State Gymnastics Meet in Reno

We left for Reno Saturday morning with Mackenzie and her mom.  The 7.5 hour drive went by fairly quickly which was a surprise.  We got in pretty late to the Grand Sierra Hotel Casino so all we did was eat before going to bed.

We had a slow Sunday morning since the girls didn't have to compete until 12:30.  Here they are Sunday morning having fun with games.

Looking cute with curlers.

Each of the participants received a bag with a State Meet water bottle, coupons to laser tag and bowling at the casino, and even a snack.  The girls loved their goodie bag!

Loving the goodie bag

Before the competition begins, each team comes out and is introduced.  Here are the Xcel girls (who decided to compete at state) from Go For It USA.

Girls from Xcel Bronze, Silver, and Gold

Umm, our girls look tiny tiny!

Etta's first event was bars.  I didn't think she did great since her ankles came apart and her knees were bent on the dismount, but it was her highest bars score to do, 9.05.

 

Next was beam, it's the worst video I took since we are far away plus her coach is right in front of Etta during the beginning of the routine.  The one goal I gave Etta for the meet was not to fall from the beam, which she was successful with.  However, the routine just looked sloppy.  She got an 8.65

We had great seats for the floor routine.  She looked super cute, but ended really early.  She scored an 8.95.

The girls get a couple of practice vaults before competing in front of the judge.  She was doing great until one vault her hand either slipped or missed the mat and would have fallen on her head if her coach hadn't caught her.  Scary.  She ended up having a really good vault but still scored low 8.8.  I heard the judge that hates Go For It was one of the judges, so I suppose that would be one reason for the low score.

Andrea and I had great seats for the awards.  Unfortunately I think there was a mistake because the girl that won most events and took first All Award was listed as a Junior but was in the Child group when the awards were handed up. Oh well.

BFF got 1st on bars & Etta got 2nd.

Etta got 3rd on Beam

2nd on floor

3rd on vault

Etta ended up getting 3rd All Around and got 5 medals.  She was pretty happy but would have liked to have won one event.  I'm happy with how she performed, but not happy with the scores.  But, I'm a mom and not a judge.

Having fun taking pictures after the awards ceremony.

That evening we took the girls to play a game of bowling.  Etta had a blast!