Coach Victoria is amazing. 
Despite what we like to call at Avant Coeur … “challenges” … she still managed to capture some amazing photos of Great West Gym Fest 2013.
Photographer Victoria with triple Olympian John Roethlisberger
See more on our Great West Gym Fest’s Flickr photostream. You can download any of those pics you like.
We claim that the Great West Gym Fest is the most AWESOME Gymnastics competition in the world. And the most FUN.
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Meet Director Dave Adlard will gift $500 cash for anyone who uploads the most POPULAR video to Facebook tagged GreatWest GymFest.
Theme: WHY GYM FEST IS AWESOME.
We’ll be counting LIKES midnight March 24th, 2013 to decide who wins the CA$H.
Check out what gymnasts and coaches were saying on the Floor of the Coeur d’Alene Resort Gymnastics venue.
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Chellsie Memmel once had to superglue her grips when her only pair started to split.
Here she is answering Robin’s question at the Great West Gym Fest 2013.
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If you like the Great West Gym Fest, consider coming to our High Performance Training Camp.
It’s a blast. A great motivator for the 2014 season. The level of coaching is the highest of any Camp in the country.
So says Rick McCharles who’s been to most of the major Camps.
High Performance Training Camp website
Check the PHOTOS and VIDEOS pages.
The 2004 Olympic Floor Champion missed our competition 2013 because of a charity event in South Africa.
For some crazed reason he’s doing a 110km road bike ride while there.
I thought gymnasts were non-aerobic athletes.
We are playing around with various options.
We were happy to have Missy back at Gym Fest this year. Her daughter was competing — and looked GREAT.
Born in Belgium in 1971, Melissa (Missy Marlowe) began gymnastics at a young age, and spent much of her competitive career with Mark Lee of Rocky Mountain Gymnastics in Salt Lake City, Utah. With her strong performance at the 1987 US Nationals (2nd AA), Missy demonstrated that she was a strong contender for the 1988 Olympic team. She was also voted “Athlete of the Year” by her teammates in 1987. In the 1988 Olympic Trials in front of the home crowd, Missy moved up several spots from Nationals (she had a fall on beam) to 6th in the AA. This secured her the final spot on the team.
Unlike many of her teammates from the 1988 games, Missy retired from elite competition and began NCAA competition with the University of Utah. While there, Missy earned 1 perfect 10 on vault, 3 10′s on uneven bars, 2 on balance beam, and one on floor. She made the list several times for Utah’s all time best AA scores in competition, and was an All-American in all four of her competitive seasons (1989-1992). …
Our competition wouldn’t be half as good without the vision and leadership of Meet Director Dave Adlard.
… with Chellsie Memmel
We truly appreciate all you do to make this the best competition anywhere.
