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2025 Region 5 Yahtzee Awards (Part 1)

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It’s that time of year again!

Summer has sadly ended, school has begun, the weather is confused as usual, but we here in Region 5 are preparing for football games (Let’s Go Lions), pumpkin spice (it is what it is) and our second year of light pink. We have one last thing to do to wrap up of the 2024-2025 competitive season, which is our 10th Annual Region 5 Yahtzee Awards! Complete with a few new categories! 

It has been crazy year and in true Kim fashion, as you all know, it is insanely hard for me to narrow down a list of great routines, skills, combos and athletes.

So without further a do scroll down and check out the Part I of the 2025 Region 5 Yahtzee Awards.  Presented by A-1 Awards! 

Most Dynamic Vault

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Yahtzee Nominee: Most Dynamic Vault- Noella Marshall, AA Flames
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Payton McClain, Perfection Vault JRF 5th place 9.8- 2025 DEV Nationals #gymnasticsvideos
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Very Nice 1 1/2 🙌 Peyton Pech, Aspire SRD Vault 10th 9.85- 2025 DEV Nationals #gymnasticsvideos
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2nd on vault SRB Maddie Stewart 9.85- 2025 DEV Nationals #gymnasticsvideos
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9.85 for JRF Giselle Guenther stuck Yurchenko 1 1/2 but it’s the post celebration for me 🙌🙌🙌
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Another Huge Front Pike 1/2 this time from Autumn Rardin 9.85 – 2025 DEV Nationals
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SRA National Vault Champion (tie) Cameron’s Tassone 9.825 – 2024 DEV Nationals #gymnasticsvideos
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9.7 for Raegan McCarty on this vault- 2025 DEV Nationals SRA #gymnasticsvideos
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Best Bar Combo

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Yahtzee Nominee: Best Bar Combo- Rylie Carmen, Gym Xtreme
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Yahtzee Nominee: Best Bar Combo- Julia Rausa, Libertyville
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Yahtzee Nominee: Best Bar Combo- Elizabeth Poncin, UGA
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Yahtzee Nominee: Best Bar Combo- Lyndea Rhoades, Olympic Dreams
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Yahtzee Nominee: Best Bar Combo, Izzy Stassi
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🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 Chow in combination for Esphyr Koren, Perfection #gymnasticsvideos
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The connections were flowing for Carla Fronc on bars – 2025 DEV Nationals JRA
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Huge Air

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Huge Air Nominee- Antonette Baker with a HUGE Jaeger- 2025 DEV Nationals
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Yahtzee Nominee: Huge Air- Sabrina Nemcek, Dreams
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3rd on bars in JRD is the “Toe Point Queen” Morgan Braun, Queen City 9.65- 2025 DEV Nationals
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That Hindorff Though!! 2nd on bars in JRD Reagan Nowak 9.75- 2025 DEV Nationals #gymnasticsvideos
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Neomi Camargo, Queen City Bars 10th JRC 9.4- 2025 DEV Nationals
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SRB National Bars Champion Anelise Johnson 9.85- 2025 DEV Nationals #gymnasticsvideos
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Most Interesting Beam Series

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Reagan McCarty, 2025 Yahtzee Award Nominee
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Sophia Banky 2025 Yahtzee Award Nominee
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Reese Genet, Pinnacle SR6 Beam – 2025 L9 Easterns
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Campbell Tubbs, Gym ETC JR3 Beam – 2025 L9 Easterns
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Gabby Van Frayen, Gym Xtreme SRE Beam 9.95- 2025 DEV Nationals
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LuLu Ton That, CPD Beam 9 625 2025 DEV Nationals
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Julia Rausa, Libertyville Beam 9 625 2025 DEV Nationals
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Isla Lazzari, City Club Beam 9.4 – 2025 DEV Nationals
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Front tuck and 1 arm FHS FHS series for Level 9 Caitlin Crotteau, Capitol City Flips #gymnast
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Most Unique Beam Mount

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Gigi LeBron 2025 Yahtzee Award Nominee
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Madison Hall 2025 Yahtzee Award Nominee
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Gabby Van Frayen, Gym Xtreme SRE Beam 9.95- 2025 DEV Nationals
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Gabby Schubert, Youngstown Beam 9 525 – 2025 DEV Nationals
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Riley Carmen, Gym X Treme Beam 2024 Yahtzee Award Nominee
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Best Presentation

