Firstly, I feel like a mac truck hit me this morning and backed up and hit me again. I am in the hotel room after SC State Meet with Bailey still sleeping from complete exhaustion. Here goes:
Start on beam--as most of you know, beam can go either way. She didn't practice the bwo series during warm up and I was a little concerned. turns out her back, that she has been having trouble with, was hurting her. She started and looked good and got to the series and wobbled after 1st bwo and so the series didn't count. Big deduction and finished with an 8.5. Kinda thought we were on a not so great streak at that point.
Next the floor---Usually really good on floor so not too worried. Going along great and 1/3 of the way into the routine, the music skips to the end. I stop the video camera, shows you how much I know, and Bailey is still going. Her music messed up and she had not even done her 2nd tumbling series. She continued as if nothing happened and ended up with a 9.3. I was so proud that she did not let the music distract her. Feeling a little better now.
Next to the vault--She did her vault and I couldn't even video it because I was so nervous from the floor music thing. Ends up with a 9.45 on vault. We are feeling great at this point.
Lastly, the dreaded bars--As some of you know, Bailey has just gotten her giant and was determined to compete it this year. They go to warm up and 3 rotations in, she is not making it. 4th times a charm and she completes the giant and ends up doing it when it is her turn to compete. Score was 9.125. Happy, happy, happy with that. Couldn't' have asked for more from her.
On to awards. Saw tons of high scores posting so not sure how Baileys scores would hold up in awards. She ends up:
Vault-1st (9.4)
Bars-6th (9.125)
Beam-7th (big surprise there) (8.5)
Floor- 4th
AA-3rd (36.4)
Not a bad day if you ask me. Team awards were last night around 10:30 pm. Baileys team came in 1st so they are SC level 7 state champions. Happy dance!!
Now to the disappointment-We had talked about regionals and that it would be very difficult to qualify this year because they were only taking the top 16 girls out of all Level 7's in SC. Well, she got her hopes up because of the decent scores she posted. She missed it by .4. If she had not wobbled between that bwo series on beam, that would have qualified her for regionals. I just hate that the qualifer has overshadowd her fantastic day at States.
Icing on the cake. I was able to meet JuJu's Mom. It was great to talk to her and I was able to update her on Bailey's progress throughout the day as she was working at checkin. What a small and wonderful gymnastics world we live in.
Start on beam--as most of you know, beam can go either way. She didn't practice the bwo series during warm up and I was a little concerned. turns out her back, that she has been having trouble with, was hurting her. She started and looked good and got to the series and wobbled after 1st bwo and so the series didn't count. Big deduction and finished with an 8.5. Kinda thought we were on a not so great streak at that point.
Next the floor---Usually really good on floor so not too worried. Going along great and 1/3 of the way into the routine, the music skips to the end. I stop the video camera, shows you how much I know, and Bailey is still going. Her music messed up and she had not even done her 2nd tumbling series. She continued as if nothing happened and ended up with a 9.3. I was so proud that she did not let the music distract her. Feeling a little better now.
Next to the vault--She did her vault and I couldn't even video it because I was so nervous from the floor music thing. Ends up with a 9.45 on vault. We are feeling great at this point.
Lastly, the dreaded bars--As some of you know, Bailey has just gotten her giant and was determined to compete it this year. They go to warm up and 3 rotations in, she is not making it. 4th times a charm and she completes the giant and ends up doing it when it is her turn to compete. Score was 9.125. Happy, happy, happy with that. Couldn't' have asked for more from her.
On to awards. Saw tons of high scores posting so not sure how Baileys scores would hold up in awards. She ends up:
Vault-1st (9.4)
Bars-6th (9.125)
Beam-7th (big surprise there) (8.5)
Floor- 4th
AA-3rd (36.4)
Not a bad day if you ask me. Team awards were last night around 10:30 pm. Baileys team came in 1st so they are SC level 7 state champions. Happy dance!!
Now to the disappointment-We had talked about regionals and that it would be very difficult to qualify this year because they were only taking the top 16 girls out of all Level 7's in SC. Well, she got her hopes up because of the decent scores she posted. She missed it by .4. If she had not wobbled between that bwo series on beam, that would have qualified her for regionals. I just hate that the qualifer has overshadowd her fantastic day at States.
Icing on the cake. I was able to meet JuJu's Mom. It was great to talk to her and I was able to update her on Bailey's progress throughout the day as she was working at checkin. What a small and wonderful gymnastics world we live in.