Krista Won The Regionals!!!!

Big news....Krista is the Regional Champion for rhythmic gymnastics!!! She won #1st place yesterday in the Regional Championship! I am SO proud of her for all of her hard work and discipline this year. She was SO happy to win yesterday and said she couldn't believe that SHE was indeed the champion!! In the last competition ( for our the Department) she was 4th and, for their first competition (inter-team) she was 3rd. Yesterday was the most important competition (and final) of the season so it is great to end with a bang! Last year's champion won a big trophy so hopefully Krista will be getting one also! She is really hoping so!

I put together a 6 minute video of the day. We were there for almost 4 hours! I'd say there were approximately 80 girls in the competition and each girl had 4 individual exercises and one team exercise that they were judged upon---The individual exercises were: cord, free-hand, hoop and ribbon and the team exercise was the ball. There were 2 gymnastic arena mats down and each mat was broken down into 4 grids with judges located at each grid (8 grids). So, in total for each song sequence there were 8 girls performing for their respective judges. It still took a LONG time to get through, but it was always exciting looking forward to Krista's next exercise. I think one area that helped Krista out a lot was in her timing. The judges are very concerned about the timing of the exercise in relation to the length of the song. Each exercise should finish PRECISELY at the time the music stops. Krista has really developed her ear and timing this year with all of her dance (ballet and tap) so she was really spot on in this important criteria.

In total Krista scored 258.5 points and was a good 5 points ahead of 2nd place. WAY TO GO KRISTA!!! It was the French Mother's Day yesterday too, so it was a super present for me to watch Krista win!!!

You can watch Krista's 5 exercises and the awards ceremony here:

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