Womens Co-Op Demo - Cindy Kruger, Lisa Silvey, Mary Lowry
The FPA World Freestyle Championships Boston, MA July 12-14, 2002
Women’s Pairs Division
By Roger Meier, Photos by Kraig Steffen & Paul Kenny
The women's final took place on Saturday and the weather cooperated with plenty of sun that brought out a great crowd. To encourage some of the newer freestylers, many of the more established players teamed up with less experienced jammers.
Womens Pairs Champions Judy Robbins and Bethany Sanchez
This brought many new players into the finals and everyone was excited to see the fresh faces. I have a feeling this will not be the last time we see this new talent in the finals.
The wind picked up and all the teams had some difficulty maintaining their game. Overall the play was not up to the level of the previous round, though all the teams managed to hold seed as the results matched the order of play. Tita Ugalde and Beth Verish started things off with a nice routine. Beth completed some clean rolls and Tita had some good catches as well as throwing consistently strong sidearms.
Cindy Kruger Gitis Catch
Next up were Renee Pardo and Lori Daniels, and they clearly did their homework, completing many hot coops. Renee hit a number of rolls and showed great control with an extended figure 4 delay. Lori nailed a number of spinning catches and they ended with a clean double roll coop.
Cindy Kruger and Sarah Bergman followed with more great moves from an experienced player along with a first time finalist. Cindy used the wind to complete a number of brushing runs, bringing some fear into the crowd as she culminated one combo with a crushing spinning gitis catch. Sarah's strong performance in the semi's along with a solid performance in the finals showed she had the potential to be a strong competitor in the future.
The finals culminated with the experienced team of Judy Robbins and Bethany Sanchez. Judy continues to perform the hardest moves in any finals, highlighted by a hot combo that included consecutive spinning kicks. Bethany used her smooth style and awesome extension to complement Judy, and when she nailed a noisy crow towards the end of the routine you knew it was all over. Congrats to Bethany with her first World Freestyle title.
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