Ferrera (CUB) Floor
Yesenia Ferrera is a huge tumbler with impressive power and strength. She competed a huge full-in layout first pass with great height and solid body position. Although her double layout second pass bounced out of bounds, she shows no trouble performing the skill. Lack in holding her hips open caused the slight piked hip angle, which generated the force and bounce backwards. She has a remarkable amount of strength and noticeable quick twitch that gives her the power to tumble so high and powerfully. But this tumbling requires more specific control, especially when faced with a bouncier floor than the gymnast may be use to. She continued with stunning high leaps, a good 2 1/2 punch front layout from literally two steps, and open double tuck last pass. Typically, powerful, strong gymnasts lack flexibility. Ferrera is unique in that she possesses both, and performs huge tumbling and beautiful leaps. The biggest deduction are on her landings. Once these are improved, she has the potential to score extremely well.
 

Lopez (VEN) Bars 
Olympian Jessica Lopez delivered a skill-packed routine with some great connections, including a nice piked tcatchev into pak, shaposh into uprise clear invert full turn, tcatchev straight into ginger, invert into jager, and invert into double front dismount. It was an outstanding routine and her raw emotion after, when she celebrated with a fist pump and even tears after she walked off the podium, was moving. Her score of a 14.25 was the second-highest score from the team competition.