Fantastic Gymnastics Finish
Congratulations to Clare for finishing her first year in AAU gymnastics last weekend! Reedsburg High School was the venue for the AAU state meet, for which she qualified earlier in the year. The quick summary is that she earned two top 5 medals in beam and bars and took 9th on vault in the 13-year-old [...]
A full 1/2 weekend
Immediately after school on Friday, being all packed and ready to go we, all piled in the vehicle and headed to Wisconsin Dells for a rare Friday night gymnastics meet. As you might guess, it was Clare who competed with her Madtown Twisters team at the big puffy dome on the Chula Vista resort grounds. [...]
One under her belt
Here’s a quick look at Clare’s balance beam routine for this season. Competing at the Intermediate Optional level in AAU for the first time, she gets to make up her own routines on the events and pick her music for her floor exercise. Even though it was only an intrasquad meet, she finished with 2 [...]
Summer’s Over
According to the girl’s’ schedules, I think we can declare summer over. At high schools all across the state of Wisconsin this week, girls are are digging through their long-forgotten volleyball bags looking for their shoes, kneepads, tape, etc. Volleyball practice (two-a-day!) began in Marshall Monday with a morning conditioning practice followed by an afternoon [...]
Summer continues
We’re sort of in a lull (just for today), so I thought I’d give a quick summertime update. Chronologically speaking… Hannah had a great time at volleyball camp at UW-Whitewater two weeks ago. Even though she was a little under the weather on the final day, she got much needed work as a setter. A [...]
Gymnastics, too
With all the volleyball action, we must not forget about the competitive gymnastics season in which Clare is participating this fall. This is her first year in level 6 (last compulsory level), and, bluntly, it’s been a struggle. The new skills have been tough to master and put together in a meet in front of [...]
Weekend update
(Hey, this would be a good segment title for Saturday Night Live…) Saturday: As expected, we didn’t make it to the Kraft movie deal on Saturday morning. No big loss. Mid-morning, Hannah and I went to her basketball tournament in Rio. The Marshall Youth Club 8th grade girls team is much improved over last year, [...]
Home meet
Last weekend Madtown Twisters hosted their annual Halloween meet at the gym on the west side of town. The older Level 5′s and all of the Level 6′s got the last session of the weekend on Sunday night. All in all, it was a great session for Madtown. There were a number of firsts on [...]
Meet me in the barn
Have you ever been to Plover, WI? Not much to do in Plover. Except hold a gymnastics meet! Yes, we went to Carousel Gymnastics in Plover on Saturday so Clare could compete in a smaller meet. Only three gyms were at the meet, and our Madtown girls far outnumbered the rest. Our session was Levels [...]
Scamps meet
Sunday we all went to another meet for Clare at Scamps in Kenosha. She was solid in all events and came home with plenty of hardware. Another beautiful beam routine (9.225, 2nd place medal) and a great bars routine (8.4, 11th place medal) led the way. She earned an 8.1 on floor (12th place medal) [...]
