Emmy's Level 3 State Gymnastics Meet

Well we had a wonderful, but too-quick, weekend up in the Denver area.  Emmy had her state competition in Loveland on Saturday, December 9th.  So we drove up to Littleton on Friday, spent the morning and afternoon in Loveland on Saturday.  That late-aftrenoon we went over to the cousin's house (Joe and Britt's home) and then we went to their ward Christmas party.  Then back to their house to watch Emmy's videos.  On Sunday we left Jim and Diana's in the early morning, hit a sacrament meeting in Frisco (we have been to that ward building during our Maxwell reunions and so we thought it would be fun to go to sacrament there), and made it back to Montrose in time for my Stake meeting and then the Stake Christmas music program later that evening.  A busy, but very enjoyable weekend!

Emmy had a really good meet and did much better than her first competition.  Her biggest worry was scoring a 34 all-around so that she could move up to Level 4 (her coach's parameters for advancing).  Her first competition she had scored a 31.75-ish and so we were all a little worried about her getting a 34.  I tried to just tell her not to worry about that, but just to go out and do her best.

We had an early morning on Saturday and had to leave Jim and Diana's home by about 6:20.  We got up to Loveland, Emmy began her warm-ups, and then the competition began.  Jim and Diana came up to watch, too.

Emmy's team got the olympic rotation:  vault, bars, beam, floor.  I could tell in her warm-ups that her vault was a little off.  So it wasn't her best vault, but it was still pretty good!  Her bar routine was solid.  Her beam - which I couldn't watch because she fell twice on her warm-up routine - turned out pretty darn good, too.  By then I knew she'd make a 34 all-around and was super excited for her!  She didn't know quite yet.  She did her floor routine and looked good on that, too!  She ended up getting a 35.2 all-around - go Emmy!  She loved the competition and had a really great time and did a really great job.  It was so fun watching her (I watched her beam routine on the camera as soon as she finished - hehe)!

Here were her scores:  vault - 9.225, bars - 8.825, beam - 8.4, and floor - 8.75.

There were 5 sessions of Level 3 gymnasts.  Then each session was broken down in to 5 groups of about 15 girls each.  Placement awards were given to every gymnast.  Each gymnast, before the awards, received a plaque.  There were 5 empty spots on the plaque - for each event and all-around.  Each time you went up for your award, you got a placement sticker (i.,e, 3rd place) and put that on the plaque under the event.  It was actually pretty cool!  I do think medals should have been awarded to the all-arounders, but whatever.

Anyways, here was Emmy's standings: vault - 4th place, bars - 5th place, beam - 7th place, floor - 4th place, and all-around - 3rd place!  Wahoo!  We were so excited and proud of her!

 Here's Emmy all bright-and-early, heading in to Loveland High School, where the meet was held.

 Emmy warming up with her two other teammates - Mylee on our left and Jhoselin on the right.  (The three Level 4 girls compete the week before.  The other level 3 gymnast, Natasha, was competing in the next session.)

 Yay Snow Shadow!

 4th place vault.

 5th place bars.

 7th place beam.

 4th place floor.

 3rd place all-around!!!

 Emmy with Grandma Diana and Grandpa Max.  Emmy was sure happy to have them there!

 More of Emmy's fans!  :)

What an adorable gymnast!

Emmy bought (we her nice parents paying half) a cute t-shirt at the meet.  Although you would have thought it a leather-jacket or something for the price!  But it has a Level 3 gymnatics logo on the front and then on the back it has all the gyms and gymnasts listed.  It's pretty cool and Emmy LOVES it.  :)

Okay, here are the videos of each of her events:

Comments - There is a typo but I'm too lazy to go and edit it and re-save it.  It takes too long on my computer.  :)  But I should have written "seconds."  Ha.  I love how Ben tells me I should watch during her beam routine.  :)  The kids thought I cheered loudly.  I didn't care.  Too bad that man walked right through the video during Emmy's floor routine.  Oh well!

Go Emmy!