USA wins 29 medals at T&T’s 2012 Loule Cup and World Cup

Indianapolis, Indiana – The United States won 29 medals at the 2012 Loule Cup and World Cup of Trampoline at the Loule (Portugal) Municipal Sports Hall on final day.

The World Cup had events in trampoline, synchronized trampoline and tumbling.  Dakota Earnest of Plains, Texas/Acrospirits, and Alicia Powder of Ladera Ranch, Calif./World Elite Gymnastics, earned the silver medal for synchronized trampoline.  Earnest also advanced to the finals for trampoline, where she finished sixth. In tumbling, Garret Waterstradt of Paxton, Ill./Irish’s Gymnastics, and Brittney Bernard of Bixby, Okla./Oklahoma Extreme Tumbling both placed fifth in the finals.

The Loule Cup featured competition in trampoline, tumbling and double mini-trampoline for senior, junior and Olympic development levels.  The USA won 28 medals at the Loule Cup, including eight gold. Four U.S. women won two medals each at the Loule Cup: Rachel Thevenot of Metairie, Texas/Elmwood, -- gold for tumbling and bronze for double mini, under 13 girls; Alyssa Oh of Rocklin, Calif./Technique T&T – gold in trampoline and silver for double mini-trampoline, under 13 girls; Carly Townsend of Foothill Ranch, Calif./World Elite – gold for double mini and silver for trampoline, under 13 girls; and Madi Webster of Odon, Ind./Tumbling Express – gold for double mini and silver for trampoline, 13-14 girls.

World Cup U.S. medalists
Women’s synchronzed trampoline
Silver:  Dakota Earnest, Plains, Texas/Acrospirits, and Alicia Powder, Ladera Ranch, Calif./World Elite Gymnastics,silver

Loule Cup U.S. medalists
Trampoline
Under 13 girls
Gold:  Alyssa Oh, Rocklin, Calif./Technique T&T
Silver:  Carly Townsend, Foothill Ranch, Calif./World Elite
Under 13 boys
Bronze:  Joseph Isenberg, Martinsburg, W.Va./Flip Over Gymnastics
13-14 girls
Silver:  Madeline Barba, Foothill Ranch, Calif./World Elite
Junior men
Silver:  Cody Gesuelli, Middletown, N.J./Eta
Bronze:  Sam Chiacchia, Colorado Springs, Colo./High Country Gymnastics Academy
Junior women
Gold:  Charlotte Drury, Laguna Niguel, Calif./World Elite Gymnastics
Women’s open
Gold:  Audrey Ghanian, Holmdel, N.J./ETA

Double mini-trampoline
Under 13 girls
Gold:  Carly Townsend, Foothill Ranch, Calif./World Elite
Silver: Alyssa Oh, Rocklin, Calif./Technique T&T
Bronze: Rachel Thevenot, Metairie, Texas/Elmwood
Under 13 boys
Gold:  Patrick Lyell, Kenner, LA/ Elmwood
13-14 girls
Gold: Hally Piontek, Warrensburg, Mo./Kansas City Trampoline
13-14 boys
Silver:  Garrett Day, Bedford, Va./Lynchburg Academy
Junior men
Silver:  Steven Harris, Chandler, Ariz./Aspire Kids Sports Center
Bronze:  Noah Orr, Phoenix/Air Sports Unlimited
Junior women
Gold:  Madi Webster, Odon, Ind./Tumbling Express
Senior women
Gold: Kristle Lowell, Orland Park, Ill./Branch Gymnastics
Open men
Bronze:  Austin White, Newport Coast, Calif./World Elite Gymnastics

Tumbling
Under 13 boys
Silver:  Patrick Lyell, Kenner, La./Elmwood
Under 13 girls
Gold:  Rachel Thevenot, Metairie, Texas/Elmwood
Silver:  Gretchen Schultz, Destrehan, La./Elmwood
13-14 boys
Silver:  Quinn Ross, Reno, NV/Legacy T&T
13-14 girls
Silver:  Mandie DiMarco, Metairie, Texas/Elmwood
Bronze:  Isabella Rodriguez, Broken Arrow, Okla./Xtreme Elite
Junior women
Silver:  Cheyenne Kelley, Broken Arrow, Okla./Oklahoma Extreme Tumbling
Junior men
Gold:  Tyler Waller, Bloomington, Ill./Gymnastics Etc.
Bronze:  Josh Browne, Gilbert, Ariz./Aspire Kids Sports Center

Based in Indianapolis, USA Gymnastics is the national governing body for gymnastics in the United States.  Its mission is to encourage participation and the pursuit of excellence in the sport.  Its disciplines include men's and women's artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline and tumbling, acrobatic gymnastics, and group gymnastics (also known as Gymnastics for All).  For more information, log on to www.usagym.org.

Results from Trampoline and Tumbling event in Portugal

Loule, Portugal – At the World Cup event in Portugal, women's synchro athletes Dakota Earnest of Plains, Texas/Acrospirits, and Alicia Powder, Ladera Ranch, Calif./World Elite Gymnastics, finished fourth with a score of 80.80 and qualified to finals, which take place on Sept. 8.

At the 2012 Loule Cup, also in Portugal, Madi Webster, Odon, Ind./Tumbling Express, finished in first place in qualifications in junior women's double mini with a score of 63.900. Miranda Maldonado, Amarillo, Texas/The Palaestra LLC, finished second with a 62.150.

