If you know Alex, you know she loves gymnastics. There are no words to describe how much she loves the sport. She gives up hanging with friends, parties, free time to work out 4+ hours a day 5 days a week. She does this and still gets straight A's. It is her passion!!! We absolutely do not force her to do this, we are her support and if a time comes that she wants to quit then that will be fine. Well, she has worked so hard this year and attended several meets working up to the Utah State meet which is a qualifier for Regionals in California. The week of the biggest meet of the year she ends up with the flu, misses practice and the flu turned into pneumonia and on top of that she got pink eye. Needles to say it was not the best week for her to be so sick. Friday the doctor told us she had pneumonia, so we got her on some meds and on Saturday she decided to compete anyway. We knew this would not be her best meet of the year, but we were proud of her determination. She excelled at bars with a 9.6 and ended up with first on that event. Beam she got a 9.2. She really struggled on floor and vault and we could see that she was so tired and having a hard time catching her breath. She ended up being 5th all around which is great considering she was so sick. Alex's meet buddie, Randi. These are various pictures taken from the last few meets.
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