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Season Review Was Rewarding to See Him Loosen up WMGF and Have a Good Time Hitting His by Mark Russo Routines www.wmgf.us May 7, 2010 Season Review was rewarding to see him loosen up WMGF and have a good time hitting his by Mark Russo routines. Although he still has Our season ended on March 27th The Washington Men’s Gymnastics much to improve, I see him taking with a trip to Collegiate Nationals at Foundation is a non-profit organization care of business during practice, so that exists to assist the Men’s Gymnastics improvement will come quickly for the Air Force Academy where we Team at the University of Washington. him. He is like many of the finished second to Arizona State for the 4th consecutive year. In our self- gymnasts our team has always funded Collegiate Division we WMGF Board of Directors attracted—a late starter who has placed as follows: come to the team hungry to Officers improve and happy to be on a such ASU 326 a close knit team. Washington 295 Next year, the team needs to Brockport, NY 289 take a large step to overtake ASU. There is nearly a point per-routine Texas 260 difference between us. It will take a MIT 245 committed offseason and some It was encouraging to see more good new recruits to bring us into self-funded teams than funded, and contention with ASU. Their huge the level of the self-funded teams has team of 19 gymnasts made it tough Jeramie Hardi‘s first pommel for us to compete since we don’t improved. Although variations are routine as aHusky common, I believe our collective have the same depth and must method of sustaining collegiate WMGF Board of Directors therefore count some tough scores. men’s gymnastics is improving. I honestly think our team would be larger if enrollment into the UW Most often, the single biggest factor Officers is having an organized adult or group Dave Nakanishi ..................... President was not so difficult. Yet in some of adults lead the guys through the Dr. Eric Hughes ............. Vice President ways, our extended rivalry with tough financial times of fundraising Peter Sawyer ........................ Secretary ASU is a good thing, constantly for everything. What tends to happen Peter Sawyer ........................ Treasurer giving us a target to shoot for, a Sam Softich .................... Team Liaison team to beat, and a goal that with student-led efforts is that the fund-raising momentum vanishes motivates us. Members-at-Large Nevertheless, we are working on once that one motivated student building depth, and key to that is leader moves on. So far, only the Eugene Burton-Breazeal Kevin Beder UW and ASU have stood the test of Jennifer Umemoto Mace Brady our new recruiting committee. Bob time. Michele Chapman Rick Chapman Miller, from Miller BizSolutions, At the competition, each team Bob Miller Diane Miller and parent of current team member, Daniel Luna Paul Roggenkamp member had the goal of hitting 80 Bobby Miller is heading it up, and I can hardly wait to see the full- percent of their routines. We didn’t make it though, hitting just 16 of our blown implementation of our plan. Newsletter Editor ............. Peter Sawyer My editorial on our overall 28 routines (57 percent). Our most consistent performer was freshman season is that we never really got it Taylor Anthony, who had his best together as team in any particular E-mail: [email protected] competition this year. We meet of the season. Taylor worked Web site: www.wmgf.us hard this year to learn new skills and experienced some key injuries, perform routines under pressure. It (Continued on page 2) 1 www.wmgf.us May 7, 2010 WMGF News Season Review (Continued from page 1) including one to Sam Softich and another to Jeramie Hardi that had big impacts on the team. Our lack of depth demands that we be 100% injury free, but that is seldom attainable. Still, I am very excited about the off-season, as several new gymnasts have stated they are planning to join the team and it appears as though no one is leaving. These two factors should make us better in 2010-2011. The Huskies at the 2010 USAG Collegiate Nationals Back row (L-R): Andrew Inaba, Jon Chapman, Michael Sloat, Kevin Smith, Bobby Miller Front row: Sam Softich, Taylor Anthony, Jeramie Hardi H E LP! Please join us for the 2010 Seeking Space Washington Men’s Gymnastics One of our goals is to run our own program. Team Banquet For that, we need a space. Can you help? We’re looking for something similar to warehouse or Season re-cap! commercial space measuring 60’ x 100’ x 24’ Slide Show! Dinner! high, and located somewhere between the HOLD THE DATE! SODO district of Seattle and Lynnwood. RSVP