Ellie's Level 3 Gymnastics

Ellie just finished her level 3 in gymnastics. It is the same level that she did last year.  Her coaches wanted her to have a strong year with good scores so that she got used to earning medals at every meet and she would learn to work hard to place at every meet she goes to.  They were right, she did fantastic! This post is going to be picture heavy, hope you don't mind.

Here are her stats for this season: All of her meets she got 37 or higher points.  The scores are out of 10.00, so an all around score of 40.00 is perfect.  Her highest scores were: Vault 9.800, Bars 9.900, Beam 9.625, Floor 9.825, and overall score 38.750.  She placed 1st overall at 4 of her 7 meets this season.  For a while she was on the nations top 100 for her bar score and her overall score!  She's amazing!

Usually her best scores were on bars and floor, but she did really well on vault and beam by the end.  In order to do so well, she practices a ton.  She is at gymnastics three days a week for 4 hours each.  

 

After she placed first at district championships, she got to go to South State.  There are 7 districts in Texas, and South State is 3 of those districts.  Needless to say, with such a large state, they are highly competitive.  At south state, everyone gets a matching leotard that says Texas on it.  It was hard to find her in the crowd of matching leotards, but it was fun to have such a cool leotard!

 Ellie and her coach, Coach Allec.

Here are some videos of some of her routines.  The routines are set and repeated by everyone in her level. They are then graded on how perfect they do the routine.

Now she has moved up to level 4.  She already knows the skills, but she needs to learn the routines and then will perform at her first meet in January.