Hey, new here!

[TDiver]

Well that's really good that even though you said no, you got to try it. And look your probably amazing at it! When I ran track I did the... 4 by 100, 4 by 200, triple jump, and 100 meter hurdles. I really liked it, but the girls on my team probably didn't like that I didn't go to practices much and only came to time trials to get spots on the relays. Is it hard doing more then one sport for you?
-Tori

[xstitchcarina]

Welcome here. I am sure you will like it here. Sounds like you were a very good gymnast, sorry to hear you had so many injuries. Hope they will all heal and that you will be able to compete at diving really well.

[gracefulone]

Yes! After a three-hour pole vault practice, I would eat in the car, and head to gymnastics for two and a half hours.Actually, my parents cut down my gymnastics after state. My mom didn't want me to do both this year. She said I could do HS gymnastics(but I REALLY don't want to). So I told my pole vault coach that I may not be returning next year. He just about had a fit. He said that I can miss track practice on the nights I have gymnastics(Mon/Wed), since no one really needs a five-hour workout and gymnastics help a lot with pole vault. He said he'd talk to the head coach. Not to mention blancing homeowrk-AP world history is no cake walk

It stinks that the other girls were mad, couldn't they tell how hard you were working on something else? I ran the 4 by 100 as a last-minute substitute at outdoor jv conference. You can't do the same event at both conferences, so I pole vaulted varsity, and my coaches agreed to let me do long and triple jump at jv. I ended up second in long and fourth in triple, improving my personal best by two and one and a half feet, respectively. i was watching the jv pole vaulters when my jumps coach told me it was time to do long jump. She said, Kate, will you do me a huge favor? I was like, What?, Run the 4by1? And she said,how'd you know? I told her that I knew one of the girls was injured. I just hope that people wil be more understanding of my situation. Well, the boys I vault with will give me crap, but what else is new? They are just jealous that I can do more pull-ups then them, I'm more flexible, and I'm closer to the school record than they are!

[TDiver]

Xstitchcarina,
Thank you for the welcome and thanks!

Gracefulone,
I'm so glad you wil get to do both again, that is great! Last year was really hard for me. I was doing gymnastics, diving, high school diving, high school swimming, and track! Some days I wouldn't be home until 11:30pm and the only full practice I went to were diving (since i do club i get excused from high school workouts). Diving ended at 7pm and I would run off to the gym and until 9pm some nights.. and the nights I didn't go to the gym I would go to swim practice from 9pm to 10:30pm. It was confusing, but it iwas sorta of my year of getting out of the gym and I only had to be there the whole 5 hours on saturday and one day in the week just to keep up my strength and level 10 skills, so it wasn't as bad.
-Tori

[gracefulone]

Wow. That's a lot to deal with all at once. I hate doing stuff late at night. The thing that ws hardest was when we had a track meet that was almost two hours away, I had to do my homework at the meet-and I had an ap world history test the next day! We didn't get home until around 11 that night. How did you keep up with school?

[TDiver]

I kept up with school okay because I only had 2 hard classes at once. My second semester was okay other than Chemistry because I had a teacher that didn't believe in homework (which was amazing!) But I believe it is going to be much harder this year. I will have all core classes (eight of them, 4 each semester) and will be diving in the morning. So that will mean waking up at 5am and going to the pool for practice then going to straight to school. After school it is back to the pool for the 2nd practice and then home for dinner and homework. It will be tough with the traveling all over for meets. We may be going to Sweden for a competition this year!! It's exciting but i'm worried about missing too much school and getting behind. I am already starting school 3 days later then everyone because of Nationals this year.
-Tori

[gracefulone]

All of my classes are year long-3 ap classes, plus physics and intro calculus/trigonometry. Doesn't that just sound fun? My only breaks are orchestra and first semester strength(weightlifting pretty much) and second semester trends("new"/upcoming ways to stay fit.) Keep up. Have fun at your big competitions.

[MartinaE]

Hey Tori! Wow, you must have been an incredible talent at gymnastics! I`m really sorry to hear about your back though! I hope it was not too hard to say goodbye for you.......
But it sure is great you still have diving now! I hope things are going well for you there!

[TDiver]

Hey martinaE,
Thank you so much. And it was hard to say goodbye but my diving coach and teamates have made it a lot easier. Diving is so similar to gymnastics and almost every single person on my diving team has done gymnastics so that helps too. Things are going alright here, I leave for USA Junior Diving Nationals today!! They are in California so I will be there for the next 11 days! I'm excited, but very nervous. Thank you for the welcome.
-Tori