Brestyan's Invitational

Go For It Excel team

Etta and Mackenzie had a gymnastics meet last night.  As usual they were up against some big girls but thought Etta did fairly well last night.  They started out on floor and she went a little fast for the music and ended up early at the end and had a little fall out of her handstand.  Otherwise she did a good job.  Surprisingly she had a relatively a low score of 8.8. 

She went to vault next (didn't get a video of this since it was so far away) and she's been having a hard time with vault.  Not sure if it has anything to do with her ankles, but it took 6 practice vaults to finally get over!  She landed her vault for competition but the judges saw her practice vaults so I wasn't surprised with her 8.675.
Next was bars which she does pretty well with.  Her practice routine was awesome then she got up to compete.  She took a huge cast and instead of doing one back hip circle she did two, but was sloppy.  Luckily she didn't fall which would have been a big deduction.  She ended up with a 8.825.

Last was beam which is her worst event since she is so loose, possibly since she is so flexible.  But, she didn't fall!  However, her handstand looked a little sloppy.  She got an 8.9 which was her highest score of the day.

So, she didn't have a great day, but it wasn't a bad day either.  She was comforted by the fact that she didn't get last place in anything.  It was a late night last night.  We didn't get home till 10:30pm.  Needless to say Etta wasn't in the best of moods this morning getting ready for school.