Oh happy day!!!! She was so excited for the first meet!!! It was an early one....they competed at 8:00am at Lindenwood. Her scores weren't all that impressive, but she placed well, so I guess the judges were consistently hard on all the gymnasts.
Maddie placed second in the all-around, losing to her teammate Jillian.
This meet was called the "TeddyBear Meet" so they gave out teddybears instead of trophy's for the All-Arounds......just what we need, another stuffed animals floating around the house. But she was excited!!!
Her second to last even was the vault. After she vaulted her second one, I could tell she was crying and holding her knee. She had been telling us for a couple weeks that her knee had been bothering her, but I wasn't really paying that much attention to her. Jack has been having a little bit of osgood schlatter in his knee and about that time that started for him is when she started complaining. I thought she was just complaining cause Jack was. HA!! She's a tough ole bird, so when I saw her crying, I knew it wasn't good. The only even she had left was bars, which is typically her best. She didn't score as high as normal on bars, as she was a little hesitant in her landing, as her knee was hurting.
But she had a great time, she was just upset at her knee. The next week at practice she came out in tears as well. Mike thinks she has "jumpers knee". We reached out to our friend that is a PT. He sent her a program to do and we shut her down from practices for the last two weeks of December. Hoping this solves the problem.....fingers crossed!!
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