Beach Blast

This past weekend was Maddie's first real level 5 meet.  She did awesome!  We were sweating the kip on low and high bar.  She did them twice during warmups and I was nervous that she wouldn't make it during competition.  She did!  She scored an 8.2 on bars.  I was impressed.  Let me tell ya, her beam routine was a thing of beauty.  I think beam has become her new favorite event.  She ended up with 8.625 - vault (4th), 8.2 - bars (3rd), 9.2 - beam (1st) and 8.9 - floor (2nd).  She ended up with 2nd place all around for her very first level 5 meet.  We are just so proud of her.  The next meet is the first weekend in October.  That will be her last level 5 and then on to Xcel Gold.  Of course, next year she will compete the new level 5 which will be the old level 6 but will be called level 5 - so confusing :).