Twenty-six of the schools who’ve produced more than Carroll are located in the California or Florida hotbeds.
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Shawn McFarland,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
The early-season tournaments or invitationals, such as Clearwater two weeks ago or the gem of this past week, the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, are hotbeds for shocking upsets and surprising — and sometimes uncharacteristic — early-season thrillers.
But for the better part of the following decade, Crockett served as a movement instructor on the faculty of schools like her alma mater and conservatories like the Maggie Flanigan Studio.
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Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2026
Still, the study’s findings challenge the emphasis on early signs of high performance that elite schools, conservatories and youth sport academies often look for when recruiting talent.
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