Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 2000, Page 200

Description:	On the BeamGymnastics team ends season at Regional andsends one to State ~by Abby HensonAn influential part of theteam was senior GretchenSmith. She worked hard allseason to meet her goal ofmaking it to State. She didmake it, placing 27th out of 48competitors on the bars.I felt privileged to go andrepresent South at State. Iam glad my hard work got mesomewhere, senior GretchenSmith said.Senior Gretchen Smith andsophomore Kathleen Marvinstood out as the leaders onthe season. Both had manyyears of past experience.They showed a lot ofleadership and experience.Gretchen helped us and toldus what to do and Kathleenmade it to State last year, soshe knew what thecompetition was like,sophomore Allie Davis said.The season wasnt all workand no play. The teammatesfound time to goof aroundbetween practices and meets.We had a lot of quotes andthings that people always said,like Is that a fat joke? Wewere always messing aroundand making fun of each other,junior Katie Gales said.The team had commontraditions such as psychesisters and an originaltradition that involved abalance stone.We had a stone called thebalance stone and each timewe saw another teammate, wewould pass it on to them,mainly so we got theimpression we would stay upon the beam. It was aconfidence booster, juniorJennifer Thrasher said.The team was especiallyclose, which was a big factor ingood performances throughoutthe season.We were really supportivein making sure everyone knewtheir importance to the team,junior Jessica Trudell said.The team withstood somedifficult competition when theycompeted against thepowerhouse teams ColumbusNorth and Columbus East.Between the two teams (thetoughest) would be ColumbusNorth, because theyre reallygood, and that means we setour goals higher so we could tryto beat them, freshmanAmanda Flynn said.Lizz HersheyAdd it upBloomington North: 95.65-93.25 WMartinsville: 96.5-92.9 WSeymour: 95.5-89.5 WConference Indiana: 3rd out of 10Columbus North: 103.15-93.45 LPanther Invitational: 2nd out of 6BHSN: 94.4-92.5 WColumbus East: 102.3-96.3 LBHSN Valentin Invitational: 6th out of 10Plainfield: 104.2-95.75 LHarrison Invitational: 3rd out of 13Center Grove: 96.45-92.15 LSectional: 3rd out of 13Regional: 4th out of 6= 4-4o 4 fJustin Banks,C<r\\PicDoiiflooDav200 GothicMARCH APRIL 2000
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Collection:	Bloomington High School South

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