Kristle Lowell, Orland Park, Ill./Branch Gymnastics, and Erin Jauch, Crystal Lake, Ill./Fox Valley Tumbling and Trampoline, finished in a tie for first in junior women's double mini with a score of 66.300.

Garrett Day, Bedford, Va./Lynchburg Academy, leads the rankings in men's double mini 13-14 with a score of 68.000. Tanner Robinson of Anaheim, Calif./World Elite Gymnastics, is fourth with 62.600.

Hally Piontek, Warrensburg, Mo./Kansas City Trampoline, finished first with a 62.850 in 13-14 women's double mini, while Courtney Walsh, Red Bank, N.J./ETA finished fifth with a 60.075. Sarah Webster, Valley View, Texas/Elite Champion, was seventh with a 59.625.

Dakota Earnest of Plains, Texas/Acrospirits, finished seventh with a 95.450 at the Loule Cup in women's trampoline qualifying competition and is headed to the finals.

Brittney Bernard, Bixby, Okla./Oklahoma Extreme Tumbling, and Garret Waterstradt of Paxton, Ill./Irishs Gymnastics, both qualified to finals in tumbling. Bernard finished seventh with a score of 54.100 and Waterstradt finished fifth with a score of 63.700.

Neil Gulati, Irvine, Calif./World Elite Gymnastics, finished 16th in men's trampoline for the World Cup qualification scoring 101.170.

22 U.S. gymnasts advance to finals at 2012 Loule Cup

LOULE, Portugal  – Twenty-two U.S. gymnasts advanced to the finals of the 2012 Loule Cup based on performances at the qualification rounds on Sept. 6 at the Loule (Portugal) Municipal Sports Hall. The top eight athletes in each event qualified to finals. Competition runs through Sept. 8 and also includes a World Cup event.

Audrey Ghanian, Holmdel, N.J./ETA, leads the open women's rankings in trampoline with a score of 87.100 with Great Britain's Penny Mitchell in second (86.910) and Sophie Gardner in third (86.140).

In the junior men's trampoline, three U.S. gymnasts advanced to the finals. Sam Chiacchia of Colorado Springs, Colo./High Country Gymnastics Academy, placed third at 93.685, and Cody Gesuelli of Middletown, N.J./ETA, and Joseph Kozlowski of Avondale, Pa./ETA, finished fifth and sixth, respectively, despite both scoring a 92.205. Sweden's Timoteus Karlsson topped the preliminary rankings at 96.990, with Russia's Andrey Yudi second at 95.010.

For the 13-14 men's trampoline, Nathan Miller of Summerfield, N.C./Ultimate Air, qualified to finals in seventh place scoring 81.730 and Isaac Rowley of Allen, Texas/Eagles Wings, qualified in eighth with a score of 80.905. Great Britain's Joshua Newman leads the qualification with a score of 90.040, followed by Russia's Danil Bulakov at 86.695, and Denmark's Benjamin Salo Kjer at 84.655.

The top four women in the open double mini division all scored a 66.300: Brazils Mariana Rodrigues Carvalho de Aquino and Andressa Ferreira Sandes, first and second respectively; Kristle Lowell of Orland Park, Ill./Branch Gymnastics, third and Erin Jauch of Crystal Lake, Ill./Fox Valley Tumbling and Trampoline, fourth.

Madi Webster of Odon, Ind./Tumbling Express, and Miranda Maldonado of Amarillo, Texas/The Palaestra, went one-two in the junior women's double mini-trampoline prelims with a 63.900 and 62.150, respectively. Russia's Ksenia Naumenko rounded out the top three at 61.625.

Garrett Day of Bedford, Va./Lynchburg Academy, earned the highest prelim score in the men's 13-14 double mini division of 68.000. Tanner Robinson of Anaheim, Calif./World Elite, is fourth at 62.600. Spain's Eduardo Novelle was second at 63.400, and Portugal's Tiago Sampaio Romao third at 63.100. On the women's side, Hally Piontek of Warrensburg, Mo./Kansas City Trampoline, led the prelims with her 62.850. Also qualifying for finals are Courtney Walsh of Red Bank, N.J./ETA, 60.075, fifth, and Sarah Webster of Valley View, Texas/Elite Champion, seventh. Mandie DiMarco of Metairie, Texas/Elmwood, just missed the finals, finishing ninth at 58.000.

Patrick Lyell of Kenner, La./Elmwood, finished fourth in men's 11-12 double mini-trampoline with a score of 62.400. Rhys Northover of Great Britain is in the lead with 63.000, followed by Maxim Arkhipov of Russia with 62.500 and Jodo Felix of Portugal in third with the same score as Lyell, 62.400. Armand Reichelt of Scottsdale, Ariz./Scottsdale Gymnastics, is sixth with 60.700. Luke Ferrante of Huntsville, Ala./Matrix, grabbed the final spot in the finals by finishing eighth with a score of 60.100.

The USA women dominated the women's 11-12 double mini competition, sweeping the top three places. Carly Townsend of Foothill Ranch, Calif./World Elite, is in the lead with 62.450, followed by Rachel Thevenot of Metairie, Texas/Elmwood, at 61.775, and Gretchen Schultz of Destrehan, La./Elmwood, at 61.525 in second and third, respectively. Alyssa Oh of Rocklin, Calif./Technique T&T, also qualified to finals finishing in fifth place with a 60.650.

The events feature competition in trampoline, tumbling and double mini-trampoline for senior, junior and Olympic development levels. Live streaming from the event is available at www.digitalmaistv.com.