State Meet!

AAHAGHAHAAAJAAaaa!!!!

Holy Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuacamole!!

I probably just had THE best 3 days of my life!

Wednesday
Kylie and I set off for St. George! It was about a 5 hour drive...it seems really long but it was fun because we watched movies and jammed to music the whole way down! We went to our resort and immediately hit the pool! We swam for about an hour and then hit the spa! We went in the steam room, the 'relaxation room' and the INCREDIBLE showers! (seriously though I can't even describe how cool these showers were!) We headed into town for pizza and a movie! It was a SUPER fun night!

Thursday (MEET DAY!)
We woke up early Thursday morning and sat in hammocks to watch the sun rise and then headed to the resort restaurant for breakfast. We enjoyed a breakfast buffet and tried to get in touch with Brenna and Tasia. We had about 2 hours before our spa appointments so we went on a short hike. We found this huge rock spiral thingy in the middle of nowhere and walked through the entire thing! (It was questionable because it looked a little satanic). We "sacrificed" our hair ties at the middle of the spiral because apparently you have to sacrifice something. We went for a quick dip in the pool and we ran into Brenna who just so happened to be on her way to the spa! Since our spa appointment was in about 30 minutes, we got out of the pool and went with Brenna to the spa. We showered and changed into robes and slippers and headed into the "relaxation room" to wait with Brenna...and guess who happened to be in the relaxation room...TASIA! When they called me and Kylie we headed up to the salon and got our hair and makeup done. After our spa treatment we (the 4 of us) walked to all of our rooms to get our leos and warmups. (this took a while because the resort was VERY spread out and we were all in different buildings (except for me and Kylie of course)). Afterwards we headed to the meet!! It was about a 30 minute drive.

The competition went AMAZINGLY! I won't bore you with details but I got 3 personal bests on vault, bars and all around!
Scores:
Bars: 9.355
Beam: 8.9
Floor: 9.4
Vault: 9.4
AA: 37.1 (!!!!!)

Awards was amazing! As we were waiting for our awards, these meet people came up to Me and Kylie and told us that we were in the top 5 of all 72 girls there! That meant that we had made the Utah state team to compete against the other states at regionals!!!!

Awards:
Vault: 1st
Bars: 2nd
Beam: 4th
Floor: 2nd
AA: 2nd

The girl that beat me and won first all around beat me by only .005!!!!!!!
All in all one of the best meets i've ever had!!

Saturday
We got up early again and cleaned the hotel room and packed our bags. Emery has a pool house in St.George so we went there for a pool party! It was great! We drove home and it was depressing because our amazing trip was over :(

Here are some pictures!!

In the "relaxation room" at the spa

Pool Party!

Pool Party Selfie

Driving into St. George

The relaxation room

xoxo
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-Maggie

Team Dinners Part 2

Oh hello there friends. Welcome back

If you are cool then you probs read my post called team dinners and in that post I mentioned that I would be making "Team Dinners Part 2"...so here it is...

The Spaghetti and Salmon Dinner

The spaghetti and salmon dinner was hosted by Brenna and it was at her house (obviously). This one was very fun because Brenna is like super rich and so she has a huge basement and it has a beam, tumbling mats, and more! As you can imagine, a bunch of gymnasts with a huge basement and gymnastics equipment made for a very fun night. Another super fun thing we did was play twister... This may not sound super exciting but when you are a gymnast and you can do backbends and splits and such, it was very exciting and much more fun!

Quotes of the night:

"hold on one sec, I have to go fart in a pillow" -Brenna

Brenna: *farts*  ♫"oops I did it again"♫

(Playing twister) *Maggie pushes Kylie over* "I win!"

All in all the spaghetti and salmon dinner was a very fun night and one of my favorite team dinners so far!

Here are some pictures and videos from that night.

Twister!

Just to give you an idea of what our team dinners are like...

