Fundraiser Date Change

Everyone~ Please note that the concert fundraiser to help me afford my Dubai trip will now be on Saturday, July 20th! Please mark your calendars!!!

Dubai, Here I come!

Hey everyone! Just back from another Nationals competition! Well wait...let me back up. I did the Women's meet in Cinci in April & had a BLAST. About 60 women competed and it was a really great time! So, I'm just back from another Nationals competition! lol. I got two lifts up and the second was 183! Pretty excited about that! However, the second one was not counted because of technicalities. My pause at my chest was not long enough. Live and learn, right? I did find out the week before Nationals that Worlds is going to be in Dubai next year! Totally excited and can't wait for that! 8 people have qualified for our Worlds team! I'm pretty excited about that as well. The more, the merrier! Worlds are in April 2014. It'll be here before we know it! I'm having a concert fundraiser at Buffalo Hollow on July 13th to help me begin to gather the funds I'm going to need for that. My Uncle Jim & Aunt Marlene are going to be our opening singers. My cousin Jamie Figley lined up a band called Patron Saint, from Pittsburgh, to perform for us. And also Reign of One, a local band that did a concert for me in 2010. The Road Doggz, a biker group from Salem, is helping to get another band and they're organizing a bunch of activities to have happening as well, in conjunction with the concert. They're a great group of guys. They do a lot of work for veterans and for sick children, and they have a Toys for Tots event and Wounded Warrior event coming up in the next several months, so, keep your eyes open for those as well. As for my training, we've decided it best for me to take a small hiatus from competing. I'm going to try to make it down to Cinci in September for some training. But I won't compete until I go down again in December for the North of the Border meet. Then I'll have a training clinic in February with my National team and then it's off to Dubai in April! I'm really looking forward to this little break and seeing what Brian and I can achieve. Now that I've done so many meets in the last year and a half we've really gotten a good look at strengths and weaknesses and what needs special attention. It should be a very productive 5 months!