I want to start off by saying that these are not my picks for the competition, you can find my predictions for all 20 athletes on the B.Friendly Fitness Instagram. Instead, while deciding my predictions, I took quite a few things in consideration. I consider a lot of data when I make my selections. I figured I would give you an idea of what I consider when I do these predictions. So I picked 12 athletes from the women’s field and present you my case studies for each one of them and why I think they will either succeed or struggle at the Rogue Invitational.
Abigail Domit
Rogue Status: Rookie appearance
Expectations: There are quite a few people eager to see just how good Domit has become, and I am certainly one of them. I’m probably a little more cautious than most of her closest fans though, and if she scrapes into the top-10 it would be a very good weekend for her.
2025 Season: Domit’s season is one of the few that looks very “standard” based on the history of the sport. Seventh at Wodapalooza in January, 46th in the Open, second at Mayhem Classic (qualifying for the CrossFit Games for the third time) and 12th at the Games, her best career finish. That was good enough to get her this first Rogue invite, a perfect way to round out her season, and for us to continue to assess where she is against the other top women.
Strengths: Snatching, running, muscle-ups
Of the 16 workouts Domit has placed fourth or better in her career, there is only one that doesn’t include some variety of snatching, running, or muscle ups. The one that doesn’t had legless rope climbs and burpee box jump overs… and if I had to put two other things in her notable strengths column it would probably be rope climbs, jumping variations, or rowing.
Weaknesses: Deadlifting, consistency
When studying the performances on particular workouts for Domit it’s hard to pinpoint many things that are consistently bad for her. Deadlift seems to pop up the most frequently amongst her “bad” finishes.
Since her only competition against what I would call a mostly full field of elite women came at the Games, let’s look at the four workouts finishes she had in the bottom-half of that field:
- 23rd, “Climbing Couplet”: Pegboards and squat cleans (this workout is unfortunately probably the one from the Games we can’t put too much stock in because of the condition of the pegboards)
- 21st, “Atlas”: Thrusters, Rope Climbs, Walking Lunges
- 19th, “Throttle Up”: Ski erg cals, chest to bar pull ups, box jump overs
- 16th, “Albany Grip Test”: Running, Deadlifts, handstand walking
No real pattern to any of it, especially when you look at other workouts. I think Domit is still settling into her own as a new version of herself, and that after another year of with 2-5 more high level competitions to assess we will be a little more certain about her.
Alex Gazan
Rogue Status: Third appearance (5th in 2023, 4th in 2024)
Expectations: If Gazan is in fact healthy for Rogue, we should expect a podium finish from her.
2025 Season: Gazan’s early season had competition results fans have been waiting for. The win at the first World Fitness Project tour stop was the highlight, but backing it up in commanding fashion at the Northern California Classic, the only out she left herself to make the CrossFit Games, was also impressive.
Unfortunately shortly after that Semifinal came the car crash, and since then she’s been reluctantly forced to withdraw from other competitions…until Rogue it seems
Strengths: Legless Rope Climbs, muscle-ups, Heavy lifting (especially deadlifts, cleans, and bench press)
In 18 events at the Rogue Invitational over the last two years Gazan has had 10 finishes in the top third of the field (seventh or better) and only two in the bottom third of the field (14th or worse).
Her two event wins came on “Seat at the Bar” (log muscle ups and back squats) and the one-rep max Deadlift, both in 2023.
She’s also logged a pair of third place finishes on “Hulk Hands” (2023) which included echo bike, fatbell ground-to-overhead, front rack lunges, and sled push, and on “The Gondola” (2024) which featured the horizontal peg board, GHD sit ups, and ski erg calories.
Weaknesses: Getting inverted and the overhead position in general, and for someone as close to the top of the sport as she is, she hasn’t traditionally been the best runner – however, that had been improving prior to the car crash.
