GA Georgia Karen Kolman
511 Lee Boulevard Savannah. GA 31405
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Hawaii David Dale 1634 Makike ~ 905 Honolulu , HI 96813
HAWAII STATE REPORT Hawaii was fortunate to have Abie Grossfeld , former 1972 Olympic coach and coach of Ihe 1975 NCAA college division c hampions, to teach at a gymnast· ic clinic held August 4·5. Clinic directo rs we re Paula Tarikas of Punahou school and Brad Cooper of Kamehameha school. T he program was divided into sessions concerning:
1) lect ure-demon-
strat io n, theory of mechanics and spotting and 2) problem·solving, general workout for boys and girls. H awaii is moving up in gymnastics.
Coach Paula Tarikas took two girls to represe nt Region V to the AAU Junior Olympics held at Cornell University , August 6·11. Keri Baird , age 16 , took third place all·a r ound scoring a 66.20. Hawaii Gymnastic Association (HGA) held the ir e lections of new officers for the 19 75·76 year. They are as follows: President - Paula Tarikas; VP - Dave Marold ; Sec. - Pam Hiquera ; Tres. Stephen Ching; Men's Judging Chair.Don Heafner; Men 's Division Chair. Brad Cooper; Women's Div. Chair. Linda Hoogs ;. Women 's Judg . Chair.Lala Strandtman. Hawaii gymnastic teams are interested in setting up meets with mainland teams. Coaches if you are inte rested in a trip to Hawaii, Contact: Paula Tarikas HG A 27 Wylli e Street , Hono lulu , HA 96817.
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Heavor received a 9.90 out of 10 points in 1975. This mark sta nds as the highest single score ever to be awarded an Iowa State Gymnast on any event. Good Luck to Coach Gagnier! Iowa State has a new coach for their womens team this year. Karmen Booth comes from Indiana State Universit y. Her season 'begins December 6 with an invitational hosted by ISU. Under the coaching of Char Christisen last year , the women won the Big 8 championship and qualified for the Nationals in California. Karmen mentions Margie Hudelson as one of her outstanding gymnasts for the 75·76 season. Hudelson won all around champion in the Big 8 in the 74·75 season. Vickie Kirk and Elaine Bechwith are seniors, and Gwen Whisler, a freshmen , shou ld be outstanding this yea r, especially since I have seen Gwen perform when our Clinton team competed against Bettendorf during the 74·75 season. I have received a note of acknowledge· ment from the University of Iowa public relations director. I should be receiving in fo soon. . My two assistants Shell y Carpenter a nd Karen Locke are doing a great job for me. They sent me the newspaper article about Judy Pauley from Grand View College , which I men tioned in my last article. According to Grace Smith, coach of Bettendorf H .S. girls gymnas· tics, Pauley's back was broken in three places and she is paralized. We hope she is doing as well as possible . Well , only three weeks and 4 days until November 4t h and girls High School Gym· nastics will begin. My girls are getting very anxious and I am even getting pre· pared for a super season. I will report on Girls and hopefully Boys H.S. gymnastics next month.
