Henry Sibley Gymnastics

Summer Plans

Heyyyyy Everyone!!!

I hope you are alll enjoying this Spring weather! I know that I am outside just about any chance I get! I have started working back at the golf course and anticipating the end of the school year just as I’m sure all of you are!

With summer also comes time that you have off, when you can time in the GYM staying in shape and working on all your fabulous skills!! It is so important to keep your body active during the off season. Continuous training will keep your muscles limber, prevent injuries, and improve your overall abilities. There are multiple places you can go for classes, lessons and camps.

Peterson is down in Cottage Grove at Park High school offering summer classes for High Schoolers. All abilities welcome and you can go as much or as minimal as you want.  In order for our success to continue we encourage everyone to put the work in during the off season!

Park High School Info: Starts June 8th and goes through August 9th!!  Peterson would be PUMPED to see your smiling facees!!!

Hamline University also has programs and summer camps that are a great option! Summer camps are a fun way to get in the gym, but it is only 1 week. Something that is continual would be more beneficial! They offer punch cards so you can go when is convenient to your schedule, or they have set schedules you can attend. This is a good option as well!!

The website is: http://spiritgym.com/classes/high-school-power-training/

If you have any questions about anything- let me know! Happy Flippping!!

Gopher High School Night!

Hey Everyone- Hope you are all enjoying your time now that gymnastics is over! It is weird for me to be done working for the day at 3:30. I’m not quite sure what to do with all my time. Yoga and running are back in my life which feels good!

I received an email from the Gopher gymnastics team regarding their Gopher High School Night. Any of the girls that were on the team this year including managers, are able to get into the meet for FREE!! I have already emailed in our roster, so if you decide to go let me know. It would be very fun if a group of us went and sat together!! Parents and siblings are just $4! Could be a fun night out-

Its on Saturday March 9th at 6pm! Let me know if you decide to go- I have already heard back from a few of you!

Wrappin’ it up!

Hey Everyone! What a great season we had this year! Thank you for everyone’s hard work and dedication! The section meet went really well and everyone had a great time. We wish all those that are headed to state this weekend- Good Luck!!

If you are free this weekend, I would encourage you to go to the State Tournament to watch and support the teams. I went last year, and it was really fun! It is held at the University of Minnesota Sports Pavilion in Minneapolis. The meet is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Feb. 22 and 23.  Team competition is scheduled for Friday, with Class A competition beginning at 11 a.m. and Class AA competition beginning at 6 p.m. The identical time schedule will be followed for Saturday’s individual and all-around events, with Class A beginning in the morning and Class AA beginning in the evening. Tickets for the meet are available at the Sports Pavilion. Adult tickets cost $12.00 per session and student tickets cost $8.00 per session. A visit to any participating Wells Fargo metro location can yield a $2 discount coupon for students 13 and younger. The discount coupons are also available for the following tournaments: Girls’ Hockey, Class A Boys’ Hockey, and Girls’ and Boys’ Basketball.

We will be having our banquet on March 12th at 6pm, at Sibley High School in the cafeteria. We will be catering in food, and it will be $10/family member. All gymnasts are paid for. If you have any questions or things you would like to contribute let me know!

The gym is fully taken down. Thank you to all the girls that helped out both days to get everything taken down and organized! It really was a team effort! I was very impressed at how fast we got everything done!

The next 8 months are very important for everyone that would like to improve and strengthen their skills on the off season. Off season can prevent injuries, and it will keep you in shape. Just like any sport or activity that you do, practice is just as important as competition. We want to continue our success and start our season off strong next year!  Many of the girls have decided that they will be heading down to Park High school for off season high school training. They have a spring session that runs from March – May. Classes Start March 4th! If you want more information, email me and I would be happy to give you contact information.

Happy Handstands and Fabulous Flipping! Thanks for another great year!

Final Competition

Tonight is Sections-

It is at Eagan High School.

Starts at 5:30!