Her bad finishes at Rogue have all been related to the overhead position:
- 17th, “10th inning” in 2023 (ring muscle-ups, handstand pushups, and power snatches, very high volume of overhead pressing)
- 16th, “The Circus” in 2023 (ski erg calories, CYR bell shoulder-to-overhead, and the killer cage)
- 12th, “Big Cat” in 2023 (this was changed from peg boards to handstand walking due to the rain… if not for that change she likely would have made the podium that year)
- 13th, Braveheart in 2024 (wall walk complexes and back squats)
- 13th, Tight Rope in 2024 (heavy double unders, CYR bell overhead walking lunges and handstand walks)
In the two running events she placed 12th (2023) and 13th (2024).
Alexis Raptis
Rogue Status: Second appearance (8th in 2022)
Expectations: Raptis has shown tremendous consistency finishing between sixth and tenth at major competitions like this…
- 2025 CrossFit Games, 10th
- 2025 WFP Tour Stop 1, 7th
- 2024 CrossFit Games, 6th
- 2023 CrossFit Games, 6th
- 2022 Rogue Invitational, 8th
- 2022 CrossFit Games, 10th
So, we’d expect something similar here too.
2025 Season: Raptis got off to a great online start to the season (10th in the Open, second in the online Semi). She took an underwhelming sixth at Mayhem Classic and then a seventh at WFP Tour Stop 1 and 10th at the Games. Unfortunately, she had to withdraw from WFP Tour Stop 2 after the first day, but she did return to action at TYR WZA So Cal representing Team North America. However, another little injury flared up there on day one, so, we are hoping she’s healthy and will be good to go for the entirety of Rogue.
Strengths: Handstand anything, upper body pressing, barbell cycling, yoke carries, upper body pulling gymnastics, thrusters, echo bike
Alexis’ strengths show up a lot in competition. Her gymnastics background is the foundation, but she’s parlayed the strength from that, especially when it comes to pressing, into tremendous efficiency with weightlifting movements like thrusters, wall balls, snatching, and shoulder to overhead variations.
Weaknesses: Running and longer time domain workouts, max lifting and heavy or moderately heavy with volume squatting
It’s hard to pinpoint too many clear weaknesses in competition for Alexis. A lot of her worst workout finishes include some of the movements listed above as strengths, but come in competitions or days of competition when health issues have likely been more of a factor than her ability.
The one year she competed at Rogue Invitational, her worst finishes came on “Ski Bar” and “Back Attack” (16th each), “Heavy Grace” (15th), “Texas Trail” (13th), “The Goblet” (12th)… that’s quite a few low finishes, but she offsets them with the other five finishes of sixth place or better including a second place on “DT with a Spin”.
Arielle Loewen
Rogue Status: Fifth appearance (13th in 2021, 10th in 2022, 8th in 2023, 3rd in 2024)
Expectations: So far she has improved every year at Rogue, but the margin to do so again is very small coming off her podium finish there last year. The good news? Tia-Clair Toomey isn’t competing (one of the two women to beat her last year at Rogue). The bad news? She hasn’t found a podium since Rogue last year.
2025 Season: Despite no podium finishes, Loewen has again shown remarkable consistency and is clearly right towards the top of any women’s field: fifth at WFP Tour Stop 1, fifth at the Games, sixth at WFP Tour Stop 2.
