Meet #2

Hollidaysburg vs. Garver
January 30, 2010

While Adam babysat Adaline, here's what happened at the meet. Yes, there are only like 5 pictures. It was a rough meet for picture taking. I didn't get to take pictures till the very end.

This is Alex, Kira's younger brother...
He didn't want his picture taken.

After a li'l coaxing, bribing, what have you...
...a BEAUTIFUL picture o' them!! (:

Nia, Sidney, and Alex

Kelsey & Tia
(2 o' our Seniors)

And people think I can't spell!

Why are there not so many pictures you ask? Well, there is one gymnast, her name is Kara Thompson. She started doing private lessons for tumbling b/c she was a cheerleader and she needed to learn round off---backhandspring for her varsity cheerleading tryouts. Over the course o' a year (and my AMAZING coaching ability), Kara became quite the gymnast. Eventually, the other coaches sawl her potential and offered her a spot on the gymnastics team. She accepted. She's always been my li'l baby b/c I've really seen her learn so much and just increase her talent as a gymnast. It's been soo exciting for me!! So this year was her first year to be involved in gymnastics competitively. Anyway, on this particular day, when Kara landed her vault, she injured her ankle. Since she is VERY bull headed, and contrary to everything all her coaches recommended, she wanted to do her other vault. She landed the second vault and hyperextended her knee. She screamed, cried (well, most o' us actually cried), and was taken to the ER from the meet. So that's why there are hardly any pictures o' the meet! (:

Please note that Kara is the one on the crutches, second from the left. She is supposed to be standing on the big blue thing, but knowing her, if she would have tried to get up on the blue spotting block, she'd be in a wheelchair!!
From left to right: Sidney(4th Place), Kara (2nd Place), Tia (1st Place), Michaela (3rd Place), Alex (5th Place)...yeah, we kicked butt on vault!! (:

Places for Vault.

Kara-2nd on Vault.

I'm SO proud o' her!

I thought this was a sweet picture for 3 reasons: (1) All the gymnasts in the background. (2) Kara's 2nd place ribbon is resting on her brace...oh the irony! (3) And lastly, b/c I took the picture!! (:

SCORES:

B-TEAM
Garver--101.5
H-burg--108.65 <--WIN
A-TEAM
Garver--95.5
H-burg--93.75 <--LOSS

That brings our B-Team to (3-0) and our A-team to (1-2).

THE END!!!