Gymnastics State Meet - June 19

Emma's state meet is June 19th.

For those who can't make it to Georgia to see John on that day, maybe you can make it to Ogden to be the cheering section for Emma.

Upcoming meets before then are:
May 16. Emma at All American in Lindon, UT.
May 30. Maya at All American in Lindon, UT.
June 05. Maya at Black Diamond in Park City, UT.

Ensemble Duet Festival

Joseph and Maya played Rumble Grumble and Cossack March together in the Ensemble Duet Festival today at Murray Piano Gallery.

They did awesome! I guess I'm not home often when they are practicing because I had not heard them practice together. But they clearly had practiced, as they stayed together, and had their dynamics worked out perfectly. Maya did say that the piano was different from ours (of course - it's a concert piano, whereas ours is a practice at home piano that we could afford, hehe) so that she had to work hard not to drown out Joseph. She was playing on the left; the lower notes. But, as far as I could tell, she did fine.

I'll edit this post and add their scores when we get them from their piano teacher.

Footloose and Flying Free

Today Emma had to get up at 6:00 to get ready to go to her meet that started at 7:30 at Gymnastics Training Center in Salt Lake City. When I went to wake her and tell her to get ready, she complained, saying "I'm already ready". I said, "Really. So, you're going to do march-in in your jammies, huh?" That got her laughing and then she got up.

Again, she did very well!

Her scores dropped a bit on Vault and Floor, while she set new personal bests on Bars and Beam. Her beam score especially jumped! And, her All-Around cumulative score was again a personal best.

Vault: 9.45
Floor: 9.25
Bars: 9.4
Beam: 9.3
A.A.: 37.4

For the individual events, they did give ribbons, but didn't announce them (they seemed in a hurry to get awards part done, which was OK with me! :) so we don't where Emma placed in the individual events. I know that she did not place first in any individual event, as I saw higher scores in each of them from either her teammates, or from other schools. However, for the All Around for which they gave medals and did announce, she did indeed have the highest score, so place 1st of the whole meet. (They did not group by age at this meet. It seems that each meet chooses to do the awards their own way.) Also of note - like Emma, Emma's teammate and friend Grace Jansen scored over a 9.0 in all four events.

As for the team competition, they won second, but were only two tenths of a percent lower than the first place team, which had four more gymnasts than Olympus. So, the team again did very well.