Strengths: Handstand walking, GHD sit ups, ski erg calories, log muscle-ups, running in metcons
In her four years of competition at Rogue she has seven finishes in the top-5:
- 5th, “Concept 2” in 2021 (ski calories, Medball GHD sit-ups, hill run)
- 3rd, “Ski Bar” in 2022 (log muscle-ups, ski calories, GHD sit-ups)
- 3rd, “10th Inning” in 2023 (ring muscle-ups, handstand push-ups, power snatches)
- 4th, “Big Cat” in 2023 (box jumps, handstand walking, field run)
- 5th, “The Circus” in 2023 (ski calories, CYR bell shoulder-to-overhead, killer cage)
- 3rd, “Hunting Haggis” in 2024 (rowing, thrusters, log muscle-ups)
- 3rd, “The Excavator” in 2024 (sandbag cleans)
Weaknesses: Rope Climbs, heavy squatting, workouts with weight vests or rucks)
Similarly, there are seven events Arielle has finished 14th or worse in during her Rogue tenure:
- 19th, “Go Ruck” in 2021 (grunt work and rope climbs in a weight vest)
- 14th, “Echo Burner” in 2021 (echo bike and thrusters)
- 15th, “The Duel II*” (legless rope climbs, overhead squats, sandbag carry)
- 15th, “Texas Heavy” in 2023 (ruck run, run, sled bag pull)
- 15th, “Max Deadlift” in 2023
- 16th, “Seat at the Bar” in 2023 (log muscle-ups and heavy back squats)
- 16th, “Devil’s Tail” in 2024 (rope climbs and CYR bell devil press)
Danielle Brandon
Rogue Status: Sixth appearance (15th 2020 online, 11th 2021 and 2024, 9th 2022, 7th 2023)
Expectations: Over the last four years Brandon has averaged a sixth place finish at the CrossFit Games, and a 9.5 finish at Rogue… historically speaking cracking the top-10 is a good achievement for her here. However, for a few reasons, this should likely be her best Rogue finish yet.
First, there are a few of the top women in the sport who won’t be at Rogue this year (Toomey, Gabi Migala, Aimee Cringle). Second, most years DB’s overall finishes is heavily weighted down by the inability to do the heavy backsquatting, which is mostly because she hasn’t been able to lift heavy in training very often because of some back issues. It seems she’s on the other side of that and has been getting stronger of late.
2025 Season: DB has been very good, and mostly consistent, throughout 2025: Open – sixth, Online Semis – sixth, CrossFit Games – fourth, WFP 1 – second, WFP 2 – 10th. Giving her an average finish of 5.6.
Strengths: Handstand walking, lunging (especially overhead), The Duels, jump roping, rope climbs, snatching, sled work, light and moderate sandbag work, and running…sometimes
We will see a lot of those movements repeated throughout 10 events from the past four years DB has placed in the top-5 on:
- 3rd, “The Duel” in 2021 (heavy double unders, squat snatches, sandbag load)
- 4th, “The Mule” in 2021 (deadlifts and burpee pull ups)
- 1st, “Texas Trail” in 2022 (ruck run, run, sandbag moves)
- 2nd, “The Duel II” in 2022 (legless rope climbs, overhead squats, sandbag carry)
- 3rd, “The Turtle” in 2022 (axle bar lunge, monkey bars, hill run and bag pull)
- 1st, “Big Cat” in 2023 (box jumps, handstand walking and field runs)
- 4th, “The Clean Up” in 2023 (double unders and cleans, squat cleans, clean and jerks)
- 5th, “The Duel III” in 2023 (log over / unders, short run, sandbag to teeter)
- 3rd, “The Duel IV” in 2024 (up-and-overs, sled push, power stairs)
- 4th, “Tight Rope” in 2024 (heavy double unders, CYR bell overhead lunges, handstand walking)
Weaknesses: Heavy squatting, heavy deadlifting, aggressive rowing
There are also very noticeable patterns when it comes to her worst six performances at Rogue in live competitions… one-rep maxes, heavy squatting, and the horizontal peg board got her last year.
- 19th, “Back Attack” in 2022 (heavy back squats and box jump overs)
- 15th, “Texas Oak” in 2022 (max clean and jerk with lifting logs)
- 17th, “Seat at the Bar” in 2023 (log muscle-ups and heavy back squats)
- 16th, “Max Deadlift” in 2023
- 20th, “Braveheart” in 2024 (wall walk complexes and heavy back squats)
- 16th, “The Gondola” in 2024 (horizontal peg board, ski calories, GHD sit-ups)
Elisa Fuliano
Rogue Status: Rookie appearance
Expectations: We know pretty well the things Fuliano is great at, and also the things she isn’t so great at. It’s all the stuff in the middle that will make the difference if she pushes for a top-10 in a competition like Rogue.
