Well the girls both were able to compete this year at the State's Gymnastics meet in Lafayette (north of Denver). Emmy was actually a bit bummed that she wasn't scheduled for Sunday because she was kind of over competing this season, ha. Lucy was thrilled to be on Saturday as I had told her the chances of her being scheduled for a different day than Sunday was very, very slim. Welp, she ended up getting scheduled for Saturday night and so lucky her (Emmy was Friday night). Unfortunately, I had to work that Friday and so I wasn't able to go. Boohoo. I was bummed to miss out, but grateful Ben was able to get off and take the girls. Their good friend and teammate, Alaina, came up with them and so that made it really fun for the girls. Alaina choose not to compete and so she was just their as their cheerleader. :) It worked out great.
Emmy did well at her meet. Her vault was simple but done well. She connected on her bars and hit cast-degree and so that was excellent. She didn't fall on beam, but had several pretty big wiggles and thus a sub-8 score. But oh well - not horrible! And floor she did great on her difficult front pass (she always struggles with at the gym but usually executes well at meets). So, all in all, she did well. The best performance, however, was her attitude - she actually seemed happy and to enjoy herself. :) Literally the best part! Her scores (in order of vault, bars, beam, floor): 8.725, 8.75, 7.95, 8.5, AA - 33.925. (Her floor would have scored higher but she gets a difficulty deduction . . . which is dumb because her front pass it harder than what is actually counted as a higher degree of difficulty. Ergh.)
The girls had a fun Saturday and went for a "walk" that morning on the Highline canal. The walk was really just a photo session, haha. But their pictures were super cute and made for some adorable Instagram posts from all the girls. Ben took them to the mall that afternoon for a bit, they visited Joe and Brittany, and then it was off getting Lucy to her meet.
Lucy had a really fantastic meet. Her vault was solid; her bars was really good; her beam was also really good (but not her best - she's usually super solid but did have a few uncharacteristic wobbles); and her floor was great. She was happy with everything and ended up placing 2nd on vault, 7th on the beam, and 7th All-Around. So that was fantastic - it's just always so hard to place at state and so my girls are usually thrilled to just place once. So that was a really great state meet for Lucy! Her scores: 9.2, 8.625, 8.825, 9.05, with an all-around of 35.7. (Oh, out of the four teammates competing with Emmy, only one of them placed once - a 6th place.)
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