Friday, January 28, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Level 6's 2nd Place at Circle of Stars

The level 6's finished off the 2011 Circle of Stars weekend with a 2nd Place finish as a team. The girls started on bars(which was a tightly judged event for all competitors) with both Peyton and Amber finishing 2nd in their age groups, while Sam finished in 3rd place in her age group. Here is video of bars:


On Beam Amber finished 1st in her age group with a 9.2 and Nina finished 2nd in her age group with a 9.25. Here is video of beam:



On floor Peyton and Nina tied with a 9.05 but the tie was broken by the all around with Peyton taking 2nd and Nina 3rd. (will post floor video soon)


The girls finished the competition with strong vaults as Amber took first with a season high 9.425, Cassi took first in her age group with a 9.225, Nina took 3rd with a 9.2, Sam took 2nd with 9.175, and Peyton took 6th with a 9.025.

In the All Around Amber won her age group with a 36.125, Peyton finished 2nd with a 35.75 in her age group, Sam place 2nd with a 35.175, and Nina placed 4th with a 35.5.

Congrats to all of the Level 6's for their individual accomplishments as well as the 2nd Place Team Trophy.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Level 7 Kennedy O'Neill wins beam finishes 3rd AA at COS

This past saturday the Level 7's and 10's competed at the 2011 Circle of Stars. In the Level 7 Session Kennedy O'Neill finished 1st on Beam with a 9.15, 2nd on floor with a 9.225, and 4th on vault with a 9.2 and finished in 3rd in the all around with a 35.8.


Level 7 Bailey Bloom finished 4th on bars



In the Level 10 Session,senior Maggie Lundeen took 4th on Bars and 3rd on Beam



Emily Ryan finished 5th on vault with 9.05, 4th on bars and 5th AA.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Level 8's and 9's win at Circle of Stars


Our Palmers Level 8's took first place in their session yesterday at the 2011 Circle of Stars competition at the Indianapolis Convention Center. This is the first team win for the Level 8's after finishing 4th and 2nd in the first two meets. The girls started off a little shaky on bars though Veronika finished 4th in her age group with a 9.0.. The team had their best beam rotation of the season so far with 3 girls Jaemie (9.325), Teagan (9.225), Katie (9.4) taking 1st place in their age groups along with a 2nd place finish for Jessica (9.175) and a 4th place finish for Isabella (9.15).

On floor 6 girls finished in the top 5 with Annalise winning her age group with a 9.2. The other scores were as follows Veronika 4th (9.025), Jaemie 4th (9.15), Jessica 3rd (9.2), Isabella 2nd (9.275) and Katie 5th (9.075).

On Vault Teagan and Isabella each hit a big vault for 9.225 and 9.4 respectively. We also had 4 girls finish in the top 4 in the All Around with Isabella (36.025) and Katie (35.8) taking first place, Jamie (36.225) finished 2nd and Teagan (35.1) finished 3rd.


In the level 9 competition, Sam tumbled and danced her way to a 9.025 and 1st place in her age group.

Congrats to all the Level 8's and 9's on a job well done today.

Good Luck to the level 7's, 10's on Saturday.

Video will be posted later this week

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Palmers Boys take on the Windy City

Palmers Boys team members competed this past weekend at the 2011 Windy City Invite in Chicago at

UIC Physical Education Building. The Windy City Invite is one of the largest boys invitationals in the country with teams from all over the United States and Canada.

Level 10 Jordan DeClerk finished 4th on Floor Exercise with a score of 14.00 which for those of you unfamiliar with boys scoring is a good score. On Vault Jordan scored a 14.05 and had a respectable ring score of 12.75.

Level 8 Andrew Lewarchick competed very well finishing in the top 10 on three events and just missing the top ten in the all around with a 11th place finish. Andrew finished 7th on vault with a 12.9, 4th on pbars 12.9 and 5th on High Bar 10.9 to finish with an all around of 67.9.

Congrats to Jordan and Andrew

The boys next competition is in a few weeks at the Valentine Classic.