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Sr. Ladies Short

Sight lines at Culver City make it difficult to see jump entries or landings. The rink was jam packed with spectators eager to see 2007 Jr. World Champion, so note taking was not the best.

Laney Diggs
Laney is one of the most expressive skaters I have ever seen. She skates with great joy and makes watching her a truly enjoyable experience. She starts out her program in an opening pose with the sweetest smile on her face. She landed a triple lutz/double toe, I think a triple flip, might have been toe, and a double axel. She has lovely postitions in her spins and spirals and interprets music very well. The program was very pretty and her transitions very smooth. 3rd
Tashe Smith
Tashe had a very good, very musical jazz program. Lots of good interpretation of the music. But alas her jump weren't with her. She fell on the lutz and the solo triple, double axel was fine. But she also had a trip in her footwork. 11th
Kristy Evans
Kristy has nice line. She landed triple/double combo and a double jump. Her sit spin position is excellent and she has beautiful spiral positions. She did a spiral right into a double axel. 12th
Jessica Houston
She landed one triple jump and two footed a loop, but fell on a double axel. She is a very delicate and graceful skater lovely to watch. 10th
Stephanie Dal Porto
She did three turns into a triple loop. Her double aexl was excellent with great height. She had a double/double combo. 14th
Stacey Rude
One of the many skaters from Canada, like most of the Canadians she has realy good edges. We need to send some of our kids up to Canada to learn edging. She popped a loop. Landed a double axel and a triple salchow on two feet. Very nice positions on her ending spin. 21st
Erin Reed
Great expression, one of the most musical skaters I have ever seen. Nice flow, her jumps had problems popped the axel, fell on a salchow and put a hand down on a triple jump. She has great presentation and musical interpretation. 18th
Nina Lam
My notes are even more scribbled than usual at this event and I can barely read half of them. Nina did land a double axel and two footed something. She has very exteneded spiral and the rest I can't read. 17th
Caroline Zhang
She landed triple lutz/triple toe, triple toe and a double axel. She is faster this year, more graceful, more mature, more expressive. She has taken her skating to another level this year. She has added some new moves including three turns done in a sit spin position. She definitely looks ready to take on the World in LA. 1st

Unfortunately after Caroline left about a 1/3 of the audience left. While this made me more comfortable I thought it was very rude to the other skaters, saying in effect they didn't count. Well the people who left punished themselves because they missed some very good skating.

Olivia Olsen
Music was The Felling Begins. Olivia has lovely lines and holds her spirals very long, I am so glad that COP is rewarding that now. She landed two triple jumps but stepped out of her double axel. 16th
Kaylin Stuckel
I am sorry all I have in my notes is she fell on a double axel. 22nd
Julia Mitchell
She has a beautiful layback spin. She is fast with good ice coverage. The only jump note I have is she fell on a double axel. 23rd
Tenile Victorsen
She landed a triple lutz/double toe, fell on I think a triple flip and landed a double axel. She is fast, has beautiful lines. The edges in her spiral sequence and her change edge spiral are very nice. She has great stretch in her moves and strong edging. 9th
Dallas Daniel
I can not read my notes on what happened to her lutz and she fell on another jump. She has nice speed and attack on her double axel. 15th
Victoria Muniz
Fell on one triple, landed a triple flip and a double axel. Excellent flow out of her jumps. 8th
Anna Malkova
She landed a triple jump and a triple lutz/double toe I have no notes about her axel. She ended with a good old fashioned blur scratch spin. She has much improved her style from last year, she is not jerky and flows much better this year. 2nd
Alexandria Simon
Very nicely held spirals, pretty positions in her spirals and spins and she has nice expression. I didn't take any jump notes for her. 19th
Karina Thimester
She did a triple/double combo with a hand down on the triple. She landed a triple salchow and stepped out of a double axel. 13th
Priscella Chan
She is fast. She landed a triple salchow. She did a spread eagle into three turns into a double loop/double loop combination. Two footed a single axel. 20th
Sophia Adams
Sophia is a lovely skater, moves very gracefully and has gorgeous expression. She is very musical and has a beautiful spiral sequence. She did three turns into a triple loop but fell and I have no other jump notes for Sophia. 6th
Karen Zhou
She stepped out of a triple/double combo, landed a triple lutz and did a spread eagle into a double axel. She is fast, covers the ice very well. She has fast spins with very stretched positions. She is very expressive a lot of fun to watch. 4th

Somehow I didn't take any note for Angelynn Nguyen who was 5th in the short. I can tell you she is a very fast, very aggressive skater who really attacks jumps.