Ellie had 2 competitions at level 4 this season. The first was in San Antonio, and we all went to it. The second was in Louisiana at LSU, and we made it into a girls trip with Ellie and her friend Sydney and me and Sydney's mom, Sylvia. We went out to Baton Rouge first thing on Friday morning. The traffic was horrid. We went shopping in the afternoon, caught some dinner and then went to the LSU vs. Alabama gymnastics meet. I had never been to a gymnastics meet and it was quite exhilarating to watch, especially since Alabama was ranked 2nd and LSU was 4th and it was their last meet of the season. We had nosebleed seats, but we still could see the girls do their routines and the rest of the team cheer them on. It was fun.
Ellie's competition went ok. She had just moved up a level, so her coaches would only let her compete on bars beam and floor. She had a couple of parts of her beam routine that were missing, so she didn't score well on bar. She did get a 9.000 on beam and a 8.925 on floor, which we were very happy with.
The next week at gymnastics, Ellie had a hard time. She didn't want to go to any extra practices and she didn't want to go on the day when she was with the special team coach. She clearly was struggling. Her coaches had talked about having her test out of level 4 and move up to level 5 for the fall, but she was miserable working so hard and for so many hours. We decided to let her stay in level 4 and compete in the fall at that level. Level 4 is a bit more difficult than level 3, but we hope she can have a great season again in the fall like she did last year at level 3.
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