The Chinese Dinner

Now I bet you're wondering, why the heck did you have a Chinese dinner?? This dinner was hosted by Tasia. Her dad just so happens to be the Chinese teacher at Roland Hall so he decided to make us Chinese food.  Tasia lives right across the street from PCMR and also right across the street from A private pool.  It was super fun because it was just me Tasia and Brenna (everyone else was out of town) and we had so much fun running around the neighborhood and night swimming in the pool.   When we got back from the pool dinner was ready and let me just say it was delicious!

Storytime!  You can imagine in the middle of February it was quite cold outside and we happened to be walking around in our swimsuits so to stay warm, we wrapped our towels around our necks like capes and it was quite funny because we looked ridiculous and we were pretending that we were Buzz lightyear.

Another Story! When we were done swimming we decided to get showers at the pool.  As I mentioned earlier we walked there in our swimsuits so we didn't exactly have clothes with us. After our shower I used my towel as a skirt and Tasia's sweatshirt as a shirt and I looked very hysterically terrible!

Here are some of the pictures that we took that night! (we tried to be artsy in the picture of us jumping into the pool together... Shortly after taking that picture, tasia pretty much landed on me in the pool which was not a very fun time)

My Great outfit

Me and Brenna being superheroes

Our towel capes

Jumping into the pool

Gosh darn it I'm already at my word limit!

Guess that's it for this post
Bye Felicia,
Maggie

Team Dinners

Every Competition, we have a team dinner the night before. Every dinner has a specific theme, here are some stories of the team dinners this year.

The Spaghetti and Chicken Dinner
The first dinner was hosted by ME and it was the spaghetti and chicken dinner. It was christmas themed because the meet was christmas themed. When you walked into my house there was a little tree with presents that had fuzzy socks in them and they were freaking adorable. (It'll make sense later)

Aren't I such a good drawer?

So here are some stories from this dinner.

1. Emery passes out
At dinner we were telling funny stories from practice and we were all laughing so hard and I'm pretty sure someone spiked the apple cider...but anyways Emery was laughing really really hard and she started choking on her food and that just made her laugh more and she fell off her chair and passed out because she was laughing/choking so hard. It was great.

2. Slip N Slide
As I mentioned earlier, we all had fuzzy socks on. Now I happen to have hardwood floors in my house and things were just doomed from the beginning. First of all, Emery was running and then she stopped but not really because she slid for like 20 feet before she hit the edge of the carpet and flew forward and face planted onto my couch.  Next, Brenna slid on the floor and plowed down Tasia in the process. THEN being the idiots we are, we decided to do gymnastics on the hardwood floor. (I never said we were smart) Brenna did an aerial and when her feet landed on the floor they slid and she ended up in the splits!

The Pork and Penne Dinner
The pork and penne dinner was hosted by Kylie and it was before Bailies.

Here are some funny stories:
1. The swing room
Kylie has a room in her house that nobody uses so her parents installed swings and BOOM "the swing room". Anyways, we were all up in the swing room and it wasn't necessarily one thing that happened but we were basically all swinging into each other and the wall and we all ended up bruised and semi concussed.

I'm sure something really hilarious happened at that dinner that I don't remember but I seriously don't remember much from that dinner...maybe someone spiked the apple cider again...Thanks obama

That's all the words I have room for in this post so I guess I'll have to make a part 2!

Ke$ha Later,
Maggie

Kylie.

Kylie. Farber.

My bae

Kylie didn't make it into my first post which just so happened to be about my team.  This is because Kylie wasn't even on the team yet.  But she is now sooooo...

By the way....

A history
Kylie was born on June 20th, 2002 in Utah. (does anybody actually care?)  Kylie used to be in the optional levels which pretty much means that she was REALLY good!  Unfortunately,  she broke her foot and couldn't do gymnastics for a year.  As you can imagine, Kylie lost a ton of skills from being away for so long.  When she came back, she joined the Xcel team.  (just so you know, Xcel Gold is about the equivalent of level 5/6).  So that's where we are now, months later, she's on the Gold team.

Funny Times
Here is a list of hilarious stories that have happened with Kylie.

1. One day, me and Kylie decided to race across the beams.  We were going to jump over each beam until we got to the end. Like this...
   

