Greater New York Invitational

The third and final gymnastics meets of the fall season was the Greater New York Invitational at Rockland Community College in Suffern NY. This would be a three hour drive from home for a mid-Saturday reporting time, but only a one hour drive from Amp's sister's home in northern NJ.

This was another larger meet with good competition, and Grace didn't have her best meet. She was doing her best to compete on a sore foot that had hindered her practices, and she just wasn't sharp.

5th in Beam

That being said, she still did pretty well, placing 5th in beam and 6th in floor.

6th in Floor

That was good enough for 6th in the All Around.

6th All Around

Epilogue - Grace knew her foot was hurt leading up to this meet, but not severely. She didn't want to go to the doctor for it, figuring that if they took an X-ray and found something small, she would be shut down for a while, and she didn't want to miss this last meet of the fall season. Her coaches thought she probably had a small stress fracture in the 4th metatarsal of her right foot.

So we went to her orthopod a couple days after the meet, got X-rays and an MRI, and sure enough, she had a tiny stress fracture of the 4th metatarsal of her right foot. She would spend 4 weeks in a boot, and miss the first meet of the spring season (the first weekend in January).