2025 Season: Fuliano passed on the CrossFit Games season this year, but still opted to compete at two Games qualifying events (second at Wodland Fest, first at French Throwdown). She also placed fifth at Wodapalooza. So she does have some competitive experience this year against women in this field despite also not participating in the WFP season. She’s also been participating in some smaller competitions around Europe including the UBL Italian Championship, her first competition in Italy (her home country) in 4 years, which she won.
Strengths: Handstand pushups, snatching, clean and jerks, muscle-ups
Of the 13 workout wins Fuliano has in her career at any level, all but one have either handstand push-ups (2), snatching (4), cleans or clean and jerks (3), or muscle-ups (3).
But, let’s look more closely at the biggest competitions she’s done, and the best workouts at them:
- 2nd, “Inverted Medley”, 2023 CrossFit Games
- 5th, “Speed Skill Medley”, 2022 CrossFit Games
- 10th, “Helena”, 2023 CrossFit Games
- 13th, “Olympic Total”, 2023 CrossFit Games
- 13th, “Elevated Elizabeth”, 2022 CrossFit Games
Most of these workouts end up circling back to all the same strengths that we continue to see for her. And certainly there is plenty else that she’s good at, it’s just these are clearly her best movements compared to any field she shows up to compete against.
Weaknesses: Running (the longer the worse), machines/power out put, heavy strongman implements (or non barbell/dumbbell lifting)
Let’s take a look at her Games finishes from 2022 and 2023 that were in the bottom quarter of the field:
- 39th, “Rinse ‘N’ Repeat”, (swimming, ski erg cals), 2023 CrossFit Games
- 37th, “Sandbag Ladder”, 2023 CrossFit Games
- 37th, “Alpaca Redux”, 2023 CrossFit Games
- 36th, “Up and Over”, (muscle ups and sandbag over logs), 2022 CrossFit Games
- 35th , “The Capitol” (heavy odd objects and long distance running), 2022 CrossFit Games
- 35th, “Bike To Work”, 2022 CrossFit Games
- 31st, “Shuttle to Overhead B” (running and heavy shoulder to overhead), 2022 CrossFit Games
The patterns are pretty clear on this end too, and as one of the smaller athletes in the field, it isn’t that surprising.
Emma Lawson
Rogue Status: Third year (3rd place 2022 and 2023)
Expectations: Based on past experience at Rogue, and the fact that she seems both healthy and motivated for competition, plus the additional time with the Brute camp since her last competition, all signed are pointing to Lawson being firmly in the podium battle
2025 Season: Lawson has taken a path of least resistance and most predictability when it comes to competing this year. For someone who had some back issues the previous year, this seems very wise. She has had respectable finishes of sixth and seventh at the two WFP Tour Stops, and also looked good at TYR WZA So Cal representing team North America in the TYR CUP.
Strengths: Longer time domains, muscular endurance. She’s generally good at most things, but some of her best individual movements are running, muscle-ups, strict handstand push-ups, and cycling the olympic lifts.
So far this year Lawson has three top-2 finishes:
- 1st, WFP Tour Stop 2 on Pro 2 (rope climbs, strict handstand push-ups, double kettlebell squats, and burpee box jump overs)
- 2nd, opening workouts for the WFP Tour Stops (In Mesa that was a 2 mile run, in Indianapolis it had running, ring muscle-ups, and snatching)
In her Rogue career, Lawson also has three top-2 finishes:
- 1st, “Ski Bar” in 2022 (log muscle ups, ski cals, ghd sit ups)
- 1st, “Goblet” in 2022 (ring muscle ups, hill running, and goblet squats)
- 2nd, “The Cleanup” in 2023 (double-unders plus cleans, squat cleans, and clean and jerks)
Weaknesses: Heavy Lifting
In her career at Rogue she only has three finishes outside of the top-10:
- 13th, “Heavy Grace” in 2022
- 11th, “Back Attack” (heavy back squatting) in 2022
- 11th, “1-Rep Max deadlift” in 2023
At WFP competitions this year, she finished between 15th and 19th in five out of 14 scored workouts. She had one outlier bad finish of 25th on “Mesa Pro 3” where she was slowed down quite a bit by the deadlifts (potentially precautionary and intentional here, preserving the back).