Anyways, we thought that we were GENIUS and that this would be great!! So we ran and started jumping over the beams. Kylie however, tripped over a beam and face planted into the ground...taking me with her.

2. One time (last weekend to be exact) the whole team was over at Kylie's house.  We were up in her room dancing and such (as girls do) and we noticed these boys were staring at us rather creepily (is that a word?) We watched them secretly and they went back to their house. But then, like 10 minutes later, they came back...with a cross bow.  They started hiking this mountain right behind Kylie's house.  We decided to follow them (and be spies). We got in all black clothes and started secretly hiking up the mountain behind them. At one point Brenna (in the back) whispers," Guys, guys...spy selfie" at that moment it was like the funniest thing ever because she was trying to hold out her phone and take a picture and Kylie was trying to push her down so she wouldn't give us away and she was like duck facing as she was trying to push her and it was one of the funniest things i've ever seen. Anyways the boys mysteriously disappeared and we ended up just hiking to the top of the mountain to watch the sun set. It was a good time.

Us being spies

Artsy Picture at the top of the mountain

So yeah! That's all you need to know about Kylie Farber. Did anybody actually read this entire post? That's all for now kids...
Bye Y'all

GTC Meet

Why hello there!

This weekend I had yet another competition! This one was in Lehi at a gym called GTC.  This is one of my teams favorite meets!

Our first event was beam, YIKES! Brenna went up first and I was second.

*side note*
Just so you are aware, this is the order the team always goes in at competitions:
Brenna
Maggie
Kylie
Tasia
It isn't in any particular order, we just like it that way.

Back to beam.  I went up after Brenna.  I stuck everything but my cartwheel and scored an 8.45. Beam wasn't our best, and you can't blame us because it was our first event of the competition.

Next was floor.  We waited, and waited, and waited, until finally it was our turn.  I walked onto the floor and did a great routine.  Except that I tripped over myself a little bit in one of my dance moves. I scored a 9.25 getting me first place!

After floor, we headed over to vault.  I had okay vaults, not my best. I scored a 8.85, third place.  The funniest thing happened at vault though.  When tasia was going, she hit the springboard and the moment her hands hit the table she made the funniest noise! She was like. "HUUUUUUHGGGGHHUH!" We were all laughing so hard!

Our last event was bars.
If you remember from my last post, my bars were not very good because I got a huge deduction for not having a vertical cast on high bar. But this time was different! My cast was great and I got an 8.9!

My scores!

Awards!
We waited FOOOOOORRRRRREEEEVVVEEEERRRR!! I'm not joking.  After bars we waited about half an hour for awards to start and then there was about an hour of awards before my age division.  But finally we started awards!
Vault: 3rd
Bars: 5th
Beam: 7th
Floor: 1st!!
AA: 3rd

In the team awards, our team placed 3rd which was really good considering there was like 14 teams there.  Kylie did really well and scored first place all around.

After the meet we (of course) went to noodles and company for some celebratory noodles!  It was super fun and we had a great time.  After noodles we had some cupcakes from Sweet Tooth Fairy!  The meet ran really late so basically we were eating dinner at around 10ish.

Overall this was a pretty good meet! Here are some pictures!

Waiting for Floor to start

Sideways, but whatevs

After awards

Back at noodles!

Kylie taking ugly snapchats.

That's all for this post, vote on my poll!

Maggie

P.S. My next meet is the winter classic which is not for a couple of weeks

Bailies Meet

EW

BAILIES


My team when we found out we were going to Bailies this year...

Creds: pix good

Just so you know, Literally every person on my team absolutely hates this meet.  We always do terrible at it and we just hate meet overall.

But this year, was different.  We all did very well at the meet and we were very happy with the turnout.

Our first event was vault. We had a great warm-ups and all four of us stuck our vaults and were fully satisfied with our scores.  I got a 9.025 which I was very happy with.  We were excited and nervous as we headed for bars.

