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Show rmnastwith panash lOm Bubbles And Brims To Third I 1 I 1 Ml x 4 V) i 1 1 P V 1 - kV- - ; , - ' ii 1 1 i" ' A 1 "I can honestly say, I f J Or" did the best I could and rrTTIrg i f $t that's what I went there tT3 lPf to do." r . 1 f pWlGHAM . ni!NTlFUL -- Gymnasts B ,ross as the basic shy, quiet Bountiful's Kim Peterson p(,?.darerent mold. Kim, who ' placed third in. the state F,L competition, is an out-HSuty out-HSuty S a bubbly person-tet-ms with confidence. Lrtf IS by no means arrogant r ,h,r a voung lady who simply 'Jlra !hat she wants out of life &as the confidence to go fen a setback, which would i been major to some athletes, failing to capture first place, n f state meet can t dampen the : !nts of this youngster. I can Sly say I did the best I could, Sat'swhatlwenttheretodo" he smiled ml PROBABLY would have ntte title had it not been for her nountonthe balance beam, I fell ff on my mount and then the e ond time I tried I fell again, the ,tes are only supposed to take ff points for one fall on a mount : i they took off for both of them. : cme felt I got a raw deal from the I idges but I don't feel bad about Kim placed first in the state in ... ie vault with scores of 9.45 the ' tsl Highland then 9.25 the second. : the bar competition she scored Jand then 9.25 to capture second T; iaceandthenherefforts of 9.5 and c i in the floor excercise put her in i jfd place in that event. Had the !. ilance beam gone anywhere near rial she had done throughout the c ear Kim would have been the : and winner. As it was she gained t': iird place, n. r IN THE STATE meet it seemed it more consistent girls won the Iks regardless of how tough their ,. Mtines were, "some of the girls V: isl went for consistent routines lal weren't that difficult, but alsjust not me. I went for the ore difficult routines." Gymnastics began at age nine for im but she gave up the life of a mnast in the private club area eJihe hit high school. "Prior to . school it was easy to go to the ictices and everything because nasties was my life. But then in J school other things like dates, ter into the picture and the time wt becomes a factor." DURING HERjunior high days it was common practice to train four hours a day for six days of the week while competiting for the Saltos team. Success soon came to Kim as she won the state event and thus qualified for the Regionals on several sev-eral occasions while traveling to exotic places in Arizona, California, Califor-nia, Colorado and Wyoming. I have been able to travel a lot because be-cause of gymnastics," she laughed. AS A SOPHOMORE in high school Kim stuck with the private club look taking second place in the state in the Class 1 division but in her junior year she went out for the high school team. "I really wasn't that serious about the sport last year, I had just quit private lessons so I wasn't into the time element. There were times I wouldn't workout work-out but would go and compete in the meets and I was successful so I figured I didn't have to workout. "One reason I participated was to be with Jill Palmer who had been in the private club with me throughout the years. It was fun to compete against her." Just for memory sake Jill won the all-around all-around state crown last year. JUST FOR the fun of it, "and to do something different" Kim also became a cheerleader as a junior for the Braves, which seemed a natural for a gymnast. For basically the same reason, "to do something different" Kim ran for a studentbody office in her senior year and this past school year she has been serving as the publicity manager for the school. KIM HAD a reason for doing well at the state meet, she was after a scholarship from Brigham Young. "I wrote to the coaches and asked them to come watch me in the state event, which they did. They must have liked what they saw because 1 now have a scholarship scholar-ship to BYU to compete next year in gymnastics." In these parts the gymnastic world seems to belong to Utah but Kim still chose to become a Cougar simply because, "They seem to care more about the girls individual personality and they try to make the sport fun. That's my type of coaching," she smiled. SHE IS very honest about the competition on the high school level. "It's a step down from private pri-vate competition. Most of the girls at Utah are from private teams and not a high school program. I know a lot of girls in this state that don't compete in the high school competition, com-petition, and they would do very well." Kim herself almost didn't compete com-pete in high school but when her coach quit in her sophomore year she felt it was a great time to get out of private and into high school competition. She doesn't regret the move. TO MANY gymnastics means hours of work but Kim is a strong advocate for the sport. "I would recommend it for any youngster. If nothing else it builds coordination and thus develops self confidence in them. One of the biggest reasons for my success in anything I do can be directly attributed to gymnastics." gymnas-tics." As for her future. "I want to do well next year at BYU. I look forward for-ward to learning a lot in college and getting the chance to travel a little. As for a career I'm not really sure yet, maybe something in the business busi-ness field." NO MATTER what course in life Kim Peterson decides to travel she is the type of young lady that will succeed. The state may only look at her as a third place winner in the state meet but to all who know her she is a winner in every sense of the word. |
