Gymmin' Miel!

The Secret U.S. Classic was held today (27th of July) at the Sears Center Arena in Chicago, Illinois. The Junior Women's session got underway at 1.00pm (C.T.) and will sawt forty gymnasts compete. Missing from the original participants list are: Simone Banen (North Stars Gymnastics Academy); Jordan Chiles (Naydenov Gymnastics); Bridget Dean (Orlando Metro Gymnastics); Asia DeWalt (WOGA Gymnastics); Bailey Ferrer (Orlando Metro Gymnastics) and Taylor Lawson (Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center).

Texas Dream gymnast Bailie Key won the All Around title over Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy's Amelia Hundley with fellow Texas Dream gymnast Veronica Hults finishing in third. Nia Dennis of Buckeye Gymnastics top scored on the Vault over Monmouth Gymnastics - MG Elite's Ariana Agrapides. Veronica Hults won the Uneven Bars title, with Hundley and Polina Shchennikova (The International Gymnastics Academy of The Rockies/TIGAR) finishing second and third respectively. Norah Flatley of Chow's Gymnastics and Dance Institute was the top on the Balance Beam, with Key in second and Hults third. Lauren Hernandez of Monmouth Gymnastics/MG Elite was the Floor Exercise Champion with Nia Dennis in second and Hundley third.

Following the Junior competition, U.S. Gymnastics announced that Vanasia Bradley (Splitz Gymnastics); Nadia Cho (WOGA Gymnastics); Christina Desiderio (Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center) and Sydney Johnson-Scharpf (Brandy Johnson's Global Gymnastics) had successfully qualified to the P&G Championships based on their scores today. Well done to all. 

Alexandra Raisman of Brestyan's American Gymnastics took out the Senior All Around title with a formidable score of 60.350. Kyla Ross of Gym-Max Gymnastics was second with Kennedy Baker of Texas Dreams Gymnastics coming third. McKayla Maroney of All Olympia Gymnastics Center took out the Vault title with an average of 15.850 - and in fact was the only Senior to do two vaults. Gabrielle Douglas of Chow's Gymnastics and Dance Institute took out the Uneven Bars title over Ross and WOGA's Rebecca Bross. Jordyn Wieber of Gedderts' Twistars USA and Raisman tied for the Balance Beam title, with Great American Gymnastics Express' Sarah Finnegan and WOGA's Nastia Liukin tying for third. Raisman also took the Floor Exercise title with Finnegan coming second and tying for third were Douglas and Dynamic Gymnastics' Sabrina Vega. So from the field competing in Chicago, it seems the gymnasts who are not advancing to VISA Champs are Seniors Chellsie Memmel (M&M Gymnastics) and Casey Jo Magee (Capital Gymnastics) and Juniors Taylor Lawson of Parkettes National Training Center, Taylor Krippner of Cypress Academy of Gymnastics and Macy Toronjo of Texas Dreams who did not compete at the Classic. Nia Dennis of Buckeye Gymnastics was announced as a qualifier to Nationals even though she did not compete at the Secret Classic.

For the Juniors, Simone Biles of Bannon's Gymnastics took out the Junior All Around title over Madison Desch of Great American Gymnastics Express and third place finisher Amelia Hundley of Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy. Biles scored the highest mark of the day on Vault with a 16.050 with Desch scoring a 14.700 and Hundley 14.350 for the second and third top marks on the Vault. Katelyn Ohashi of WOGA scored a 14.950 for the top mark on the Uneven Bars with Polina Shchennikova of TIGAR coming second on the event with Ariana Guerra of Texas Dreams and Hundley tying for third. Desch topped the Balance Beam ranking with Hundley in second and tying for third were Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy's Lexie Priessman and Veronica Hults of Texas Dreams. Priessman rocked the Floor Exercise with Biles and Desch rounding out the top three on the event.

RESULTS:
SENIOR:

1. Alexandra Raisman (Brestyan's) (15.650, 14.350, 15.000, 15.350) 60.350
2. Kyla Ross (Gym-Max) (15.300, 15.450, 14.700, 14.350) 59.800
3. Kennedy Baker (Texas Dreams) (13.900, 14.600, 14.350, 13.950) 56.800
4. Sabrina Vega (Dynamic) (14.100, 14.000, 13.450, 14.850) 56.400
5. Elizabeth Price (Parkettes) (15.650, 14.800, 12.250, 12.750) 55.450
6. Brandie Jay (GK) (14.550, 14.350, 12.450, 13.650) 55.000
7. Brianna Brown (Cincinnati) (13.650, 13.750, 13.250, 13.400) 54.050
8. Anna Li (Legacy Elite) (13.600, 14.150, 13.900, 11.850) 53.500
9. Mackenzie Brannan (Capital) (13.450, 14.000, 13.150, 12.700) 53.300
10. Amanda Jetter (Cincinnati) (12.800, 13.850, 12.950, 13.500) 53.100
11. Grace McLaughlin (WOGA) (12.850, 13.500, 13.350, 12.950) 52.650
12. Abigail Milliet (Denton) (13.800, 11.750, 13.500, 12.600) 51.650
13. Gabrielle Douglas (Chow's) (0.000, 15.700, 14.400, 14.850) 44.950
14. Sarah Finnegan (GAGE) (0.000, 14.100, 14.900, 15.200) 44.200
15. Casey Jo Magee (Capital) (13.350, 13.200, 13.450, 0.000) 40.000
16. McKenzie Wofford (Zenith Elite) (13.350, 11.950, 14.500, 0.000) 39.800
17. McKayla Maroney (All Olympia) (16.100, 0.000, 13.800, 0.000) 29.900
18. Jordyn Wieber (Gedderts) (0.000, 14.250, 15.000, 0.000) 29.250
19. Rebecca Bross (WOGA) (0.000, 15.300, 13.200, 0.000) 28.500
20. Nastia Liukin (WOGA) (0.000, 0.000, 14.900, 0.000) 14.900
21. Chellsie Memmel (M&M) (0.000, 0.000, 11.950, 0.000) 11.950

And finally, I watched the live stream of the Senior competition. I really hate the whole competition will begin soon screen. Love WOGA's leotards. Seems to be a lot of pink in the arena. Not too keen on the white lines coming down from the collar on the WOGA ladies leotards though. Love Chellsie's leotard the black with the sparkles and pink upside down V on the top half. The blue leotard Gabby is wearing is divine, although not too keen on the different material down one sleeve.