MAY 14, 2012 - please check your info on the Club page

Junior Olympic National Champion: Baely Rowe!

1st on Bars, 2nd AA, making her a Junior Olympic National Team Member. Baely also got a new and unique beam skill named after her by competing it at Nationals: 8.401 - Gainer Front Toss on Beam "D".
Congratulations Baely and AGC!

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April 2012 USAG WA Board Meeting Minutes

USAG WA is now accepting nominations for the USAG WA State Board, term July 1, 2012-June 30, 2014.
Nominations are due by June 1, 2012. read more

USAG WA clubs, this is a clinic you won't want to miss.  The KT Tape Seminar, with a discount for club coaches. Depending on enrollment, some procedes may be donated to USAG WA. read more

Westerns results.

Congratulations to our Westerns Champions!

Jr B - T1 UB - Alexis Takara, AGC

Sr C - 1AA, 1 VT, 1 FX - Alexandra Kennedy, AGC

Sr D - 1AA, 1T VT, 1 UB - Danielle Landry, AGC (3 Time Westerns Champ)

2012 Survey Results - USAG WA concerning Sectionals and State Meets

Club Ticket Sales Program for the 2012 Kellogg’s Tour of Gymnastics Champions at the KeyArena in Seattle SEATTLE, WA • SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 read more

CONGRATS TO OUR LEVEL 5/6 GYMNASTS AND COACHES

LEVEL 5 State Meet RESULTS

LARGE TEAM 1st AGC, 2nd Emerald City, 3rd LEGA
SMALL TEAM 1st Eastside, 2nd Peak Gym, 3rd Northshore

LEVEL 6 State Meet RESULTS (including Team)

TEAM 1st Emerald City, 2nd Roach, 3rd Gym East

LEVEL 4 SECTIONAL TEAM MEET
1st:  North  577.5
2nd:  Central  575.725
3rd:  South  575.5
4th:  East  562.4
There were 20 competitors on each team, the top 15 scores on each event for each team counted towards the team score!

Level 4 results are on the LEGA website.

Alabama wins Women's NCAA Championship.

Illinois, Dalton capture NCAA Men's Gymnastics Titles

Congrats to Patti Gable - re-elected USAG WA Chair

Region 2 Board Meeting Minutes April 2012

Pro members: are you interested in being on the USAG WA board for the next term: July 2012-June 2014? If you are interested and would like to attend our next board meeting on April 27th as a guest, please contact Patti Gable. You must pre-schedule your visit by Wednesday 4/25.

WA and Region 2 Gymnasts at USAG Collegiate Nationals in Connecticut last weekend.

(l to r) Stephanie Wagner, SPU: Mckenna Page, SPU (Gym East): Samantha Vanderputten, Cornell (Gym East): Dana Bonincontri, U Penn (Gym East): Rebecca Engberg, U Penn (Gym East): Corrine Wise, SPU (Metro): Sydney Clark, SPU: Kai Tindall, SPU (FGC)

LOTS OF NEW INFO - ALSO - CONGRATS TO ALL INVOLVED IN REGIONAL MEET - RESULTS ARE BELOW AND ON MEET RESULTS PAGE:
(Also - new job opportunity posted on Classifieds link)

WA State's new Co- State Judging Directors will be Denise Green and Lee Bjella.

August 24-26: Regional Congress at LEGA (the USAG WA State meeting and Recognition banquet will be held in conjunction with Regional Congress, there will not be a State Clinic)

10/5-10/7: Gymnast Clinic in Spokane to benefit Mike Armstrong 10/27-10/28: Super Camp (Oregon and Washington)

11/3-11/4: High Tech Clinic (at OGA in Beaverton, OR) **If you have any suggestions for clinicians for the High Tech clinic, please send them to Laurie Reid 

The Regional board proposed and passed: Instead of Regional Team Registration Fees, there will be a $5 per gymnast at each state meet as a competition fee. This fee will be a Regional competition fee. SO for WA, there will be a $5 per gymnast state competition fee and a $5 per gymnast regional competition fee.

Regionals 2013 will be hosted by Metropolitan Gymnastics, and will be held at Shoreline Community College.

Order of competition for the regional meet: Thursday: practice day Friday: session 1: Level 8 Team meet session 2: Level 10 session 3: Level 10 Meets to be followed by the Level 10 clinic Saturday: session 1: Level 9 Session 2: Level 9 Sunday: session 1: Level 8 session 2: Level 8 session 3: Level 8

Procedure for qualifying to Level 8 Regionals from the Level 8 State competitions: Total to regionals: 192 (no petitions since qualifying is by a %) Each state will be awarded competitors as a % of competitors, this % will be determined as a % of all competitors in Level 8 State meets in the region.

