posted Mar 14th, 2024 - Round 1 of the Shamrock Showdown 2024 is only one day away, and Thursday was a busy training and warm-up day at Skydive DeLand. The competition draw in the evening was the last step before the start of the competition on Friday morning.

Arizona Airspeed and France Aethers will be in the first load of the competition together, and a new colorful Teiwaz lineup joins the world's currently two best teams in the same Twin Otter. Most of the participating teams used the promising weather on Thursday for the last preparations, and the French national team in 4-way Women, Nephtys, were back in action after a day off on Wednesday.

The Nephtys had concluded their off-day with NSL Live Talk at the end of the vacation day on Wednesday, and they spent most of the time in the Florida springs. They had regenerated enough energy after their vacation to spend the extra time with the NSL News.

The current Nephtys lineup have trained and competed together since the beginning of 2023. Pamela Lissajoux and Elise Poindron came back from previous French national teams in 4-way Women. Alexandra Petitjean, Marie Pineau and team videographer Godeleine de Saint were selected by national coach Mathieu Bernier, after he was looking at the options together with the two returning team members.

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NSL Live Talk with French national 4-way Women team Nephtys

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Alexandra Petitjean and Marie Pineau both attended tryout events for the selection. Alexandra Petitjean had previously represented the French delegation at FAI/ISC events in Canopy Formation. She contacted national coach Mathieu Bernier and told him that she was interested in switching to horizontal Formation Skydiving training and competition. She joined the tryout events and was eventually selected for the new French lineup in 4-way Women.

Elise Poindron started with the French indoor lineup in 4-way Women. Mathieu Bernier had created two different lineups for indoor and outdoor competition in 2018. The indoor team, with Pamela Lissajoux and Elise Poindron both in the lineup, won the 4-way Women competition at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2019.

The French indoor and outdoor lineups were eventually merged again, and Pamela Lissajoux and Elise Poindron continued with the same team name, the Nephtys, when they were back together, this time with Alexandra Petitjean and Marie Pineau.

Pamela Lissajoux has been in the French national team and her outside center slot since 2015 and has attended several indoor and outdoor world championship and world cups ever since. She was in the lineup that lost to the Golden Knights 4-way Women team, with Jennifer Davidson in the lineup, in a dramatic 10-round battle in Ottawa 2016. She will meet the new XPG4 member again at this year's outdoor world championship. Her team mate Elise Poindron was engaged in a special and unique Fun Flag adventure at the 23rd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving.

FAI Mondial 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Women		12,A,16	18,15,O	1,F,E,C	17,B,14	10,2,20	21,11,G	J,5,19	L,M,K,7	D,8,4	3,13,Q	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights	US	21	21	30	20	17	19	24	35	20	17	224	22.4
2	French Girls	FR	21	18	30	23	17	18	24	34	18	14	217	21.7
3	NFTO	UK	17	15	21	19	13	16	18	26	17	13	175	17.5
4	Montreal Fuzion	CA	18	15	19	16	14	16	17	25	17	14	171	17.1
5	Les Stunts	BE	15	14	20	16	11	13	16	24	15	13	157	15.7
6	Bellatrix	AU	13	12	20	16	12	13	15	22	13	14	150	15.0
7	Skymix	DE	13	11	15	15	12	13	14	23	12	12	140	14.0
8	No Mercy	PL	14	14	19	13	9	11	12	19	14	11	136	13.6
9	Infra Red Band	RU	15	12	16	13	9	11	13	17	14	10	130	13.0
10	CZ Ladies	CZ	11	11	14	13	9	10	12	19	9	10	118	11.8
11	Valkyria	DK	10	8	16	10	9	10	11	17	12	10	113	11.3

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Golden Knights - French Girls at the FAI Mondial 2016

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