I am so very proud of all of our gymnasts! They have done a phenomenal job this season! We started the season with a team score of 93 and we have jumped up to 109- That is a 16 point jump in just over 2 months! That is a huge accomplishment! Great job to everyone that has competed this year, everyone who has learned something new, and everyone who has worked to their best potential this season! You guys ROCK!

Lets go out with a bang- and have an awesome meet tonight!

GO WARRIORS!!!! Whooooooop! 

The rest of the season…. updates

This weeks schedule:

Today- Wednesday February 13th – Practice 3:30-5:30

Thursday February 14th-  practice 3:30-5:30

Friday February 15th- NO SCHOOL… but- SECTIONS!!! <3
- Be at school by 1:20pm
- Red and black velvet leotards-

Next Week-

Tuesday February 19th- Gym Take down- Everyone required to be here – 3:30-6pm
Wednesday February 20th- Gym take down- Everyone required to be here 3:30-5 pm
- These days you will also need to turn in all leotards and warm ups! ALL THAT YOU HAVE!
- We will vote for some of the different awards for the banquet- as well as get forms for the banquet.

Any questions – let Jen or Peterson know! Thanks!

Fabulous Flipping!

Ok I’m back….

Ok everyone! Sorry I haven’t been posting in a while- its been a crazy few weeks! I can’t believe we are at the end of our season! Time FLIES when you are having so much fun!!

The next couple weeks will be very busy with lots of different schedules. Here is the info you will hopefully need, AND you should’ve gotten today at practice. I know half of you probably forgot as you walked out the gym so here it is again.  PS. when did it become FEBRUARY … 

Here is the schedule for February 4th-8th

Monday Feb. 4th- Normal practice – Especially for those competing on TUESDAY at the JV conference meet-

Tuesday Feb. 5th – JV CONFERENCE MEET- At North High School
Start time is 6:45pm

BUS SCHEDULE-
Bus will pick up girls at
- Friendly Hills at 2:50
- Sibley at 3:05
- Heritage at 3:15pm
Arrive at North at 3:45pm

Wednesday  Feb. 6th- Practice- 3:30-5:30
- No Flips for Kids
- Jen at Lady Gaga Concert

Thursday Feb. 7th- VARSITY CONFERENCE MEET @ MAHTOMEDI- 
Start time is 6pm!

Bus Schedule-
Bus will pick up at
-Friendly Hills @ 2:00pm
- Sibley @ 2:15
- Heritage @ 2:30
Arrive at Mahtomedi at 3:00pm

Friday Feb. 8th- NO PRACTICE- YOu guys all had a busy week so take time to recover and get ready for Sections!

OK- Moving on to the final week of practice!

- Monday February 11th- No practice- Jen has Conferences at Somerset

- Tuesday February 12th- Practice 3:30-5:30pm

-Wednesday Feb. 13th – Practice 3:30-5:30

- Thursday Feb. 14 – Happy Valentines Day!! Practice 3:30- 5pm for those who are competing on Friday at Sections

- Friday February 15th- LAST COMPETITION- SECTIONS @ Eagan High School-
Bus will leave Sibley at 1:30pm-
The girls DO NOT have school so that means you need to make sure you arrange a ride so you can be on time.

Section Meet will start at 5pm at Eagan High School!

And FINALLY- our gym take down-
Monday February 18th- NO gymnastics!
Tuesday February 19th- Gym take down after school till 6pm
Wednesday February 20th- Gym take down after school till 6pm

*** We need EVERYONES help with Gym Take Down- It is a BIG Job and we need a solid team effort!**

I am working on planning the banquet for the first weekend or two in March. Stayed tuned for more details to come!

Tomorrow Invitational!

Hey everyone-

Hope everyone is having a great day off! I am still at work today, but gettin’ caught up on lots of odds and ends!

- NO FLIPS FOR KIDS CLASSES TODAY (FRIDAY) OR MONDAY!

