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Pioneer
Post 1 -- Week of Oct. 11, 2004
We really appreciate you keeping up with us!
My name is Jennifer Bolli and I am a senior. I am posting the
first of the gymnastics journals for you to read this year
to see what we have been up to so far this semester.
We started
our first official practice a little over a month ago and
workouts have been going very well. The upperclassmen
are excited about the seven rookies and what they can bring
to our team. The seven seniors and three coaches started off
the year with a retreat to Lantana Lodge. We had a great time
doing team-building activities and goal-setting. We had a beautiful
view of Lake Ray Roberts while we relaxed in the sun and set
our goals for the new year. As seniors, our goal is to come
together as a team early in the year and be behind each other
one hundred percent. Our team’s success at the end of
the year will come when we reach all of our team goals.
We came back to campus for a rock climbing exercise which
was really fun especially when Coach Jackie and Tim climbed
to the top! On the second day we ended our retreat with a motivational
speech from one of our own TWU professors, Dr. Bettye Myers.
She had us take a deep look into our own leadership qualities
as well as the qualities of each other. To continue building
on what we learned at the retreat, the seniors meet every Tuesday
for thirty minutes with our coaches and read through a leadership
manual together.
We then had a team meeting to discuss our team goals. It went
really well and we can already see that we have a strong team
chemistry this year!
We have
started practices very strong this year. In September, we
ran three times a week beginning with two miles and working
up to EIGHT miles by the end of the month! On October 1, we
all woke up at 6 a.m. to pouring rain so the eight-mile run
was postponed until later in the morning. Then Coach Kudlac’s
wonderful wife Johnna and Coach Jackie had waffles, ham and
fruit prepared for us.
Besides running we also swim and ride the bike for conditioning.
We like to call ourselves tri-athletes! Now that September
is over, we are doing more gymnastics and doing really well
in the gym for being so early in the season.
We have a new coach assisting us this year and his name is
Tim Rivera. He is from San Jose State where he coached gymnastics
for three years. He has a coaching career of more than 20 years
and he is an awesome bars coach. We are looking forward to
what he can do for us this year! Go Bars!!!
On October 7, we added a new little Pioneer to our family
when Coach Kudlac and his wife had a handsome baby boy named
William Matthew. Sydney Kay is now a big sister and she just
adores him!
We look forward to a great year and will keep you posted as
we go along. TWU Gymnastics ROCKS!!!
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