100 percent. This is Simpson's first year on the U.S. Senior National Team. The 5'5(', 101 pounq rhythmic gymnast trains with Irina Vdovets at the Chandler Community Center. Serving as alternate will be Aaronson. She finished in fourth place at the National Sports Festival behind Bruce, but her national championship score was high enough to pull her into the alternate position with a combined total of 35.51 points.
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he top performance at the . Festival was by current Junior National Champion Alexandra Feldman, 14, of Sherman Oaks, Calif. The streamlined athlete finished in seventh place with 68.75 points. In eighth place was Irina Rubinshtein, 15, of Agoura, Calif., with 68.15 points. Finishing in ninth place was Simona Soloveychik, 15, of Chatsworth, Calif., w~th 67.65 points. Rubinshtein and Soloveychik recently made the U.s. Senior Team as first-year se nior competitors. The sweetheart of the '82 and '83 National Sports Festivals, Dacon Listor, who WCj.S the youngest competing athlete at both previous Festivals, is now 14 years old. She placed 10th in the competition with 67.10 points. The Baton Rouge audience enjoyed seeing the rope event, which had been absent from the two previous Festivals because of the apparatus rotation which occurs every two years. The hoop has been taken out of the allaround competition and the rope has moved in to join the ball, clubs, and ribbon . ..
RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS 1985 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TRIALS
40% CHAMPIONSHIPS PLACE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
NAME MARINA KUNYAVSKY DIANE SIMPSON STACY OVERSIER LISA AARONSON TERESA BRUCE KARYN LYON ELIZABETH CULL IRINA RUBINSHTEIN ALEXANDRA FELDMAN SIMONA SOLOVEYCHIK KIM STILES DACON LISTER JENNIFER KNUST MIKAELA BORNYASZ KELLYTANKO INGRID KNIGHT
TEAM NORTH SOUTH WEST EAST WEST EAST SOUTH NORTH EAST NORTH SOUTH WEST WEST SOUTH EAST NORTH
+ 60% SPORTS FESTIVAL U.S.A.'s 37.450 36 .650 36.500 36.500 36.200 3p.000 35.450 35 .850 34.850 35.300 35.300 33.850 33.050 32 .900 33.000 32.750
DIANE SIMPSON 's score is 100% Championships Of The USA
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NSF-Wed. 36.700 0.000 35.350 34.900 34.850 34.900 34.350 33.850 34.150 33.650 33.400 33 .050 32.700 32.000 31.650 31.550
NSF-Thur. 37 .000 0.000 36.400 34 .800 35.200 34.650 34 .900 34.300 34 .600 34.000 33.550 34 .050 33.100 31.950 32 .100 32 .450
COMBINED SCORE 37 .090 36 .650 36 .125 35.510 35.495 35 .265 34 .955 34 .785 34 .565 34.415 34 .205 33 .670 32 .960 32.345 32 .325 32 .300