Golden State Classic

So our second meet and "first" of the season was the Golden State Classic.  Z loves any meet held at this facility, and didn't mind that she was going to get to spend the night at her aunt's house the night before. Having her aunt come watch was a bonus.  Hard to believe it has been over a year since Z has competed at this gym and I just realized that we didn't compete any meets there for Level 6.

The girls started on beam.  It was hard to see the warm-up as the beam is in the far corner of the gym.  She seemed a little shaky and a bit off, but didn't actually fall.  She scored an 8.500, which was a little confusing to me.  Talking to her coach later, he told me that she paused too long between her back walkovers which reduced her start value to a 9.500.  She had a couple of big wobbles and she told me later that she had forgotten her mount and missed a little bit at the front of the routine.

On floor, I thought she looked great, and she scored a 9.375--I thought it was a little low, but her coach pointed out that her split leap was a bit off and her front tumbling pass was low.  She took 3rd place.

Vault was weird as they used a vault going the opposite direction of what we are used to.  It was nice because the video shows her running towards me and you could see the actual vault a lot better.  While she did take a step on her landings, she scored a 9.400, which wound up being 1st place.

Bars was last.  As a team, bars has been inconsistent this season.  I've seen some really good days and some not so good days.  The girl right before Z fell on her cast to handstand on the high bar and I was afraid that it would affect Z.  And, I was right.  She never quite hit handstand on the low bar and then didn't complete her giant and fell.  She still scored a 9.000, and took 4th place.

Z's all around score was a 36.275, which was good enough for 4th place.  The team took first place as a team--the girls were so excited!  This is only the second year that we have had enough girls on the optional team to even be considered for a team award.


This wasn't the best meet that she has had, but it was an improvement over Judge's Cup and a good starting point.

We have two weeks until the next meet when we are Reno bound!