Gymnasts post first win

Published 9:35 pm Thursday, October 2, 2008

Colorful, encouraging signs were posted on the bleachers

of the Mount Si High School gymnasium last Thursday night to

say good luck and goodbye to the Wildcats’ senior

gymnasts, Lindsey Ray and Cortney Schuller. Although the

team’s meet against the Liberty Patriots and the Interlake Saints

marked its final competition of the year, it was the teams’ first win

against another team since its formation last year by coach Renee Tredo.

Tredo was very excited that her team beat Interlake, but

the `Cats couldn’t garner a win for their season record, losing to

the Patriots. The gymnasts end their season with a record of 0-7.

At the last meet of her high-school career, Ray said she

just wanted to “have fun and not worry about anything.”

It turned out Ray had very little to worry about. Her last

meet was highlighted by a score of 8.0 on the vault, only 0.1 points

below the second-highest score of her career in this event. Ray

also scored impressively in three other events, posting a 7.85 on

bars, followed by an 8.0 on beam and an energetic floor exercise

that earned her an 8.65. Ray’s accumulated 32.5 points won her

the all-around award at the meet.

Schuller echoed Ray about competing for the last time. “I

just want to be satisfied with the job that I do in our last league

meet,” she said. She scored a 7.2 on vault, followed by a 4.0 on

the balance beam, which seemed to act more like a bucking

horse. Schuller managed to get back on the beam after several falls

and finished her routine with her head held high. After that, she

focused her concentration on the floor exercise and redeemed

herself with a score of 7.8.

Merritt Kott, freshman, garnered a fourth place on vault

and a sixth place on beam. Lauren Paulus, freshman, placed fifth

on vault and third on bars. Paulus also brought home another

all-around award for the team, taking sixth place. Jess Sanford, also

a freshman, placed sixth in the floor exercise.