Item
No State, No Regionals
Title (Dublin Core)
No State, No Regionals
Description (Dublin Core)
My daughter was having the gymnastics season of her life in 2020, placing in every event at every meet, and even reaching #19 on America’s Top 100 for vault for her level. One of the last places we went before quarantine in March was a gymnastics competition and I remember being uneasy at the crowds and the fact that the girls used the same apparatuses and equipment throughout the day. No one else seemed concerned, and when I asked if State Championships were still happening, everyone looked at me like I was insane. Of course, two weeks later, everything shut down. She has now been away from gym for over three months - the longest she’s been without her coaches since she was 3 - and both State Championships and Regionals were cancelled. No word on whether there will even be a 2021 season. To keep up the morale of the team, her gym sent information about a virtual State Championship, where gymnastics could submit videos from previous meets and judges would watch and score. I submitted without telling her, because I wasn’t sure what to expect. When she received medals and a champion t-shirt in the mail because she scored 1st All Around for her level (first in every event) she looked happier than she has since quarantine began. It’s not USA Gymnastics sanctioned, so it doesn’t “count,” but to my daughter, it is as real as any in person meet and was exactly what she needed to have closure to what had been an amazing season. We don’t know when she’ll go back - her gym opened three weeks ago, but with numbers rising dramatically in our area, the risk isn’t worth it for us. Competitions are fun, and my daughter loves her sport and is extremely dedicated, but a healthy and alive daughter is way more important to us than medals in a coffin.
Date (Dublin Core)
June 8, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Kathryn Jue
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Kathryn Jue
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Photograph
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Sports
English
Events
English
Social Distance
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
#lostseasons
gymnastics
sports
competition
State Championship
virtual
medals
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
#lostseason
gymnastics
childhood
kids sports
Collection (Dublin Core)
Children
English
Lost Seasons
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
06/30/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/19/2020
11/16/2020
12/08/2020
This item was submitted on June 30, 2020 by Kathryn Jue using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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