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2010 ST. LOUIS CLASSIC

COMPETITION

(Taken Sunday about 6:00 p.m.)

1222 GYMNASTS FROM 49 TEAMS FROM NINE STATES!!!!  Can you believe it?  Neither could we, but we were there, so we know how big the meet was!!!

The St. Louis Classic meet, held Friday night, all day Saturday and all day Sunday, took place in the huge St. Louis Convention Center in downtown St. Louis.  The meet was definitely the largest in which our gymnasts have competed and will be the largest for some time to come.  Our own large, large meet--the Emerald Classic--that will be held this week-end will host nearly 700 gymnasts, but this meet had 1222 gymnasts--Levels Three thru Ten--registered to compete.  The gymnasts were from 49 teams from nine states - Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Tennessee and two teams from Arkansas, including our own Jacksonville Gymnastics Team.  Although the meet was for Level Three thru Level Ten, Jax Gym competed Levels Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten.  Not only was the meet large, but the competition  was tough!!!!!!  And the judging was very hard, possibly because most of the gymnasts were heading to their state meets.

Two complete competitions were held at each session.  Each competition area - side by side and divided by a curtain down the center, had double equipment for each event.  The second floor exercise area for each side was, however, a tumble strip, which is often used for warmup time on many events, where complete double floors cannot be used (or in this case quadruple floors!)

Two sets of bars can be seen behind the practice tumble strip and two vaults are to the left of the large column on the right back.  Beams are located to the right of the floor and to the left of the floor.  The large divider curtain is to the left of the floor behind the beam.  The music was played from the table seen in the center of the picture.  The set-up was the same on the other side of the dividing curtain, except they also had two resi-mats for Level Three and Four vaults, in addition to the two vault tables.  All sorts of vendors were to the right of the competition floor - almost all of them popular, including the free charm bracelet (and the child bought the charms for it,) the cookie vendor, whose large cookies were on a stick and nicely decorated, and then the child's name would be written in icing on the cookie - and the massage  chair where we weary people could get a minute of massage for each dollar we wished to spend. 

Medal awards were given in each session to 50% of the competitors for each event and all-around and the other 50% were given participation medals.  With an event this large, most gymnasts were very lucky to even be called for one event, let alone all four events or especially for all-around.  Since there were at least two sessions for each level, team awards were only announced and given after the second session had competed. 

The meet began Friday evening for competition for 73 Level Seven gymnasts, from 17 teams; and 78 Level Five gymnasts from nine teams competed on the other side of the curtain. 

On Saturday morning at 8:00, 80 more Level Seven gymnasts, from fifteen more teams competed; this included the six Jacksonville Gymnastics Level Seven gymnasts and 93 Level Five gymnasts from 12 teams competed on the second floor.  The Jax Gym Level Seven team members, by age, are Jordan Rogers, Lynzie VanBrocklin, Rachel Flippen, Taylor Butler, Jessica McDonough and Stephanie Singleton.  The gymnasts won the following honors and you just can't imagine how exciting it was for our gymnasts to even get on the stand or be recognized for placements.

Just look at these proud Level Seven Jacksonville Gymnastics team members - Rachel, Stephanie and Jordan are on the front row and Lynzie, Taylor and Jessica are on the back row.

Also, the award ceremonies were held in two separate rooms way down the hall of the Convention Center from the competition area.

The Jacksonville Gymnastics Level Eight Team competed with 67 Level Eight gymnasts from 17 teams and at the same time, our Level Five team members competed with 102 more Level Five gymnasts from ten teams (on the other side of the curtain.)  It really kept our coaches (Ms. Laurel, Ms. Erin and Ms. Christy) busy.

Competing for the Jacksonville Gymnastics Level Five team from youngest to oldest were Sarah Balenko, Allison Tubbs, Miranda Chambers, Mollie Johnson, Sara Heil, Olivia Hodson, Sydney Shumate, Cambrie Wade, Sarah Siebel, Katlyn Grace, Lauren Osburn, Jadyn Perkins, Madison Barnhill and Daliaana Gonzalez.  The following gymnasts won award honors:

The Level Five gymnasts pose here after their session and awards were complete.  We are so proud of these gymnasts.   On the front row from left to right are Sarah, Allison, and Miranda.  On the second row, from left to right are Sydney, Jadyn, Olivia, Cambrie and Sara.  On the back row, left to right, are Dahliaana, Madison, Lauren, Mollie, Katlyn and Sarah.

Allison is shown here after winning her First-Place All-Around Award.  This was no small achievement with all the tough competition at this meet.  Congratulations, Allison!!!

The Jacksonville Gymnastics Level Eight team members--Tonie Butler, Mackenzie Ellis, Kendra Lytch and Katelin McLain--competed in the noontime session and the following awards were won.

Smiling their usual happy-after-the-meet smiles are Mackenzie and Katelin, and Kendra and Tonie.

