Gymnasts shine in individual events

Scott Stocker, Rocky Mountain News

Published November 5, 2006 at midnight

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THORNTON – When it came to the individual events in Saturday’s Class 5A state gymnastics meet at Thornton High School, the wealth was spread around. However, in the 4A meet, it was a two-girl affair.

Loveland’s Hannah Bower, who won the 5A all-around title on Friday, could only come through with one event win, Floor, with a score of 9.75. In last year’s meet, Bower was a three-event winner.

On Floor, Bower edged cross town rival Gentry Knaub of Thompson Valley, who scored 9.725. Third went to Michelle Tharp of Fort Collins, thus giving Northern Colorado schools a sweep of the top three.

State team champion Green Mountain had an individual winner with Kelly Stone taking top honors on vault with a 9.7. Pine Creek’s Kristin Milardo place second (9.65) and Tharp third (9.65), where the superior judge score proved

the difference between the two.

Tharp, however, was not without a title as the Fort Collins freshman won the balance beam with a 9.65 over Bower, also with a 9.65. Again, the superior judge score proved to be the difference. Stone was third with a 9.55.

Milardo also came through with an individual event win taking the title on the uneven bars with a 9.8. Tharp was second (9.775) and Bower third (9.75).

Anna Simmons of Mountain Range, who won the 4A all-around title earlier in the day, won three individual events. She lost the third to Pueblo Central’s all-around runner-up Tera Sisson.

Simmons might have had a sweep of the events, but she made a crucial mistake on Floor which cost her the title to Sisson. She was decucted two tenths, mandatory points for adjusting her uniform during her routine. She lost a third tenth of a point, when her underware was showing.

As a result, Sisson took the win with a score of 9.55 to Simmon’s 9.425 and Mountain Range’s Brittany Logan finished third (9.4).

However, Simmons went virtually untouched in the other three events. She won Vault with a 9.725, the uneven bars, 9.375 and the balance beam, 9.525. In each event but the beam, Sisson was second. She was sixth here.

Sterling’s Lyndsey Meier was second on beam (9.375) while Pueblo Central’s Jennifer Rockwell was third (9.225).

Sterling’s Michelle Chapman placed third on the uneven bars (9.225) while Logan was third on Floor (9.4).

Girls State Gymnastics Meet

Thornton High School

Class 5A Individual events

Balance beam – 1. Michelle Tharp, Fort Collins, 9.65. 2. Hannah Bower,

Loveland, 9.65. 3. Kelly Stone, Green Mountain, 9.55. 4. Gentry Knaub,

Thompson Valley, 9.525. 5. Cynthia Omega, Overland, 9.5. 6. Kristin Milardo,

Pine Creek, 9.375.

Uneven bars – 1. Kristin Milardo, Pine Creek, 9.8. 2. Michelle Tharp, Fort

Collins, 9.775. 3. Hannah Bower, Loveland, 9.75. 4. Gentry Knaub, Thompson

Valley, 9.6. 5. Megan Clemens, Broomfield, 9.525. 6. Kelly Stone, Green

Mountain, 9.5.

Floor – 1. Hannah Bower, Loveland, 9.75. 2. Gentry Knaub, Thompson Valley,

9.725. 3. Michelle Tharp, Fort Collins, 9.675. 4. Kelly Stone, Green

Mountain, 9.675. 5. Karin Schwarz, Chatfield, 9.65. 6. Alie Bowen, Green

Mountain, 9.625.

Vault – 1. Kelly Stone, Green Mountain, 9.7. 2. Kristin Milardo, Pine Creek,

9.65. 3. Michelle Tharp, Fort Collins, 9.65. 4. Hannah Bower, Loveland,

9.65. 5. Gentry Knaub, Thompson Valley, 9.6. 6. Stephanie Spencer,

Ponderosa, 9.35.

Class 4A Individual events

Balance beam – 1. Anna Simmons, Mountain Range, 9.525. 2. Lyndsey Meier,

Sterling, 9.375. 3. Jennifer Rockwell, Pueblo Central, 9.225. 4. Michelle

Chapman, Sterling, 9.15. 5. Brittany Logan, Mountain Range, 9.075. 6. Tera

Sisson, Pueblo Central, 9.0.

Uneven bars – 1. Anna Simmons, Mountain Range, 9.375. 2. Tera Sisson, Pueblo

Central, 9.225. 3. Michelle Chapman, Sterling, 9.225. 4. Anna Mason, Fort

Morgan, 8.85. 5. Allison Robinette, Evergreen, 8.825. 6. Brittany Logan,

Mountain Range, 8.775.

Floor – 1. Tera Sisson, Pueblo Central, 9.55. 2. Anna Simmons, Mountain

Range, 9.425. 3. Brittany Logan, Mountain Range, 9.4. 4. Jennifer Rockwell,

Pueblo Central, 9.3. 5. Anna Mason, Fort Morgan, 9.275. 6. Allison

Robbinette, Evergreen, 9.2.

Vault – 1. Anna Simmons, Mountain Range, 9.725. 2. Tera Sisson, Pueblo

Central, 9.325. 3. Erin Krause, Sterling, 9.2. 4. Lindsay Benson, Sterling,

9.05. 5. Kelsey Downs, Pueblo Central, 8.9. 6. Kasia Kilijanek, Elizabeth,

8.875.

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