1974 SENIOR NATIONALS REPORT Rod Hill, Meet Director After having attended four Senior Qualifiers were Trish Reed c 70.95, Kelley Nationals, I have to say without a doubt Muncey of the Kips was 70.80. With a that the quality of this years meet was by 70.60 was Carrie Englert; and Lisa Nuetz far the best I have seen in Gymnastic with a 70.20. All in all it was an excellent meet. T he Talent. The girls did a wonderful job and performed well with few major breaks or first two days were held at the Denver falls. The judges did an¡ excellent job. School of Gymnastics. Here they had 5 Because the Senior Nationals are the beams to warm-up on and in the pre last opportunity for a gymnast to qualify warm up in the days preceeding the meet, for Elites, the Nationals grew and grew they had as many as 3 of the kind they with each passing day . We started with 52 competed on. There are three free ex girls and ended up with 85 competitors. peds and 3 vaulting horses, so they did The meet started at 2:00 p.m. and not lack for equipment. The crowds were finished at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, and small, but as stated, the meet was for the from 7:00 p.m. to 10:30 that evening . girls and they seemed to enjoy it very Finals were run smoothly and without much . It was kept as relaxed as possib le for the gymnasts and they did not have to incident. The All Around and the Team Title be in the gym more than 2 hours a day at were up for grabs from the moment the a time, so they did not tire as easily. meet began until it finished. We would FINAL RESULTS: have one girl leading, men the next TEAM session another would take over and so 1. Denver School of Gymnastics 112 on until Debbie Willco:>, of the Littleton 111 2. SCATS Flyers in Littleton, Colorado emerged the 3 . Mannettes 110 winner. Debbie was steady all three days VAULT as she piled up 71.85 points to win the 1. Kim Bellew - Olympiad 18.485 title. Second went to Kelley Muncey of 2. Jan Anthony - Olympiad 18.400 the Long Beach Kips. She scored a 71.55. 3. Linda Antonio - Denver SG 18.350 Linda Antonio of the Denver School of 4. Debbie Willcox - Lit Fly 18.300 Gymnastics moved from 8th to third 5. Julie Knight - 1-'resno 18. 125 place with a 71.325. 6. Nancy Jones - Tumble Bees 18.025 In the Team competition it was just as UNEVEN BARS hectic. After the first session the SCATS L Kelley Muncey - KIPS 18.575 were leading. Then it was the Mannettes, 2. Nancy Jones - Tumble Bees 17.925 then Denver took over after the third 3. Gale Wycoff - SCATS 17.875 session and held on to the end. The final 4. Linda Antonio - Denver SG 17.812 team score was Denver 112; SCATS 111; 5. Kathy Keck - Corner House 17.625 Mannettes 110. 17.5251 6. Debbie Willcox - Lit Fly In the Finals on Saturday Night, the BALANCE BEAM sparse crowd which came to watch saw 1. Carrie Englert - Nat Acad 18.325 some very fine gymnastics as the girls did 2. Renee' Hack - Denver SG 18.100 their very best. In the vault, Kim Bellew 3. Leslie Wolfsberger - SCATS 17.900 of the Olympiad Gym Club executed a 4. Wendy Schol - Reno SG 17.800 Yamashita and a Yamashita with a half 5. Lisa Neutz - Mannettes 17.575 turn to score 9.25 and win the 6. Shelly Bier - Mannettes 17.575 competition. In the Uneven Bars, Kelley FREE EXERCISE Muncey scored a 9.20 to easily win this 1. Linda Antonio - Denver SG 18.175 event. On the Balance Beam, a real battle 2. Carrie Englert - Nat Acad 18.125 developed between Carrie Englert of the 3. Shelly Bier - Mannettes 18.000 National Academy of Gymnastics and 17.950 4. Debbie Hung - Diablo Renee' Hack of the Denver School of 5. Les Iie Wolfsberger - SCATS 17.675 Gymnastics. Carrie scored a 9.30 to win 5. Kelley Muncey - KIPS 17.675 the event. Linda Antonio who was the Al b-AROUND only girl to be in three events in the 1. Debbie Wilcox - Lit Fly 71.85 finals, finally won an event as she edged 2. Kelley Muncey - KIPS 71.55 Carrie Englert in Free Exercise c 9. 15. 3. Linda Antonio - Denver SG 71.325 Saturday afternoon, five girls qualified 4. Carrie Englert - Nat Acad 71.10 for the Elite Nationals as they performed 5.- Gale Wycoff - SCATS 70.50 the Olympic Compulsories and combined 5. Shelly Bier - Mannettes 70.50 their optional scores came up with a 70.00 All Around or better. The
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CORRECTION BY MRS. FIE: After reading t he June USGF Newsletter concerning the Czech competition in Denver on page 24, I find it necessary to correct th e misleading statements made by the news writer, Mr. Holman. This article sheds a poor light upon the USA judges and leads one to believe that the Czech judges gave Mrs. Hill first place on the uneven bars. And that the American judges gave Miss Dornakova first .
The official score sheet for the uneven bars shows the following : Judges Miss Dornakova
Head-Fie 9.40
Ruzikova 9.60
Weber 9.60
Machackova 9.60
Aschenbrenner Ave. 9.30 = 9.60 Mrs. Hill
Head-Fie 9.60
Ruzikova 9.50
Weber 9.50
Machackova 9.60
Aschenbrenner Ave. = 9.50 9.50 Note that the Head Judge - Fie had the Czech gymnast at a 9.40 and Mrs. Hill at a 9.60. The average of the 2 USA judges Weber, Aschenbrenner for the Czech gymnast was (9.60 and 9.30) 9.45. The average of the 2 USA judges for Mrs. Hill was (9.50 and 9.50) 9.50. The Czech judges scored the Czech gymnast at 9.60 average and Mrs. Hi II at an average of 9.55. This correction is published, so that our subcribers wi II have the official correct information. Our USA judges always do a fine job of scoring, but, because of thei r fairness and honesty in contrast to the opposition, the average scores do not always reflect the true p ictu re and result. Most sincerely, Mrs. Jackie Fie USGF WTC Chairman