Ellie's first Gymnastic Meet

Starting last summer, Ellie has been going to gymnastics for 6 hours a week.  She moved up into an advanced class, which they call the Force team.  She absolutely LOVES it.  You would think that after 3 hours of gymnastics- which is heavy on conditioning and strength training, she would be exhausted, but she is still bouncing between activities at the end of the class.  It is nice to have something that she likes so well that she is good at too.

 Today was her first competition.  Competitive season for gymnastics is the fall, but since they are just starting, her coaches wanted her team to try one meet so that they knew what they were in for.  They had her compete at the lowest level, level 1, even though she knows the skills for a higher level.  It was fun to see how competitions went.  She had a good time.

Her team was supposed to compete on Sunday morning, but since we have decided to not let her compete on Sunday, they allowed her to compete at the same time as other girls from the same gym that are at a different level.  It was fun to see the other girls compete, and Ellie looked so small as compared to them.  She did really well on all of her routines.  In her floor routine she forgot the ending, probably because they went over that for only a few minutes during the end of her last class a couple of days ago. 

Starting this next summer, she will have to go to the gym 9 hours a week, but then they will be competing in the fall.  We won't know until May what level she will compete at, she has some skills to learn and we have to see if she can get those skills before they assign the level. 

 Here are some of her scores:

So much fun!