to: [email protected] Email us: [email protected] or Phone: 206-524-9480 Sunday May 23, 1:00 - 4:00 pm UW Waterfront Activity Center (just south of Thank You! Husky Stadium) 2 www.wmgf.us May 7, 2010 WMGF News Where Are They Now? An Update on Husky Alum Bill Carpenter (Competition years: 1971—1974 Bill’s destiny as a gymnast would surprise no one his high school meets. It was love at first sight, and who knew him as child. Growing up in Glencoe, they went on to marry in 1981, as well as raise two Illinois, he enjoyed climbing things, like very tall trees, sons. Their boys didn’t compete gymnastics, but both as well as jumping off of things, like roofs. are very athletic, with baseball, soccer, and tennis being their favorite sports. Although their kids are The New Trier East high school he attended in attending college now, Bill’s family still regularly Winnetka offered a great gymnastic program that engages in sports such as skiing, snowboarding, attracted college gymnastic coaches from all over the mountain climbing, tennis, ice skating, rollerblading, country. So it was that Bill found himself at the UW in swimming, sailing, water skiing, and scuba diving. the fall of 1971 with a suitcase and a sense that a great adventure was beginning. Attending such a large Reflecting on gymnastics’ impact on his life, Bill school might have been daunting, but being on the told us: team gave him an immediate identity and a great group “I have no doubt that my experiences training and of friends. Even better was having renowned Husky competing in gymnastics gave me the ability to gymnast, Yoshi Hayasaki, whom he had previously thoroughly enjoy my life as a husband, father, only read about, as both teammate and mentor. lawyer, and sports enthusiast. I will forever be grateful to Dr. Hughes for giving me the According to Coach Hughes, Bill tried several opportunity to compete for the UW. I have often events, particularly rings, but wound up as a high bar told my children that my college years were my specialist. He won his Big W as a mere freshman, very best.” which was an outstanding accomplishment because of the team’s great talent Having spent the last ten years specializing in the and depth. In Bill’s “less stressful and more rewarding area of wills and Gymnastics brought Bill sophomore year, he trusts rather than litigation,” Bill is looking forward to his wife too. He met Jan in qualified for the retirement in a few years. With his increased free time, NCAA meet and he hopes to visit old haunts and friends like the high school, where she placed 10th. The next University of Washington and his teammates. helped as a score flasher at year he won the Pac 10 Conference his high school meets. championship and was voted “Outstanding Gymnast” by his teammates. In his senior year he was undefeated in dual meets and repeated as Conference champion, and his teammates selected him again as “Outstanding Gymnast.” Coach Hughes’ wrote in his end-of-year report that “Bill was like a machine all year, never missing, always perfect.” After graduating from the UW in 1974 with a business degree, Bill attended law school at the University of Colorado. He graduated in 1977, and went on to become a District Attorney. For four years he prosecuted criminal cases, including first-degree murder. After leaving the District Attorney’s Office, he went on to represent clients in virtually every area of law. Gymnastics brought Bill his wife too. He met Jan in high school, where she helped as a score flasher at 3 www.wmgf.us May 7, 2010 WMGF News Meet the Huskies - Jeramie Hardi by Mark Russo This newsletter we feature old timer freshman Jeramie Hardi. I call him old timer freshman because after working numerous jobs since high school, he’s now 24 and just recently enrolled in Shoreline Community College. But this guy brings maturity and poise as well as competitive toughness to a young team. Jeramie performed this year as an All-Arounder, but several injuries limited his practice time on pommel horse, parallel bars, floor and vault. Yet, to his credit, he sucked it up and hit some tough routines for us this year at Collegiate Nationals. He has tremendous potential because he is small, powerful, fairly flexible, and strong - the build of super hero! In fact, he is currently practicing a high bar dismount that no one in the world has ever performed—a front 2 1/2 over the bar! For this extremely difficult dismount, he releases the bar just before the top of his front-giant swing and completes 2 1/2 forward rotations over the bar before landing on his feet. It is quite the jaw dropper when you see it.
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