Meet Five: Boise

The last away meet of the season has come and gone. This meet was in Boise, Idaho, hosted by the Boise State University women’s gymnastics team. Even though we didn’t go somewhere really cool like New Orleans or New York, this meet was still lots of fun!

As a team, this wasn’t our best meet of the season, especially on bars. There were only a few people who did really well on bars, and sadly, one of those wasn’t me. I did okay, but nothing like last week at Winter Classic.

Beam was decent, but again, not as good as it has been. About half the team fell, and the rest of the people looked unconfident during their routines. However, considering how we did on bars, we did pretty well changing our attitudes to make a good rebound from our bad start.

Floor was by far our best event! Everybody scored at least a 9.05 or higher! There is also a funny story that goes along with this. My coach Charity’s birthday is coming up soon, and we celebrate from March 1st up until her birthday. This year, we decided to give her a gift every day. We asked her what we wanted in the wait time between beam and floor, and she said that she wanted everyone to get a nine on floor! We gave her her birthday present!!!!

Vault was good, too. I scored the same as I did at Winter Classic, a 9.25. Everyone made great progress from the vaults that they competed last week, and it was a great finish to the meet!

At this meet, we did almost everything as a team. I only did one thing without my teammates – I went to the Capitol building. It was a beautiful building, and it was really interesting to see how their government compares to ours in Utah.

A collage of some of the pictures I took at the capitol.

Friday night we had a team dinner at Bardenays, a bar and grill kind of place. The food there was amazing, the best place I’ve been in a while! Plus, this dinner was really fun because I got to spend time with my teammates. They had all driven to Boise, and they all had lots of energy! We were all really hyper and we had a great time hanging out and laughing!

Monkey, Amanda, and I at the team dinner!

After the meet on Saturday, we decided to have a pool party at the hotel pool. We ordered lots and lots of pizza and hung out in the pool. It is really fun to swim with my team because we love to try and do gymnastics in the water. It is amazing how much harder it is......

I am sad that we are done traveling for this season. However, if I qualify to Regionals, the adventure will continue there in April! Even with a poor start to this meet, we ended up doing well. I also bonded a lot with my teammates, and had lots and lots and lots of fun! Our next meet is in Salt Lake, and a few of my friends are going to watch. I can’t wait to show them what I can do!