The Trojan Gymnastics Team made it two wins in a row after coming out on top at the Troy Invitational and again at the Centerville Elks Invitational.
For their first home meet of the year, Troy fielded two full teams - Troy Red and Troy Gray. Troy Red came in first place out of 17 teams with a score of 138.95. The Trojans (Red) placed five girls in the top ten all-around competition. Winning the all-around was senior Minori Nakada with 35.3. Minori won vault (8.9) and bars (9.1) and placed third on floor (8.9). Not far behind were Claire Buerger and Lizzie Deal. Claire came in second all around with a 34.925 and placed second (8.8) on vault, fourth (8.45) on bars, second (8.9) on beam and sixth (8.775) on floor. Lizzie placed third overall with a 34.65 and placed seventh (8.55) on vault, second (8.65) on bars, fifth (8.6) on beam and fourth (8.85) on floor.
Grace Dwyer and Abby Baker rounded out the top ten spots with a seventh place finish (33.075) for Grace and ninth place for Abby (32.625). For Troy Gray, senior Kayla Coate led the way with a 30.575 all around score followed by Lanie Hagen (29.325) and Carly Smith (28.075). Troy Gray finished in sixth place with a 120.6.
At last Saturday’s Elks Invitational, the Trojans beat the Elks, and 19 other teams, with a score of 137.40. Centerville was second with a 136.025. Minori Nakada came out on top once again with an all around score of 34.95. Minori placed first on bars (9.050) and fourth (8.75) on floor and vault (8.575). Grace Dwyer had a solid meet as well coming in third all around with a 34.325. Grace placed third on vault (8.675), fifth on beam (8.9) and eighth (8.3) on bars.
The third Trojan to place in the all-around was Lizzie Deal with a 34.15 to earn her a fourth place finish. She placed sixth on vault (8.3) and second (9.00) on beam. Other Trojans who medaled in individual events were Claire Buerger with a seventh place finish (8.275) on vault and senior Kayla Coate with an eighth place finish on beam (8.85).
The Trojans’ next meet will be a quad meet at home on February 12th and will also be Senior recognition night.