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 BIG Classic, the Presidential Classic, the WOGA Classic, the Fiesta Bowl, the Excalibur Cup, the Rochester Classic, the Charity Choice Invitational and the Jaycie Phelps Midwest Showdown.
BIG Classic
Winner (senior division): Hannah Scheible
Winner (junior division): Lindsey Merdes
Hannah Scheible notched her second consecutive NLC qualification with a perfect score on vault for her difficult front handspring front pike half. The Oklahoma signee edged out Illinois signee Olivia Coppola by only three quarters of a tenth, who posted a career high 39.000 in the all-around.
Last week’s qualifier Taylor DeVries, an Oregon State signee, posted a career high 9.900 on bars.
Lindsey Merdes, in the class of 2026, qualified as a junior with a career high all-around score of 37.375.
Hannah Scheible
Scores: VT: 10.0 | UB: 9.575 | BB: 9.700 | FX: 9.800 | AA: 39.075
Videos: VT
- Club: All American Flames
- College: Oklahoma
- High School Graduation Year: 2023
- CGN Rating:…
