Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Bart Conner Invitational

Bart Conner (1984 Olympic Champion) is married to Nadia Comaneci (3x Olympic Gold Medal Winner) and they own a gym in Norman Oklahoma... who would have thought!?!?

Nicholas had a gym meet last weekend down in Norman (that's Sooner Country for some of us Cornhusker fans). He and Glenn did the roadtrip on Friday night and I stayed back with the rest of the gang. We did basketball with Zachary and soccer with Christopher. During the off time we watched TV and laid around! YES! As for Nick, he worked hard and played hard too.

He received 3rd in the All-Around. (Harrison Kaster, a fellow team mate, received 2nd in the All-Around. Great Job Harrison!) This is the first meet ever that Nicholas did not receive a 1st place medal; that's not like Nick... but let's just say that this was a very good "learning" meet. Eagle Gymnastics Level 6 Team (comprised of Harrison, Zach and Nick) received 1st place!

Rings was looking AWESOME till he lost his handstand position and fell. Though he was able to get back in to his routine, it lowered his points significantly and he walked away with 4th place (13.8). He received 2nd in the high bar (14.5), vault (14.6) and p-bars (14.4).

Following is his high bar routine:





In the evening, after the invitational, the Oklahoma Men's Gymnastics Team hosted the Minnesota Gymnastics Team. Two of the Oklahoma team members are from Mesa Arizona; they are brothers. Coach Anthony was Nick's coach when we lived in Mesa; it was a fun time for them both!


2 comments:

Carroll Family said...

How cool that he knew him from here!!! Great job, Nick - you need an invitational HERE!

Melanie Cooley said...

Wow! Good job! Nick's getting so tall!!