Next was bars.  I was especially nervous for bars because I had been falling in my squat on in practice almost every time.  Warmups shook me up because I made exactly one squat on.  Brenna went before me and I was second.  I saluted the judges and turned to face the bars.  I stood on the springboard for what seemed like forever trying to get my nerves to calm down.  I kipped up, stooped my feet onto the bar and jumped. I made it!!! I nailed my routine and stuck the landing. Unfortunately, the judges thought otherwise.  I scored an 8.25. Everybody was shocked and my coach ran to the judges to investigate! The judges were stubborn poops who wouldn't change my score which kinda sucked.

Next was Beam.  We took our grips off and immediately started beam warmups.  Brenna warmed up first, she fell in every single skill she did.  I warmed up next, I fell about 4 times.  This was making us nervous.  Brenna got up and did an ok routine with 2 falls.  I went up next, I stuck every skill except for my stupid cartwheel. 8.625.  After me, Kylie went up.  She fell in her full turn, and fell flat on her face in her dismount.  Tasia got up and nailed her routine. Beam overall was pretty bad for the team.  We had to shake off beam because we still had one more event left.

Last was floor, my fave.  I messed up on some of my dance moves at the beginning, but overall I did a fabulous routine.  I stuck my roundoff back handspring back tuck and my front tuck.  I got a 9.150.

Awards was the best! Kylie, Brenna and Tasia were all competing in the same age division, and I was in a different one.  Kylie rounded up 4 gold medals including one for all around! My scores were...
Vault: 1st
Bars: 6th
Beam: 3rd
Floor: 1st
AA: 3rd

Me on first place!

But the best thing by far was that our team won First Place in team awards!! This meet was by far better than the last and we were all satisfied with our awards! We celebrated by going to Noodles and Company to continue our tradition.

Here are some pictures:

Team Photo Before Bars

The Trophy!!

All our medals

Celebratory Noodles

My Medals

22 Hours of Gymnastics Later...

So you would think that over holiday break we would get a break from gymnastics...think again.  Over holiday break they pretty much doubled our practice hours. We had practice every day over break except for Christmas Eve and Christmas.

Our workout schedule was like this...
Monday, December 22nd:  1-3:30
Tuesday, December 23rd: 5-7:30
Friday, December 26th: 9 am - 2 pm
Monday, December 29th: 2-5
Tuesday, December 30th: 2-5
Wednesday, December 31st: 9am-2pm

The days that were 6 hours each were called "gymnastics camp" these were the days that we got the most work done.  All of the levels came to the gym and we rotated through events and coaches. This was nice because we got to get corrections from new coaches that we had never been coached by before.  On these days we also got to work new skills and take a break from the same old routines.  Kylie got a new beam dismount, a round off back tuck off the end...I was too scared to try it.  I worked on fly-aways on bars.  A fly-away is where you are swinging on the high bar and you let go and flip once before you land. Like this...

Creds: gymnastics coaching

On most of the days during break, Kylie and I got to work in with the level 5 and 6 girls since that's about the level we are.  It was really fun to train with some new girls and make new friends.  One of the girls we met, Taylor, was from Ohio and was staying in Park City and training in our gym over winter break!  She told us that at her gym in Ohio, they had 4...yes 4 floors, 15 beams, 6 sets of bars, and like 5 vault runways!

Our last day of Gymnastics camp was on New Years Eve, it was another 6 hour practice. I was the only one there from our team. I worked with the level 5 and 6's again. This time was a little different, because we worked less on Beam, Bars, Floor, and Vault, and more on tramp, tumble track, and rod floor.  This was fun because tumbling is my favorite! I got my tumbling to be more powerful and I even attempted some layouts. (key word being "attempted".)

It wasn't JUST tumbling on the last day...because if you've ever tried to do backflips and twists for 6 hours straight...it doesn't end well.  We worked on bars and vault a little.  Here is a video of me working bars...(no fly-away :( )

So I guess that's all! But I'm not at my word limit yet so let's talk some more!  I am having a meet this weekend in draper...BAILIES. *dun dun duuuuun*. We all hate the Bailies meet, so prepare for a rant when I post about it.  Literally last year at that meet:

• I got a 7.8 on floor (my best event)
• Brenna completely forgot her beam routine
• They registered Cody in the wrong age division.
• They didn't even register me!!

