Juju had her last regular season meet scheduled for this past weekend with Level 4 State Meet in 2 weeks. The TigerPaw meet is supposed to be the most fun of their entire season and is held in Littlejohn Coliseum at Clemson University. We have been looking forward to it all season… Unfortunately, Juju apparently caught a stomach virus running rampant in her Kindergarten class because she started vomiting early Saturday (4AM) morning and kept going until 6:30 Sunday Morning (less then 2 hours before the meet). We agreed that she would not compete but she asked if we could go so she could cheer her teammates on from the stands. The meet had a start time of 8AM on Sunday, so we left the hotel with Juju dressed in street clothes.
Just a few minutes from the Coliseum she just up and decided she wanted to try to compete. Her coloring was miraculously normal and her bright eyes were back. Boy was I torn on what I should do. She had not had solid food since Friday night so I was a quite hesitant. In the back of my mind I was now thinking may she just has a 24-hour bug and not the flu. She insisted she felt like at least trying warm ups and promised she would stop if she felt bad. After talking with one of her coaches about the situation, we decided to let her try and sent her out on the floor armed with a ‘barf bucket’ (ie. Tupperware container) in her gym bag. The rules were no contact with the other girls and VERY short event warm ups and frequent hand sanitizer. The good news… NO Barfing . The bad news… none.
It was definitely NOT her best meet but I am so proud of her determination and perseverance forgiving it her all while being so sick. It was so funny to watch her teammates congratulate her after she finished each event. They always do high fives and in efforts to not get any germs were doing ‘almost’ high fives stopping and inch or two from touching her hands. I think they had more fun doing that then they do the normal way – LOL.
All in all, she did better then I was expecting and the deductions were for relatively odd things for her. Her vault was TERRIBLE but that was her last event so I think she had just run out of fuel so to speak. Bars she almost went over on her mill circle but managed to stay up. On Beam she fell on her scale of all things and they hit her with a fall deduction and lost the value of the element (UGH!). Floor was pretty good but she put her hand down when getting up from her handstand forward roll (do they count that as a fall or just a balance check?).
Several meets we have done this year have been 100% awards but not so for this one. They did go out 50% + 1, but I was not expecting Juju to get anything based on her scores. We were in total shock when she got 4 medals. Her scores were:
Vault: 8.1 (10th) – no award
Bars: 8.55 (5th)
Beam: 7.875 (3rd)
Floor: 8.750 (5th)
AA: 33.275 (5th)
I don’t have video posted but will let everyone know once I get to it.
Just a few minutes from the Coliseum she just up and decided she wanted to try to compete. Her coloring was miraculously normal and her bright eyes were back. Boy was I torn on what I should do. She had not had solid food since Friday night so I was a quite hesitant. In the back of my mind I was now thinking may she just has a 24-hour bug and not the flu. She insisted she felt like at least trying warm ups and promised she would stop if she felt bad. After talking with one of her coaches about the situation, we decided to let her try and sent her out on the floor armed with a ‘barf bucket’ (ie. Tupperware container) in her gym bag. The rules were no contact with the other girls and VERY short event warm ups and frequent hand sanitizer. The good news… NO Barfing . The bad news… none.
It was definitely NOT her best meet but I am so proud of her determination and perseverance forgiving it her all while being so sick. It was so funny to watch her teammates congratulate her after she finished each event. They always do high fives and in efforts to not get any germs were doing ‘almost’ high fives stopping and inch or two from touching her hands. I think they had more fun doing that then they do the normal way – LOL.
All in all, she did better then I was expecting and the deductions were for relatively odd things for her. Her vault was TERRIBLE but that was her last event so I think she had just run out of fuel so to speak. Bars she almost went over on her mill circle but managed to stay up. On Beam she fell on her scale of all things and they hit her with a fall deduction and lost the value of the element (UGH!). Floor was pretty good but she put her hand down when getting up from her handstand forward roll (do they count that as a fall or just a balance check?).
Several meets we have done this year have been 100% awards but not so for this one. They did go out 50% + 1, but I was not expecting Juju to get anything based on her scores. We were in total shock when she got 4 medals. Her scores were:
Vault: 8.1 (10th) – no award
Bars: 8.55 (5th)
Beam: 7.875 (3rd)
Floor: 8.750 (5th)
AA: 33.275 (5th)
I don’t have video posted but will let everyone know once I get to it.