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Jr. Women Finals – 2010 Visa Championships

Ryan — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:56:08 +0000

It’s official! The 2010 Junior National Champion is Kyla Ross! Congratulations to her on her second consecutive national AA title.

Here are some of my favorites from the junior finals session.

Complete galleries from each session of the meet will be here.

Gymnastike’s coverage of the meet here.

If you want more gymnastics, check out my other posts about the most amazing sport in the world here.

Sr. Women Finals – 2010 Visa Championships

Ryan — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:46:02 +0000

It’s official! The 2010 Senior National Champion is Rebecca Bross!

Here are some of my favorites from finals.

Complete galleries from each session of the meet will be here.

Gymnastike’s coverage of the meet here.

If you want more gymnastics, check out my other posts about the most amazing sport in the world here.

Sr. Women Prelims – 2010 Visa Championships

Ryan — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:45:41 +0000

While the senior prelim session features less than half the number of gymnasts as the junior session, the seniors come with major credentials and bunches of international medals. One of the most compelling stories has been the return of Alicia Sacramone to competition. She retired after the 2008 Olympics and has returned looking refreshed, and in many ways, a better gymnast than she was before.

Also making appearances at these Championships are:
Rebecca Bross (WOGA) The 2010 American Cup champion and 2009 World AA silver medalist.
Bridget Sloan (Sharp’s) The 2009 World AA gold medalist and reigning National Champion.
Mattie Larson (AOGC) The 2010 Covergirl Classic AA champion who has been plagued by injuries but is beloved by fans around the world.
Plus, Mackenzie Caquatto (Legacy Elite), Chelsea Davis (Texas Dreams), Kytra Hunter (Hills), Alexandra Raisman (Brestyan’s), Cassie Whitcomb (CGA) and Vanessa Zamarripa (UCLA).

My favorites from this session.

Complete galleries from each session of the meet will be here.

Gymnastike coverage of the event here.

If you want more gymnastics, check out my other posts about the most amazing sport in the world here.

Jr. Women Prelims – 2010 Visa Championships

Ryan — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:25:27 +0000

One of my goals for myself as a professional photographer was to shoot Nationals as a media-credentialed photographer from the floor of the arena.

::insert lots of smiley faces here::

I am happy and proud to say that it has happened! Anne from Gymnastike generously allowed me to team up with her during her coverage of the event. I will be posting previews (in other words, the photos I just can’t wait to process) of each of the women’s sessions here on my blog and in my Gymnastike photo galleries.

Complete galleries from each session of the meet will be here after the National Champions are crowned Saturday, August 14th!

Gymnastike’s coverage of the meet here.

If you want more gymnastics, check out my other posts about the most amazing sport in the world here.

*I have to give a very special shoutout to my amazing husband here. He puts up with all of my gymnastics craziness and gives me 100% of his support. When he married me I’m not sure he knew he would get dragged around to meets all over the country like the poor little brothers you see toiling away at meets with their backpacks full of books, video games and entertainment for their sister’s 8-hour-long gymnastics meet.

“Purple” – i heart faces

Ryan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:51:34 +0000

Since I spent the entire weekend watching gymnastics, I thought I would enter a gymnastics photo into this week’s i heart faces photo contest. The theme? Purple.

Link to the challenge page here.

2010 US Classic

Ryan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:38:13 +0000

Well, our trip to Chicago was certainly eventful. Almost 9.5 hours in the car, the hotel losing air conditioning and water for 4 hours, every other hotel in Chicago being full because it is their “busy season”, and our smoking “non-smoking” room. It’s a good thing the awesome gymnastics made up for all of that.

Unforunately, I was only able to take photos of half of the first session of gymnastics (out of three total sessions) before I was told to put my camera away. There were definitely some insane camera restrictions going on. It really stunk to have to stop taking photos, but I finally watched a meet like a normal spectator and I must say, it was pretty fun.

Here are a few of my favorites from the session. A link to the complete gallery of the session is at the end of this post below the photos.

*COMPLETE GALLERY FROM THE SESSION*
Juniors Session 1

My other blog posts about gymnastics here.

Season debut

Ryan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:28:12 +0000

I am so behind on this post that the next meet is almost here again! Here are some of my favorites from the meet on Saturday. It was Pitt’s first regular season meet of the year against Kent State and WVU. WVU came out on top this time.

Jessica Byich has a rockin new double layout dismount!

I am in LOVE with this photo

The full gallery from the meet is here. Pitt’s next meet is Friday night against Ohio State. See you there!