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NORTH WEBSTER – The annual Romp & Roll camp for school-aged children is just days away.

SYRACUSE – Gymnastics at the high school level has seen a big dip locally, but should continue forward in the years to come.

SYRACUSE – Despite less than a quarter of the schools in the state participating, the IHSAA will continue gymnastics as a sanctioned sport.

MUNCIE – Wawasee senior Aundreya Wegener got to perform under unique circumstances at the IHSAA Gymnastics State Finals.

WARSAW – Three iconic coaches saw roads end over the weekend, but all three traveled with purpose and dignity.

HUNTINGTON – The Huntington North Fieldhouse saw the end of an era for Wawasee gymnastics.

SYRACUSE – Nika Prather dedicated over half her life to bettering a sport. Prather now will retire from high school gymnastics with those people right behind her.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee celebrated the announcement of coach Nika Prather’s pending retirement with a season-best night against Plymouth.

WARSAW – Season evolution continued for a dozen or so gymnasts Tuesday in the meet won by Wawasee Tuesday night.

SYRACUSE – Fort Wayne Carroll pieced together a seven-point gymnastics win over Wawasee Thursday night.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee will have a lot of green among its gold on the gymnastics equipment this winter.

Tough Day On The Equipment

February 24, 2019

SYRACUSE – Wawasee and Warsaw finished outside team regional qualification at Saturday’s Wawasee Gymnastics Sectional.

SYRACUSE – A look at the Wawasee Gymnastics Sectional.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee returned to its home equipment for a dual for the first time in a month, claiming a win over Huntington North Thursday night.

Still Chasing The Carrot

December 10, 2018

SYRACUSE – Seniors Jada Parzygnot and Alyssa Minnix look to change Wawasee’s optimism heading into the gymnastics campaign.

INDIANAPOLIS – Wawasee senior gymnast Meghan Beer was awarded one of 10 ICGSA Athlete Scholarships.

HUNTINGTON – Wawasee’s Reagan Atwood and a pair of Elkhart Central gymnasts qualified as individuals for the IHSAA Gymnastics State Finals.

HUNTINGTON – A look at the Huntington North Gymnastics Regional, which includes teams from Wawasee and Elkhart Central and Warsaw gymnast Remi Beckham.

SYRACUSE – A meltdown of epic proportions left Wawasee stunned at Saturday’s Wawasee Gymnastics Sectional.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee pulled its biggest win to date this season, a 106.65-105.475 triumph over Elkhart Central Thursday night.

WARSAW – Wawasee defeated Warsaw 103.25-100.525 in gymnastics Tuesday, but both teams had different viewpoints of the outcome.

SYRACUSE – Fort Wayne Carroll raised the bar with a 108.05-102.175 win over Wawasee in gymnastics Thursday night.

SYRACUSE – A short-handed Wawasee gymnastics team still managed to beat Angola 102.475-100.275 Tuesday night.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee senior gymnast Reagan Atwood frontlines a very good lineup this winter.

HUNTINGTON – A look at this Friday’s Huntington North Gymnastics Regional, which includes teams from Wawasee and Elkhart Central.

LAGRANGE – Elkhart Central won its third straight sectional team trophy Saturday at Lakeland, and will be joined by Wawasee and East Noble at the regional next weekend.

ELKHART – Elkhart Central maintained its stiffarm of the sectional field with a 107.85-103.20 dual win over Wawasee Thursday night.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee posted a 103.075 to beat Warsaw’s 97.975 Tuesday in gymnastics.

Romp And Roll Starts Friday

January 11, 2017

NORTH WEBSTER — Need to know information for the upcoming Romp and Roll classes at North Webster Community Center.

ANGOLA — The Wawasee gymnastics team topped Angola Tuesday night.

ELKHART — Wawasee competed at the annual Elkhart Central Invite Wednesday afternoon.

SYRACUSE — A preview of the upcoming season for the Wawasee gymnastics team.

HUNTINGTON – Elkhart Central qualified for state while Wawasee dropped out of the state gymnastics tournament after final scores were posted at Saturday’s Huntington North Gymnastics Regional.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee will compete in the gymnastics regional round as a team this Saturday.

SYRACUSE – Elkhart Central won the Wawasee Gymnastics Sectional by one point over Wawasee Saturday afternoon.

What Better Time Than Now

February 25, 2016

SYRACUSE – A preview of the Wawasee Gymnastics Sectional taking place this Saturday.

SYRACUSE — The Wawasee gymnastics team did a little fine-tuning Tuesday night with Plymouth in preparation for Saturday’s sectional.

SYRACUSE — The Wawasee gymnastics team made a huge statement Thursday night.

SYRACUSE — The Wawasee gymnastics team had plenty to celebrate Monday night after a season-high score.

WARSAW – Wawasee earned a double gymnastics win Tuesday night, besting Warsaw and Peru.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee picked up its first dual win of the season Tuesday night over Angola.

