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LEVELS THREE, FOUR, FIVE AND SIX

The Compulsory Levels of Jacksonville Gymnastics--fifty gymnasts competing Levels Three, Four, Five and Six--have just competed in their second competitive meet of the season.  These gymnasts competed this weekend in a meet at Dorsey's Holiday Classic at Sheridan, Arkansas.  They  competed with 318 gymnasts from thirteen Arkansas Teams in a meet that  began early Friday afternoon and ended Saturday night.   Teams competing in the meet were Cabot Gymnastics, Champion's Gymnastics of Paragould, Didion Twisters, Flame Gymnastics, Flip Over Gymnastics, Gymnastics Plus, Maumelle Gymnastics, Mega Gymnastics, NLR Superstars, Russellville Gym Twisters, Saga, Jacksonville Gymnastics and the host team, Dorsey's Gymnastics.

The meet began with a Friday afternoon session in which 34 Level Two and 37 Level Three gymnasts from five teams competed.  In the Friday evening session, 69 gymnasts competed at Levels Three and Four, including 44 Level Three gymnasts from four teams and 25 Level Four gymnasts from three teams.  Fourteen of the fifteen Jacksonville Gymnastics Level Three gymnasts competed in this session.  No team scores were told and no team awards were presented, but our home town gymnasts did very, very well.  Fifteen First-Place, sixteen Second-Place and thirteen Third-Place event honors were won and the following gymnasts won Individual All-Around Top Honors for their age bracket:

       Macey Jasmin               age five                            First Place

       Blair Jones                    age six                              First Place

       Reagan Hodson            age six                              Second Place

       Melanie Fortson           age seven                         First Place

       Roberta Cordts            age eight, Flight A           First Place

       Gracie Petefish             age eight, Flight A           Second Place

       Alex Wargo                   age eight, Flight A           Third Place

       Madison Houck            age eight, Flight B           First Place

       Madison Dixon             age eight, Flight B           Second Place

       Cambrie Wade             age nine                            Second Place   

       Breanna Orr                age eleven                         Second Place

Jacksonville Gymnastics Level Three gymnasts who competed at the Holiday Classic Meet at Dorsey's Gym at Sheridan, are shown here with Coach Christy.  The gymnasts all won placements in the individual all-around awards, but not all of them had on their medals for the picture.  Shown here seated (left to right) are Reagan Hodson and Blair Jones.  Second row, kneeling (l to r) are Gracie Petefish, Macey Jasmin, Madison Houck, Madison Dixon, Melanie Fortson and Mattingly Bartole.  Standing (l to r) are Eboni Wells, Taylor Stauffer, Alex Wargo, Roberta Cordts, Cambrie Wade and Breanna Orr.

The Level Four Jacksonville Gymnasts competed Saturday morning and won the Second-Place Team Trophy.  The morning session began at 8:00 and it's really tough getting up early enough to drive to a meet and then compete.  Again, all the gymnasts won medals for individual all-around medals, but not all had them on for the photo.  It appears that the gymnasts were as proud of themselves as we were of all of them.

Shown posing after a really good meet are the Jacksonville Gymnastics Level Four team members.  From left to right on the front row are Madison Williams, Miranda Chambers, Olivia Hodson, Jessica Gardner and Courtney Jackson.  Back rows from left to right are Dalianna Gonzalez, Rachel Wyrick, Sara Heil, Taylor Parker, Jadyn Perkins, Lauren Travis (above), Sarah Balenko (below) Jenna Mecca, Madison Barnhill, Lauren Osburn and Marissa Wallace.

Competing in the 8:00 morning session were 73 Level Four gymnasts representing nine teams. The sixteen Jacksonville Gymnasts won the Second-Place Team award, four First-Place and fourteen Second-Place Event Awards.  Each of the Jacksonville gymnasts scored a nine and above on vault - with the highest score being 9.7 earned by Madison Williams and even with this high score, she placed second on vault.  Marissa Wallace earned a 9.6 and Lauren Osburn earned a 9.5 on vault.  We were really proud of all the gymnasts for their hard work. 

The following gymnasts won top  Individual All-Around honors.

        Sara Heil                       age nine, Flight A               Second Place

        Taylor Parker               age nine, Flight A               Third Place

        Madison Williams         age nine, Flight B                Second Place

        Jadyn Perkins              age ten                                 First Place

        Lauren Travis              age eleven                            Third Place

        Madison Barnhill         age twelve                            First Place

Competing at the noon session were 55 Level Five gymnasts representing thirteen teams.  The twelve Jacksonville gymnasts won the Third-Place Team Trophy, and the following gymnasts won top Individual All-Around honors.

        Allison Ramsey            age eight                               Third Place

        Sarah Beavers             age nine                                Third Place

        Madi Spears                age ten                                  Second Place

        Skylar Spaeth              age ten                                  Third Place

        Sabrina Barger           age twelve                             First Place

Seated on the floor is Sarah Beavers.  Second row, left to right, are Madi Spears, Mattie Taylor, Allison Ramsey, and Abby Houghtaling.  Third row, left to right, are Skylar Spaeth, Sabrina Barger and Anna Huston.  Last row standing, left to right, are Sierra Rohauer, Hannah Taylor and Sarah Seibel.

Competing in the last session of the day were 32 Level Six gymnasts representing nine teams, 15 Level Seven gymnasts representing five teams and two Level Eight gymnasts from the host team.  The five Level Six Jacksonville Gymnasts won the First-Place Team Trophy.  Pictured below, left to right, the happy gymnasts are Kennedy Driskill, Kaitlin McLain, Rachel Flippen, Lynzie VanBrocklin and Jordan Rogers.  It was a very tough meet for the Level Six gymnasts and we were so proud of them.

Winning top honors were

        Jordan Rogers            age nine                               Second Place

        Rachel Flippen            age eleven                           First Place

        Katelin McLain           age twelve                           First Place

        Kennedy Driskill          age thirteen                        First Place   

Shown here is Kaitlin McLain who proudly won the top all-around high score for all Level Six gymnasts for the session - Kaitlin had a 36.75 all-around score to win her special trophy.  A trophy was given to the high score for each session, but for this session, a trophy was presented to the high score for each Level Six and Level Seven.  Jacksonville Gymnastics had no optionals at this meet.

The next meet for the Jacksonville Gymnastics Team will be held Friday and Saturday, December 12th  and 13th at Lake Hamilton Junior High.  The meet is hosted by Hot Springs Gymnastics and will be for Levels Two - Ten.  This meet will be the first of this season for Jacksonville Gymnastics Optional Levels of Seven, Eight and Nine.  The Jacksonville Compulsory Levels will also compete.  We are looking forward to the meet.

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