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| Youth <b>Sports</b>: Silvia’s <b>Gymnastics</b> Posted: 08 Apr 2010 06:08 AM PDT
Silvia's Gymnastics Silvia's Level 8 Gymnasts Compete at PA States—Level 8 gymnasts from Silvia's gymnastics competed at the PA State competition on March 26-28. Individual placements were as follows: Age 11 and under: Ally Molchan placed sixth on beam and Sam Watkins placed tenth on vault and beam. Age 12: Addie Modugno placed first all-around, floor and vault and second on bars. Age 13: Shannon Kiersey placed second on beam and Hannah Haas placed tenth on floor. Age 14: Rachel DiCarlo placed first all-around and on bars, second on beam, third on vault and fourth on floor. Bethany DiCarlo placed fourth on vault. We encourage your feedback and dialog. All comments are moderated by the editors. We ask you to follow a few simple guidelines when commenting on stories on MontgomeryNews.com. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Freshman proves to be dependable for <b>gymnastics</b> Posted: 08 Apr 2010 08:34 PM PDT Freshman proves to be dependable for gymnasticsWritten by Katie Corbut Thursday, 08 April 2010 22:26 Wozniak shows 'leadership qualities'The transition from high school to college can be challenging for any student, but adding a varsity sport to your agenda can make it even tougher. Freshman gymnast Lauren Wozniak has been successful in the transition, and the Kent State gymnastics team has felt her impact. This season for the Flashes, Wozniak has competed on vault in every meet, scoring consistently above a 9.7, thus proving her value to the team. Her love for gymnastics started young, she was only seven years old. She trained in one club for most of her career, but when her junior year in high school came around, she considered quitting the sport altogether. "I needed a new attitude in my senior year," Wozniak said. "My coaches were really welcoming." It was at X-Cel Gymnastics near Pittsburgh where she came into her own and discovered her strength on the vault. "Vault is my favorite event," she said. "It's quick. There's no time for nerves, especially in college because there's only one vault." In club gymnastics, a gymnast usually performs two vaults, and the better score is taken out of the two, but in college, you only get one chance. In camp training before the season started, Wozniak suffered a foot injury, preventing her from concentrating on other events. Next year, she hopes to contend on beam and floor. She said watching her team fail on beam is frustrating, because she's thinking about what she could be doing to help. Considering all of the problems Kent State has had on beam this year, they could use another consistent scorer in the event. "We've been very pleased with what Lauren has brought to the team this year," Kent State coach Brice Biggin said. "As a vaulter and a gymnast, she has been very consistent starting from the very first meet." Biggin said Wozniak is a very caring and contentious athlete who excels both in the gym and in the classroom. "We're thrilled to death with how she has performed and what type of person she is; what type of student she is," Biggin said. "She's a great freshman." This confidence stems from supportive teammates who immediately welcomed Wozniak onto the team. She said some of the sophomores in particular took her under their wings. "Erin Rothrock and Rachel Goldenberg really were the first couple people to really reach out to me," she said. "And Abou (Mitri) is really great to look up to because she's been so consistent." While she looks up to many of the gymnasts on the team, her coaches believe she will someday be one of those upperclassmen to look up to. "We certainly see leadership qualities in her," Biggin said. "She's got the full package: she understands that the team is the most important thing, and she understands that you have to do well in the classroom." The coaching staff believes Wozniak will develop into a very good gymnast as long as she can stay healthy. But for now, she's taking it meet by meet, and this weekend is a big one especially for a freshman. The Flashes will travel to West Virginia to take on Stanford, Michigan, Southern Utah, West Virginia and North Carolina State. The top two teams will advance to the NCAA national competition. The Flashes are hoping to prove themselves after finishing second in the Mid-American Conference Championship. Wozniak is prepared for the regional competition and feels very confident about her event. "I'm really excited, I really hope we can hit and show what we can really do. It has been a long time coming," she said. "I'm not stressing too much (about vault), I've been pretty consistent." Biggin is also very excited for the competition, and said that even though Stanford and Michigan have both ranked as high as sixth place nationally throughout the year, it isn't impossible to beat them. "Look at Butler. Even though they didn't win, they gave Duke every bit that they could handle," he said. "That can happen in our sport just as well." The Flashes will start the meet on beam, and they're trying to look at it as a positive thing. "Lets get it over with and put up five or six good scores. Then all of a sudden we're putting pressure on everyone else: you set the bar," Biggin said. "We're really trying to look at that as a great opportunity." Biggin believes the meet will come down to whether the team is confident and can concentrate on their routines and not the other teams. The team can qualify for nationals, but individual competitors can also qualify on individual events or in the all-around. Junior all-around competitors Christina Lenny and Christine Abou-Mitri both have excellent chances of qualifying, and sophomore Erin Rothrock also has an opportunity to qualify as a bar-specialist. Contact sports reporter Katie Corbut at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| <b>Gymnastics</b> hoping to rebound at NCAA Regionals Posted: 08 Apr 2010 05:14 PM PDT The streak lives on. Once again, the ASU gymnastics team garnered a NCAA Regional Championship berth as one of the top 36 squads in the nation. For those of you who lost count, that makes 29 straight years. Even more astounding, the NCAA has only sanctioned gymnastics for 29 years. ASU's streak was in question after a disastrous performance at the Pac-10 Championships in Tucson on March 27. "I have been angry with myself," ASU coach John Spini said. "I'm the head of the program, and I'm responsible. I don't like to look like that ever. I don't think I ever put a team on the floor that has done that [badly], and I don't plan on doing it again." The Sun Devils (2-17) dropped from No. 29 to No. 32 nationally after tallying a, by far, season-low score of 190.675 at the Pac-10 Championships. The team did not want to be remembered as the first ASU squad not to make Regionals. "Basically, we just want to show that that's not us, that it was a fluke thing," junior Brittany Schuett said. "[The bus ride from Tucson to Tempe] was rough. It was very quiet. That was our ultimate low for the season, but you have to learn from it andmove on." Six teams will compete in Los Angeles on Saturday at the West Regional. No. 3 UCLA, No. 9 Arkansas, No. 17 Iowa State, No. 21 UA, Brigham Young and ASU are seeded one through six, respectively. ASU has faced three of the five teams in its regular season. "UCLA is a very strong team with the highest score in the nation coming out of the conference meets — they are going to be very tough," Spini said. "BYU, if we would have stayed on beam we would have done better at that meet, and we were very competitive with Arizona — we just fell off the beam too." The Sun Devils are a combined 0-5 against UCLA, BYU and UA this year. "I'm just demanding we compete better — a realistic finish for us is third place," Spini said. "Our goals are to leave the meet knowing we did everything we can and to make sure we can hold our heads much higher than we did leaving the Pac-10's." The teams with the top two scores will advance to the NCAA National Championships in Gainesville, Fla., at the University of Florida. "We have to show what we are capable of," Schuett said. "We hit such a low point last weekend that it has only brought us closer together, so we're going to build it back up together and attack it as a team this time." If ASU fails to finish in the top two places, individual Sun Devils can still qualify for Nationals by finishing in the top two places among non-qualifying schools on any event or the all-around. Junior Mary Atkinson is ASU's best hope, as she is currently ranked No. 23 in the all-around. Reach the reporter at tyler.emerick@asu.edu Categories: Gymnastics Sports Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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