The other finishes came on “Mesa Pro 4A” (max clean) 4B (fast row and heavy-ish lunge) and “Pro 5” (which is admittedly surprising compared to what she would typically do well at since it was on the longer side, but the C2 bike pace just wasn’t there compared to the top half of the field). And at the first tour stop those finishes came on “Pro 2” (heavy sandbag cleans) and “Pro 4A” (bike sled).
Emma Tall
Rogue Status: Second appearance (6th in 2024)
Expectations: What bodes well for Tall compared to most of the other top women is a relative lack of landmines in her fitness. She may not win any of the workouts, but there are certainly scenarios where she has all top-10 finishes… and that is a recipe for a podium contender.
2025 Season: Tall is another athlete who has put most of her stock in the WFP basket this year. However, she took fourth at WZA Miami back in January, and if one or two things had gone just slightly differently, she may have won that competition outright. She had a lingering issue that prevented her from being at her best for the first WFP Stop, placing 12th. She was not restricted by that in any way at the second Tour Stop, and she took second. She ran it back for a second year with team World at TYR WZA SoCal for the TYR Cup as well, so she has had a good slate of competitions this year, and mostly done very well.
Strengths: swimming, sleds (as well as some strongman stuff like sandbags and yokes), short power output workouts (2-6 minutes), biking, muscle-ups, toes-to-bar, and rope climbs
At Rogue last year her highs came on the “Duel IV” with the up-and-overs, sled push (she was awesome at that component) and power stairs (second place) and “Devil’s Tail” with rope climbs and CYR bell devils press (4th place).
Weaknesses: It’s hard to pinpoint very specific things she’s bad at. Most of her worse workout performances, especially recently come down to either dealing with an injury or minor illness, or more notably when there are a small number of reps of movements with a lot of quick transitions.
She had three finishes in the bottom quarter of the field at Rogue last year:
- 15th, “Sea Tiger” (Echo bike, ring muscle up, squat snatch, shuttle sprints) this was likely an execution error. I think if you ran this one back she’d do much better
- 15th, “Braveheart” (Wall walk complex and back squats)
- 16th, “Gondola” “Horizontal peg board”
At WFP Tour Stop 2 she had all top-ten finishes. At WFP Tour Stop 1, dealing with a little injury, she had a couple bottom half finishes:
- 22nd, “Pro 2” (sandbag cleans, GHD sit-ups, handstand walking)
- 17th, “Pro 5” (legless rope climbs, running the transitions, and yoke carries)
Laura Horvath
Rogue Status: Seventh appearance (she’s never missed one: after being disqualified in 2019 for not meeting a minimum work requirement) her finishes by year have been 5th (online), 4th, 1st, 1st, and 2nd last year.
Expectations: She’s the woman to beat. Only two women have ever won at Rogue (Toomey four times and Horvath twice). Barring an unusual set of circumstances or rules, it’s difficult to see anyone beating her there this year. However, athletes like Gazan, Tall, and Lucy Campbell have a case to be made for at least having a chance.
2025 Season: Horvath took second at Wodapalooza Miami in January (to Campbell), a very surprising ninth at the first Tour Stop for WFP in May (Gazan won this competition), and first at the second WFP Tour stop at the end of August (it was a winner take all scenario against Tall going into the finale).
Strengths: well… almost everything. But specifically she is amazing with nearly all weightlifting movements, upper body pulling gymnastics, and grip stamina.
