Windham News : gymnastics

NEGTC boys dominate at state meet

Salem Editor — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:51:00 GMT

The New England Gymnastic Training Center’s level-4 boys team competed at New Hampshire State Meet at GymKen in Windham, taking first place among seven teams.

Coaches Jacob Pitts, Tony Cariello, Barry Rogers and Fransico Silveira trained the hardworking group, including a trio of local athletes, to the following scores:
Cameron Rogers, 7, of Windham, placed first in the 6- and 7-year-old division with an allaround score of 88.7. He earned a 15.4 on floor, 13.5 on pommel horse, 15.2 on rings, 15.6 on vault, 14 on parallel bars and 15.0 on high bar.

Salem’s Pavel Medbery, 10, placed third in the 8- and 9-yearold division with an all-around score of 89.9. He scored a 15.0 on floor, 14.3 on pommel, 15.1 on rings, 15.5 on vault, 14.8 on parallel bars and 15.2 on high bar.

Cameron Genoter, 10, of Pelham, placed second in the 10- and 11-year-old division with an all around score of 90.0. He tallied a 14.2 on floor, 15.1 on pommel, 15.2 on rings, 15 on vault, 15.4 on parallel bars and 15.1 on high bar.

Small Gym-Ken team makes big impression

Salem Editor — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:41:00 GMT

The level-5 girls gymnastics team from Windham’s Gym-Ken Gymnastics took third place at the state championship meet on March 15, competing against more than 80 girls from 15 gyms across the state.

To compete at the state level, each athlete needed to achieve a score of 33.0 or above during one of two state sectional meets. All five Gym-Ken athletes reached the threshold at the first sectional.

Yet despite the modest number of gymnasts, Gym-Ken showed consistency and competence in each event – vault, bars, beam and floor.

Among the 26 11- and 12-year-old athletes, Madison MacPhee of Salem won the all-around with 36.225 points, including first place on vault, second on beam and third on bars and floor.

Lindsay Maffei of Windham took fourth place on vault, helping her to ninth place in the all-around.

In the 10-year-old age group, which included 30 competitors, Julianna Corsetto placed fifth on bars with a 9.350 and 10th in the all-around. Leah Pacunas scored. 9.150 on bars en route to a 15th-place finish in the all-around.

Erica Muse of Salem also posted her strongest effort on bars and took 16th place in the all-around.

For details on the program, which attracts more than 900 students per week, visit www.gymkengymnastics.com.

Gym-Ken’s level-4 team sets record, win states

Salem Editor — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:11:00 GMT

Gym-Ken Gymnastics’ level-4 girls team took top honors at the recent New Hampshire USA Gymnastics state championships. The girls set a new state record for level- 4 gymnasts with 114.075 points while facing teams from 18 gyms across the state.

The 10-athlete team amassed 29 individual scores of 9.0 or above, far exceeding the goal of head coach Ruth Licata.

“To encourage them all to try their best, I told them that they needed to earn 20 9.0’s or above as a team in order to earn a sleepover at the gym,” said Licata, a Windham resident. “They were more concerned with that than with winning the competition. Of course, they were very excited to win as well!”

Each of the 10 level-4 gymnasts scored the minimum 33.00 points during the first of two sectional meets to qualify for states.

Among the 26 6- and 7-year-old competitors, Alexandra Masone of Windham won the all-around with 37.975 points, winning bars, beam and floor. Her best score, 9.6 on vault, earned her second place. Victoria Sipes of Windham tallied 36.275 points and placed sixth in the all-around, including third on bars. Anya Comeau was seventh in the all-around with 36.225 points. Rebecca Heath of Windham scored 9.25 on vault, good for seventh place. She was 12th in the all-around.

In the 8-year-old division, Alexis Ouellette of Salem finished with 36.35 points in the all-around, placing ninth among 34 competitors. She was fourth on vault. Paige Butler of Windham posted two scores above 9.0 and finished sixth on floor.

Samantha Jezak, among 18 competitors, posted the highest score among all level-4 entrants, scoring 38.375 in the all-around to win the 9-year-old division. She swept each of the individual events – vault, bars, beam and floor.

Gabriella Palermo of Salem was second with 37.725 points in the all-around, including second- place efforts on vault and floor. Ravyn Vasquez totaled 36.9 in the all-around, good for sixth place. She finished third on floor. Scarlett Souter of Windham tallied 36.075 in the all-around, finishing 10th. Her best finish was fourth place on vault.