Gymnastics Meet

Gymnastics meet season has started, which means that Hadley is back on the beam (and floor, vault, and bars). 

The meet was just at our gym, so it was pretty convenient. She's been practicing most of these routines for months, and this was her first chance to get judged on them. It's kind of like what you see in the Olympics, where they break up into small groups and rotate around to each apparatus. I'm not sure how they group the girls, because they are definitely not the same size or ability. Hadley is 4th from the right below - she's getting to be one of the bigger girls!

Here are her routines, so you can feel like you were there. She's in a division known as XCEL Bronze, which is the entry competition level, so the routines are definitely like building blocks and skills can be added piece by piece to make them more difficult with higher starting values.

Her scores were Floor - 9.1, Beam - 9.4, Vault - 9.4, Bars - 8.6. Bars are her least favorite, and her stumble on her landing didn't help, but we were proud of her results. Anything over a 9 is a blue ribbon! We have a few more meets on the schedule (~1x/month), so we will see if her scores improve over the season. Her goal is to move up to the next level, Silver, by summer. She's already made huge improvement in her scores from her last (and only other) meet.

And everyone gets to do a Gold pose at the end.