Another 38 Level Eight Gymnasts competed with seventeen Level Tens in the evening session, while 39 Level Three gymnasts and 30 prep ops competed on Floor Two.  Kayla Edgin, our Level Ten, competed for the first time since injuring her ankle.  Kayla received fourth All-Around.

Four of our six Level Nine gymnasts competed in the early morning Sunday session with 65 gymnasts from 21 teams.  Competing were Haley Edgin, Courtney Ellis, Tori Hanley and Taylor Rai Johnson.  The following honors were won by our gymnasts:

Shown here are Level Nine gymnasts for Jacksonville - Tori, Taylor Rai, Courtney and Haley. Great going, gymnasts!!!!!  You are such fun to watch!!!

The meet ended for Jacksonville Gymnastics with the Sunday noontime session for the 91 Level Six gymnasts from twenty teams, while 107 Level Four gymnasts from nine teams competed on Floor Two.  Competing for Jacksonville were Allison Ramsey, Abby Houghtaling, Sarah Beavers, Anna Koehler, Madi Spears, Shelby Yates, Sierra Rohauer, Skylar Spaeth, Briyana Isaac, Reagan Lear and Sabrina Barger.  It was a very tough meet with extremely hard judging.  Awards were won by the following:

Shown here from left to right, first row are Abby, Sierra, Allison and Sarah.  Back row are Madi, Briyana and Reagan.  Thanks, girls, for remembering to stay for the picture. 

There was still one more session to go when we finally left the area about 6:00.  Competing in the last session were another 81 Level Six gymnasts from nine teams, and on Floor Two were another 104 Level Four gymnasts from eight teams that were from closer to the St. Louis area.

Our next meet will be our own Emerald Classic that is being held March 5-6-7 at the Cabot High School Gymnasium.  The first session will be held Friday night, with three sessions competing on Saturday, and another three sessions competing on Sunday.  Our staff is busily working as hard as they can to pull off our meet.  I'm sure that it will be the success that has come to be expected of Jacksonville Gymnastics.  The schedule of sessions may be reached by clicking on the Emerald Classic on home page.

I promised that the "Silly Pose" would be on the website, also.  Hope you all enjoy it as much as the girls enjoy making it!!!!

They work as hard as they play!!!!!

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SCHEDULE

Saturday, February 27 - Sunday February 28, 2010

MEET LOCATION  - HALL NO. 2 - AMERICA'S CENTER

701 CONVENTION PLAZA, ST. LOUIS, MO  63101

There will be two gyms running simultaneously (four spring floors).  Most of our levels compete on Floor One - the Level Fives, however, compete on Floor Two at the same time as our Level Eight gymnasts compete on Floor One.  This will be the largest meet at which we have competed. 

The Schedule for the meet follows:

Parents - don't know what your plans are for hotel reservations - some of us are staying at the Drury Inn near the Convention Center.  They have some queen suites left - a queen in the bedroom and pull-out in living room - it's $95.99 if you call them and tell them you want the e-saver rate - they have a hot breakfast free and free parking - I know that this rate is not as good as some of us have gotten but if you can manage with a pull-out, this might be for you.  The phone number is 1-800-378-7946 - I spoke to Richard and Kevin.  As of 3:52, Thursday, Jan 21, they had 19 of these units).

Directions from HnP Gym to America's Center

333.71 miles - approx driving time five hours 44 minutes

. Start out going NORTH on N 1ST ST/AR-161 toward E MARTIN ST. Continue to follow N 1ST ST. 1.0 mi

2. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto N 1ST ST/T P WHITE DR/US-167/US-67. Continue to follow T P WHITE DR/US-167/US-67. 0.6 mi

3. Merge onto US-67 N via the ramp on the LEFT toward BALD KNOB/ST LOUIS. 106.9 mi

4. Merge onto US-63 S/US-67 N via the exit on the LEFT toward JONESBORO/POCAHONTAS/PARAGOULD.

5. Merge onto US-67 N toward US-412/POCAHONTAS/PARAGOULD. 43.5 mi   |

6. Turn LEFT onto US-67/S MISSOURI AVE. Continue to follow US-67 N (Crossing into MISSOURI). 29.6 mi

7. Merge onto US-67 N toward US-60 W/ST LOUIS/SPRINGFIELD. 114.2 mi

8. Merge onto I-55 N toward ST LOUIS. 34.9 mi

9. Take the I-70 W exit, EXIT 209B, on the LEFT. 0.1 mi

10. Take EXIT 251C toward ARCH/STADIUM. 0.1 mi

11. Stay STRAIGHT to go onto S MEMORIAL DR. 0.6 mi

12. S MEMORIAL DR becomes N 3RD ST. 0.0 mi

13. Turn LEFT onto WASHINGTON AVE. 0.1 mi

14. Turn RIGHT onto N 4TH ST. 0.1 mi

15. Turn LEFT onto CONVENTION PLZ. 0.2 mi

16. 701 CONVENTION PLZ is on the RIGHT.

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