with the elimination of compulsory figures—formerly trenary's strength—from competition, the technical standard for jumping in women's skating had risen greatly, with the top skaters all attempting five or six different triples. trenary's injury was slow to heal and she had problems regaining her former standard of jumps, much less learning new ones. she planned to compete at the 1992 u.s. championships, beginning her comeback in fall 1991 at skate canada, where she finished second in the short program to surya bonaly, but dropped to fourth overall after the long program, where she was unable to successfully land any triple jumps. she qualified for the 1992 u.s. nationals by winning the 1991 midwestern sectional championships with an uneven performance: after a strong short program in which she landed a triple flip combination, she was unable to land any triple jumps in the long program. she ended her bid to qualify for the 1992 winter olympics in december 1991.