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Show Section 2 THE SENTINEL Hillcrest following: Vault - Optionals, Lisa Baer first, Kim Zaharias second, and Lisa Jenkins gymnasts clip Kearns third. Compulsories, Andrea Jones first, Julie Walker second, and Yvonne Anderson third. Hillcrest High battered Kearns in league gymnastics action 306.60 to 146.45 last Thursday, Mar. 19. Coming up, Hillcrest will visit Alta this Thursday at 4:30 p.m. Then on April 9, Hillcrest will play host to the Region Two tournament. Individual efforts in both optionals and include the Floor exercise Optionals, Baer first, Jacky Anderson second, and Yvonne Anderson and Zaharias tied for third " Compulsories, Jones first Jen Dykes second, and Sherri Henri third. Balance beam OpBaer tionals, first, Jenkins and fourth, Comfifth. Zaharias pulsories, Laura Dayton com-pulsori- es Is Thursday March 26. 1981 1 Pag first, Tracy Andrews second, and Henri third. Bars Optionals, Baer first, Trish Hill third, and Kathy Woolley fourth. Compulsories, Jones first, Suzee Ertman second, and Natalie Bacca third. - Optionals, Baer Zaharias first, and Jennie second, Bateman third. Compulsories, Jones first and Jodi Perrin second. SENTINEL WANT ADS WORK UTAH ACADEMY OF GYMNASTICS 05tt Scsti 4C3 West - 261-007- 1 (s) NEW STUDENTS Rogistor J wamntm i CLASS III CLASS HI How (Beginning) Ht Mac 1980. 1981 Bring this ad )8 yr. under) HI Plan 1979. 80. 81 CLASS I (advanced) 1980 displays form that earned her a place on the U.S. National Elite team. Kim was selected as Gymnast With the selecone of 21 competitors from a 32 member field at the U.S. Championship meet held last Mar. U.S. on in 1984 at Los team of ultimate one her toward Kim the taken has Olympic goal competing tion, giant step Olympic hopeful W 13-1- i CmIHIm Angeles. has already put six years of effort behind her. Kim started in gymnastics at the age of 10. She says that she asked her parents if she could take lessons because her older sister was. "I didn't even know this National Team Trials in level of competition August with the final existed when I started," trials following in Sep- she relates. "About tember. If Kim can finish years ago, I in the top 10 at the trials, decided I really wanted to she will be eligible to gymnastics pursue tryout for the seven seriously." member U.S. team in the sucBehind every world championships in cessful young athlete, October and November. there usually can be Once on top, Kim has to found a pair of supportive stay there if she enter- parents and Kim is no extains , any Olympic ception. She credits her and Tom thoughts. parents, "The next couple of DeeAnn with Taylor, years are really impor- helping her get where she tant," she continues. "I is today. have to stay in the top VMy parents always 10." me," she supported One thing that helps notes. "They never ever is forced keep Kim going do to me of in that knowing, spite anything." all the work ahead, she Once an athlete decides to devote himself or herself to a sport with Olympic aspirations, much of the time they would spend socializing as a high school student is eaten up by long hours in the gym. Not only that, but accommodations often have to be made with academic pursuits. four Kim attends classes a day as a sophomore at Brighton High School and also gets one P.E. credit for her work in gymnastics. Her coaches, Paul Hunt and Michelle Pond of the Utah Academy of Gymanstics, see to it that Kim keeps up on her studies. "If anyone of our students falls below a "B" average at school," adds coach Pond, "we kick them out." , Sentinel Staff By virtue of her being named to the U.S. National Elite Gymnastics Team, fifteen year old Kim Taylor has taken one giant step her ultimate toward competitive goal. before she can . But, even really start thinking of Olympic gold and Los Angeles in 1984, Kim knows there remains a lot more hurdles to cross. was one of 21 . Kim .young ladies selected from a" field of 32 comthe U.S. petitors National Elite Gymnastics meet held in Penn. Bethlahem, Her placement in the competition earned her the honor. . To bring her to this of level gymnastic prowess, Kim has practiced fpr five hours a day, six days a week for the past four years. Never once, she reports, has she ever considered seriously dropping out of the grueling regimen. Kim's next step along the road to L.A. is scheduled for this July at the U.S. National sports festival in Syracuse, New York. The festival is like Mar. . 'at 13-1- an intra-U.- Olympics. After the festival, action will move on to the 2 ONLY 3 ONLY 4 ONLY Beautiful Swivel Rocker Ayers Swivel Rockers Wing Back Chairs . 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