I'm so happy for April. She had a great (uneven) bars routine and was solid on vault and floor. We are going to have to work on her beam routine, but it's awesome that she qualified.
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Related Amanda has struggled a little on vault (it's the only event in which she didn't qualify), but she ha... PAM BECK She had an amazing beam routine. She was really deserving. ASHLEY FELICELLI Kelsey has come back with a tremendous attitude this year. She has a learned a 10.0 vault since she ... MARK STEVENSON If she had done the floor routine she'd done last week she would have gotten a 9.8, but we needed he... BILL RYDEN Ashley has the potential to see some vault down the line, but I she her as a starter on floor for us... MARK STEVENSON Kara's been kind of hovering between varsity and JV all four years. She was disappointed that she fe... CARLOS FUENTES Krista had a beautiful routine. She always swings the bars so nicely. She was very clean. The judges... CARLA PETERSON We improved our team score tonight and the balance beam was much better. It was a difficult loss. It... CAREY FAGAN For us to fare well, especially on beam, it's great to have Julie on the event. Our next step is to ... BOB STARKELL Rachel was out for a long time due to that ankle injury, and she was a little tentative in the fall ... MARK STEVENSON Our floor was really good and our vault was good. Our bars and our beam struggled. LORI ENRIGHT We were pretty solid all the way through. I'm pleased with where we are in terms of our difficulty. ... LORIE COOK This is so much better than flying on a balance beam or on the uneven bars, where you don't have the... CATHY RIGBY That's the first time Danielle hit beam all year. It was definitely a good routine. She had no falls... BRANDY SWAGER She (Courtney) started with a press handstand, and had a very solid routine. I expected her score to... AMY DUPONT I felt like we had a slow start on our first two events tonight. The scores were tight and vault was... CAREY FAGAN Today was great. I felt really good and was proud of my teammates. They really pulled through today.... MAUNYA JACOBS The kids did very well in terms of what we could do without Violette. We had to patch together with ... GREG BEAUPRE I never tell the girls; they didn't know, especially after the vault we had. Going in and having thr... KAREN KUHLMANN Kim couldn't have done that routine better. She had a great week at practice and came in very confid... MELISSA ARMS We had a routine going here. Now we're going to have a new routine. CINDY MILLER Carol had a nice vault. It was solid and she stuck both landings. It was a nice tight vault. CARLA PETERSON We understood that they were stronger on floor and that was the only area where they beat us in the ... GREG BEAUPRE She was awesome. She had location on all of her pitches and was just outstanding. BRIAN GLASS Starting on vault is a huge plus for us. We've been working on sticking our landings and showing hig... ERIN DETHLOFF They told her she basically wouldn't end up doing anything for them and she might as well retire. Sh... FRANK KUDLAC The thing we loved about her is she can score anywhere on the floor. She has got great 3-point range... LINDA HARGROVE I cleared my first two events in OK shape (a 9.35 on the bars and 9.7 on the beam) and I knew I had ... SARAH BULKA Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... BETTY SMITH She had the foresight just as her grandfather had the foresight about supermarkets. She convinced th... JOE BROWN She always had a smile on her face. She was very upbeat, happy. She was a good Christian. She had so... JENNIFER CZAJKA Branford is a team that is trying to build. But we had some highlights. We had Alyssa back, and she ... MELISSA ARMS We had three strong events today. We looked good on vault, bars and beam. On floor, the training cau... FRANK KUDLAC Nicole is especially stunning on this event. People are really going to be impressed with her skill ... KRISTEN SMYTH She's definitely earned her reputation. She knows where she is on the floor at all times and she put... GEORGE ERDAHL In gymnastics, knowing you can count on a 9.8-plus in a routine every meet is very important. She is... CAREY FAGAN Courtney can't win games by herself. We have to figure out how to help her. She played great today. ... ERIN HIGGINS She was a big contributor on vault, so we were a little nervous about that. ALLISON SZATEK Gerber's just an awesome player. I give her props for being this tall and she can see the floor so w... MARIAH DUNHAM (Aja) is a very good player for us and anybody else. We are happy to have her. She played a great ga... ERIC BAGLEY We are going to see if she can come back on bars for the rest of the year. Until then, we're going t... BRITANI PITTULLO I'm really happy for her. She runs the team on and off the floor, and she's a super kid. TOM STEPHENS Now she carries parts. The customers love her. She had it down pat in one week. When she hears the p... JENNIFER MCKINNON We came through on bars and beam today. We knew that on beam it was make it or break it and we came ... GILLIAN KIEFT But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... ANN PATCHETT She was just great. She played both ends and was on every loose ball. She was awesome. CHERYL CHAMBERS Nicole is one of those kids that's going to win many meets for us. She just wanted to do really good... JOHN SPINI Over her four years she has worked so hard and a lot of her points have come from that hard work. It... BARRY DUTT She and I had talked