lot of great male coaches, but it feels really special to have a whole delegation of women.” In addition to Landi, who coaches Jordan Chiles, Tiana Sumanasekera and Zoe Miller, and Memmel, who helps oversee the U.S. program, personal coaches Kelli Hill (coach of Kayla DiCello), Haiou Sun (Kaliya Lincoln) and Marnie Futch (Katelyn Jong) round out the…

[an-apple-a-day-or2]

I feel like they have a ton of leeway to invite like 15-18 people to selection camp since it for Pan Ams & Worlds. Thats 12+ (depending on non traveling for Pan Ams and if Katelyn Jong is on the team or competing as an individual).