KS
80.0; and Lawrence , 76.45. Indi vidual winners were: AA: Jill Carter (Derby) 8.45; Kari Nett (Wic hita South) 8.33; Donna Armstrong (Wichit a South) 8 .16. UPB: Donna Armstrong 8.8; Jill Carter 8.7; Kari Nett 8.65. V: (Tie) Kari Nett and Debbi e Theno (Shawnee Mission North) 9 .0 5; Jill Carter 9.0. FX: Jill Carter 8.5; (Tie) Donna Armstrong and Debbi e Theno 8.3 . BB: Debbie Theno 7.65 ; Jill Carter 7.6 ; Sandi Balot (Shawnee Mission South) 7.45. The 74·75 boys gymnastic high sc hool practice date is December 1st. Competi· tion will begin January 26th. Regionals are to be held March 22 and the State Meets April 3 . T he 5A schoo ls will meet at Wichita South with t he 4A and sma ller sc hools sched uled for Topeka West. The Boys State Meet scores were published in the August GYMNAST. Several Kansas YMCA's have join ed together to form a girls gymnastics league. Dave Halverson , a former University of Wisconsin gymnast , and Barbara Miles , a former KSU gymnast , both from the Topeka Y have been busy setting up the league competition brackets and rules. The league plans to begin competi· tion in November winding the season up wit h a League Meet next February or March. a meeting to fi nalize plans has been sc hedu led for October 27 at the Salina YMCA. The Kansas State Unviersity gym· nastics team lost their schools' financial suppo rt. We are happy to re port that the girls team has made plans to compete as a club. We hope they can keep the activity going a nd regain . their official standing with the University. The Topeka YWCA gi r ls gym nastics classes presented a demonstration at the Highland Village shoppin g center on October 18th. Their performance was
Pam Goodman made in conjunc tion with the Octoberfest , a month·long celebration of the Arts in the Topeka area . Here and There· We regreat the loss of Tom and Jan Heineike from the Kansas gymnastics sce ne. Th ey will be missed greatly. We wish them the very best in their new home in th e great state of Texas . Congratulations to Gerald Carley on the open in g of hi s ne w "Elite Gymnastics Club" in Lawrence. A big Kansas welcome is exte nded to Ginger Temple and Dave Black, both former SIU gymnasts, who have taken over the reins of the Wichita Gymnastics Club . We understand t he very talented and personable Pam Goodman has tra n s· ferred to Southwest Missouri State. We
Kansas
R. Dean Stamm 2553 S.E. Alexander Dr Topeka, KS 66605
Idaho
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Ms. Diane J . Ostrander 325 Montv ue Drive Meridian. 10. 83642
IN
Indiana Mrs. Lorie Walke r 220 South Guyer Hobart. IN 46342
IA Iowa
Leah Eberle 399 Myra Place Clinton . IA 52732
IOWA STATE REPORT I have a full report from Iowa this month wit h the excepiion of a report o n Boys Hi g', School Gymnastics. I have not received any letters from 't he coaches , which disappointed me. Hopefu lly, I will be hearing from them soon. I have reports from some colleges and I would like to first comme nt on Iowa State Universit y,
Ames, Iowa. Coach Ed Gagnier wrote and se nt me some information . In his years
of gymnastics, Ed has been three times honored as National Coach of the Year, serves on the Olympic Gymnastics Com· mittee, and in 1970, he coac hed the U.S. World University Games team. He also turned out te n years of be ing num ber one in the Big 8 team championship. This year Ed a nd his Cyclone team will have a n all around strong team with Keith Heavor being the rings champion for two yea rs. GYMNAST Dec. '75
KANSAS STATE REPORT The girls gymnastics - college season begins in mid November and runs through the State Meet which is held in March. Five colleges we re represented at the 73· 74 State Meet hosted by the University of Kansas. Wichita State University (86.65) took the team championship followed by Kansas University (79.90) in 2nd and Washburn University (76 .50) of Topeka in 3rd place. Following are indo ividual wi nners: AA: Pam Goodman (WSU) 33.25 , Widge Swartz (WU) 25 .00; Carol Kroening (WSU) 24.55. UPB: Pam Goodman (WSU) 7.8; Trudy Tucker (WSU) 5.75, (Tie) Jana Parker (WU) 5.45 and Candy Carttar (WSU) 5.45. V: Jody Manzon (KU) 8.6; Pam Goodman (WSU) 8 .3; Laurie Propet (KU) 7.85. BB: Pam Goodman (WSU) 8.5; Karen Smith (KU) 8.25; Karen Fleeger (KU) 7.9. FX: Pam Goodman (WSU) 8.5; Laurie Propst (KU) 8.35; Karen Smith (KU) 8.25 . The girls gymnastic s high school season will be moved to Fall next year. This year the practice date is November 15t h wit h competition to begin January 12t h. Reg· ionals are scheduled for March 12 and the State Meets will be Ma rc h 20. Th e 5A sc hools will meet at Shawnee Mission North while t he 4A an d smaller schools will be competi ng at Wichita-KapaunMt . Carmel. The 73·74 State Meet was held at Washburn Rural in Topeka. Wichita South High , 92.0, sucessfully defended their Kansas State Team Title with 2 nd going to Shawnee Mission South, 90.0, followed by Wichita-Kapaun-Mt . Carmel, 85.85; Newton , 85.5; Topeka West, 82.65; Shawnee Mission Northwest , 80.0; Wichita Southeast ,
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