Youth movement

[Truzzcat]

Just a thought experiment to show how rare this young crop of talent is. There is always a lot of turnover after the Olympics and while we had a rare group that held on for 2-3 cycles, I still think it is very promising for the future. While I am a bit pessimistic about how this team does at worlds, I think the future is incredibly bright for team USA.

 

18-year-old world teamers: Duke,Jax,Blaze (Bassett has beaten Valencia 5x's)
19-year-old world teamers: Lilledahl (Valencia beat woods 2x) (Joey Blaze took 4th)
20-year-old world teamers: N/A (Stanich is in the convo to make this team if he goes seniors IMO)
21-year-old world teamers: Barr, Haines
22-year-old world teamers: MM

2022 worlds (first year post trials that had a challenge tournament):
18-year-old world teamers: N/A
19-year-old world teamers: N/A
20-year-old world teamers: N/A
21-year-old world teamers: N/A
22-year-old world teamers: Yianni,Vito (Yianni was the only one to win a spot)

[mspart]

Yianni was the next coming when he entered college.   He did great in college but never had the promised success in the world scene.  Duke, a HS'er, beats him to make the World Team.    Now that is really something.    How would it be to be that good in HS?   Wow!

mspart

[bnwtwg]

On 6/17/2025 at 2:06 PM, mspart said:

Yianni was the next coming when he entered college.   He did great in college but never had the promised success in the world scene.  Duke, a HS'er, beats him to make the World Team.    Now that is really something.    How would it be to be that good in HS?   Wow!

mspart

Silver at the toughest weight in the world to break a 20 year drought isn't successful?