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The Junior Olympic Compulsory Championships Individual All-Around: O verall Regional were held in Norfolk, Va., May 29-31, and Champions Level 6: 1. Region 5 was hosted by the U.S. Rhythmic 1. Komarova, Ekaterina 58.400 2. Region 4 Coaches Association and Excalibur Gymnastics. 2. Yu, Regina 58.200 3. Region 3 Regional More than 270 gymnasts competed in Levels 3. White, Sarah 56.600 Champions by 4-6 in both Regional Team competition and 4. Steed, Autumn 56.100 Level: Individual All-Around competition. 5. Edmonds, Bea 54.700 Level 4: 1. Region 5 6. Sladkov, Nicole 54.600 2. Region 1 7. Henderson, Bailee 53.300 3. Region 4 Level 5: 8. Idun, Maame´Yaa 53.000 1. Region 4 2. Region 5 Level 5: 3. Region 3 Level 6: 1. Wu, Erica 53.600 1. Region 5 2. Kaloyanov, Nicole 53.600 2. Region 4 3. Region 3 3. Bourand, Natalie 52.200 4. Shinohara, Elena 47.300 5. Tang, Nikita 46.900 6. Roytburd, Allyson 46.800 7. Kriner, Michelle 46.100 8. Zhang, Stephanie 44.900

Level 4 1. Wong, Melissa 31.000 2. Sun, Jessica 30.500 3. Tang, Rebecca 30.200 4. Henderson, Hannah 29.900 5. Hua, Vivian 29.800 6. Belvi, Gurmukhi 29.400 7. Gelfer-Mundl, Aviva 29.300 8. Li, Christine 28.900

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L evel 10 Junior All-Around Level 9 Senior All-Around 1 Alexis Page AVI 82.575 1 Ivana Benson TAM 79.925 2 Lyrica Okano AVI 81.450 2 Michelle Przybylo NOR 79.675 3 Amanda Tran KOR 79.175 3 Alexis Moore EVE 73.100

Level 10 Senior All-Around Level 8 All Around 1 Sarah Kudishevich IGM 85.075 1 Serena Lu TCR 67.975 2 Rebecca Wallenstein WOR 85.025 2 Yana Matkivski PHI 65.250 3 Joanna Arnold NOR 81.475 3 Monica Rokhman SOC 65.075

Level 9 Junior All-Around Level 7 All Around 1 Shelby Kisiel RAT 85.275 1 ILL 59.350 2 Madeline Peterson NOR 78.375 2 Alexandra Munson SAN 58.925 3 Alina Belikova FIT 74.350 3 Natalie McGiffert MON 57.400 L evel 9

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Rebecca Sereda of Staten Island, N.Y./Lido Isadora Sports School, won the junior rope title, as well as a silver in ball and the bronze all-around medal at the 8th Irina Deleanu Cup in Bucharest, , on April 25-26.

Michelle Milstein Eagan, Minn./International Gymnastics of claimed the senior bronze medal in the ball. She barely missed out on four more medals, as she finished fourth in rope, hoop and ribbon. She also was fifth in the all-around with a score U.S. Delegation in Romania of 87.100. Rebecca Sereda USA posts seven top-10 finshes at Pesaro World Cup Juniors Rebecca Sereda and Jasmine Kerber (Highland Park, Ill./North Shore Rhythmics) earned seven top 10 finishes in the Junior Invitational Tournament, held April 30-May 2, in Pesaro, Italy.

Sereda qualified for the finals in all four events, finishing fourth in rope and ball, fifth in hoop and sixth in clubs. Kerber qualified for the clubs finals, earning a seventh place finish. Sereda and Kerber finished fourth and ninth, respectively, in the all-around. U.S. Delegation in Italy Rachel Marmer of , Calif./Eurogymnastics finished 29th in the senior all-around competition. The senior group from North Shore Rhythmics (Stephanie Flaksman, Marlee Shape, Sydney Sachs, Sofya Roytburg, and Megan Frohlich) finished 10th in the group all-around competition.

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Julie Zetlin of Bethesda, Md., finished in the top 10 in the all-around and competed in three of the individual event Julie Zetlin finals at the rhythmic gymnastics World Cup in Maribor, Slovenia, April 27. This is the USA’s second consecutive event in 2009 where a U.S. gymnast has qualified for the finals at a World Cup.

Zetlin, who trains at Rhythmflex, finished sixth in the hoop finals and was eighth in the rope and ball finals. Zetlin finished in the number-10 spot out of 28 in the all-around.

USA posts seven top-10 finshes Women’s Junior Olympic National Team Camp at Pesaro World Cup

Ava Gehringer & Natasha Klimouk Ava Gehringer of Evanston, Ill./North Shore Rhythmic, placed seventh in hoop and eighth in ribbon at the World Cup held April 2-5 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is the first U.S. rhythmic gymnast to qualify for the finals at a World Cup since 2004. Members of the Women’s Junior Olympic National Team Gehringer posted a 23.875 in hoop attended a training camp conducted by USA Gymnastics at the and a 22.275 in ribbon to finish seventh Olympic Training Center and Aerials Gymnastics in and eighth, respectively. Colorado Springs, June 19-23.

