Jan. 15, 2012

Enjoy the newest in a series of entries from the women's gymnastics team's freshmen with this entry from Alex Witt!

Hello fans, friends, and family! I hope you all had a great holiday season with your family and friends. I know it was really nice to escape the cold weather and go to Florida to see my family. But, our break did end a little sooner than most because we had to come back and train for season which was quickly approaching. It was nice coming back though, we had a good two weeks in State College with almost no students or anyone else here. And, with having no classes, it made our main focus gymnastics which was needed with our first meet only a few weeks away.

In our first meet at West Virginia, we had the highest team score in Penn State history for an opening meet. I know this gave us all a little bit of confidence and drive to get back into the gym and improve so that score can keep building from meet to meet. It seemed to help too because in our second meet at New Hampshire, we got a 196.125 which was a few tents higher than our first meets score. We will still be making adjustments and fine-tuning our skills in the gym in order to take on the rest of the season!

As for me though, I competed vault in both the West Virginia and New Hampshire meets; making a slight improvement from one meet to the other. In the New Hampshire, I had the opportunity to exhibition bars! It was so much fun just to get out there and have that feeling of competing while gaining a little bit of experience at the same time.

That is all for now, We Are...

Alex Witt