JAN. 23, 2012

Educational opportunities for Coaches and Judges during the Pac Rim weekend
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USAG WA - wants to know - does your club do Special Olympics? If yes, please e-mail usagwashington@aol.com

BE PREPARED FOR THE OLYMPIC BOOM! Loree Galimore, Director of Club Services.

A survey regarding the 2013-2017 JO Optional Program has been posted on the Women’s home page of the USA Gymnastics website.

There is a new ad on the Classifieds link.

State Chair Elections will be held soon. More info with be coming.

2012 Women's Program State Committee Chair Elections

Nov. 2011 Technical Committee Meeting Minutes (revised 12-8-11)

2012 WA State Level 7 Team and coaches.

The girls competed at the NAWGJ National Judges Cup in Indianapolis this past weekend. They placed 13th (The team was chosen at the Holiday Express Critique meet - which is the WA state judges open meet.)

(Nicole Jas, Emerald City Gymnastics; Ashleigh Helms, Gymnastics East; Kaysha Walford, Northwest Aerials; Makayla Hui, All American; Rachel Cooke, All American; Maya Ford, Emerald City Gymnastics

Please note: there has been a change in the Code of Points on Beam.
Element # 7.207 for a BWO (could also be FWO) with ½ turn to handstand forward roll. The JO Code has this skill illustrated under # 7.107, but since the handstand forward roll itself is a "B"(# 6.203), it was needed to move this from # 7.107 to # 7.207. (From Connie Maloney)
Updated forms can be found at the following link:

http://usagym.org/pages/women/pages/jooptionals.html

NEWLY UPDATED ITEMS FOR 2011-2012 (Dec. 1, 2011) Level 7/8 Vault chart, Optional Requirement Chart, Judges’ Cheat sheet, Judging sheet for Level 9/10, Symbol Charts for UB, BB, & FX

PAC RIM SPECTATOR PACKAGE read more

USA Gymnastics is offering FREE education as a partnership with the Championships. If you are interested register at www.usagym.org/pacrimeducation

Interested in volunteering? please go to: http://usagym.org/pages/events/pacrim/index.html and complete the volunteer form.

Sanction Info: Effective January 2012, the following criteria will be required to be a meet director and/or host a USA Gymnastics-sanctioned event or activity.

Meet Directors - info on how to verifies memberships online for sanctioned events - State Handbook Section B.5

COACHES: Please remember to read through these minutes from May, as they contain important rule changes for the coming season. (Write all the changes in your Code of Points.)

Joint Olympic & Technical Joint Committees Minutes - May 16, 2011

Technical Committee Meeting Minutes - May 16-17, 2011

Women's JO Committee Meeting Minutes - May 16-17, 2011

FYI - The three J.O. Committee Minutes from May - all the new rule changes and clarifications - have been arranged onto one pdf if anyone is interested.
Compiled List of May JO Committee Minutes

WOMEN’S ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING, May 15, 2011, Long Beach, CA

Per Kathy Kelly and USAG: all judges must present a printed Mapquest with their voucher to each meet director before receiving a mileage stipend for each meet they judge.

RULES AND POLICIES 2011-2012 (Judges fee schedule on pg 83

Washington State Gymnasts going on to college competition this year are Cami Guyer, Gym East to San Jose; Madison Kratzke, SGA to Cal Berkeley; Teryn Loland, CEG to SPU; Nikki Minervino, Gym East to George Washington; Kelsey Morris, LEGA to Boise; McKenna Page, Gym East to SPU; Madison Podlucky, AGC to UW; Jamie Radermacher, Naydenov to Eastern Michigan; Jessica Starcevich, Gym East to Cornell; Sammy VanderPutten, Gym East to Cornell; and Kailie Ponto, LEGA to OSU. Good luck ladies!

Congrats to Baely Rowe who has made a verbal commitment to the U of Utah for the 2014 season. 2012-13 gymnasts - verbal commitments include Allison Northey, Gym East, to UW; Haley Lange AGC to U of Utah; and Jamie Wright, NWG, to OSU.
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2013-2020 Women’s New Compulsory Program

What: NEW JO Women’s Compulsory routines and music for Levels 1-5. (Level 6 will be an optional level starting in 2013.)
When:National Workshops to teach the routines will be conducted:

1st weekend: May 30 - June 2, 2013, Disneyworld, Florida
2nd weekend:June 6- June 9, 2013, Reno, Nevada
Regional Workshops, TBA

Use: Competition using the new routines will begin August 1, 2013.