about the shows that she would be great in once that year was up. I was certain... BONNIE MONTE She had three or four shots during the game, so it was good for her to score one. She turned the gir... DAVE HILLIARD Emily had an awesome game. She knew that this was going to be her biggest challenge of the season so... KIM ALLEN The biggest thing was the beam. We stuck every routine. After that, I knew we were all set. DUNCAN CHASE You knew she was ill. But even through last week, she was upbeat. She was a great coach, but more im... SKIP BERTMAN Everyone has a track star, but I remember Ms. Hampton telling me that. She was the first one to ever... CAROLYN LEWIS It was fun, I had heard that she had gotten the job and I hadn't seen her in a couple years, so I wa... BILL RILEY Leah had a great year. She had some injuries early and we had to kind of watch her a little bit. But... STEVE WAMMER She set the tone. She stepped up her game in all facets and let the girls know by her work ethic tha... BRYAN GARDERE She had it all going for her. She was very popular, she was a great student from a great family, and... J. TYLER MAKEPEACE Tiffany is a good player and she had 14 points in the first half. We finally did what we had to do i... DALE MEIER It is a complete outrage that my client has had to endure such physical and emotional distress follo... KEVIN DEAN Defensively we feel like we're going to be solid up the middle. Teams like to put pressure on your d... GARY ENIS This was a big goal for us. It was wonderful for us to finish strong on bars and beam. GILLIAN KIEFT She does a lot of things on the floor that might not only be scoring. She's our team leader, she kee... CARYN JAROCKI Chelsea did a new vault and stood it up. She did a half (on), 11/2 (off). It's worth more than her o... LESLIE GOMES Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch o... UNKNOWN What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing... ALICE MUNRO It felt good. I didn't expect to do that well because I hadn't competed on vault or floor for a mont... BROOKE PRZEKURAT She might not be the most skilled basketball player on the floor, but she makes up for it with her a... DAVE KLINGEL Sitting on the bench inspired Francisco. She doesn't like sitting on the bench, and that inspired he... LEDAWN GIBSON She had followed me out to Hollywood from St. Paul. I was living in a boarding house, and she had a ... PETER GRAVES She did awesome. I think in the first half she was a little bit intimidated by Belcher. Coach Pound ... BETSY RICHMOND I just thought, 'Yeah, this gal would be great, if we can get her trained up, if we can get a little... CLINT EASTWOOD She had a lot of one putts for par. That's a solid round for her, and she was pleased with it. JOANIE EWING She knows all five positions on the floor and we will put her wherever we need her. There were times... BOB LYONS We were pressing and she slid in front of a girl, but she fell backward and knocked her head on the ... TIM SMITH I played well today and hit a lot of great shots. My warm-up routine was great so I had a lot of con... SPENCER LEVIN My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while s... MARY LAWSON She used to get a huge, huge smile on her face and would start waving her arms around. I can see her... BILL MORGAN I told her she was the best player on the floor and to go out and play like it. She did. LAURIE KELLY Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. BEN NICHOLAS So what if she wasn’t a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn’t wear her heart on he... SARA SHERIDAN I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During th... TONY BENNETT I'm pretty sure it was for Michelle, not me. I had fun. It was great. The crowd was awesome. She was... CAMILO VILLEGAS When she got onstage she was just a different kid. She was so confident and she looked so happy, and... TINA KNOWLES She struggled. She started good, but then she put on these wool gloves and got a rash. Her hands tur... PAT BOWLIN Our team score on bars was 35.50, which was astounding. It got us back in the mix after we started o... JULIE CHAPMAN She was disoriented. She was out and had to be helped to her corner, despite the fact that she was s... MAUREEN SHEA She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed; and he was happy without he... VIRGINIA WOOLF Monica was very tough in the middle for us this year and she was a pest on defense. She did exactly ... WERNER CHRISTEN Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not... KURT VONNEGUT She left feeling dirty, and on the bus ride home she knew that what her uncles told her had come tru... DAVID BERGEN The scores were a little lower that what the kids are used to getting. But they were lower for every... LESLIE GOMES She had a ball. Before she was limited by her mom saying, 'This one's going to work and this one isn... CAROL BEARD We have a very good team, but she feels like she has to carry everyone on her back and sometimes tha... DAVID MOSER When she's out on the floor, she doesn't get rattled. Her biggest asset is that she's so positive. S... ELAINE EDDY The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pl... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Sam is so athletic, but we plan on using her as a back row player, ... We started looking at her dur... MIKE WATKINS She is strong in the floor exercise and the vault. She is always laughing and cracking jokes. JENNIFER BARRETT It was not her best meet, but she won the vault. CARLA PETERSON
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