Blackie6
Proud Parent
Our #1 L4 sectional was today. We had to be there for 7:45am and had to be out of the house and on the road by 7am. We are not morning people and I knew DD was just not herself this weekend, really whinny, tired, maybe getting sick..who knows. Started out on beam which is DD worst event but she has been trying really really hard to make it her best event. Working on it at practice and just being so much more aware of her toes, straight legs, ect...and working the run leap (not sure what it is called) land on one foot. Well, she leaped all right and landed right off the beam! Got back up and then fell off yet again! She has NEVER fell off twice and only fell off last year at her first meet, so I guess she was just trying to hard to do well? Went to floor and did really well, so I was thinking OK, good recovery, finally broke into the 9's and her all time best FX score. Then trouble. You know how I always say my DD doesn't do good when people are seated too close? Vault ran right in front of the first row of chairs. DD ran, did a good first vault. Coach said something too her about placement of hands on the mat and when she started running again all of a sudeen she got to the springboard and put on the brakes and went CRASHING right in front of us into the mat with her feet slipping between the mat and the vault. She scraped up on foot but then burst into tears and I am tearing up right now thinking about it...I burst into tears too. Because the coach had others to go, she passed her off to me and we went out in to the gym lobby. One of the vault judges was super sweet and tried to console her and even showed her her score which was still good. She was HYSTERICAL since vault is usually her best. Motherly advice followed with "you did so good on floor, and you are doing so well you will still qualify for states"...even told her she should be glad she got a decent score on vault with only the one counting as other team girls were not doing well there at all. I guess she was just trying so hard to do better the second time it just came out in tears. As I calmed her down, ladies at the gym (working the meet)talked to her and told her how pretty she was and complimented her but she was just so upset I've never seen her that way before. Finally got her out there for last event, bars. Again usually one of her better routines but on the mill circle she started to go around again for a second time and the coach had to geive her a push back up, so major deductions there too. Overall all of our scores were lower than last week, but it was a sectional so we anticipated that. I really thought DD would have a better year, her scores are higher, she works so much harder at practice, but now that she is aware of the scores, she seems to come unglued easily. So, here are the whopper scores:
V 9.0 (one vault, one crash!)
UB 8.10 (coach help on mill circle)
BB 7.75 (2 falls could have been so much worse!)
FX 9.1 (personal best, woohoo for something good today! 4th place!!)
AA 33.95
V 9.0 (one vault, one crash!)
UB 8.10 (coach help on mill circle)
BB 7.75 (2 falls could have been so much worse!)
FX 9.1 (personal best, woohoo for something good today! 4th place!!)
AA 33.95