Midwestern Sectionals, 16-19. Nov., 2016

[skatelikewind1966]

Nice to see Maxine Marie Bautista making the cut in Junior Ladies after not getting out of Novice Sectionals last year. She was on the JGP alternates list if I'm remembering correctly.

Was looking up more info about Shannon Porter, since I don't remember much about her. Apparently she struggled to make it out of regionals for a long time (Stats On Ice profile here) not even making it out of the qualifying rounds for a few years of Juvenile, then making it to the Competitive Round in Intermediate and Novice but missing the Sectionals cut. Last year she moved up to Junior and made it all the way to Nationals and repeated that this year.

Maxine is a beautiful skater and coached by a guy who trained (during her younger years) one of the top US ladies. He has a pretty good stable of youngsters, currently led by Maxine who has battled some of the higher level jumps and is quite inconsistent but nevertheless has some nice talent. She fell short last year at MW Sectionals as there were many top Novice skaters.

 

[skatelikewind1966]

The old Amber is not back but will be good enough to make it to Nationals, lots of work left though. The question is will Emily make it in her Sr debut?

 

[Chemistry66]

The old Amber is not back but will be good enough to make it to Nationals, lots of work left though. The question is will Emily make it in her Sr debut?

Answer: No. Poor girl.

Since you're watching, what would you say went wrong for Emily?

 

[CoyoteChris]

Hannah's coming back to nats! (sentimental favorite)
I like Amber too....another sentimental favorite

 

[twirlingblades]

Answer: No. Poor girl.

Since you're watching, what would you say went wrong for Emily?

she fell 4 times.

 

[Chemistry66]

she fell 4 times.

Oh wow, I just saw the protocols. That's rough. And it was exaggerated by the fact that two of the falls resulted in REP tags on the jumps since they were repeated triples not in combination.

 

[twirlingblades]

Oh wow, I just saw the protocols. That's rough. And it was exaggerated by the fact that two of the falls resulted in REP tags on the jumps since they were repeated triples not in combination.

I know she also pooped a loop.

 

[CoyoteChris]

I know she also pooped a loop.

I missed her performance...will watch it on demand later....feel so sorry for her....(I hoped she popped the loop and didnt poop it....sorry...the devil made me do it...)

 

[Nathan13]

What happened to Vivian Le? Is she injured?

 

[Chemistry66]

What happened to Vivian Le? Is she injured?

Vivian withdrew from Sectionals reportedly due to injury and the alternate (Elena Pulkinen) took her place