PRESS RELEASE                                   Return Home                               JANUARY 16, 2006

JACKSONVILLE LEVEL THREE TEAM COMPETES AT JONESBORO

AND WINS FIRST-PLACE TEAM BANNER

Twelve gymnasts from the fifteen-member Jacksonville Gymnastics USAG Junior Olympic Level Three Competitive Team competed Saturday morning at Champion’s Gym in Jonesboro.  Levels Three through Eight from eight Arkansas teams attended the meet and this was the first time for the Level Three team to travel without the rest of the team.  Usually, Level Three meets only recognize the individual All-Around scores and team awards are not designated; however, team placement banners were awarded to the Level Three gymnasts at this meet. 

The Jacksonville Level Three Team, competing against gymnasts from two other gyms, won the First-Place Team Banner.  Jacksonville also won eight First, Second and Third-place Individual All-Around awards and 31 First, Second and Third-place Event awards.

The following gymnasts won individual all-around awards: 

          Tonie Butler                  Age Five                      First Place

          Allison Shaw                  Age Seven                   First Place

          Samantha Wade            Age Seven                   Second Place

          Maggie Lee                   Age Eight-Nine            Third Place

          Kennedy Driskill           Age Ten                       First Place

          Lauren Anderson          Age Ten                       Second Place

          Hayley Paddock            Age Ten                       Third Place

          Christina Hensley         Age Eleven & Up         Second Place

This is the first year for Jacksonville Gymnastics Team to compete Level Three.  These gymnasts were moved to Level Three last May to begin summer training in June as a Level Three.  Also, most of the gymnasts had been taking gymnastics for only nine months to a year, and several less than six months, before being moved to Level Three. 

Jacksonville Gymnastics Level Three Gymnasts Celebrate First-Place Team Award and Bring Home Their First Banner

Holding their First-Place Team Banner that they had just won Saturday morning at Champion Gymnastics, Jonesboro, are twelve of the fifteen Level Three Jacksonville Team Members.  From left to right, back row are Allison Shaw, Hayley Paddock, Anja Tech, Maggie Lee, Jessica Gardner, Kennedy Driskill, Christina Hensley Lauren Anderson, Sydney McGill and Tonie Butler.  Holding the banner are Samantha Wade and Jordan Rogers.

Jacksonville Gymnastics Team, Levels Four through Eight will compete this weekend in a very large meet in Shreveport, Louisiana.  The Jacksonville Gymnastics coaches and team will host a large meet of their own--the Sixth Annual Sweetheart Meet—on February 10-11-12th.  Over 550 gymnasts from over 20 teams from Arkansas and Mississippi will be competing Levels Three through Nine.  After that, the team will be competing for the next several weekends in February and right into the State meets held in March. 

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