Another meet at the Jackson Sports Academy--Z competed there three or four times last year and is doing this meet and States here again. I think we are getting used to it.
Even though our Level 7 girls got moved to later in the morning, we decided to spend the night near the venue. The hosting team had asked everyone to wear teal ribbons in support of all the Larry Nassar victims, so I made hair ribbons for all the girls and ribbon pins for all of the parents and coaches. Although I made a point of giving the coach all the ribbons for him and the Level 6 girls, he forgot them at the gym. Luckily I had extra ribbon, so he stopped at our hotel and picked them up and got a lesson on how to tie them in the girls' hair.
I ended up having two friends come to this meet. My old next-door neighbor who I have known for about 40+ years and a client. The client has a friend whose granddaughter is doing gymnastics and wanted to see a meet. It was fun to have other people there to watch.
We started on bars. The seats were right next to the bar set up so we had a great view. Warm-ups looked good and other than losing her balance on her squat on, Z's routine looked great. She ended up with a 9.575, so if she hadn't had the arm swings and the step on the dismount, who knows what the score would have been. She took 2nd place on bars.
Beam was a different story. Warm-up looked good, but during the actual routine, you could see right away that her back walkover was off. She fell, and when she got back up did the handstand to a back walkover. One of the judges gave her the full credit, but one reduced her start value to a 9.500. She wound up with an 8.325. Again, not bad considering the fall.
Floor was great. Her teammate that went right before her scored a 9.775 and Z saw the score before she started. She did seem a bit off on some things but overall was good. She scored a 9.375, and was in third place.
Vault was a bit scary. It took me a bit to get over to the vault area and when I saw her warming up, Z looked upset. She mouthed she didn't know what was wrong and since I didn't see her first warm-up vault, I had no idea. When she went, she balked, which is apparently what she did the first time. The third vault, she made it over the vault table, but barely, arms were bent, etc. She was very upset and went to talk to the coach. She appeared to be crying and I was afraid that he was going to have her scratch vault. He let her do another warm-up vault and it definitely looked better. When she finally competed, she looked great, scored a 9.500 and took first place. She told me after that she had a stomach cramp and couldn't remember where she was supposed to start her run. That put her off, but she pulled it back together.
She scored a 36.775 all around which was good enough for 4th place.
Once again, for the third meet in a row, her team scored first place!! It appears at this point that our team is unstoppable.
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