Parents She qualified!

[justanothergymmom]

Big congrats and best of luck at states!!!!!

 

[Panda-girl's Mom]

Congrads and good luck. I know a lot of people feel that they try to put everyone through but I do not think it is true in PA. She definitly earned her spot I think having one chance to get a 33 is not that easy, other states have multiple times to quaify or lower scores needed. Although I am sure other ones are tougher. At daughters gym 4 out of 5 made it they practice 14hrs a week and the ones that made it got lower scores than at other meets so I do not think the judging is any easier than other meets. They make it easier for the higher levels to qualify my daughter only needed 32 at any meet I think I is based on the numbers of the gymnasts in each level so hopefully if your daughter does level 6 next year it will remain the same so she will not have to deal with sectionals. I am sure she will do great at states.

 

[Galadriel]

well done!

 

[ThreeGirlsForMe]

Congrats! Making it to States is such a big deal. We are in neighboring NJ, so our season is DONE! (LOL- Can you tell I am excited!)

 

[maryRS]

Awesome! Hope she has a blast!

 

[mtbmom]

Congrats to your DD!!! We were at Eastern Sectionals but only had to drive 1.5 hours. States will be a longer drive for us at about 2.5 hours. PA is just TOO BIG!!!

 

[gymjourneymom]

A BIG congratulations to Kathy!!! Good luck at states!!!

 

[MaryA]

Results from the meet are posted (and posted in score-order, not by age or anything, so it made it easy to figure out) and 51 out of 85 girls in that session qualified for States. I checked the gym with the 25 hours a week... 5 of their 13 gymnasts qualified. So with 2 of our 5 gymnasts qualifying, our percentages were better... and they practice 4 times more hours than our girls do. That seems a little bit crazy to me... the 25 hours a week, certainly, but really, you'd think with all of those hours they'd all be scoring above a 33 easy!

 

[GymnastJoy]

Just saw this thread. A big congrats to Kathy! I knew that she could do it! It's tough that you only have one sectional and chance to qualify for states. Anything can happen at a meet. But so glad to hear that her hard work and determination paid off and that she has the experience of states to look forward to. Will she move to L6?

 

[MaryA]

Will she move to L6?

Looks that way. Our gym usually does level 5, a couple years in prep op, score out of level 6, move on to level 7... However, the current group of level 5's are so much younger than the current prep-ops that the coach is tentatively planning on doing a year of level 6 with them. She's decided to take the non-qualifying level 5's to another meet next weekend to see if she can get a higher score out of them so she can justify moving them up to level 6 (though they all have their move-up score, the coach wants to see at least a 32... though they've all scored above 33 at YMCA meets, just not at USAG meets).