Wow---what a day. Well, Maryland had it's first snowfall yesterday and we got about 4 inches on the ground. We left the house early considering the snow and ice. Drive up to Frederick was fine. We get to the meet and Dani check's in and I get a program and scope out a good seat. I look at the program and notice that our gym is not even listed and none of the girls names are in it 
. So, I ask the lady at the front why we weren't in the program and she said that there was some sort of computer crash a while ago and data was lost . So...long story short, we get it straightened out and the girls are good to go for this meet but they didn't reprint a program so we had NO IDEA which categories our girls were in. They have such a high number of level A's this year in the 10 and 11 age groups that they had to break those down further into Age 10 Junior, Age 10 Senior, Age 11 Junior and Age 11 Senior. I found out during awards that Dani will be competing in the Age 11 Juniors this season. That is actually good, because there are 4 11 YO's at our gym so 2 will be Junior and 2 will be Senior. Ok, so on with the meet. They had 16 kids in her 11 YO Junior division placing out to 8th place.
Bars - her routine looked really good. I was very pleased that she connected everything pretty well, even the kip .
Score: 7.60 - no place.
Beam - looked good! A few bobbles here and there and her cartwheel was ok, but at least she stayed on beam!!
Score: 8.80 - 5th place
Floor - that spot for the ROBHS is KILLING her score. But the routine looked good otherwise, some form issues, bent legs and stuff but a cute routine.
Score: 6.80 - no place
Vault - UGH!! MAJOR meltdown in warm-ups. The vault has been giving her issues for the last few weeks and she has been really worried about it. She balks on every warm-up attempt and she is getting more and more frustrated and upset by the minute. This causes another girl on her team to start crying and getting upset. UGH! I am just praying that no one else catches this "epidemic". Then I see Dani in tears off to the side with an icepack on her ankle??? It turns out that when she was trying to adjust her steps she rolled her ankle. After about 5 minutes she gets up and walks over and gets in line. At this point I am not sure if she is just gonna scratch the event or what. It looks like she is a bit more under control during the first vault and actually makes it over with the coaches help. Hey--gotta give her credit for going for it!! The next 2 attempts were balks and she breaks out in tears again . At least she got one vault out of it.
Score: 8.30 - no place
After the meet she was so upset and thought that she did really poorly because her scores were low and she didn't place as well as she liked. Poor baby--my heart goes out to her and I feel so helpless sometimes. This is a new year in a whole new level with TONS of more gymnasts than last year. During the meet I was wondering where all these kids came from??? Anyway, we had a talk after she calmed down and she feels better about it. She understands that it is one meet and she just has to now work a bit harder in the gym on things that need correcting and hopefully do better next time. She is a very intense emotional little girl, but fortunately recovers and gets over dissapointment quickly. After the meet we went out for lunch and had some of her favorite frozen yogurt--Tutti Frutti frozen yogurt makes everything better!!! Thanks for listening and thanks for all the good luck wishes!!
Here is the video:
YouTube - MDL Gymnastics Meet 12/6/09
. So, I ask the lady at the front why we weren't in the program and she said that there was some sort of computer crash a while ago and data was lost . So...long story short, we get it straightened out and the girls are good to go for this meet but they didn't reprint a program so we had NO IDEA which categories our girls were in. They have such a high number of level A's this year in the 10 and 11 age groups that they had to break those down further into Age 10 Junior, Age 10 Senior, Age 11 Junior and Age 11 Senior. I found out during awards that Dani will be competing in the Age 11 Juniors this season. That is actually good, because there are 4 11 YO's at our gym so 2 will be Junior and 2 will be Senior. Ok, so on with the meet. They had 16 kids in her 11 YO Junior division placing out to 8th place.Bars - her routine looked really good
. I was very pleased that she connected everything pretty well, even the kip . Score: 7.60 - no place.
Beam - looked good! A few bobbles here and there and her cartwheel was ok, but at least she stayed on beam!!
Score: 8.80 - 5th place
Floor - that spot for the ROBHS is KILLING her score
. But the routine looked good otherwise, some form issues, bent legs and stuff but a cute routine.Score: 6.80 - no place
Vault - UGH!! MAJOR meltdown in warm-ups. The vault has been giving her issues for the last few weeks and she has been really worried about it. She balks on every warm-up attempt and she is getting more and more frustrated and upset by the minute. This causes another girl on her team to start crying and getting upset. UGH! I am just praying that no one else catches this "epidemic". Then I see Dani in tears off to the side with an icepack on her ankle???
It turns out that when she was trying to adjust her steps she rolled her ankle. After about 5 minutes she gets up and walks over and gets in line. At this point I am not sure if she is just gonna scratch the event or what. It looks like she is a bit more under control during the first vault and actually makes it over with the coaches help. Hey--gotta give her credit for going for it!! The next 2 attempts were balks and she breaks out in tears again . At least she got one vault out of it.Score: 8.30 - no place
After the meet she was so upset and thought that she did really poorly because her scores were low and she didn't place as well as she liked. Poor baby--my heart goes out to her and I feel so helpless sometimes. This is a new year in a whole new level with TONS of more gymnasts than last year. During the meet I was wondering where all these kids came from??? Anyway, we had a talk after she calmed down and she feels better about it. She understands that it is one meet and she just has to now work a bit harder in the gym on things that need correcting and hopefully do better next time. She is a very intense emotional little girl, but fortunately recovers and gets over dissapointment quickly
. After the meet we went out for lunch and had some of her favorite frozen yogurt--Tutti Frutti frozen yogurt makes everything better!!! Thanks for listening and thanks for all the good luck wishes!!Here is the video:
YouTube - MDL Gymnastics Meet 12/6/09
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