New Romp & Roll Session Set

January 11, 2016

NORTH WEBSTER – A new Romp & Roll session will take place at the North Webster Community Center beginning on Friday, Jan. 22.

SYRACUSE — A preview of the Wawasee gymnastics team with a capsule for Warsaw gymnastics.

SYRACUSE – The Wawasee Gymnastics Club will be holding fall tumbling and skills classes in four communities starting Sept. 14.

Now is the time for vendors who have not already reserved a space in front of the North Webster Community Center for Dixie Day Saturday, July 25. The NWCC Open Air Market during Dixie Day is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Booth rental is $25. Come and sell your wares.

SYRACUSE – The Wawasee Gymnastics Club has Summer Session I beginning the week of June 8 at Wawasee High School. There are still openings in those classes. Summer Session II will be held at the North Webster Community Center the week of July 13. The Wawasee High School gymnastics team will be holding two summer …read more.

HUNTINGTON – Team glory may have faded for much of the area gymnastics teams after the sectionals shook out last Saturday, but six teams and a handful of individuals are still hoping to perform their way to a state finals berth this Friday as part of the Huntington North Gymnastics Regional. Elkhart Central was the …read more.

SYRACUSE – It’s been a long and winding road for Elkhart Central to get back on the winner’s podium at the sectional level. Saturday’s championship at the Wawasee Gymnastics Sectional, where the Blue Blazers outdid the field with its 103.75 total, was a very gratifying one for head coach Kathy Krauter and her elated team. …read more.

SYRACUSE – Every year in almost every sport, high school coaches wax poetic and fret all in the same breath about sectional hopes. All the other teams are so good; their teams have flaws; it’s a total crap shoot. The gymnastics coaches in the area have a legitimate concern this year as the Wawasee Gymnastics …read more.

LIGONIER – Just days ahead of the Wawasee Sectional, the Lady Warriors gymnasts gave their injured crew another night to rest and some younger athletes a chance to perform on the big stage one more time. A 96.65-92.55 win by Wawasee over West Noble in the final regular season dual for both clubs was filled …read more.

SYRACUSE – Senior night for the Wawasee gymnastics team had all three seniors in the house. Only one, however, was dressed and ready to go. As Wawasee deals with the annual crush of injuries that plague programs near and far as the sectional looms, battling for attrition seemed appropriate as the Lady Warriors had to …read more.

[weaver_youtube dpp3O1DBfsE rel=0] ELKHART – The roller coaster ride of a gymnastics season for both Elkhart Central and Wawasee continued Thursday night as the two teams collided at The Club in the Elkhart Industrial Park. Central rode up the hill of excitement with a 104.65 team score while Wawasee watched its hopes fall time and …read more.

SYRACUSE – A depleted Warsaw squad was no match for Wawasee as Kosciusko County’s only two gymnastics teams met Tuesday night. The Warriors dominated every event en route to a 96.325-73.150 victory. While the Warriors were the better team in every event, the vault is once again where Wawasee shined. Freshman Reagan Atwood tied for …read more.

[weaver_youtube u-_Q_9AfTI8 rel=0]   SYRACUSE – It was home sweet home for the Wawasee gymnastics team Tuesday night. Wawasee performed at home for the first time this season and used that to its advantage as it scored a season-high to defeat visiting West Noble 96.55-90.60. Wawasee took first in every event, but the night was …read more.

      Wawasee Gymnastics Club will hold classes on gymnastics equipment during the second winter session beginning the week of Monday, Jan. 12. Classes will be held Mondays and Wednesdays during a five week session. Beginners will meet from 6:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Mondays, advanced beginners will meet from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 …read more.

SYRACUSE – Holy numbers, Batman! It took longtime Wawasee gymnastics head coach Nika Prather a few extra seconds to marvel at the sight of her team assembling for the preseason team photo. Equipment was still spread all over the south side of the annex gym, practice suits still tagged and hanging from racks, many of …read more.

WHS Gymnastics Hosting Clinic

November 24, 2014

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SYRACUSE – The Wawasee High School gymnastics program will host a clinic from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 6. The clinic will teach basic skills on bars, beam, vault, tumbling and trampoline, and will be led by the athletes from the high school program as well as coaches. The clinic will take place in …read more.

SYRACUSE – There will be a few opportunities for the little ones to hit the gymnastics equipment this summer. The Wawasee Gymnastics Club is hosting its summer gymnastics sessions. The first summer session will take place June 9-13 at Wawasee High School, with age and skill ranges from preschool to advanced levels. The second summer …read more.

[weaver_youtube OEnbTju1nYA rel=0] SYRACUSE – It wasn’t the prettiest day of gymnastics in the history of the Wawasee Gymnastics Sectional, but for a trio of teams and a host of individuals, Saturday was a day of triumph. In a competition that seemed to lack buzz among individual performances, a team race that didn’t seem to …read more.

