Ava June Nelson of Rich Hill, MO at the age of 11 traveled to St Louis MO to compete in an AAU Tumbling and Trampoline meet to try and qualify to go to the Junior Olympics. She competed very well and was able to qualify in her events to go to the AAU Junior Olympics that was to be held in Houston, TX. Kameron Byram has been Ava's Nene, since she was a baby and has helped raise Ava. After traveling to ST Louis together they headed to Houston, Texas in July for some tougher competition.
Ava competed in two events, double mini and trampoline. You had to place in the top 10 overall in each event to get to go on to finals. Each of her events had two fights. She made it back to the finals in trampoline with a 5th place ribbon. She had to wait around for a couple more hours here to start her performance all over again in the finals. While the two of them waited they went around and watched some of the other events. They watched youth ballroom dancing, hip hop dancing, baton twirling, and some of the other gymnastic events like floor, beams, vault, and bars.
So now it was Ava's time to compete again and she ended up coming home with a big AAU Olympic medal. Ava works hard all year round on her gymnastics and goes all over MO and some places in OK. We are so proud of her for working hard and achieving this big accomplishment.
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