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Twisters gymnastics dominates at own meet
Youth notebook: Iowa Gym-Nest and Moser athletes also capture multiple gold at competitions
The Gazette
Dec. 17, 2022 11:42 am
Twisters Gymnastics swept the Xcel team titles last weekend in its own Jinglebell Gymboree.
Twisters won titles in Xcel Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond.
Sydney Luckey won four events in Diamond — vault, bars, beam and all around.
Ava Northrup won three golds in Bronze (bars, beam, all around) and Emersyn Schrader (bars, all around) and Lillian Johanson (beam, floor exercise) captured two titles.
Other Bronze winners were Adeligh Gorman (floor), Rylen Novak (beam), Emma Benson (vault), Cate LeGrand (floor), Vivien Geater (floor), Sophia Nelson (bars) and Hadley Backen (all around).
Eloise Boyer won the vault, bars and all around in Xcel Silver. Delaney Shannon won two Silver titles (floor, all around), as did Gracey Feight (bars, all around) and Kennedy Geilenfeld (floor, all around).
Other Xcel Silver winners were Amelie Kholgade (vault), Adeline Garin (vault), Jordyn Velitchkov (beam) and Finnley Wheelan (floor).
Emma Everson won three Gold titles (bars, beam, all around). Reese Wendling (vault, all around) and Olivia Brecht (beam, all around) won twice in Gold.
Other Gold winners were Poppy Brueck (floor), Lila Cue (beam), Jade Wery (vault) and Eva Hayes (floor),
Reagan Furler won three Platinum golds (bars, beam, all around). Other Platinum winners were Ava Galdden (vault) and Josie McGraw (bars).
Reyata Ortiz (bars, floor) and Maggie Goldberg (beam, all around) won a pair of Diamond titles. Brianna Pierce (vault), Allison Dvorak (vault) and Natalie Osterberg (bars) were other Diamond winners.
Xcel Bronze placewinners were Rhya Wiltfang, Ella Riederer, Drea Daleckey, Chesney Claeys, Everly Joyce, Alex Lang, Halle Hammel, Olivis Stroh, Harper Dumolien, Ava Williams, Morgan Bentow and Allegra Cosgrove.
Aubrey Peters was a Silver placewinners along with Ayla Boyer, Emerson Thomas, Cora Burns, Savannah Preston, Kali Decker , Ruby Ehm, Payton Ritze, Jocelyn Kinne and Aria Jolie McGrath,
Gold placewinners were Lilli Bailey, Brooklyn Loftsgard, Myla Loveless, Brooklyn Davis, Sage Clow, Sophia Sprague, Rylie Bartlett, Kylee Smith, Erica Marek and Ava Salladay.
Anna Tiedeman was a placewinner in Platinum, along with Sarah Beatty, Regan Bahl, Mia Cerretti and Marina Kellison.
Jayme Brown, Tori Sletteland and Gia Cole were placewinners in Diamond.
Twisters’ Piper Ross won the bars and floor in Level 2, and Clara Atty and Jenny Zehme were placewinners.
Level 3 winners were Charlotte Harris (floor, all around), Delaney Busch (bars, floor) and Azaela Moore (bars, all around). Pyper Vasquez was a placewinner.
Amelia Archibald (vault, beam, floor, all around) won four Level 4 titles and Mia Dorman and Grace Raes were placewinners.
Level 5 placewinners were Elli Frame, Nataleigh LeClere and Ava Manthe.
GYM-NEST SHINE
The Iowa Gym-Nest team had many winners recently at the Ruby Rumble Invitational and the Xcel Silver, Gold and Platinum teams all finished second.
IGN winners were Charlotte McKinney (Level 2), Inge Gunderson (Level 2), Jordan Bemrich (Level 2), Jena Frank (Platinum), Emma Smith (Gold) in vault.
Hudson Maas (Silver), Elsie Eastvold (Silver), Stella Faine (Level 2), Charlotte McKinney (Level 2), Bemrich (Level 2), Sammie Forbes (Gold), Maggie Trueblood (Gold), Alana Cuevas (Platinum) and Frank (Platinum) won titles in the bars.
Beam winners were Hudson Maas (Silver), McKinney (Level 2), Gunderson (Silver), Leighton Neukirch (Gold) and Lucy Steffens (Gold).
Pantera Spies (Silver) won in the floor exercise, along with Sophia Pentecost (Silver), Brynlee Brumwell (Level 2), Addison Kuhre-Holmquist (Gold) and Steffens (Gold).
All around winners were Pantera Spies (Silver), McKinney (Level 2), Gunderson (Level 2), Forbes (Gold) and Steffens (Gold).
18 MOSER WINNERS
Eighteen members of the Moser School of Dance and Gymnastic won titles at a USTA Power Tumbling meet in Oskaloosa last month.
There were around 200 athletes competing.
Moser winners were Annie Gulick, Ella Digmann, Miya Pitz, Laila Moyle, Avery Brown, Rachel Kaufman, Kendall Friedlein, Aubrey Oakland, Claire Manning, Greyson Manning, Kenzie Lee, Jeffrey Breier, Kenley Scholbrock, Jovie Felton, Ellie Lechtenberg, Grace Cornwell, Kinzlee Bohlken and Aurora Opitz.
Izzy Lutgen placed second, along with Autumn Domeyer, Summer Haas, Amelia Miller, Jewel Hemry, James Hofland, Emery Reed, Olivia Pasker, Mckinlee Connolly and Hazel Nelson.
Third-place finishers were Kennedi Bevans, Myra Peyton, Laura Pierschbacher, Ahnalynn Rave and Addison Reed.
Members of the Twisters Gymnastics team pose at the club’s Jinglebell Gymboree. The club won five Xcel team titles. (Twisters Gymnastics)
Twisters Gymnastics athletes celebrate at their own Jinglebell Gymboree. (Twisters Gymnastics)
Young Twisters Gymnastics athletes pose at the Jinglebell Gymboree, hosted by the club. (Twisters Gymnastics)