Ok byeeeeee.

Naughty or Nice Meet!

Hello Friends!

As I previously mentioned other blog posts, I will be blogging about all of my competitions this year.  The first meet this year is called the "Naughty or Nice" meet.  Otherwise known as the Christmas meet.  This meet was held in South Jordan at the other Black Diamond.

*GOOD NEWS!!!!*
I mentioned in my previous post that Kylie and I would not compete as a team this year, but FEAR NOT! My coach bumped Tasia AND Brenna up to gold so that we would have a team this year!!

Current Mood:

Photo Creds: car memes

Now some depressing news...Three days before the meet, Kylie cut her hand really bad in FACS and was not allowed to compete. :(  The gold team was only three girls; Tasia, Brenna and Me.

So any who, back to the meet. Xcel gold (das me) competed Friday, the 5th. Open stretch started at 6:00 and march in started at 6:30. March in is when all the gymnasts walk on to the floor and solute everybody in the crowd while the announcer says the names of our gyms...I know, I know, VERY exciting.  This meet was an "Icebreaker" meet, it was only between a couple of gyms.  Because of this, there were no awards, and we wore our ugly short sleeve competition leos. (and because our new competition leos are on back order and they didn't come in time.)

Our first event was vault.  Both of my warm-ups were awful, because I'm pretty sure my coach did not set the vault right.  I asked her and she just waved her hand and told me to go away.  My vaults both sucked...I got an 8.00.  I'm pretty sure this is what happened: one day at practice, about a year ago,  I asked Tina why the vault was so low in the last competition.  She told me that in competition, she lowers the vault so that we "fly over".  I don't think she understands, however, that this totally screws us up! I'm setting the vault next meet!!

Next, we went to bars.  My warm-ups were ok, but my foot was really hurting after vault. (I injured my foot about a week ago and it still hasn't healed so it really hurt the whole competition). My routine was fine, but not my best. I got an 8.55.

Beam. Now let me tell you something, as if beam couldn't be any worse, in competition, you only get around 30 seconds to warm up your beam routine before you compete...so that sucks.  My beam routine was...interesting...  I wobbled in just about every skill.  I almost fell off after my handstand, my full turn, and my cartwheel, but by some miracle of the lord, I stayed on the beam the whole time. I did stick my dismount though, a front tuck off the end of the beam.  I don't know why but me and Kylie found my beam routine to be the greatest thing ever! We laughed about it for like 10 minutes! Even though it was like the wobbliest routine of my life, I stayed on the beam and that was the most important thing to me! I got an 8.55.

Me wobbling on beam...

After beam, I could breathe a sigh of relief.  Our last event was floor, my fave!  I stuck about every tumbling pass and stayed right with my music! I got deducted though because my round-off double back handspring didn't look very pretty.  My foot was killing me! I scored a 9.00.

Overall, this was not my best meet...my worst one actually. But who cares right?! It was just an Icebreaker meet and the first meet of the season.  It was fun to have Kylie there with me cheering me on even though she wasn't competing.  After the competition, my mom took me and Kylie to Noodles and Company!

Yes...I did draw the noodles and company logo...

Ta Ta,
Maggie

Goodbye Cody ❤︎

Hello,

This is going to be a very sad post :(

My best friend and teammate, Cody Googin has made the decision to quit gymnastics. This is not breaking news, she told me this about a month ago, but I think I should talk about it because it is something that has been really hard on me.

Let's start from the beginning...

On my very first day of Xcel, I was really shy and didn't really think I would make many friends on my first day.  I however, was very wrong.  This is because of Cody.  She was the first to say hi and to welcome me to the team.  Since my first day with her, she has been the bubbliest, funniest, and kindest person I know.  We instantly became best friends and started hanging out outside of gym.  We would go to the movies, go bowling, shopping, and one of my favorite things to do... VideoStar.