SYRACUSE – It’s been a busy week at Wawasee High School. The boys basketball sectional has been roaring Tuesday and Wednesday nights in the spectator gym and will only keep the kettle whistling Friday and Saturday when rivals West Noble and Fairfield along with NorthWood and Tippecanoe Valley meet for hardwood bragging rights. While the …read more.

[weaver_youtube PNt_YGqvcrk rel=0] SYRACUSE – A win is a win. But at this point of the year, Wawasee head coach Nika Prather was less than enthused about her team’s 95.65-82.35 team victory over West Noble. The Wawasee team score, two points lower than what it scored last Tuesday against Plymouth, along with a shoddy set …read more.

[weaver_youtube ZbLxaFnCrUY rel=0] SYRACUSE – It’s T-minus 11 days and counting until sectionals fall upon the area gymnasts. Tuesday’s dual between Wawasee sectional contenders Plymouth and the host Lady Warriors showcased what could be to come, but also left a lot to be answered in a 99.875-97.625 Plymouth team victory. After Plymouth’s team triumph at …read more.

Wawasee Gymnasts Down Warsaw

February 11, 2014

[weaver_youtube _FPx6jIEHKA rel=0] WARSAW – There was not much of a contest between the Wawasee and Warsaw gymnastic teams when the two county rivals squared off at Warsaw’s Career Center Gymnasium. The Lady Tigers, riddled by injuries all season, found themselves short-handed again on Monday night while the Lady Warriors were almost completely healthy. Wawasee …read more.

[weaver_youtube 3Vq-n3s5A5g rel=0] LIGONIER – There were no springs in the floor at West Noble High School, but there was a spring in the step of the Wawasee gymnastics team on Tuesday night. The Warriors had to adjust their routines a bit being away from the comfort of their home floor but ultimately Wawasee did …read more.

[weaver_youtube Wc63p2mKGyY rel=0] SYRACUSE – The Wawasee gymnastics team was on cloud nine after a solid victory over defending sectional champion Angola this past Tuesday night. Unfortunately for the Warriors, that high did not last as long as they were hoping. Wawasee was brought back down to Earth on Thursday night following a 103.35-95.08 loss …read more.

[weaver_youtube 3OZWq8xbkYI rel=0] SYRACUSE – The Wawasee Lady Warrior gymnastics team wasted no time in making a statement in the 2013-14 season. The talented squad was challenged by its head coach, Nika Prather, to make an impression in the season’s first dual meet against defending sectional champion Angola. The Lady Warriors rose to the occasion …read more.

SYRACUSE – If there is any soothing of the soul for this year’s Wawasee gymnastics team, there is value in experience returning. But for Nika Prather’s team, being so close to a team goal missed at the sectional has lingered all offseason. The one thing Prather and many of the returners will point to as …read more.

SYRACUSE — Kim Garber will have to put on the performance of her life. But the Wawasee senior is more than ready. Garber is the lone area gymnast competing at the Valparaiso Gymnastics Regional this Friday night, working her beloved floor routine. One full of attitude, grace and a lot of emotion. Getting at least …read more.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-OcS6Xhghs] SYRACUSE — Many athletes would consider fifth place unacceptable. For one Wawasee senior, fifth place was just fine. Kim Garber was perfectly content with the fifth-place 8.8 score on floor she was deemed to have performed at Saturday’s Wawasee Gymnastics Sectional. While it’s not championship level scoring, it still allowed Garber to move …read more.

If Hamlet were a gymnastics coach, he may begrudgingly proclaim, “To beam or not to beam, that is the question.” And then immediately begin fretting about the uneven bars. As the Wawasee Gymnastics Sectional looms on the horizon, the cornucopia of balance beam, uneven bars, floor exercises and vaults begin at 11 a.m. this Saturday …read more.

LIGONIER — The Wawasee Warrior gymnastics team competed in its final meet of the regular season Monday night in Ligonier, defeating West Noble 93.55-79.75. The victory helped the Warriors end their season on a high note in picking up its fourth win, just not as high as they had wanted heading into Saturday’s sectional. “I …read more.

SYRACUSE — After two weeks of road meets, performing on the home equipment was nice for the Wawasee gymnastics team. Even if it meant doing so short-handed. Missing junior Emily Allen with what else, the flu, Wawasee pressed on and posted a lackluster but still winning 87.5-76.45 total over West Noble Tuesday night in the …read more.

HUNTERTOWN — Fort Wayne Carroll continued its great run of gymnastics, posting a 103.85-91.95 win over Wawasee Thursday night. Carroll were led by several individuals, including a double win by Megan Felger on vault (8.9) and bars (8.65) while teammates Morgan Moehle posted the top beam score at 8.75 and Carrie Ferguson outshone the field …read more.

ELKHART — A turn of the page on the ol’ calendar meant the two Kosciusko County high school gymnastics teams, Wawasee and Warsaw, kicked into their respective competition seasons. With the ushering in of 2013 meant a trip Thursday night to Elkhart for the annual Blazer Invite. The atmosphere was lively inside Elkhart Central’s gymnastics-exclusive …read more.

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