End of a Season

Well, fall gymnastics season has ended and so has fall soccer. Yeah! Once volleyball ends at the end of the month, we get a break until the next gymnastics season starts the end of January. Leilani's soccer team finished 1st place in their division. Leilani even scored a goal this season! Emily's team did well too, but they do not keep official scores until 4th grade. Leilani finished the gymnastics season well. She qualified for the sectional meet for the southern half of Oregon. She was hoping to qualify for State, but she blew that when she fell off the beam during her routine at sectionals. Otherwise her sectional meet was amazing. She pulled off a 9.55 vault, her first 9.0 on Bars and a 9.15 on floor. The most amazing thing about it was that she was tired and sick. She was up the whole night before with throw up and diarrhea. But somewhere inside, Leilani manages to find it in her to compete no matter what. Her all around score at sectionals was her highest ever...a 36.25 I think we will see great things out of her next season. I am adding to this post a newspaper score from one of her last meets. (If you click on a picture in a blog it will come up larger) We didn't know they posted meets in the paper until two days ago when her volleyball coach said she saw Leilani's name in the paper. Now we know. I am also adding a little video that my dad took of Leilani's vault and floor routine at the Halloween meet. It is only part of her floor routine, and he took it with his 35 mm camera so it is not really good quality, but it gives you an idea of what she does. For reference, she got an 8.65 on the floor routine in the video and a 8.75 on the vault in the video. Can you tell we are proud parents?