ALVIN, Texas — For the first time since 2003, the Central High School girls gymnastics team will return to the James R. White Gymnastics Building without some kind of gold from the Texas High School Gymnastics Championships.
The best finish for the Lady Cats in Saturday’s individual event finals was Julia Hansen’s second place on uneven bars. Hansen scored a 9.85 to Lake Highlands’ Sarie Morrison’s 9.90.
The German exchange student also finished sixth on vault with a 9.70 to end her Texas high school gymnastics experience.
“It was really fun,” Hansen said. “I am glad I got to compete and I got second on bars. First would have been better, but second was cool, too.”
In other individual event results for the Lady Cats, Stormy Luera was sixth on balance beam with a 9.675. Chaney Collins tied for seventh on uneven bars with a 9.55, took ninth on floor exercise with a 9.40 and tied for 10th on vault with an 8.70.
It wasn’t the finish Collins was looking for. Central head coach Tony Walker explained that the judges claimed Collins shuffled her feet between leaps during a dance sequence on the floor exercise and deducted her heavily.
Neither Walker nor Collins was happy about the outcome.
Collins’ day was somewhat redeemed when she was awarded a scholarship and was named to the Texas team that will compete in Florida next month.
Friday night, the Lady Cats finished second to Lake Highlands in the team standings, and Collins was third in the all-around.
Late Friday night, the Central boys finished eighth as a team following the optional round of competition. Unlike a year ago when the Bobcats dropped a spot after the second day, they managed to hold on to the place they were in after the compulsory round this year.
The finished with a score of 305.30.
“Overall, I am extremely proud of the team,” Central boys coach Kern Arrott said. “They have come a long way this year. They have fought hard. For them to be here at the state meet was a huge thing, and to get up there and finish eighth was awesome.
“The seven teams that were ahead of us were very, very good teams.”
Humble Kingwood won the boys team title with a score of 330.350.
Central’s Ryan Terrill was 12th in the all-around with a score of 107.75. He was in fifth place after the compulsory round and couldn’t keep up with the difficulty of the other gymnasts’ routines.
The Bobcats’ other all-arounder, Christian Finley, was 32nd. Hurst L.D. Bell’s Elijah Holt won the boys all-around with a score of 112.85.
“His difficulty level is not where those other guys’ are,” Arrott said of Terrill. “He has seen a lot of difficult skills thrown, and I have told him that he is capable of that.
“It comes down to spending time in the gym, and that is something he is going to have to think about.”
Terrill competed in three events on Saturday. He finished seventh on vault with a 9.20 and ninth on high bar with a 7.75.
He also competed on floor exercise but didn’t finish in the top 10.
The top 10 in each event after Thursday and Friday’s rounds, including ties for 10th, advanced to Saturday’s finals.
“I feel OK about it,” Terrill said. “I had a couple of bobbles, a couple of things I was disappointed about. It just didn’t all come together.
“I thought I would be higher. I thought I would do better.”
Now both teams look toward next year with high expectations. Arrott is pleased with the experience his team gained this year and is excited about what next year holds.
Walker will lose Collins but will gain a couple of talented freshmen to go along with another team that will have only one senior, Luera, next year.
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