[oldalum]

I don’t want to overreact based on one tournament, but I’m going to doubt Arbuthnott is a legit #2 until she proves me wrong, and Shin at #3 worries me, too.

For the past 2 years our numbers 2 and 3 players (Lord/Lampl) were better than almost every other teams'. We could usually get 2 points out of them, every match. The unfortunate fact is, those days are over unless Arbuthnott and Shin improve a lot this year (which is not impossible, but less likely at this stage in their college careers. More likely to happen between first and second year, like Lord did). Unless one of the frosh turns out to be good enough to play at #2 (thus increasing our strength at 3-6), this may be a slightly down year for us (compared to last year, when we and Georgia were clearly the two best teams throughout the spring season).

[oldalum]

I don’t want to overreact based on one tournament, but I’m going to doubt Arbuthnott is a legit #2 until she proves me wrong, and Shin at #3 worries me, too.

For the past 2 years our numbers 2 and 3 players (Lord/Lampl) were better than almost every other teams'. We could usually get 2 points out of them, every match. The unfortunate fact is, those days are over unless Arbuthnott and Shin improve a lot this year (which is not impossible, but less likely at this stage in their college careers. More likely to happen between first and second year, like Lord did). Unless one of the frosh turns out to be good enough to play at #2 (thus increasing our strength at 3-6), this may be a slightly down year for us (compared to last year, when we and Georgia were clearly the two best teams throughout the spring season).