 The 2014 IHSA Girls Gymnastics State Finals will take place at Palatine High School in Palatine on Friday and Saturday, February 21-22. The 2014 state final meet marks the 38th season that a State Series will be contested in girl’s gymnastics and the 36th consecutive year that Palatine High School will serve as the host.
IHSA.tv will be there to document all the action and will have highlights from the tournament posted on the website in the days that follow.
Friday’s action will determine an individual All-Around champion and factor into the team scoring. On Saturday, individual state champions will be crowned in the Vault, Uneven Parallel Bars, Balance Beam and Floor Exercise. Friday’s prelims will determine the Top 10 competitors in each event that move on to Saturday’s finals. Team points are accumulated on Friday, but competitors can add to their team total on Saturday with a higher scoring routine.
A year ago, Lyons trailed Prairie Ridge after Friday’s prelims, but improved several Saturday scores to edge Prairie Ridge for the state title (149.625-149.300). The state title was the first in Lyons’ school history and ended Carmel’s run of three consecutive state championships. Six of the Top 8 teams from a year ago return in 2014, including the entire Top 5, as Fremd (3rd), New Trier (4th) and Geneva (5th) followed Lyons and Prairie Ridge, respectively. Barrington and Prospect are the newcomers to the 2014 team field, as Prospect makes its first state final appearance and Barrington qualifies for the first time since 2002.
A senior has captured the All-Around title in four consecutive seasons, but that trend could change in 2014 after two current juniors tied for second-place last year in Prairie Ridge’s Rachel Underwood and Lyons’ Kelsy Kurfirst. Kurfirst is the defending state champion in the Floor Exercise as well, while the only other defending state champ in the field is Stevenson’s Alyssa Weisberg, who won the Balance Beam as a sophomore in 2013.
A look at the top Sectional performances this season:
VAULT
2013 State Champion: Lauren Feely, Carmel (9.825)
2014 Sectional Champions: Rachael Underwood, Prairie Ridge (9.7500); Kelsy Kurfirst, Lyons (9.6250); Brittany Moccia, Lake Forest (9.5250); Claire Rose Ginsberg, Geneva (9.5000)
UNEVEN PARALLEL BARS
2013 State Champion: Lauren Feely, Carmel (9.625)
2014 Sectional Champions: Rachael Underwood, Prairie Ridge (9.5500); Kelsy Kurfirst, Lyons (9.4750); Allison Wahrman, Glenbard North (9.2750); Brittany Moccia, Lake Forest (9.2250)
BALANCE BEAM
2013 State Champion: Alyssa Weisberg, Stevenson (9.525)
2014 Sectional Champions: Anneli Kawaoka, Naperville North (9.7250); Rachael Underwood, Prairie Ridge (9.7000); Alyssa Weisberg, Stevenson (9.6250); Claire Rose Ginsberg, Geneva (9.5500)
FLOOR EXERCISE
2013 State Champion: Kelsy Kurfirst, Lyons (9.725)
2014 Sectional Champions: Claire Rose Ginsberg, Geneva (9.7000); Kelsy Kurfirst, Lyons (9.6750); Amelia Rafferty, Elk Grove Village (9.6000); Brittany Moccia, Lake Forest (9.5000)
ALL-AROUND
2013 State Champion: Lauren Feely, Carmel (38.700)
2014 Sectional Champions: Rachael Underwood, Prairie Ridge (38.4000); Kelsy Kurfirst, Lyons (38.3000); Claire Rose Ginsberg, Geneva (37.9000); Brittany Moccia, Lake Forest (37.8500)
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SITE
Palatine HS (Palatine)
Directions
SCHEDULE
Friday, February 21
4:50 p.m.- Parade of
Competitors followed by: Vaulting, Uneven
Parallel Bars, Balance Beam and Floor Exercise.
Saturday, February 22
5:25 p.m. - Parade of
Competitors followed by:
Vaulting, Uneven Parallel Bars, Balance Beam
and Floor Exercise.
QUALIFIERS & RESULTS
Qualifiers
Results: Friday
Saturday
INTERACT
Twitter Coverage:
@IHSAState #IHSA
Facebook Page
Photos
WATCH
A highlight package from the tournament will be posted on www.IHSA.tv in the days that follow the tournament.
TICKETS
$10 per session
LISTEN
No audio broadcasts currently scheduled for this event
HISTORY & RECORDS
2014 State Series Results
Record Book & Past Champions
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