Lady Luck

Kennadi's gym hosted the annual "Lady Luck" meet at the South Point Hotel last weekend. This is the first meet of this competition season, and it's a biggie! Over 1200 girls from 25 states compete at this three day meet. This is Kennadi's first season competing at level 7 as an optional gymnast. Basically that means she has her own routines choreographed for her on each event. Here's the lowdown on how she did:

Starting things off with a bang, Kennadi earned a whopping 9.35 on floor which earned her second place on floor. Next came her least favorite event--vault where she blew the judges away and nabbed first place with 9.45. On uneven bars, she kept up her streak and took second place with 9.25. Finally...it was her final and typically best event--beam. Unfortunately, she didn't do quite as well as usual and took fourth place. We were so proud and beaming that we hardly noticed the lower-than-usual beam score, and it was still good enough to earn Kennadi 2nd place all-around.

Equally exciting was the girls' team score. For those of you less familiar with gymnastics, the team score is calculated using the three highest scores of all the gymnasts on your team. Due to injury and illness, we had only three girls competing level seven. It leaves little room for error when you have to count every single score! Most teams had at least six girls' scores to use. Needless to say, it was thrilling when the girls pulled of a second-place team score that was just .5 of a point behind first place and more than 3 points ahead of third place.

WAY TO GO KENNADI!!!