This year’s Nastia Liukin Cup Series will be comprised of 20 meets, each of which will qualify one senior gymnast (aged 16 or older) and one junior (15 or younger) to the 14th Nastia Liukin Cup in Louisville, Kentucky, on Feb. 24.
This week’s meets included the Brestyan’s Las Vegas Invitational, the Metroplex Challenge, the Dragon Invite and the Legacy Elite Classic.
Brestyan’s Las Vegas Invitational
Winner (senior division): Kailin Chio
Winner (junior division): Oaklie Deputy
Former elite standout Kailin Chio put on a strong show to qualify to her second NLC after appearing at the Cup as a junior in 2018. The LSU commit scored 9.900s on both vault and floor. The big score on her Yurchenko one and a half came one week after she was rewarded with a perfect 10.0 for the vault.
Southern Utah signee Brinlee Christensen finished only half a tenth behind Chio and scored her first perfect 10.0 on vault.
The competition was won by Utah commit Avery Neff, who scored a huge 39.600. She posted career highs on beam and floor, as well as in the all-around. Since Neff is already qualified to the Cup, her results don’t feature in the official NLC qualifier results.
Oaklie Deputy, in only her first year as a level 10, qualified as a junior. She had a…
