posted Feb 7th, 2023 - The NSL News reported the change in the lineup of the U.S. national team in 4-way Women, Paraclete XPG4, with the update on January 10th. Jeana Billings continues only in 8-way with XP8, while Michelle Karamon stepped out of the 8-way lineup and moved to XPG4's outside center position. Shannon Catalano is the new XPG4 point.

The NSL News visited Paraclete XP when XP8 and XPG4 were both training for the first time with their new lineups. The XP8 update was posted on February 1st at the end of the team's first training day, including NSL Live Talk with Jeana Billings and Kirk Verner.

XPG4 were in the middle of their first training camp, and Arizona Airspeed's Niklas Hemlin was back in the coaching position that he had before the change in the lineup.

There was not enough time for NSL Live Talk with the new lineup on a busy training day, and the first conversation with the team will most likely take place on the weekend of the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2023 later this month. However, the NSL-TV Unfiltered video clip is showing the team in action from several different perspectives with the first preparations for the upcoming indoor competitions.

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Paraclete XPG4 training of the new lineup

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The first competition for the new lineup is the national indoor championship at Paraclete XP at the end of next week, followed by the FAI Indoor World Championship in April. The two events have very different levels of importance for XPG4, which may fit perfectly to the agenda of the new lineup.

Of course, XPG4 aim at defending their status as the national 4-way team in 4-way Women by outscoring all other U.S. teams in this FAI category at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship, as they have every year since 2019. In fact, XPG4 had only little opposition in the past, first by Perris 4ce/Force in 2019 (237 - 180), with Shannon Catalano in Christy Frikken's team from Perris, then again by Aviatrixx in 2020 (215 - 201) and in 2021 (246 - 183).

Even if any other 4-way Women teams compete next week and manage to outscore the well trained XPG4 lineup by then, this year's national indoor championship is the qualification for the next FAI Indoor World Cup in 2024, which allows a total of up to four teams to compete for their respective countries. There will obviously not be much pressure on the new XPG4 lineup in their home chamber, and the event serves mostly to collect meet experiences in the run-up to the indoor world championship in April.

Paraclete XP Indoor 2021		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open/Women	19,13,O		21,12,16		A,B,D,11		4,15,C		17,3,E		Q,G,18,22		6,7,14		9,10,2		1,P,20		L,K,H,5		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	28		27		42	-2	29		34		29		28		26	-1	29		43	-2	315	31.5
2	SDC Rhythm XP	25	-2	25		37	-2	27		32		29		26	-1	27		25	-1	41	-1	294	29.4
3	Golden Knights Gold	27		23		40		26		28		19		25		23		26		35		272	27.2
4	Paraclete XP4	25		19		34		23		28		20	-3	21	-1	21		23		32		246	24.6
5	Paraclete XPG4	22		20		29		21		23		20	-1	23		19		20	-1	30		227	22.7
6	Skydive Midwest NEXT	21		16		30		22		23		20		20		19		21		28		220	22.0
7	Lightspeed	20		18		28		21		23		19		20		16		19		28		212	21.2
8	Air Force OBYC	18		17		27		17		21		17		19		15		18		19		188	18.8
9	Aviatrixx	18		17		23		15		19		17		16		17		16		25		183	18.3
10	Vega XP	15		17		24		14		18		17		17		16		18		22		178	17.8
11	Golden Knights Black	17		16		22		16		17		16		18		16		16		20		174	17.4

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Paraclete XPG4 at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championships 2021

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Last year's Paraclete XP Indoor Championship qualified XPG4 as the U.S. national team in 4-way Women for the upcoming indoor world championship. The 2022 lineup did not have any opposition in this category and finished in 2nd place on the 4-way Open Class leaderboard with the highest team average since 2019.

Last year's new lineup, with Anna Brunner replacing Morgan Womble, did not travel to Belgium to compete at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022 in Charleroi, where most of the upcoming opponents in 4-way Women posted their impressive indoor scoring numbers. The new XPG4 lineup with Shannon Catalano has no international meet experiences at all.

Michelle Karamon competed with XPG4 for the U.S. delegation at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2019 and won bronze medals behind Nephtys (France) and NFTO (Great Britain). Last year's XPG4 lineup also won bronze medals at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2022. However, the 4-way Women indoor opposition in Slovakia will be even stronger, as the HF Cubs juniors of 2019 are now competing in the 4-way senior categories.

XPG4 have the opportunity for the first competition experiences with the new lineup at Paraclete XP. Two more months will then be left for indoor training only before they will meet the world's strongest teams in 4-way Women in Slovakia.

Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2022		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open/4-way Women	F,9,4	G,8,A,C	22,10,J	11,D,6	N,3,M,H	20,P,Q,L	12,17,B	18,2,13	E,7,14	5,19,K	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	39	37	26	29	40	37	31	25	33	33	330	33.0
2	XPG4	30	25	16	24	32	28	20	20	26	25	246	24.6
3	Skydive Midwest NEXT	27	27	18	24	32	29	18	20	24	22	241	24.1
4	Bobba Fat XP	28	24	19	23	31	24	21	19	25	23	237	23.7
5	SDC Rhythm XP	27	27	19	21	28	28	20	19	27	20	236	23.6
6	Golden Knights	33	27	16	21	26	29	22	18	21	19	232	23.2
7	Lucky Chris Take 2	24	22	15	18	22	21	14	15	19	18	188	18.8
8	Sloppy Seconds	23	17	10	16	18	15	14	12	18	15	158	15.8
9	Three Men and a Katie	19	18	13	14	17	16	14	12	18	15	156	15.6
10	Platinum XP	14	15	11	14	15	13	12	10	14	12	130	13.0

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Paraclete XPG4 at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championships 2022

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