On December 7, Sophia competed in her first level 8 meet - the Yellow Jackets Invitational. The team competed the last session of the entire meet - started Sunday around 5:30pm! Talk about a long day!
Sophia started the meet out on floor. She looked great out there and her hard work in the gym paid off with a 9.350 for her routine! She placed 2nd in the Junior age group. Here is the video of her level 8 floor routine -- yes, it is the same routine and music as level 7 (the girls keep their routines/music for 2 years and add new tumbling passes). Enjoy
The 2nd event for the evening was vault. Sophia is still working on her landing for her level 8 vault so she did a handspring! Cannot wait to see her do the harder vaulting! Her score was 8.525 - unfortunately, she did not place in her age group! From what I have found, the start value of the handspring for level 8 is 9.0 -- so not too bad! I did record both of her vaults, but since you have seen the handspring vault many times over the last few years, I will wait until she is doing her level 8 vault and post that!!
Bars was the 3rd event of the evening. Sophia had a good looking bar routine. She received an 8.950 and placed 4th in her age group. Here is her bar routine video!
The final event of the night was beam! Sophia had a decent beam routine. She scored 8.850 and took 1st place in her age group! Please enjoy her beam video!
Sophia's all-around score was 35.675 and she placed 3rd in her age group! Her team took home the 1st place team trophy! As you can see, it was a pretty good 1st level 8 meet for Sophia, as well as her team! Couldn't be more proud of her!
Pictures from the meet
4th place Bars
1st place Beam
2nd place Floor
3rd place All-Around
1st place Team
Maya and Sophia
Cookie, Sophia and Maya
The next meet was the Rhode Island Invitational! I will update that meet info soon, I am going to take a much needed lunch break! Stay tuned!
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