Allison had an awesome state meet but I have a judges vent, too. I'll save that until I get to it! Level 7
Floor, 9.025, not spectacular but not bad, solid.
Vault: 9.15, I was thrilled. She stuck her landing on the second vault, which is the first time I've seen her do that in competition. Super cool that she did it on her last ever front handspring vault. She placed 5th (out of 10) in a super competitive group.
Bars: 9.425!! Soooo happy! She has an awesome bar routine but fell 3 out of the 6 meets this season and the other two she was kind of tentative about so it was great to see her do it well. She placed 3rd.
Beam: OK, so here's my vent (since, again, no one else understands). We watched the team before us and all the girls had a BWO-BWO for their series and quite a few had a lot of balance checks and they were still scoring around 9.3s. So I was pretty excited, thinking that they were scoring high and that Allison would probably beat her previous high AA from back in L4 (All she needed was a 8.9 just to beat it but a 9.4 would have given her a 37 would have been awesome!!) So she does that best routine I've ever seen from her. She does BHS-BWO for her series and it was beautiful, no wobbles, etc, the whole routine looks clean, her coach hugs her and tells her she did awesome and then then the score came up: 8.85. Not a SINGLE girl on our team scored over a 9.0. We have pretty relaxed coaches and our HC was very upset when I saw her in the bathroom later. She felt like they were penalizing our team for doing the harder skills. Oh, well. She told me that they want to get the girls to L9 and L10 as quickly as possible so that they can be rewarded for doing harder skills. Anyway.... the other coach (her husband) is so great. He told Allison and a couple other girls that they were robbed but then he said, "Well, that's gymnastics. If you don't like it, go play golf." and they told the girls to disregard the scores and just be proud that they did their best. Love that attitude, I'm sure it won't be the first time that scoring seems unjust.
Anyway, she ended up tying her highest ever AA, with a 36.45, which was still cool. The last time she got that score was in L4, which is obviously a little easier. She placed 6th. Even 3rd place was something like a 37.65 so it was obviously pretty competitive and we were very happy. The team didn't place but we got our highest even team score which is definitely something to be proud of!
Congrats to everyone else! I'm kind of glad that we have one last year without worrying about Regionals... good luck to you that are going!