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Sasha Lee, Premier West JR4 Beam – 2025 L9 Easterns
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Brooklyn Clark, Universal JR2 Beam – 2025 L9 Easterns
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Addie Sarisky, Olympic Dreams Beam SRC 9.725- 2025 DEV Nationals
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Julia Rausa, Libertyville Beam 9 625 2025 DEV Nationals
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Gabi Ursu, Naperville Beam 2025 BIG Classic
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Alexandra Karkowski, IK Beam 2025 BIG Classic
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Wolf Turn Wonders

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Mackenzie Morrison, 2025 Yahtzee Award Nominee
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Stevie Rose 2025 Yahtzee Award Nominee
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Sasha Lee, Premier West JR4 Beam – 2025 L9 Easterns
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Carly Weinberg, Buckeye Beam 9.45- 2025 DEV Nationals
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Arabela Baulovic, Cincinnati Beam 9.5 – 2025 DEV Nationals
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Kelise Woolford – Balance Beam – 2025 Winter Cup – Senior Women
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Best Form

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Kate Peebles, 2025 Yahtzee Award Nominee
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Addie Sarisky, Olympic Dreams Beam SRC 9.725- 2025 DEV Nationals
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3rd on bars in JRD is the “Toe Point Queen” Morgan Braun, Queen City 9.65- 2025 DEV Nationals
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Bailey Stroud, JPAC Beam 9.7 – 2025 DEV Nationals
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Brooke Boggess, Queen City Beam 2025 Region 5 Championships
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Front tuck and 1 arm FHS FHS series for Level 9 Caitlin Crotteau, Capitol City Flips #gymnast
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Alexandra Karkowski, IK Beam 2025 BIG Classic
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Anelise Johnson, CC Flips Bars 2025 BIG Classic
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All Access: City Club with Natalia Yurchenko Part 2 | Gymnastics Training

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Jason MacDonald
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Watch the Full Workout as a Youtube All Access Member or R5 Insider Patreon Member. (Click either Link)

The Insider filmed with CITY Club and owner Natalia Yurchenko for the first time over the summer. This workout was filmed in July one week before CITY elite Isla Lazzari competed at the US Classic. In this part 2 of 2 full workouts, we switch facilities and City’s elites/Level 10’s complete their workout on beam and bars. CITY has two athletes who are elites Isla Lazzari and Natalia Pudulko who competes for Poland and competed in the European Championships earlier this year. Natalia has them do some circuit beam training as well as some team competitions while on bars some new skill development was beginning while Isla was prepping her routines for the US Classic. You will not hear direct coaching audio feedback as Viktar asked to not be mic’d.

Podcast: Alumni Conversation- Ella Cesario, Bears Now Tigers OH MY!

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Jason MacDonald
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We have another awesome Region 5 Alum guest for you today who is just missing the Lion because she has the bears and now the tigers OH MY! She has one of the biggest Jaegers in the uneven bar business oh and a personality that’s just as big and we are all about it! Our guest today is Ella Cesario and we will take her back to her Region 5 days, her knee injury that took her out of her senior year of high school and freshman year at Cal, the highs and lows at Cal and of course whats next at Clemson.

All Access: City Club with Natalia Yurchenko

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Jason MacDonald
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Disclamer: First 5 minutes are free to watch. You will need to be an R5 All Access Member to watch the whole workout.

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The Insider filmed with CITY Club and owner Natalia Yurchenko for the first time over the summer. This workout was filmed in July one week before CITY elite Isla Lazzari competed at the US Classic. CITY doesn’t currently have pits in the facility they are in so they use one of the Chicago park district gyms to do the necessary foam pit training. In this part 1 of 2 full workouts you will see training on vault and tumbling. CITY has two athletes who are elites Isla Lazzari and Natalia Pudulko who competes for Poland and competed in the European Championships earlier this year. You will get to see some upgrade training on both vault and tumbling from the two elites as well as CITY’s new two level 10’s one of which is Phoenix Rogers, 2025 L9 Easterns qualifier.

We will have a bonus video of some beam and pit bar dismounts from this workout for our members.

Dominique Moceanu 30 Years Later, Reflects on Gymnastics, and Her 1995 National Title

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Jason MacDonald
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“Full Circle Moment”- Dominique Moceanu talked to the Insider at the conclusion of the 2025 Xfinity Championships 30 Years after winning the 1995 US National Title at age 13 in New Orleans. She reflects back on that national title, her love for coaching her athletes now and what it meant to be back in the city she won her first and only national all around title. Dom owns her own gym in Ohio and has coached athletes at level 9 and 10 regionals and nationals.

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