***Tomorrow we have a invitational up at  Maple Lake High School- Teams that will be there are:

- Maple Lake
- Alexandria
- Paynesville
- Henry Sibley
- St. James
- Howard Lake Waverly Winsted
- St. Louis Park

There is a broad range of abilities and some teams that we would never see during our normal season. We came in 1st place last year in our division! Even though the bus ride is long- It is a very fun meet!

Maple lake high schools directions:

Details you need to know-
- Please be at Sibley High School at 6:45am! If you are not there I will call and wake you up
- Bus will leave Sibley at 7am. In the past we have stopped somewhere to get some breakfast, so if we have time we will do that as well! Bring some money for Concessions and a pit stop for food.

- Warm ups start at 8:30am and then we will roll along with the morning. The meet actually starts at 11am!
- Please bring all of your competition gear, snacks, money and comfy blankets for the bus ride.

If you have any questions let me know! See you all tomorrow morning Bright and early!

the importance of practice…. especially when we only have 5 weeks

Hey Everyone-  I can’t believe I am even saying this- but we only have 5 weeks left of our season. We have done a lot over the last 3 months, and we are now in our final stretch of the season. This part of the season is the most crucial part. We have had injuries and many people out sick the last couple weeks. We need everyone to be healthy and on top of their game for the next 5 weeks. That means all the girls need to make sure that they are being responsible and getting some good sleep at night, fueling their bodies with healthy meals throughout the day and making sure that they stretch and warm up properly when they come to practice. We need EVERYONE at practice EVERYDAY till our conference and section meets!

YOU ONLY HAVE 11 PRACTICES Left until our conference meets! We need to have everyone in the gym and working their very hardest when they are there. I know that gymnastics is a long season- and sometimes in January it can hit us with holidays being over and cold weather, and we are struggling. But we have to push through it- and we have to remember that we need to push our selves to be our very best by the end of the season. No regrets when we finish our season!

Please make sure you hold your team mates accountable for coming to practice. Myself and Peterson have showed up every day this year. We dedicate ourselves to this team and we can only ask that you do the same.

In my sparetime-(or lack there of) I like to read blogs. One of the blogs that I follow just happen to be talking about the importance of practice today. She was mostly referring to her yoga practice, but I took some things that are very applicable to everyone no matter what they are practicing- So I thought I would share:

“When you practice, you use your skills and you build on them. You start to break boundaries, the ones you swore you’d “never be able to do”; you push past your old edge and start playing around new ones. Simply put, you get better with practice. It empowers and enables. It reminds you that building a skill is difficult but not impossible. Practice makes things possible. Practice opens doors but only – and not a minute sooner than – when you are ready for it.  Consistent and regular practice has more of an exponential than a linear effect. If you practice your dance weekly, you advance very slowly over time but if you practice it daily, the jump is not linear. It is exponential – in other words, it’s a big jump, a huge jump, the kind of jump that makes the difference between good and great, mediocre and magnificent. And practice rewards handsomely in all instances. It does not care about the state of economy, your business or even your relationships. When you practice something – anything – you improve, you grow, you advance, you gain a skill and heaps of confidence to boot.

“Without practice and use, you lose what you built. The less you practice, the faster it fades and it is a terrible thing to witness so stop the insanity early on!”

This is just a little something I thought I’d share in the midst of our last 5 weeks and also the time when we need the most motivation! Lets finish this season strong!

Meet Today!!

We have a meet today at Mahtomedi!!

Bus will be leaving Sibley at 4:15 to head over to Mahtomedi. Please have the following and be at school in plenty of time-

Warm up leotard-
Red and black velvet leo
Warm up pants and jacket
Scrunchie
grips
Hair stuff-
Snacks or dinner!

Meet starts at 6:30pm. Mahtomedi is a tough school. They are close to number one in our conference! We are going to have our best meet yet! Can’t wait to see all the girls show off their hardwork from christmas break!

Here is the address for Mahtomedi High School-

8000 75th street North
Mahotomedi, MN. 55115

Any questions let me know! See you all Tonight!
Happy Flipping!!