February 2009 Newsletter

Tumbling Tigers February Team Notes

Our meet season has truly gotten underway.  All of the kids on team have had at least 2 meets.  They have gotten off to a great start.  Thanks to all the parents that helped make our home meet such a success.  I have a few dishes left over from the food table so if you are missing one, come and check with me.  We are having a warm clothing drive for our Community Project that I hope will help our gymnasts enjoy giving to others.  I have also handed out a mid-season survey for you and your child to fill out and hand back in to me.  As always, payments must be up to date and current through the previous month.  I have given out all the team uniforms that have come in, I realize we are still waiting on some warm up pants and a few jackets.  Please make sure all these items are paid for. We are very busy this month with most kids having 3 meets; 2 are home meets and 1 is at Westfield YMCA.

I am very proud of the way our kids conduct themselves.  At the beginning of the year I included in your papers "meet etiquette". I will remind you of a few of the rules.  Parents must stay in the viewing area and are not allowed on the meet floor.  If you have a question regarding your child''s score please see your head coach.  Often girls flashing scores will make a mistake.  The true score is the one the judge writes down on the official score sheet.  No flash pictures are to be taken and cell phones must be silent.  We are having an Invitational meet on the 22nd, so I will need bartering parents to help make up goody bags for the gymnasts.  If you can help us get fun little items for the goody bags that would be great.  We need approximately 100 items.

Here are the times and dates for this month''s meets:

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH HAMPSHIRE REGIONAL, KEENE, AND NORTHERN BERKSHIRE VS. GREENFIELD HOME MEET
LEVELS 2-8

Session 1     Levels 4-6
Check in: 10:30am
Warm up: 10:45am
March in:  11:30am

Session 2    Levels 2, 3, 7, 8, and Prep Ops
Check in:   2pm
Warm up:  2:15pm
March in:   2:45pm

(We should have 4 judges for this meet so it should go much faster)

Here are the positions for bartering parents. Where it is blank, I really need some volunteers:

Session 1
Food Table: Brenda Harvey, Sharon Lindale
Score Table: Ann Hamer,  Janice Garvin,  Sarah Bohl
Beam Timers: Deb Scopa
Raffle 50/50:  Lynn Mitchell                     
Clean up: Cal Rankin,  Marty Ostrowski

Session 2
Food Table: Kim Walker-Goncalves
Score Table: Ann Hamer, Sarah Bohl, Amy Hamilton
Beam Timers: Lauren Rathbun
Raffle 50/50:
Clean up: Abe Rathbun, Adamelys Rodriguez

Please help keep the Mezz clean!  All parents can help a little bit with the clean up.

As part of the team, all team parents must bring food for the food table.

SESSION I  
Level 4''s  - Covered dishes/salads
Level 5''s - Snacks
Level 6''s - Desserts

SESSION II
Level 2''s - Desserts
Level 3''s - Snacks
Level 8''s - Covered dishes/salads

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND  VACATIONAL INVITATIONAL
HOME MEET, LEVELS 4-8

Session 1  Levels 4,5, Prep Op
Arrive and stretch: 10:30am
Warm up: 10:45am
March in:  11:30am

Session 2 Levels 6-8
Arrive and stretch:  2pm
Warm up:   2:15pm
March in:    2:45pm

Parents keep the same jobs at the meet as before, even if your
child is not competing that day.  All parents can help with the
clean up.

Food for the food table:

Session 1
LEVEL 4 - Snacks/desserts
LEVEL 5 - Covered dishes/salads

Session 2
LEVEL 6 - Covered dishes/salads
LEVEL 8 -  Snacks/desserts

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH  GREENFIELD AT WESTFIELD
LEVELS 2-8

Session 1  Levels  TBA
Arrive:  8:30am
Warm up: 9:00am
March in:  10:30am

Session 2  Levels TBA
Arrive:  12:30pm
Warm up: 1pm
March in:  1:30pm

DIRECTIONS: Take 91 South to the Mass Pike.  Go west on the pike and get off at the 1st exit.  At the bottom of the exit, take a right.  Continue through town toward the Common.  Take a right onto Court Street.  The YMCA is right after the Courthouse on the right.  The driveway to the parking lot is between the Courthouse and the YMCA.

Reminders;  we have one USAG meet left.  Sunday, March 8th we will be attending the Hip Hop Classic at Woodman''s in Brattleboro, VT.

Levels 4-8 that qualify for Regionals need to know that the date has been changed to the weekend of May 15-17th in Glen''s Falls, NY.

Qualifying Scores are:
States (1x)
Level 4  32.5
Level 5  31.0
Levels 6-8  30.0

Regionals  (2x)
Level 4  33.5
Level 5  32.0
Levels 6-8  31.0

Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2009
Updated Tue, Feb 3, 2009