Thanks
Thank you all! It was a hard weekend.
For several reasons, we don't compete in our state. We did our first state meet in over a year. The head of the state chair is also a judge. She does not like our coaches. It is VERY obvious. She talks bad about them to her other judge friends. She takes it out on the children. I am not kidding.
Seriously, how often do you see a gymnast from this state with a college scholarship or at level 10. It does not happen due to this behavior. Obviously there are problems with the system here.
Well, Ellie went Friday night. She got fifth all around. Her lowest placing ever. Emma was Sunday. As she was about to vault, the judge calls our coach over to Double Check her number. Harrassment. Went all through the meet with each of our girls. No one else's children but ours. A friendly judge told our coach that the head judge had told them to score our girls harder. So if two judges are sitting there. One gave these scores, then the other talked them down from the score saying what the head judge said about just our girls. Yeah, makes sense. Needless to say, it was not Emma's best meet. Skill wise she improved. Placement-no. Thankfully, the older girls understand what they were dealing with before hand. My youngest was in tears. At bars, one judge said that our girls had the best form for the event, but wasn't allowed to score them that way. Crazy.
Anyway, this is our last meet here for a LONG time. Next meet is in in the southeast.
The rest of the weekend....we drove an hour to hotel near beach. Major drama there. Hotel was nasty, and manager was nasty. 3 hours later we are in a new hotel room at a different hotel. It is one am. We slept late. Then hit the beach to play and take photos. We went to the mall and outlets. Finally, we went to the The Shed BBQ . It was featured on Diners and Dives.
It was wonderful. yummy. Back to room and to bed. Sunday=back at meet from hell. Yeah, lots of fun. Emma walked away saying she did the best ever. And she did-except beam=very wobbly. Her vault was decent and floor and and bars-all scoring very high eights. Imagine what it would have been without the before mentioned situation.
Now, situation. I have really thought about it. I can't do anything about it without making it worse. You can't call the head of the state as that is her. You can't call our regions head as they are buddies. So we stay out of this area and head to nearby states.
What a shame when a child's sport becomes about the adults.
It makes me so mad for our girls to have that extra pressure, as well as feeling they have done something wrong (double