Bhavsar wins silver medal at Moscow World Cup

2008 Olympic bronze-medalist Raj Bhavsar of Houston “Raj’s new skill was very exciting to see at this meet,” Gymnastics Academy won the silver medal on the said Mike Burns, the U.S. head coach. “The crowd loved at the 2009 World Stars at Moscow’s the skill, as did the other gymnasts in the meet. Raj Olympic Sport Complex, May 30. He also successfully got a lot positive comments on the new skill.” executed his original skill on the parallel bars, which “The Moscow World Stars was one of my first will be given his name in the FIG Code of Points. international competitions almost eight years ago,” Bhavsar’s 15.050 put him just behind Slovenia’s said Bhavsar. “And I’m excited to debut my new skill on Mitja Petsovsek, who posted a 15.625 for the title. parallel bars on the world scene.” Bhavsar successfully executed a new, original skill “Raj is good about thinking outside the box,” in his parallel bars routine. In accordance with FIG said Kevin Mazeika, Bhavsar’s personal coach and regulations, Bhavsar’s new skill – a dynamic above- head men’s coach for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team - bar release move that starts on one end of the bars gymnastics. “He’s always coming up with ideas for new and flies almost to the other end – was reviewed by skills. He worked hard for this one on parallel bars and the FIG Men’s Technical Committee in advance and it’s great to see it come to fruition.” recently received a preliminary ranking as an E skill. Bhavsar also competed on the still rings, where Having the skill named for Bhavsar is not official until he tied for fourth. Guillermo Alvarez of Minneapolis/ it appears in the FIG Men’s Technical Committee’s Minnesota Gymnastics, and David Sender of Arlington newsletter. Bhavsar also has a skill named after him on Heights, Ill./Stanford University, also competed in the still rings. qualification round.

44 USA GYmnASTICS JULY • AUGUST 2009 Healthy meals event results deliver healthy minds Hagerty Wins Bronze

2008 U.S. Olympic Team bronze-medalist Joey Hagerty of Rio Rancho, N.M., finished third all-around at the Joey Hagerty Champions Trophy held in Frankfurt, . With a score of 88.150, Hagerty finished behind 2009 European Champion Fabian Hambuechen of Germany (89.300) and his teammate (88.475). After the first two rotations, Hagerty sat in second position in the all-around with second place finishes on floor exercise and pommel horse with scores of 14.875 and 13.825, respectively. His still rings score of 14.050 moved Hagerty into third place in the all- around standings, where he stayed for the remainder of the competition placing third on the final three apparatus with scores of 15.725 on vault, 15.000 on parallel bars, and 14.675 on high bar. All-Around Standings 1. Fabian Hambuechen, Germany, 89.300 5. Maxim Deviatkovsky, Russia, 86.350 Hagerty, who trains at the U.S. Olympic Training 2. Marcel Nguyen, Germany, 88.475 6. Niki Boeschenstein , Switzerland, 86.125 Center, was accompanied by his coach Vitaly 3. Joseph Hagerty, United States 88.150 7. Philipp Boy, Germany, 85.900 4. Flavius Koczi, Romania, 86.525 8. Benoit Caranobe, , 84.125 Marinitch of Colorado Springs, Colo.

USA Wins Gold at Frivolten Cup The USA’s Alaina Williams of Huntsville, Ala., won the women’s trampoline title and of Atlantic Highlands, N.J., and of Lake Forest, Calif., went one-two in men’s trampoline at the 2009 International Frivolten Cup in Herrljunga, Sweden, May 22-23. The USA’s Nani Vercruyssen and Michael Devine both placed sixth. All five U.S. gymnasts finished in the top six in the finals of the two-day event. Dooley won the traditional Two-Trick Competition, a fun competition with gymnasts performing two really difficult skills. In addition, Nicole Mahoney from Bounce California was second in the junior women’s double mini-trampoline.

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TRAMPOLINE FEATURED ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA

U.S. senior trampoline national team member Steven Gluckstein Miller expecting of Atlantic Highlands, N.J., who won the trampoline title at the 2009 Winter Classic, and his coach Tatiana Kovaleva from Head over Heels first child were part of a fun segment on “Good Morning America” on May 11 and 15, that included trampoline. It was part of the training for the “Battle of the GMA Anchors” with Diane Sawyer, Robin Roberts, Chris Cuomo and Sam Champion.

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Bhavsar wins South Asian Excellence Awards for sports

2008 Olympic team bronze- medalist Raj Bhavsar of Houston was named as the receipient of the South Asian Excellence Award for sports at a black-tie gala in the Grand Ballroom of Cipriani’s Hotel in New York City on May 9.

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M oRGAN Hamm Tied the Knot

M iLLER expecting Two-time Olympian Morgan first child Hamm of Waukesha, Wis., and Megan C. Shemanske were Shannon Miller, the married on Saturday, May 23, at USA’s most decorated the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center in gymnast with 16 total Brookfield, Wis. Paul Hamm, 2004 world and Olympic Olympic all-around champion medals, and her husband and Morgan’s twin, was the John Falconetti, a best man. The couple will live Florida businessman, are in Chicago, where M. Hamm is expecting their first child interviewing to work in the stock (a boy) in early November. market.

P eSZEK, Sloan featured in 500 Festival Parade

2008 Olympic team silver-medalists Samantha Peszek and Bridget Sloan were featured celebrities during the IPL 500 Festival Parade, which is part of the weekend activities leading up to the Indianapolis 500. The parade drew an estimated 300,000 spectators plus a TV audience.

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