Team Vidalia At State
The local competitive gymnasts of Vidalia Gymnastics & Cheer’s Team Vidalia brought HOME GOLD at the 2021 State Championship! With 13 individual State Champions and two Team State Champion titles, 2021 was a golden success for the gymnasts of Team Vidalia! The 2021 AAU State Championship was held in Roswell, on May
2, and Team Vidalia competed all 26 of their gymnasts. Gymnasts compete on four events and in allaround, the girls of Team Vidalia brought home an impressive 29 Individual Gold Medals, 18 Silver and 15 Bronze with two Team State Banner Titles with the Level 1 and Level
4 earning those titles. Team Vidalia competing gymnasts; results and places on Vault / Bars / Beam / Floor / All- Around were: AAU LEVEL 1: Emma Bell (9.05-9 /
8.65-9 / 8.60-5 /
8.925-Bronze / 35.225-
5); Bailey Brown (8.65-7
/ 8.475-10 / 8.35-6 /
8.70-7 / 34.175-9); Kenlee Bryant (9.125-Bronze / 9.15-Bronze /
8.80-Bronze-8.80-6 /
35.875-4); Ella Grooms
(9.20-4 / 8.10-6 / 8.925-7
/ 8.55-7 / 34.775-7); Emma Grooms (9.20-4 /
9.00-Bronze / 9.15-5 /
9.125-4 / 36.475-Silver; Natalie Harris (9.425GOLD / 8.95-Bronze /
8.10-6 / 9.325-GOLD /
35.80-4); Kenley Hurley
(8.95-6 / 9.10-Bronze /
8.15-10 / 8.75-6 / 34.95-
7); Cohen Johnson
(9.15-Bronze / 9.20-8 /
9.15-6 / 9.425-Silver /
36.925-Bronze); Blythe Kirby (8.40-9 / 6.25-11 /
7.75-11 / 7.90-10 / 30.30-
11); EmmaKate Lindsey
(9.40-GOLD / 9.10-4 /
8.70-4 / 9.00-Silver /
36.20-Bronze; Laney Martin (9.20-Silver / 9.20-Silver / 9.00-Silver / 9.05GOLD / 36.45-GOLD); HeidiGrace Miles
(9.275-Silver / 8.75-8 /
8.30-7 / 8.60-7 / 34.925-
8); Kinsley Park (9.40GOLD / 9.25-6 / 9.00-5 /
9.40- Bronze /
37.05-Bronze; and Blakelee Stokes (9.025-4 /
8.875 / 5 / 8.925 / Bronze
/ 26.825)! AAU LEVEL 2: Calleigh Bell (8.975-5 /
8.70-7 / 9.375-GOLD /
8.60-5 / 36.65-5); Maycee Guin (9.15-Bronze /
9.15-8 / 8.50-11 / 8.975-
11 / 35.775-11) Annison Hightower (9.10-5 /
9.25-Bronze / 9.375-4 /
9.10-8 / 36.825-Bronze); EllieGrace Wall (9.40GOLD / 9.10-9 / 9.475GOLD / 9.525-GOLD /
37.50-GOLD); and Ansley Williams (9.15-5 /
9.275-GOLD / 9.00-4 /
8.70-5 / 36.125-Bronze)!
AAU LEVEL 3: Chloe Beck (8.975-4 / 8.525-11
/ 8.40-5 / 9.125-Silver /
35.025-5) and KatieLee Brodnax (9.425-GOLD /
9.075-GOLD / 8.40-7 /
9.375-Silver / 36.275-Silver)!
AAU LEVEL 4: Teagan Allen (8.90-Silver /
9.075-GOLD / 9.00GOLD / 9.45-GOLD /
36.425-GOLD); Gabby Betsill (9.05-GOLD /
8.275-Silver / 8.90GOLD / 8.775-4 /
35.00-Silver); and Zoey Fields (9.025-Silver /
8.60-GOLD / 8.525-Silver / 9.30-GOLD / 35.45- GOLD)! AAU LEVEL 5: Lynzie Dasher (8.925-GOLD-
8.45-GOLD / 8.70-Silver
/ 8.65-Silver / 34.725GOLD) and Maggie Mitchell (8.70-Silver /
8.20-Silver / 8.85-GOLD
/ 8.92-GOLD / 34.65-Silver)!
Gold Champion Medalists who earned a banner to be hung among the hundreds of STATE & NATIONAL CHAMPIONS on the back wall of Vidalia Gymnastics included: Level 1: Natalie Harris, EmmaKate Lindsey, Laney Martin, and Kinsley Park; Level 2: Calleigh Bell, EllieGrace Wall and Ansley Williams; Level 3: KatieLee Brodnax; Level 4: Teagan Allen, Gabby Betsill and Zoey Thomas; and Level
5: Lyndie Dasher and Maggie Mitchell! “We are incredibly proud of our gymnasts,” said team coach, Courtney Allen. She continued, “This is a talented and highly driven group of girls, and we are excited about what’s to come for them!” Gym owner, Robin Nance added, “We needed this! The gymnasts, the parents, the coaches – we needed to see something good come out of this chapter in time and to be reminded that hard work does, in fact, pay off!” She continued, “Thirteen State Champions and Two Titles… I’m pretty sure that may be a gym record for a single season in the
24 years of Team Vidalia – I am very proud of these girls and how there represent our community.”
The gymnasts of Team Vidalia are preparing for the upcoming GEORGIA AAU NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP this June.