11 Rogue wins:
- 2022: Back Attack, DT with a Spin, The Turtle, the Duel II
- 2023: The Circus, Hulk Hands, the Cleanup
- 2024: Devil’s Tail, The Duel IV, Gondola, Tight Rope
10 Rogue runner ups:
- 2020 (online): 50 power snatches, max clean and jerk, deadlift/overhead squat
- 2021: Bella Complex, Echo Burner, the Duel
- 2022: Texas Oak
- 2023: Seat at the Bar, The Duel III
- 2024: Hunting Haggis
Notably she also has 10 out of 14 top-5 finishes at the WFP workouts this season. Two of the four that wasn’t the case for involved handstand implements, and the other two were very uncharacteristic execution errors.
Weaknesses: Outside of handstand push-ups it’s very difficult to find any
Lucy Campbell
Rogue Status: Rookie
Expectations: She has finished fifth or better at all six competitions she’s entered this year, and they are basically all of the best competitions in the world. She has never competed at Rogue before, but she’s more than proven to be well-rounded enough to factor in anywhere. The biggest question will be how she handles the unusual elements, and slightly heavier than typical, aspects of Rogue’s programming
2025 Season: Lucy’s return to competition this year has been remarkable. Her journey since the 2022 CrossFit Games is something that could be made into a compelling, and extremely inspiring, Netflix documentary…she’s already identified the perfect name for it too: “Find a Way”.
She’s competed a decent amount this year: first at WZA Miami, third in the Open, first at Wodland Fest (to qualify for the Games), fourth at WFP 1, second at the CrossFit Games, and fifth at WFP 2… so yeah, she’s amongst the best in the world, period.
Strengths: Very well-rounded, but stand out movements for her are running, rowing, burpees, lunging, thrusters, biking, muscle ups, and jumping
Only looking at workouts from competitions in 2025, Lucy has had a top-5 finish on 40 workouts. There are 20 unique movements which have showed up across those 40 workouts, and 16 of those movements have showed up more than once.
Four of them have showed up at least five times: running, rowing, burpees, and lunging
Another four have showed up four times: thrusters, biking, muscle ups, and jumping variations
She’s about as well rounded as they come.
Weaknesses: Front rack position, 1 -ep maxes or complexes, and top-end raw strength (i.e. heavy yoke carry)
Her worst finishes this year are all the ones you’d predict:
- 20th, “Uma” (weightlifting complex) Wodland Fest
- 36th, Clean/Hang Clean complex at Wodapalooza
- 23rd, 1 RM back squat at the CrossFit Games
- 21st, 1 RM Jerk at WFP Tour Stop 1
- 25th, 1 RM Clean at WFP Tour Stop 2
- 17th, “Going Dark” at the CrossFit Games
Manon Angonese
Rogue Status: Fourth appearance (11th in 2022, 10th in 2023, 9th in 2024)
Expectations: If the pattern continues of improving by one placement every year at Rogue… we can basically lock Angonese in for eighth, right?
2025 Season: Angonese made a play at the CrossFit Games this year in addition to competing as one of the signed Pros in the WFP season, 19th in the Open, 27th during online Semis, fifth at Mayhem Classic, and sixth at the Last Chance Qualifier saw her miss the Games. In the meantime, she’s placed 19th and 15th at both WFP stops respectively.
Most likely, she’s saving her best stuff for Rogue, which has become the norm for her year-in and year-out at this point.
Strengths: Muscle-Ups, Thrusters, handstand push-ups
Let’s zoom in on some of the reasons why Angonese has been doing so well at Rogue:
- 2nd, “Snatch and Press” (handstand push ups) 2022
- 3rd, “Goblet” (ring muscle ups, squatting stamina) 2022
- 6th, “The Duel II” and “Texas Oak” 2022
- 4th, “10th Inning” (ring muscle ups, handstand pushups) 2023
- 6th, “Max DL” 2023
- 8th, “The Duel III” 2023
- 5th, “Gondola” (horizontal peg board) and “North Sea Tiger” (ring muscle-ups, squat snatches) 2024
- 7th, “The Duel IV” 2024
- 8th, “Hunting Haggis” (log muscle ups, thrusters, rowing) 2024
- 9th, “Braveheart” (wall walk complex, back squats) 2024
Basically, her strengths align perfectly with what Rogue tests most for. It’s literally a tailor-made programming style for her.
