Her profile says Cali All-Stars 2013-2015 so she's definitely been on a team in the past---pictures of her in a CA uniform from last season, but can't tell which CA uniform. Her online profiles seem to allude to her being on SMOED, but as a mom who is seriously tumbling stupid because I've never done it---even I could see that her tumbling wasn't where the other kids were and I don't even know what it's called that they're doing.
However, since I just watched the two episodes back to back my simple thoughts are this...Abby Miller meet Eddy and Orby. Not that they shouldn't be excited to be coaches and not that they shouldn't proud of their 3 titles, but within the first minute of the first video I was sighing because it reminded me in the shift of personality in Dance Moms from 'Ohhh maybe we'll make a reality show out of this," to "I'm Abby Lee Miller and I am God." I 100% believe they are sweet guys who want the best for their kids, but I also 100% believe this season will be edited differently with more scripted scenes than we've ever seen before and unless I'm bored with nothing else to do, I probably won't be watching.
When I found Season 1 it was cool to watch, Season 2 was interesting because of some of the returners; like MichaelEddie, but Season 3 had already disappointed me and it's only episode 2.
As far as their recruiting goes, I can see the merit in it because obviously, they win; I'm just not sure what is going happen to that team, when they actually lose. Yes, everyone wants to be on SMOED because they're an elite team with a great reputation and they've won World's 3 times in a row, but what if they don't with 4 in a row? Or, what if they do, but the 5th is their fall from the reign? Will they still be that hot team that doesn't really need the athletes from their own gym? Probably not. And then what? It'll be after that happens, that those coaches will know whether or not they've gone in the right direction---until then, they'll continue to sit pretty as everyone begs to be considered.