Green Mountain High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Lakewood, CO)

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League Second, Earned Balancing precariously on a length of wood five inches wide and four and a half feet off the ground, flipping up- side down in mid air and landing per- fectly right side up, and spinning around two small uneven bars without using hands to hold on are all the things talented gymnasts do. There are other events besides beam, floor, and the uneven parallel bars, but these are a few events the GMHS gymnas- tics team competes in. This past year Coach Richi Brown began holding practices after school was barely even out for the summer. These gymnasts were't ever really away from school, as they had a camp for five weeks in the gym. They practiced five days a week for four hours every morning. Then in Au- gust, they began the actual season work-outs. These practices continued once school began until November 13, at the State Competition. Between September and Novem- ber, they participated in thirteen chal- leging meets, and took home eleven first places out of it. A very special thing that happened this year was the gymnasts took first at the Fort Lupton invitational. Other exciting things for the team were taking second place in the league, and they received a trium- phant seventh place at the State Com- petition. Individual honors were bes- towed upon junior Sandra Watson and sophomore Michelle Wewel by qualify- ing for state. Watson also received first in conference. Summing up the season Brown commented, The team worked really well. They had to work harder than many teams because we just didn't have all the top notch gymnasts other schools do. Besides, other schools ,. , . - -fr -- +'-:-w--- Imsw- m sums., Coach Brown watches Leanne Longnecker do a flip for style pointers. Jenny Miller mounts the uneven parallel bars.

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2 E Leanne Longnecker performs a difficult movement on the beam. Suzanne Hermanussen practices vaulting as Coach Richi Brown spots her. Gymnastics - 147