Weaknesses: Running is the only truly repeatable thing she struggles with. It’s surprising to see cyclical weightlifting show up so frequently here too, but it does…
With all those top ten finishes in the three years at Rogue, there also come some workouts she doesn’t do as well on that keep her from challenging the top women in the field:
- 17th, “DT with a Spin” 2022 (echo bike, barbell cycling)
- 16th, “The Turtle” 2022 (axle bar lunge, monkey bars, pull sandbag up hill)
- 15th, “Texas Trail” 2022 (ruck run, run, sandbag up-and-over hay)
- 17th, “The Circus” 2023 (ski, CYR bell S2OH, killer cage)
- 16th, “Big Cat” and “The Cleanup” 2023 (double-unders, clean and jerk variations)
- 17th, “Tight Rope” 2024 (heavy double-unders, CYR bell walking lunges, handstand walks)
- 15th, “Quick Sand” 2024 (running and sandbag moves)
What’s notable is that there are also other things, like lots of running, sandbags, and weightlifting cycling, which are very common to Rogue, and they are keeping her back from threatening the top third of the field each year.
Olivia Kerstetter
Rogue Status: Second appearance (16th in 2022)
Expectations: This is an interesting one, but it certainly seems like she’ll be in the mix with most of the women on this list for those 2-7 spots. A podium finish is not out of the question for her at Rogue.
2025 Season: This has been a breakout year for Kerstetter into the elite division. She had a solid online season (39th in the Open, 15th in the online semis), but it was barely not enough to qualify online for the Games. She went to the TFX Invitational for that and picked up the win. Then she really put herself on the map with a very unexpected third place, podium finish, at the Games in August.
She also was amongst the signed Pros this year for WFP and has had finishes of eighth (Tour Stop 1) and 14th (Tour Stop 2). And, she got invited as a backfill onto team North America at TYR WZA SoCal where she essentially locked up the win on a couple different workouts for her team en route to retaining the TYR Cup.
Strengths: Primarily lifting, especially repeatedly at moderately heavy weights. Thrusters, lunging, handstand walking, and traditional rope climbs.
Even back in 2022, when Kerstetter was a totally different athlete than she is now, she showed her class by taking second in “Heavy Grace”, but back then she had bottom three finishes on over half the workouts… that won’t happen to the Kerstetter of 2025.
As for this year, she has racked up eight event wins, four second places, and a third already. While many of them are of the more conventional “heavy” nature, there are a few notable ones that show the evolution of her as an athlete:
- 1st, “Atlas” at the Games (thrusters, rope climbs, overhead walking lunges)
- 1st, second workout of the in-affiliate semifinal (GHD sit ups and overhead walking lunges)
- 2nd, “Indianapolis Pro 2” (sandbag cleans, ghd sit ups, handstand walking)
- 2nd, “Cyclone” at TFX (fat rope single unders, burpee box get overs, and echo bike calories)
- 2nd, “OKC Ringer” at TFX (sandbag squats, handstand walk, ring muscle ups)
- 3rd, fifth workout of the in-affiliate semifinal (30 minute AMRAP of rowing, toes-to-bar, and rope climbs)
Weaknesses: longer time domains, running, legless rope climbs, high volume strict handstands pushups
Her only two finishes in the bottom third of the field at the Games came on Run/Row/Run (28th) and Hammer Down (after she’d just had a sixth on Throttle Up… note a lot of athletes did well on only one of these and not the other).
At WFP this year her worst finishes have been on the two-mile run (28th), Indy Pro 5 with legless rope climbs (20th), Indy Pro 1, a running dominant workout (19th), and Mesa Pro 2 with 100 strict handstands pushups (18th).
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