Finally...our first competition

catesmom · #1 12-02-2007, 06:35 PM

Hi all- After months and months of practices it's finally time for our first competition. After all the trials and tribulations my dd will be competing for her second year at Level 6. She is sooooo excited to finally compete, every year when this time comes around it makes me remember why she does this sport.

We compete on friday at 2, she may be more excited about missing school than anything else. She was hoping to move to Level 7, but they decided to keep all the 6's at 6 for another year. I am so proud of her, even though she didn't reach her goal of competing at 7, she has decided that her team will rock level 6. I am thrilled that the girls are together so well as a group. I hope that their dreams come true, we'll see on friday.

nettyinpa · #2 12-03-2007, 08:00 AM

Good Luck to her on Friday. My dd's first Level 4 meet is this Saturday. She's excited and nervous, of course. She kept wishing that it was this past weekend. She's also worried that she won't be able to compete all the events. I was talking with some of the moms of our higher level girls and she doesn't think they've ever scratched a level 4 girl. Anyone have experience with that?

gym_mom2one · #3 12-03-2007, 09:23 AM

We have 19 level 4's and only 1 girl scratched. She only did vault and bars. That was 2 weeks ago and it looks like she will probably compete at our next meet in 2 weeks.

midwestgymmom · #4 12-08-2007, 07:50 PM


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Originally Posted by nettyinpa Good Luck to her on Friday. My dd's first Level 4 meet is this Saturday. She's excited and nervous, of course. She kept wishing that it was this past weekend. She's also worried that she won't be able to compete all the events. I was talking with some of the moms of our higher level girls and she doesn't think they've ever scratched a level 4 girl. Anyone have experience with that?

My dd's first meet she wasnt ready to do bars and beam and the coach didnt want her to compete them and get a really low score which would crush her so she had her scratch on those events. The coach would rather have them scratch early in the season and wait till they are ready and that way they still get the feel of competing on the events they are ready for without the stress of low scores.

catesmom · #5 12-11-2007, 09:13 PM

Well my dd competed her first meet of the season and it went pretty well. She had been fighting a cold all week and was feeling pretty miserable, but all in all she had no complaints with her scores,

Floor 9.175 2nd
Bars 6.8 or something awful like that
Vault 8.40
Beam 8.75 placed 12th(I think)

All around 33.10 placed 14th I think.
Anyway she got three medals.

Bars were really almost funny, she has always been squat-on challenged and her coach set the bars really close together, so close in fact that she had to bend her knees and pull in to keep from hitting them when she did her baby giant!

The most positive thing that happened is that her judge on beam was working a session that I was clerking and she spent some time telling her that she was really beautiful on the event, but needed to be more aggressive, and it was so nice to hear her spend the time telling my dd what she could do better to improve her scores. The judges that I have met since she started competing have all been so nice, and it makes you feel good to see that they care about the sport so much. I told her beam coach what the judge saidd and she said "thats what I have been telling her". She seems really committed to trying, only time will tell.

We don't compete again until the second weekend in January, so hopefully that one will go better. It is a big out of state meet and last year all the girls did awful. I think they will do better this year, but only time will tell.

Good luck in your competitions!

nettyinpa · #6 12-12-2007, 09:37 AM

Catesmom ~ sounds like dd didn't do too badly! WTG!

My dd had her first level 4 meet on Saturday. She did pretty well for a 6-year old ~

Floor: 7.00 (no placement)
Bars: 8.0 - 2nd place
Beam: 7.80 - 3rd Place
Vault: 8.45 - 3rd Place

She was very happy. Our team did really well, too. One of our 7-year olds scored the highest AA score of the meet with a 37.5. Not too shabby!

Thanks for sharing!

Monkeygirlsmom · #7 12-12-2007, 12:55 PM

sounds like everyone did well!!!

melmonette · #8 12-13-2007, 01:37 PM

Congratulations on the great meets

I love hearing about everyone's meet results

Ingymmom · #9 12-13-2007, 02:31 PM

catesmom - your dd did great

. Thanks for the update... Illinois clubs seem to repeat levels quite often correct? My dd's friend competed at your same meet, but she is a L5... she was hoping to move to 6 soon as well, but it is not looking like their club favors that, soooo she is a little disappointed. Keep us updated on your dd's season... our gymnasts will be competing at the Region 5 cup in OH this weekend... anyone else headed that way?

catesmom · #10 12-13-2007, 06:45 PM

[ Illinois clubs seem to repeat levels quite often correct? My dd's friend competed at your same meet, but she is a L5... she was hoping to move to 6 soon as well, but it is not looking like their club favors that, soooo she is a little disappointed.[/quote]

I know our club typically repeats level 5, unless the girls are older when they start. We are repeating 6 this year, not so much above level 6 if they get their skills, although we do have one girl repeating level 8 this year. I often read with a little envy, the way some gyms in other states move the girls through the lower levels. Can you guess I am so weary of the hearing the same music, meet, after meet, after meet. So tell her to hang in there, her time will definately come soon!

Thanks for the encouraging words, next meet the second week of January.