Call for bids: Regionals 2014. Please send your bids in to Meg Doxtator.

Regionals Results - Great job Washington!
Congrats to our Regional winners - including the following All Around champs:
Level 8: Shilese Jones, AGC; Kendall Covey, Metropolitan; Samantha Smith, Auburn; Sidney Brown, Cascade Elite; Hanna Luong, Auburn; Eden Robles, Auburn

Level 9: Kristina Peterson, Metropolitan; Allyson Rudd, Black Hills; Lilly KaiserSchmidt, Leading Edge; Alexandra Kennedy, Auburn; Danielle Landry, Auburn

Level 10: Dori Overhus, Cascade Elite; Baely Rowe, Auburn; Amber Takara, Auburn

Washington Level 8 State Team wins again at Region 2 Championships. (Pictured below)

The following Level 8 gymnasts will make up the REGION 2 Level 8 Team competing at the USA Gymnastics Open in Orlando, Florida on June 3rd. Each region will be sending a team to compete in the National Level 8 Team Challenge. Although the region 2 team looks like a WA team, it is a region 2 team. The competition is at ESPN Wide World of Sports at Disney World. (Go Washington State!)

Eden Robles AGC; Shilese Jones AGC; Dalia Syrek AGC; Samantha Smith AGC; Kyrsten Leazer CEG; Sidney Brown CEG; Kendal Covey Metropolitan; Kendal Toy Emerald City; alt. Gracie Grant AGC

Congrats to UW for a great Regional NCAA meet and for placing 3rd - also congrats to Sophomore Aliza Vaccher with a 1st on Vault and 4th AA and qualifying to Nationals for the second straight year.

Baely Rowe, AGC, takes 7th place at the Nastia Liukin Cup, March 2 in New York. Good work Baely!

Great job at Optional State everyone! Results
Thanks to NWA and the crew for a very efficient state meet.

Congrats to all our gymnasts and to the following team winners:

Level 7 Naydenov
Level 8 AGC
Level 9 AGC
Level 10 AGC

Some of our great volunteers at Pac Rim!

Please submit nominations for this years Washington Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame Nomination Form

USAG WA Feb 2012 Board Meeting Minutes

USAG WA list of all graduating seniors.

NEW FROM CONNIE MALONEY

Code of Points Changes/Corrections 1/27/2012

Floor Ex Revision 2012

Vault Revision 2012

Sanction Info: Effective January 2012, the following criteria will be required to be a meet director and/or host a USA Gymnastics-sanctioned event or activity.

Meet Directors - info on how to verifies memberships online for sanctioned events - State Handbook Section B.5

COACHES: Please remember to read through these minutes from May, as they contain important rule changes for the coming season. (Write all the changes in your Code of Points.)

Joint Olympic & Technical Joint Committees Minutes - May 16, 2011

Technical Committee Meeting Minutes - May 16-17, 2011

Women's JO Committee Meeting Minutes - May 16-17, 2011

FYI - The three J.O. Committee Minutes from May - all the new rule changes and clarifications - have been arranged onto one pdf if anyone is interested.
Compiled List of May JO Committee Minutes

WOMEN’S ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING, May 15, 2011, Long Beach, CA

Washington State Gymnasts going on to college competition this year are Cami Guyer, Gym East to San Jose; Madison Kratzke, SGA to Cal Berkeley; Teryn Loland, CEG to SPU; Nikki Minervino, Gym East to George Washington; Kelsey Morris, LEGA to Boise; McKenna Page, Gym East to SPU; Madison Podlucky, AGC to UW; Jamie Radermacher, Naydenov to Eastern Michigan; Jessica Starcevich, Gym East to Cornell; Sammy VanderPutten, Gym East to Cornell; and Kailie Ponto, LEGA to OSU. Jordan Widener, LEGA, Cal Berkeley 2013

Good luck ladies!

Congrats to Baely Rowe who has made a verbal commitment to the U of Utah for the 2014 season. 2012-13 gymnasts - verbal commitments include Allison Northey, Gym East, to UW; Haley Lange AGC to U of Utah; and Jamie Wright, NWG, to OSU.
read more (To update this info, please contact me. email)

2013-2020 Women’s New Compulsory Program

What: NEW JO Women’s Compulsory routines and music for Levels 1-5. (Level 6 will be an optional level starting in 2013.)
When:National Workshops to teach the routines will be conducted:

• 1st weekend: May 30 - June 2, 2013, Disneyworld, Florida

• 2nd weekend:June 6- June 9, 2013, Reno, Nevada

• Regional Workshops, TBA

Use: Competition using the new routines will begin August 1, 2013

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