Feel The Heat

Well, we went to St. George for Emma's "Feel the Heat" meet at Barefoot Gymnastics.

She did very well! She scored her highest score ever in Bars, Floor, and Vault. She did well on Beam, though has room for improvement.

Vault: 9.6
Floor: 9.4
Bars: 9.2
Beam: 8.8
A.A.: 37

For the individual events, they did not group the girls by ages and give medals, but just gave ribbons (white over 6.0, yellow over 7.0, red over 8.0 and blue over 9.0). They do read off the names in orders, so if you're quick you can catch the ranking in the individual events.

So, of the 60 girls there, she took 1st in Vault, 2nd in Floor, 8ths on Bars, and 12th on Beam. For the All Around, they did split the groups into ages and give medals. For her age group, Emma took 1st. (And, two teammates took 2nd and third). Had they not grouped by age, it appears that Emma would have taken 2nd of all 60. There were only two girls who had an overall score 37.0 or more. The other girl who had over 37 had a 37.2, and was at least 11 years old, since she was first in the 11+ category. (Also, Olympus did great in all the age categories, with 1sts, 2nds, and a 5th).

Olympus did so well, that I think they were very close to winning the team competition. However, the team competition is won based on the cumulative team score. The first place team had 14 gymnasts there, whereas Olympus had only 7. They did great, but fell short of overcoming that natural advantage. They did however, overcome the natural advantage of the 3rd place team, which had 10 gymnasts. So, WAY TO GO, Olympus!

And WAY TO GO, Emma!