kf115+Original+Story

=You Can Do It If You Put Your Mind To It!!=

"Run faster!" yelled my coach Cristina. I was at my fist gymnastics competition at Bishop Ahr high school in Edison New Jersey. My coach was yelling at us in the warm up to run faster! We were competing on the vault first so she wanted us to run as fast as we could so we would practice are run for the vault. After are warmups, we started warming up on the event, vault. As I was running down the run way my foot started to really hurt me, when I went over the vaulting table I was about to cry because it hurt so much to run and land on my foot. The doctor had told me not to run or land on it but he said I could compete if I had the determination to so I had to.

As the judge's helper said time we had to stop are warmup and go present to the judge. We went down to the judge's, presented to her, and walked back to where we were going to line up to start running for the vault. I was cheering really loudly for my friends and then I realized it was my turn so I stepped on the vault run way and waited for the judge to present to me. My caoch screamed, ""come on Kennedy you can do it!" My friends also kept screaming for it put a smile on my face and made me happy enough to forget about my foot.

That didn't last for long when the judge presented and I presented back i started running and then it hit. My foot was struck with pain, I tryed to keep up, I jumped on the vault and landed on one foot, then I presented trying to put a smile on my face. My coach was very proud of me she said, "great job you tryed your absolute best even though you have an injured foot. I went back in line and all my teamates were standing there giving me highfives and hugs.

My friend gianna gave me a hug and said, you pulled a Kerri Shrug!"I laughed, almost about to cry but I held it in. When I saw that my score was a nine I was so proud of myself for trying so extremly hard. At the end of the competition I was so proud of myself for staying strong with my head held up high. I got the all around score of a 34.35 and I got second place by 0.50. My mom ran up and hugged me I started to cry because my foot hurt so bad but my mom was still proud of me for what I did and she said she would take me to the doctor. In the end, even though my foot hurt so extremly bad, I got through the meet strong and tall and I was glad for that.

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