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2012 Pacific Rim Championships
March 16-18, 2012
Everett, Wash.
Optional State Info
2012 Westerns - Boise, ID, May 3-6, 2012
2012 JO Nationals - Hampton, Virginia, May 10-12, 2012
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JAN. 23, 2012
Educational opportunities for Coaches and Judges during the Pac Rim weekend
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A survey regarding the 2013-2017 JO Optional Program has been posted on the Women’s home page of the USA Gymnastics website.
Congrats to Kristen Bartlett and her husband on the birth of their daughter on Dec. 21st. Her old SPU teammate, Missy McLaughlin, had a baby the same day, same hospital, same doctor. Small world....
Nov. 2011 Technical Committee Meeting Minutes (revised 12-8-11)
Reminder - Mapquest!
2012 WA State Level 7 Team and coaches. The girls competed at the NAWGJ National Judges Cup in Indianapolis this past weekend. They placed 13th (The team was chosen at the Holiday Express Critique meet - which is the WA state judges open meet.)
(Nicole Jas, Emerald City Gymnastics;
Ashleigh Helms, Gymnastics East;
Kaysha Walford, Northwest Aerials;
Makayla Hui, All American; Rachel Cooke, All American;
Maya Ford, Emerald City Gymnastics)
Please note: there has been a change in the Code of Points on Beam.
Element # 7.207 for a BWO (could also be FWO) with ½ turn to handstand forward roll. The JO Code has this skill illustrated under # 7.107, but since the handstand forward roll itself is a "B" (# 6.203), it was needed to move this from # 7.107 to # 7.207. (From Connie Maloney)
Updated forms can be found at the following link:
http://usagym.org/pages/women/pages/jooptionals.html
NEWLY UPDATED ITEMS FOR 2011-2012 (Dec. 1, 2011) Level 7/8 Vault chart, Optional Requirement Chart, Judges’ Cheat sheet, Judging sheet for Level 9/10, Symbol Charts for UB, BB, & FX
***PAC RIM SPECTATOR PACKAGE read more
USA Gymnastics is offering FREE education as a partnership with the Championships. If you are interested register at www.usagym.org/pacrimeducation
Interested in volunteering? please go to: http://usagym.org/pages/events/pacrim/index.html and complete the volunteer form.
Sanction Info: Effective January 2012, the following criteria will be required to be a meet director and/or host a USA Gymnastics-sanctioned event or activity.
NCAA Compensation Guidelines are on the NCAA link.
FYI - The three J.O. Committee Minutes from May - all the new rule changes and clarifications - have been arranged onto one pdf if anyone is interested. (The original three are on the Forms link, and also down lower on the home page.)
Compiled List of May 2011 JO Committee Minutes
$ .55 per mile as of July 2011 2011-12 Fee Schedule
Per Kathy Kelly and USAG: all judges must present a Mapquest with their voucher to each meet director before receiving a mileage stipend for each meet they judge.
Go to this link for easy mapquest search for each club.
www.usagwa.com/clubs.html
RULES AND POLICIES 2011-2012 (Judges fee schedule on pg 83.)
2013-2020 Women’s New Compulsory Program
What: NEW JO Women’s Compulsory routines and music for Levels 1-5. (Level 6 will be an optional level starting in 2013.)
When:National Workshops to teach the routines will be conducted:
- 1st weekend: May 30 - June 2, 2013, Disneyworld, Florida
- 2nd weekend:June 6- June 9, 2013, Reno, Nevada
- Regional Workshops, TBA
Use: Competition using the new routines will begin August 1, 2013.

2012 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships head to Everett, WA read more
For gymnastics, the road to Olympic gold runs through Everett read more
CONGRATS to Michelle Ripple and her husband, Shaun, on the birth of their new baby boy, Benjamin Colby Ripple born August 4th.
USAG Committee Meeting Minutes: 2011-2012
WOMEN’S ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING, May 15, 2011, Long Beach, CA
Joint Olympic & Technical Joint Committees Minutes May 16, 2011
Technical Committee Meeting Minutes May 16-17, 2011
Women's JO Committee Meeting Minutes May 16-17, 2011
WASHINGTON GYMNASTICS HISTORY: PLEASE SEND ANY INFORMATION (men's or women's gymnastics) that you feel would be of value to this project to Lee at LBJELLA@hotmail.com
Or click here to fill out an online form.

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Under the NAWGJ Code of Professional Responsibility:
• A judge should not solicit meets for herself/himself or for others.
• A judge should assist in maintaining the integrity and competence of the profession of judging women’s gymnastic events.
• A judge should assist the Association in fulfilling its duty to make judges for women’s gymnastics events available.
• A judge shall be completely unbiased.
• A judge should not give any appearance of any particular friendship with any coach or competitor.
• A judge should not become intimate with coaches or affiliates of teams or contestants who she/he may later be called upon to judge.
• A judge shall not use her/his position to endeavor to influence or attempt to influence anyone in any manner whatsoever, or to obtain any special advantage for herself/himself by reasons of or as consequence or her/his being a judge. |