Not so long ago, a brave girl called Ariana Berlin was competing at the highest level of gymnastics of her age category. A couple of months later something terrible happened from that moment on her life changed forever...
“Piep, next off on the bars is Ariana Berlin, she’s a real talent!” said the presenter of the big competition. Arianna had a fantastic score and made herself noticed by the coach of UCLA. The dream school of Ariana. The school has the best gymnast team in the world. They won the olympic games more than 7 times in a row. Ariana’s dream was UCLA and then the olympics. That was realistic, because UCLA had such a good reputation that the school would always have 2-3 gymnasts from the amazing college that qualified to participate and perform at the olympics.
A couple of days later Ariana and her mother were in the
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Every night she trained after dance practice without anyone knowing it. The gymnast told her mom they rescheduled their dance hours and the habibs thought she was just cleaning up after them. She became in better shape every time. It was actually happening! Ariana was back! One night, the girl was practicing as always and without her knowing it. Her ex gymnast trainer Stefan was still at the gym doing some paperwork. He saw Ariana and was blown away. It felt just like before. Like she was back to where she was. Except that every time she landed, she grabbed her leg, because of the pain. That didn’t stop Stefan from going to the gymnast and offering her an amazing opportunity. Her ex coach was so impressed that he wanted to make an appointment with the head coach of UCLA’s team, mrs. Val. This was an amazing opportunity for her, so of course she took it. Ariana had 7 months to get in the best shape she could possibly get. That’s why at the second that she hears that she did what she could do best. Fight for her dream! The girl trained every single night with approval of Stefan. Stefan agreed to keep it a secret between Ariana and
Val helps Leeza with her positive change by getting Leeza to start her rehabilitation. “‘Leeza, honey,’ said Val, ‘you can do this. Just focus on my voice. I want you to picture a place in your head.’ Leeza sobbed again.
Past, Present Future: Arizona Gymnastics organizational saga/isomorphism/politics Intro: STRUGGLING When establishing success of a athletic program it takes much more than meets the eye and many hours of hard work and dedication, Arizona Gymnastics is in a state of rebuilding who they are and can complete this task through organizational saga from learning how the program was established in the past, leading into current leadership politics of their organization, and finally using mimetic isomorphism for the future of Arizona GymCats. One name of many comes to mind when one thinks of the history and purpose of Arizona Gymnastics, and that name is Mary Roby.
Alexandra Miles is not you average high school senior at Spencer High School. Alexandra is an expert at manipulating her peers in order to take what she wants, and this year it’s to be crowned Homecoming Queen. Throughout her life she competed in beauty pageants, and has never lost one. Though this year she is struggling to keep her head above water because of her father’s death and her mother’s lack of attention. This doesn’t make Alexandra soft, if anything, it makes her stronger.
Even as a child, she had troubles such as developing later than the rest of the girls and her gymnastics coach jabbing her with a stick to get her splits flat. Once she is finally good at something, uneven bars, she messes up at a competition. This humiliates her because she is not the representative, which is what she wanted so badly. Then as she gets older, she grows and can no
I may have been the front page story in junior high, but in my last two years of high school, she took up the whole newspaper. Amber basically repeated her wins her senior year, but added a National Title in Team Roping and a state title in the all around race. She even went on to college and won National titles in Barrels, Team Roping, and the All Around. She turned out to be very successful in the sport of rodeo.
Turning Around the Topic: Sport or Not? When you hear the word ‘sport’, you probably think of many things in your mind like soccer, football, softball, and even cheerleading but do you think of dance? One of the most common debates among dancers is whether or not dance should be considered a sport. If we’re being honest, dance doesn't even get close to the amount of credit it deserves.
I tried to avoid looking at the other teams practicing as I walked to the arena, I needed to focus on my routine. When I entered the HP Field House filled with 11,000 cheerleaders and spectators, my stomach sank and nerves hit me instantly. I started running through our routine and warming up stunts and tumbling. Before we stepped on the mat, we huddled together and my coach said, “You’ve got two minutes and thirty seconds to leave your mark. That’s all you need.
Her inability to perform as good she does led her to lose her self-confidence and self-esteem further adding on to the symptoms she displays of Major Depression (Burke,
Is Dance a Sport or an Art? Some people think dance is not a sport. They think it’s an art because it is nothing but remembering dance moves. However, I believe dance is a sport.
Children have strived for years to make their parents, teachers and coaches proud of them. Kids have come to practice Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday, and Friday to get better, while their academics are suffering. Students have pushed their bodies to the limits, causing extreme injury that will hold them back from sports in the future. Student athletes are not getting the opportunity to play multiple sports during the year, because they are expected to spelize in one sport and focus on it year round, leaving no opportunity to play other sports or do other activities. Youth sports are becoming too intense for young children to keep up with.
Is Dance A Sport? How much longer will the controversy of dance continue? Some people agree that it is a sport and others disagree. Most people who disagree about dance being a sport do not know enough about it.
The Biography.com website states, “Simone Biles is the most decorated American gymnast, winning 19 Olympic and World Championship medals” (Mead). Because Simone was too young to attend the Olympics in 2012, the first Olympic Games Simone attended was in 2016 in Rio. Although Simone has only been to one of the Olympics, she has been awarded with five Olympic medals; four of them were gold, and one was bronze. She acquired gold in team, all-around, vault, and floor; she got bronze on the beam. Simone plans to continue to practice and will more than likely participate in the upcoming summer Olympic Games in
The reason for this is almost 100 colleges in the US have gymnastics teams. Not only can you continue to do gymnastics and do what you love, you can even earn a helpful scholarship! As a result, if you go to college and get on the gymnastics team, you can make friends quickly because you have something in common with your teammates. Now if you take Simone Biles for instance, she trained so hard in gymnastics and got to go to the Olympics. Not only did she get to go to the Olympics, which is pretty dang hard to do, but she won 1st all around, floor, and vault!
After a month, she lost ten pounds! She looked astonishing and everyone showered her in compliments. Additionally, she proved to several people that through diligence and determination, anything is possible. Still, she was convinced that she had more toil to do. So here she went, elevating her expectations for weight loss, cutting down on her diet severely and exercising for hours upon hours.
For instance, while the little girl sings the demeaning lyrics a fierce ice skater bulges through the stage door, and gives the little girl a staggering look of encouragement and invite which aided her in singing, “Made of iron. And of striving, self-dedication, and of battles. This is what girls are made of.” At this moment, Nike has created an atmosphere of reassurance and encouragement between the little girl and the ice skater as well as the other female athletes to invite their targeted audience into being