Another amazing Apparatus Finals is in the record book. Photos, results, routines and interviews to be posted later. … We’re off to the PARTY and DANCE now.

Pittsburg girls with Olympians

They liked the ROCK STAR entrance so much, they did it twice.

Hosted at the Club this year, we’re looking at moving the Boys meet to a BIGGER VENUE in 2013.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… from the host club. He’s been invited to demo his Pommel Horse routine at BIG SHOW.

Congratulations.

Austin Kirk - Avant Coeur

Check in for competitors, coaches and their families = Saturday 5:30pm

Doors open for spectators 5:45
Mandatory Coach’s meeting: 5:45
General warm-up: 6:00 – 6:20
March in: 6:45
Awards: 9:30

Finalists will qualify as follows:

Level 7: The top 2 on each event from each session
Level 8: The top 6 on each event
Level 9: The top 6 Juniors and the top 6 Seniors on each event
Level 10: The top 6 Juniors and the top 6 Seniors on each event

DEMO routine(s) Pommel Horse.

Gymnasts — confirm all this with your Coach.

It’s going to be LOUD. Bring your earplugs.

by ALECIA WARREN

COEUR d’ALENE – There’s one gem Mohini Bhardwaj always includes in her talks to budding gymnasts.

“If you don’t make it the first time, keep trying,” she said on Friday.

That’s why Bhardwaj comes back year after year to Coeur d’Alene to tell her story. How she nearly qualified for the Olympics when she was 18, went to college and then tried again, earning herself a team silver medal at the 2004 Olympics when she was 25.

“I decided, ‘I’m going to try this one more time,’” remembered the 4-foot, 10-inch athlete turned coach. “Then I trained harder than I have ever trained in my entire life.” …

CDA Press

That’s Kiandra Carpenter!