My sister Ali has been a gymnast since she could barely walk. I remember going to her competitions and my hands would sweat while she did her beam routine; she would do all sorts of crazy moves and flips on that tiny piece of wood! She won the Texas state gold medal for her level for the vault one year and that was one of the most exciting competitions I had been to! This year {her senior year} she made it to state and then qualified for nationals.
Ali is in Florida right now getting ready to compete at the national high school gymnastics competition; she is on "Team Texas." Ali has torn both of her ACLs and has had to have extensive knee surgery and physical therapy both times and, yet, she kept bouncing back to make it to where she is today; one of the tears even happend the day before the state competition one year.
She has been such an amazing example to me of hard work, dedication, persistence, and patience. I know her extremely positive attitude desipite major physical setbacks is what helped her to keep succeeding. She never once competed on a Sunday {a decision she made long ago} and she was blessed for it. Her coach would work with her when a meet was on a Saturday and Sunday so that she could get it all done on Saturdays. And everything always worked out because of that {a tender mercy is that this national competition isn't on a sunday and she was able to even book one of the only flights back Saturday that will get her to Houston right in time for prom!} This is her final time to compete this weekend and a great way to end her gymnastics career! Good luck sis!
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