 Cody and I have so many memories together that I don't think I've had with any of my other friends.  Since we were on the same gymnastics team together, we saw each other two or three times a week, and we hung out almost every weekend.  Another great thing about being on the same team as Cody what's that we got the opportunity to travel to Tucson, Arizona last spring for regionals. We had an amazing time! We also decided to keep a photo journal using Cody's Polaroid camera, here are some of the pages...

I think that me and Cody are such good friends because we practically spent every day together at practice, we have both teeny tiny girls who look like they are 11, and we are both super sassy.  We have so many great memories together that it would take me hours and hours to name them all.  I have had so many great experiences with Cody that I couldn't have with anybody else because it just wouldn't be the same. I am still kind of in shock from when Cody told me that she was quitting. I was really sad and depressed when I found out, and it made me less motivated to go to gym each day.

Cody, if you are reading this, I want you to know that you are my best friend and even though you are quitting, I will never forget the amazing memories we share.  You are truly the reason that I do gymnastics, you were an amazing gymnast and I still do not know why you quit, but I want you to know that the whole team, especially me, misses you like crazy.

Single Tear...

-Maggie

Some More Funny Stories

Hey Guys

So apparently you liked my other post about funny stories, so because I'm a people pleaser, I'm gonna write another one!

1. "It's not that hard!"
Once upon a gym practice, the whole squad was on beam.  We were basically all having the exact same mental block...leaps on beam. Now let me tell you something...you don't know real pain until you split the beam.  If you don't know what that means...

Courtesy of: Gif Shot

Yeah...that's what splitting the beam looks like...So back to the story, we were all being wimps and not wanting to do leaps because doing a leap gives you probably the highest risk of splitting the beam...here's why...

That's me by the way

After watching that video, imagine what would have happened if my foot had slipped when I landed...ouch.  I would have fallen, smashed into the beam, crashed onto the mat and lay on the ground in pain curled up in a ball holding my leg/ankle/whatever I hit on the way down for about five minutes.  It is not fun.  It's happened to me more times than I can count. In fact, it happened to me last night...   Oh my, this post is turning into a beam rant. Back to the story. So Tina, my coach, was getting mad at us for not being "brave" and just "going for it". She then proceeded to step onto the low beam, after screaming to us for ten minutes about how easy it was and how we wouldn't get hurt. She told us that it was so easy, she could do it.  What happened next was hilarious.  She did her leap on the low beam, landed wrong, rolled her ankle, fell on the ground and her ankle started to swell up....Yeah.  After this whole lecture of how "it isn't that hard" and how "we wont get hurt."  We didn't do leaps on beam that day...Her ankle was purple and swollen for like two weeks.

2. Little Tree
I don't know if you guys will find this story is funny as I do… but let's just give it a whirl.  Before we vault, we have to move mats and stuff so we can get it how we like.  My team does this thing called "ants “ where we get the mat and put it over our head and carry it like that because it's a lot lighter that way… kind of like ants… so one thing about ants is that if you're in the front, carrying the front of the mat, you better be really quick to duck when we throw the mat.  Okay slowdown Maggie… what I mean by throw the mat is when we get the mat to the destination we want it at, we all just throw it forward.  Sometimes we don't throw it hard enough and the person in the front gets knocked down by the end of the mat.  So we were moving a dead mat one time, A dead mat is just a mat that has been used so much that it's just floppy and dead, Tasia was in the front and we threw the mat, it landed on her head.  It was really funny because as you probably know, Tasia is freakishly tall, and basically she was standing there and the mat was flopped over her so she looked like a tree or a mountain or something.  We all laughed and said she looked like a little tree and now we call her "LT".

So I only told two stories because if I wrote another one i'd be hella over my word limit.
Vote on my poll!!

Maggie

How a Gymnastics Competition Works

Hello Friends,

So as I have previously mentioned, I am going to be blogging about all of my competitions or "meets" this year, so I thought you might want some background info.  A gymnastics competition is referred to as a "meet". Don't ask me why, it just is.  So in my level, we have around 5-6 meets per competition season, plus state meet, and if we qualify, regionals.  Normally, all of our meets are in Utah except for regionals.  Regionals is out of state, last year it was in Arizona, and this year it will be in California!

