At the 2022 Level 9 Eastern Championships, Region 5 placed 37 athletes in the top 10 on Balance Beam, there was not an age group that did not have a Region 5 athlete on the medal stand. Balance Beam has always been a strong event for Region 5 athletes with multiple Level 9 & Level 10 National Champions in the event.
Level 9 beam is known for unique flight series, interesting mounts and clean form, all things that will translate beautifully to Level 10 in the coming years. In 2022, Region 5 took 6 Eastern National Beam titles, the majority coming in the Senior age groups.
Check out all of our 2022 Eastern National Beam Champions.
Junior 3: Addison Reiser-GTC (IN) Score: 9.600
Senior 2: Mileah Yost-CGA Score: 9.600
Senior 4: Alexis Schulman-CGA Score: 9.500
Senior 6: Samantha Towers-MAG Score: 9.575
Senior 6: Abby Sutter-R Athletics Score: 9.575
Senior 7: Kaitlyn Morgan-Gymnastics ETC. Score:9.575
It’s not much of a surprise for Region 5 to win the all around in multiple age groups at Level 9 Easterns. However it is always exciting to see how many athletes achieve that goal of being the Eastern AA Champion. In 2022, Region 5 won 8 of 16 age groups but also had 20 athletes (including the 8 AA champs) finish in the top 5.
These 8 talented athletes all have different styles and strengths to their gymnastics but all are fun to watch. Eight different gyms had an athlete win an Eastern All Around title and one of the athlete scored the highest all around score in the entire competition. Check out all the routines for these deserving athletes.
Level 9 bars of all the events is the most compulsory, not that the skills are easy or basic, but that almost everyone does the same combinations for bonus. In comparison with events like beam and floor where the music and choreography give the routines different flair and composition, bars doesn’t have that luxury; circles, pirouettes and bar to bar releases is what you get.
However this list of athletes stood out amongst the pack executing the previous mentioned skills with ease while putting up some of the highest scores of the entire competition on bars. In addition to these 6 national champions plus two more eye catching routines, we have to acknowledge the top scoring bars team of the entire competition and yes they were from REGION 5!
Alayna Boumans, Premier West- JR4 Eastern Champion Score: 9.575
Charley Laufer, R-Athletics 2nd Place JR8 Score: 9.65
Waverly Webb, Stars and Stripes 2nd Place Sr4 Score: 9.65
The Senior 4 Team not only won the age group team competition but posted the highest team score on bars with a 38.55. Their performances were so good all 7 (can only count the top 4 scores in the team score) finished in the top 10.
Here are links to all 7 routines:
Erin Wilbanks- National Champion (video above)
Waverly Webb, Stars and Stripes 2nd Place (video above)
Angela Stangarone, Premier 3rd place score 9.6 video(nice stalder)
Region 5 was very successful on vault at the 2022 Level 9 Eastern Championships with 8 vault champions. In this group of athletes, there are some outstanding layout Yurchenkos that have great height, rotation and shape. The quality of these vaults makes it exciting to see what the future may hold in level 10.
There were 41 Region 5 Level 9’s that placed in the top 10 on vault at Easterns. Here are the 8 who claimed top honors as Eastern National Champions + one who would have tied or won in more then half of the other age group, so R5 Insider awards her with a honorary national vault title (just because we can).
Region 5 won 7 age groups (JR5, JR8, SR1, SR3, SR4, SR6, SR7) but came up two points behind Region 7 to finish 2nd overall at the 2022 Eastern Championships- Final Team Results
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JR3 Addison Reiser, GTC IN | L9 Beam 2022 Easterns
