Winners at Regionals
WINNERS AT REGIONALS
Cole Wilhelm didn’t just win, he won big. Cole has had an extremely successful competitive season as a gymnast at Eagle’s Wings Athletics (EWA) in Allen. The season is not over yet, but Cole returned to Allen as Regional Champion times three. He won first place on parallel bars with a score of 15.0, first on high bar (14.7) and tied for first on vault (15.2). He earned a silver medal on floor exercise (15.5) and all around (87.7), and took 11th on pommel horse (13.0) and 12th on still rings (14.3) out of the 23 competitors in the Level 7, age 12-13 division.
The USA Men’s Gymnastics Regional Championships were held April 9-10 at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Fifteen EWA gymnasts, levels 6 through 10, competed. Only Levels 9 and 10 are eligible to advance to Nationals, held in Tennessee next month, and all of EWA’s Level 9 and 10 athletes did just that.
On the Level 10 team, Evan Fitzgerald earned fourth on pommel horse (13.15), and eighth on floor exercise and high bar in the 14-15 year-old division. He earned 12th place all-around with a score of 75.05. Logan Doughty, in the 16-18 group, tied for seventh on parallel bars (13.75), placed ninth on floor exercise, and 12th on high bar. These two, along with teammate Justin Muenz, and Level 9 Cameron Lake, will be advancing to Nationals.
Chandler Guvernator competed Level 8, where he earned fourth place on high bar (11.15), fifth on vault (12.2) and rings (11.5), ninth on floor exercise, and 8th all-around (67.8).
Other notable finishes from the men’s team were Level 7 Drew Huck earning tenth on floor exercise, Level 6 Brian McCray (age 12-13 division) placing fifth on vault (14.2) and ninth on parallel bars, and Carter Frederick placing ninth on bars in the Level 6, age 8-9 division.
Boys Level 6-10 State
BOYS LEVEL 6-10 STATE
The Men’s gymnastics team from EWA traveled to Austin for the Level 6-10 State Championships. Cole Wilhelm, a Level 7 athlete in the age 12-13 group, was a four-time State champion, earning first place wins on vault (15.1), parallel bars (14.8), pommel horse (14.0) and all-around (85.9). He tied for silver on high bar (14.3) and placed fourth on floor exercise (14.4) and seventh on still rings (13.3). Wilhelm, along with Level 7 teammates Drew Huck and Christopher Bowling, qualified to advance to the Regional Championships.
Level 8 Chandler Guvernator and Level 9 Cameron Lake also qualified for Regionals. Guvernator tied for eighth place all-around (67.6), earning fourth on vault (12.9), tying for seventh on rings (11.0), and placing eighth on parallel bars (11.9) and high bar (10.6).
Level 10 Justin Muenz tied for sixth on high bar and earned tenth all-around in the age 16-18 group. Johann Handszer took bronze on still rings (12.7) and pommel horse (12.6) and sixth on vault (13.75). He was injured during warm ups on high bar so scratched the last two events. Evan Fitzgerald, in the age 14-15 division, earned fifth place on floor exercise (13.3), tied for seventh on pommel horse (12.2) and tied for tenth on vault (13.4). Muenz, Fitzgerald, and Logan Doughty qualified to Regionals, while Handzser will petition straight to Nationals.
Several Level 6 gymnasts placed in the top ten as well. Carter Frederick tied for sixth place on parallel bars (15.0) in the 8-9 year old group. Bradley Weatherford, age 11, took seventh on vault (15.0), while in the age 12-13 group Brian McCray tied for sixth place on parallel bars (14.1), and took eighth place on high bar (14.5) and still rings (12.1).
Head Coach Greg Schram, along with Bob Martichuski, Wesley Cox, Craig Locke, and Evan Fitzgerald coach the men’s team at EWA.
Men at The Alamo Challenge
MEN AT THE ALAMO CHALLENGE
The men’s gymnastics team took on the Alamo Challenge February 13 in San Antonio. Level 7 Cole Wilhelm brought home yet more medals from another successful meet. He was the age 12-13 floor exercise champion (14.9), and parallel bars champion (14.7), and placed second on still rings (14.8) and high bar (14.0), and third on pommel horse for a first place all-around score of 85.4.
Chandler Guvernator tied for silver on high bar (11.0) and won bronze all-around (68.7) for the Level 8 12-13 year-olds.
Three Level 6 gymnasts earned bronze medals. Carter Frederick earned his on parallel bars in the age 8-9 group. Kade Cummings tied for third on vault in the 10-11 division, while Brian McCray earned his bronze on parallel bars in the 12-13 year-old division.