Every year, around the end of October, we receive a "meet schedule".  It pretty much tells us what meets we are going to that competition season and when.  My meet schedule for this season looks like this...

My competition schedule.

Competition season for gymnastics is usually from December-May.

So now into how a meet works.
There are two parts to a gymnastics meet.  Individual awards and Team awards.  Individual awards are First, Second, Third place for one gymnast.  The top three scores from one team are averaged and entered into team awards.  Team awards are First, Second, Third place for the entire team.  So there's a basic explanation of how awards works.  Now onto some technical stuff…

In gymnastics there are four events, beam, bars, floor and vault. Each gymnast competes every event and receives a score from the judges out of 10.  A gymnasts score starts from 10 and for every mistake they make in their routine, the get deductions.  (I know, super positive right?) On every event there are two judges, they each give the athlete a score out of 10, and then their two scores are averaged to make your final score.  You get one try for your routine on every event, except for vault.  For vault, you get to do two vaults, whichever vault scores higher is the one that stays.  There are five sections for individual awards; bars, beam, floor, vault and all-around.  All around is where you average all of your scores for all four events.  To win first place on all-around is a HUGE deal!

I do a gymnastics program called Xcel.  There are five levels in Xcel; bronze, silver, gold, platinum and diamond.  This competition season,  here's what my team looks like...

Tasia: Silver 
Brenna: silver
Emery: silver
Kylie: gold
Maggie: gold

Since my whole team is silver and gold, we will most likely be going to meets at around the same times.  The only exception will be when Kylie go to meets where Silver and gold do not compete at the same time.  Unfortunately for me and Kylie, this year, Cody has decided that she no longer wants to do gymnastics, it is very sad because Cody is like my sister,  I don't want to talk too much about it in this post, but basically we don't have a gold team this year.  The reason for this is, in order to have a team, you must have at least three gymnasts competing in the same level.  Me and Kylie will not be competing for team awards this year. ☹

So there you have it, a basic rundown of how these competitions will work.  Sorry if this post was kind of boring, but I thought you might need to know some of this stuff for my future posts about competitions.

Me and Cody last year after winning first place
in team awards. (single tear)

Ta Ta,
Maggie

Some Funny Stories

Ok, so here are some stories of funny things that have happened at gym.  These are mostly inside jokes that my team and I have with each other. Enjoy…

1. I NEED A BAGEL!

Ok, so every day at gym, we stretch for about 15 minutes, and then we condition.  Conditioning, for those of you who don’t know, is basically doing hard stuff to make you stronger…(push-ups, burpies, pull ups, running, etc.)  Ok, so we were in the middle of doing push-ups, and Sophie was almost done.  She was getting slower and her arms were shaking and you could tell she was tired.  All of a sudden she screamed, “I NEED A BAGEL!!” and then, her arms gave out and she collapsed on the ground.  We were laughing so hard because we didn’t know why she said that.  Anyway, now we bring her bagels to every competition. 

2. Red Scrunchie

So we have pretty ugly competition leotards and we have been asking our coach, Tina, to get us new ones for years.  So one day we were on bars and I just made a comment like, “yeah, that'll happen as soon as we get new competition leos.” (meaning: that'll never happen)  Then tasia says to me, “Ms. Tina told me we were getting new ones!”  Naturally I ran over to Tina to ask her if it was true.  She said yes, we were getting long-sleeve, red and white leos.  Now I was super exited…but after a couple minutes, I started thinking.  Now heres a little bit of background info,  I loooooooovvve to have super cute braided/twisted/sparkly hair for competitions.  So I was thinking about my hair scrunchie collection… no red!!! This couldn’t be happening!  My hair always has to be on point for meets.  I looked over at Tina, she saw the panic in my face and asked what was wrong.  I asked, “The new leos…do they come with a red scrunchie??”  She thought that this was the funniest thing in the world because she literally fell on the ground laughing.  I guess you had to be there…Yeah, i’m pretty much a dork.

