Level 6 Team Wins Flip Festival

PEG opened their competitive season by attending The Flip Festival in Spokane on January 23-24. PEG's Level 6 team came away with 1st place honors at the Flip Festival Gymnastics Competition held this weekend in Spokane. The team was lead by Victoria winning bars and the all-around competition in the Junior Division. Kaitlyn was 2nd on bars. In the Children's Division, Skylar placed 2nd on vault and 3rd on floor. Olivia was 3rd on beam and All-Around. And Taylor made her qualifying score for State.

The Level 5 Team placed 3rd in the team competition, led by Tori with 3rd place finishes on vault, bars, floor and All-Around in the Junior Division. Teammate Sydney won the bars competition. In the Senior Division Cheyenne placed 3rd on bars and 2nd on beam.

Other top three finishers during the weekend include Abby with a 1st on vault, bars, floor and All-Around in Level 8. And Casey with a 3rd on beam in Level 7.

Great Job Girls! Here we come Boise!

Empire Cheer Squad Debut

Our adorably cute Empire Cheer Squad made their debut performance at a Moscow High School Basketball game. They performed their competition routine and then cheered side by side with the Varsity Cheerleaders.

The next day the Empire Cheer Squad participated in the Moscow Cheer Extravaganza. Another great performance opportunity in front of all the Moscow Cheerleaders (grades 7-12 and their friends and family). Their routine is getting better every time. We are looking forward to seeing them in a competition in February.

Check out their videos on our You Tube Channel: palouseempire

The 10 girls are lead by Coach Caren. Great job everyone!

Rebuilding the floor - Many Thanks!

Although we were 3 weeks past our original date, the floor was completed in record time on January 19th. Many thanks go out to those that donated time and funds to this project. A few extra special Thank You's go out to Bruce Yoshikawa for letting us store the wood in his shop for 3 extra weeks, to Nicole Whitehead for organizing the Buy a Board Fundraiser and to the WSU/UI Gymnastics club and the U of I Pole vaulting team for helping with the labor. There were over 20 broken boards. Mark is shown holding one of the worst. Over 30 volunteers that came out on Saturday evening to help. In 4 hours the old springs were off, and 2/3 of the new floor was assembled. Check out the junk that Victoria had the pleasure of cleaning up. That's where all the pens went! On Sunday a work crew of ten completed the floor in another 4 hours work. It doesn't look all that different, but now the floor will last for years to come. Look at the beautiful Baltic Birch!

THANKS EVERYONE WE COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU!

Happy New Year!

Welcome to PEG's new blog. We hope to have weekly updates on events happening at the gym and on the road. PEG started the new year on a grand note. On January 3rd the Girls and TNT Team performed at the WSU vs. UW Men's Basketball Game. The gymnasts did great and they had a wonderful time! WSU cheerleader and former PEG gymnast, AJ Morgan joined in our mini tramp skit. We told her that Jasper was going to front flip over her but instead he psyched her out back flipped off the mini tramp instead. Then Shannon and Abby did a Huskies vs. Cougars skit. Shannon put on a UW shirt and got a few boos from the crowd. She ran across the airfloor and stumbled. Lots of laughs from the crowd. She did a round-off back drop to finish it off her clumsy husky interpretation. Abby then played to the crowd with her cougar shirt on and performed a sky high double-back. We hope to make this an annual event. Many thanks to the parent and coaches for helping transport the mats. We couldn't have done it with out you!