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While the other kids were swimming in the hotel pool,
Brooke decided to workout in the hotel gym.
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Brooke tried out for the AAU National Team this weekend. It was a bit of a disappointing event, because we didn't really have all the information prior to the tryouts. The competition was based on level, with all kids at that level competing against each other … regardless of age. This made the competition insanely intense. None of the younger kids from IK Gymnastics made the team, while a few of the older kids did. Because of all of this, Brooke was a bit disappointed at this meet. There was also a "regular" meet at the same time over the weekend. As an athlete you could only do one or the other. The "regular" meet had much more limited competition and the girls that competed there from our team did really well. If we had the information prior (that Brooke really didn't have a chance at the National Team) and that the competition for the regular meet would have been more appropriate … we would have gone a different route. That is really what seemed to bother her.
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There was a team cookie …
this was clearly the highlight of Brookes weekend.
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It was a horrible weather weekend and because of this many of the athletes were late arriving to the meet. Specifically, an entire team from Oklahoma was really late. To be fair, AAU held back the competition for them. However, they didn't inform of us this. So the competition took FOREVER. Then, on top of all that, we literally drove home in a blizzard. It was not the best weekend ;)
