Here’s a brief, last minute preview of the junior competition of the P&G Championships. There’s still quite a large field of juniors (see the roster), but it’s still less than the what felt like hundreds of them at Classics.
Here’s a few names to follow –
- Emma Malabuyo – Emma won the junior all-around title at Classics, and she also had the highest all-around total of anyone at the competition, juniors and seniors. So basically, she just owns everybody and she’s the queen no questions asked. She’s super clean, has beautiful toe point.
- Maile O’Keefe – as the reigning junior national champ, she’s going to be looking to keep that title. On beam, she has an impressive side aerial to two layout step-outs on beam.
- Gabby Perea – bars ninja from Legacy Elite. Is so fabulous on bars that she won the junior bars title at Classics with only a layout dismount. Because she’s awesome and since the content of her routine is so packed, she didn’t need to do a ridiculously hard dismount, since she is coming back from injury.
- Jay Jay Marshall – little Jay Jay came out on the day of the US Classic and was like "here I am!" She showed up with Aliya Mustafina’s floor music from 2013 and had huge tumbling: a double double and notably, a Dos Santos that has been compared to Kennedy Baker’s. Oh yeah and at one point, she was training an Amanar at 11 (or 12, I can’t remember).
- Annie Beard – another fabulous floor worker, whom like Sydney Johnson Scharpf and Laurie Hernandez, actually performs and puts on a show.
- Leanne Wong – part of the second coming of GAGE and Al Fong, but no black gloves. She’s a really pretty gymnast, having those long GAGE lines, extension and toe point.
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