3. BONUS POINTS!!

So we were vaulting and there was another class that was using the end of the vault runway to do tricks into the pit.  So Tasia was just having a really sucky day because she was in a lot of pain because her foot was really hurting her.  So one of the idiots in the other class thought it would be a funny idea to throw foam blocks from the pit at Tasia when she was vaulting.

This is what a pit block looks like

Photo Courtesy of: funandfunction

Anyways, so Tasia was running full speed, ready to vault, when this kid throws a foam block at her face. Tasia, naturally still vaulted because if she didn't, she would smash full speed into a big chunk of metal and foam.  So she vaulted...it was bad...she landed...and then she tripped...into the wall.  Luckily she was smart enough to do an okay enough vault that she didn't get hurt.  She was just in a lot of pain because of her foot.  Ms. Tina, my coach, told us that we were done with vault.  When she asked Tasia what was wrong, she told her that some kid was throwing stuff at her. Tina told us, "boys are idiots, they don't think, you just have to think for them." -ok I promise this story gets funny soon- 

So Cody was just like...

Photo Courtesy of: memegenerator

She was like, "how are we supposed to think for them when they're throwing stuff at us?!"

Cody:

"How to vault"

1. Run as fast as you can

2. Make sure to dodge the flying objects

3. If you punch them away...BONUS POINTS!"

Idk...it was funny at the time...heres a picture...

I know, I know...I have a gift

That's all byeeeeeee!

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My Teammates

Oh dear God where do I start? Well i’m just going to wing it and give you a brief explanation of all of my teammates.  We all do gymnastics at Black Diamond Gymnastics. My teammates are: Cody, Tasia, Kylie, Emery, Sophie, and Brenna. 

Cody. I've been teammates with Cody for the longest out of everybody. Cody is in eighth grade and is 12 (just a little bit younger than me, so we are always competing in the same age division (against each other)).  She has been doing gymnastics for two years longer than me,  and she's really good!  She's really funny… not in a joking kind of way… in a dry sense of humor kind of way… like instead of encouraging us when we are having an off day, she will say things like, “MAGGIE, YOU SUCK!!” Which makes us laugh even when she's not trying to be funny. Me and Cody are pretty much like twins, we always try to wear our hair   the same way at practice and we try to coordinate leotard colors for practice.

Me and Cody after a competition last year.

Tasia… Tasia, Tasia, Tasia… where do I begin?  So Tasia  is pretty much a tree… she's really tall and really skinny!  Her nickname is ”LT” which stands for  “Little tree”. She has the weirdest sense of humor and there is literally never a time at practice when she isn't making me laugh! We also like to call her “Fish” because sometimes when she's on bars she flops around like a fish.  Tasia is one of the newest members on our team… she's only been here for like a year… but it feels like I've known her my whole life.  She is just so fun to be around in general. (also her mom is a nail artist and she always does my nails! YAY!)

I couldn't find a picture of me and Tasia, 

so I drew one...you're welcome.

Kylie.  Kylie is in seventh grade, but we look like we're pretty much the same age.  Kylie used to be a level 7 gymnast, but then she quit because she broke her ankle.  Now she is back at the gym again, but she lost a lot of her skills.  Because she used to be in such a high level, she is really, really, really, good!!  Also, me,   Cody, and Kylie are all the same leotard size so we all share leotards with each other!

Me and Kylie

Emery and Sophie are both in the same grade. They're both really short and I both really funny! Sophie especially has a really weird sense of humor, like one day we were doing push-ups and all of a sudden she goes, “I NEED A BAGEL!” So now we always bring her bagels at practice and competitions.  Emery is a total goofball and is always finding some way to make us  all laugh.

Me and Emery

(I couldn't find a picture of me and Sophie)

Brenna. I have been doing gymnastics with Brenna for as long as I have with Cody. She's the same age as Tasia, and really likes trying new skills that she has no idea how to do… and sometimes she lands them!  Fun fact, Brenna is like… really good at Ariels!

So yeah that's pretty much it! I hope you enjoyed this post about my teammates, my crazy friends, my family. Okay byeeeee!