Blackie6
Proud Parent
I am going to tell you right now you are not even going to believe this! Today we had a meet, the Greater NY Invitational meet. Last year it was my DD's best meet so all season long we've been looking forward to it knowing the history, LOL
We are in the second session and report time was 12:30, meet starts at 1pm. I love this meet because you can go shopping. They have a GK vendor there with some nice deals and some other stuff too. I ended up getting DD a candy gram and bought a leo (put away for Christmas) and also a leo for her American Girl Doll that I was also going to put away but ended up giving it to her. I'll tell you why later.
Meet is huge, lots of girls in the session, a long one for sure. DD goes on bars first. No problem, she loves bars, does well in practice but never got over a 9.0. Today she does bars and flies off the bars and in trying to stick the landing makes huge arm circles, LOL, but gets a 9.1 for her personal best! Next up is beam, and you all know how much the beam has been that thorn in the side for us all season long. She sticks the leap and gets another personal best of 8. 850. Next up is floor, where she has made lots of improvements from last year and at the sectional got a 9.1...here she scores a 9.2 another personal best for her. This meet is unbelieveable! As a parent you pray for this momment when your DD finally has that day she's worked so hard for. I am all smiles in disbelief at the scores she is getting so far....it is looking like at least a 36 AA, maybe better since Vault is last and she always gets 9.0 or better. Then...it happens...LIGHTS OUT! The generator kicks in and a couple girls get to do some more routines while our girls are warming up only on vault. Another gym went before us and completed their rotations on vault when the power went out AGAIN! Now they have the L4 girls doing floor routines without music and the USAIGC girls are doing their floor routines w/out music as well. We start to go on vault and the meet director announce everyone to STOP what they are doing right away! Some poor girl was on beam and fell off and girls on floor in the middle of FX didn't know what to do, but he kept yelling for everyone to STOP! It was kinda of scarey as we didn't know what was going on, but now it seemed very serious. He announces there is a huge accident in the area and the generator at this college only has about 15 minutes left of light so we have to go, find our girls and leave immediately! The vault is on the other side of the gym and they were trying to get the rest of our girls over, but I am not sure they all did. My DD only got one vault in for a 9.1 so I am not 100% sure this will even count. If it did, she just got a AA 36.250!!!! HOLY SCHMOLY! As we are leaving right away she is crying uncontrollably. I think it's because she knows she did well and was looking forward to the awards afterwards, but then she says she wanted a team picture like last year in front of picture of lite up buildings backdrop. She cried for about 20 min in the car and was really upset over the meet ending abruptly. I suppose it has to do with the hype/addrenalin for each event and then no resolution? She is fine now at home. Of course I had to give her the American Girl doll outfit early because she really had a phenomenal day and I felt bad she had nothing at all. We don't even know how our team did since it was a team evnt too, but all of our girls did good. One girls got a 9.7 on the floor even! If the 36AA counts, my DD gets her name added to the "36 club" at the gym, but who knows now. Gosh I am just so proud of her today, even if it was the "freak meet" she did better than I ever imagined she could do!
We are in the second session and report time was 12:30, meet starts at 1pm. I love this meet because you can go shopping. They have a GK vendor there with some nice deals and some other stuff too. I ended up getting DD a candy gram and bought a leo (put away for Christmas) and also a leo for her American Girl Doll that I was also going to put away but ended up giving it to her. I'll tell you why later.
Meet is huge, lots of girls in the session, a long one for sure. DD goes on bars first. No problem, she loves bars, does well in practice but never got over a 9.0. Today she does bars and flies off the bars and in trying to stick the landing makes huge arm circles, LOL, but gets a 9.1 for her personal best! Next up is beam, and you all know how much the beam has been that thorn in the side for us all season long. She sticks the leap and gets another personal best of 8. 850. Next up is floor, where she has made lots of improvements from last year and at the sectional got a 9.1...here she scores a 9.2 another personal best for her. This meet is unbelieveable! As a parent you pray for this momment when your DD finally has that day she's worked so hard for. I am all smiles in disbelief at the scores she is getting so far....it is looking like at least a 36 AA, maybe better since Vault is last and she always gets 9.0 or better. Then...it happens...LIGHTS OUT! The generator kicks in and a couple girls get to do some more routines while our girls are warming up only on vault. Another gym went before us and completed their rotations on vault when the power went out AGAIN! Now they have the L4 girls doing floor routines without music and the USAIGC girls are doing their floor routines w/out music as well. We start to go on vault and the meet director announce everyone to STOP what they are doing right away! Some poor girl was on beam and fell off and girls on floor in the middle of FX didn't know what to do, but he kept yelling for everyone to STOP! It was kinda of scarey as we didn't know what was going on, but now it seemed very serious. He announces there is a huge accident in the area and the generator at this college only has about 15 minutes left of light so we have to go, find our girls and leave immediately! The vault is on the other side of the gym and they were trying to get the rest of our girls over, but I am not sure they all did. My DD only got one vault in for a 9.1 so I am not 100% sure this will even count. If it did, she just got a AA 36.250!!!! HOLY SCHMOLY! As we are leaving right away she is crying uncontrollably. I think it's because she knows she did well and was looking forward to the awards afterwards, but then she says she wanted a team picture like last year in front of picture of lite up buildings backdrop. She cried for about 20 min in the car and was really upset over the meet ending abruptly. I suppose it has to do with the hype/addrenalin for each event and then no resolution? She is fine now at home. Of course I had to give her the American Girl doll outfit early because she really had a phenomenal day and I felt bad she had nothing at all. We don't even know how our team did since it was a team evnt too, but all of our girls did good. One girls got a 9.7 on the floor even! If the 36AA counts, my DD gets her name added to the "36 club" at the gym, but who knows now. Gosh I am just so proud of her today, even if it was the "freak meet" she did better than I ever imagined she could do!