The girls had their state meet in Denver in the middle of April. Emmy competed on Friday evening and Lucy on Sunday morning. So up first, Emmy's meet. Unfortunately, just nothing went great for her - no event. She didn't do horrible, but just didn't do as well as she could have. She had a sort-of roller-coaster up-and-down comp season - but usually ended up doing really well in at least 1 or 2 of the events. But at state, none were her best. It was pretty devastating and Emmy cried after every event. But she kept going. . .
She started on beam and fell off twice, as well as did not get her connection points. That didn't start off things good for her! She looked good on floor, but unfortunately didn't earn credit for the silly 1 1/2 turn and that cost her 0.5 points. Ugh. So by this time, she felt very discouraged - especially as she was wanting to qualify to go to regionals. To go to regionals, one has to score a 34.0 at the state meet. So it was definitely slipping away from Emmy and she knew it and was crushed. She was so hopeful for a great comp season and had good skills and routines! Bars was a struggle. She hadn't been hitting her giants well at practice and it was a miracle she hit it on her routine as her cast was not good - but she managed to pull it out. Unfortunately, she didn't stick the landing. Cry, cry. Last up was vault. Her first vault looked okay, but she didn't complete the full rotation. Her last vault she didn't stick, but got a good score (8.975). Emmy was in tears and it was a bit hard consoling her. She did get a 7th on vault. Texas Roadhouse for dinner helped a bit ha. :) Jim and Diana came and watched and that was super great and supportive of them!
Anyways, Emmy did not qualify for regionals and it was just an over-all bummer of a meet.
Lucy was up next. She struggled with going on a Sunday and so I found a service about 10 minutes away from the meet that worked with our schedule (I mean, the service started at 1:30pm, which is pretty much exactly what worked for our schedule as Lucy's meet went from like 9-12:30 and then we were driving home after church. So perfect. Oh, and I ran into a guy at the ward there who was in my BYU freshman ward. Haha.)
So Lucy competed and had a very solid and great meet. Lucy began on the bars and looked good! Bars is never her best event, but she did very well. Beam - she looked great. I thought her score should have been higher (it was an 8.95, which was a great score but she's gotten a higher). Floor up next and she looked great. Another great score, but not as high as I was seeing that day . .. She ended on vault and, again, did great. She ended up placing 2nd on the vault and the beam - yay! And she took 6th all-around. Amazing.
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