Roseville Invitational

I feel like I'm always writing the same things here.  We practice, go to a meet, do well and practice again.  I can only use the same modifiers so many times without sounding like a broken record, but here goes!  😉

The Roseville Invitational was held on Saturday for our Level 6 girls.  We had to be there by 1:00 and the entire drive I was thinking that we were late, that I was going to get a call from the coach asking where we were, but luckily that didn't happen.  It did happen to a girl on another team, but she was delayed due to traffic and weather--arriving just as warm-up ended.

Again our girls started on beam.  That has been their starting event at every meet so far this season.  Z did well, a few wobbles, but no falls and scored a 9.100.  Not a bad score, and a 7th place finish.

On floor, Z had a pretty big step after her 1 1/2 turn, but still earned a 9.350. It was funny because we had the same judges on floor as at Sweetheart and Z scored 0.050 higher, but she thought her routine was much better.  She was a bit frustrated, but in the end took first place!

Vault was fine.  Nothing exciting, a step at the end on both.  During warm-up she stuck a landing, but not during the competition.  She wound up with a 9.050 and third place.

Bars was last.  Her warm-up looked great and after the last meet we were hoping for a clean routine.  Unfortunately, she didn't quite get her squat on, did a monkey swing and unfortunately missed the high bar--her fingers hit, but she wasn't quite tall enough to reach.  The rest of the routine was good and she scored an 8.850.  Better than last time, but still a big deduction--although it was the 2nd highest score on her team.  She finished in 7th place even with the fall.

Her all-around score was 36.350, 0.400 higher than the last meet.  She tied for 4th place, but there was also a tie for 2nd place, so she really had the third highest all around score.  She was very happy with the additional 5 medals to add to her collection.

The team took third place and received a nice trophy instead of the traditional banner.

This was a weird meet for me--the only score board was on the far side of the gym, near the floor and was difficult to read and blurry.  Also, most of the time you couldn't see it because girls were standing in front of it.  Normally I can check the scores on meetscoresonline.com, however, for some reason after our third girl was on bars, it stopped working/updating.  I never saw Z's bar score and ultimately had to ask her coach what it was.  Also, I normally know what places Z gets before awards, but again, because it hadn't updated, I didn't find out until she did.  Fun in some ways, but also frustrating.

We have another meet this Saturday--Spirit of the Flame.  It is a very big meet held at the San Jose Convention Center.  While it is a bit of a drive, it shouldn't be too bad.  Z is happy because this meet gives out leos instead of t-shirts!  (Roseville gave out sling-bags instead of t-shirts.)