Hey Terps Fans!

We are so excited to have started another school year, and the first week was full of excitement!  

Hey Terp Fans!

After we finished our season with a great meet at regionals, we had a couple weeks off in the gym. This was a great time to catch up on schoolwork and cross things off the "to do" list including a spring cleaning.

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We've had such an exciting few days. Just this past weekend, we competed at the EAGL Championships hosted by the University of Pittsburgh.

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After having a busy week of school filled with a few exams for all of us, spring break is finally here!  While most students here at Maryland have headed home or gone on tropical vacations, the Terps are excited to soak up the College Park sun! 

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It's been a great week in College Park in-and-out of the gym. Everyone has been enjoying the beautiful spring weather, and looking better than ever at practice! After posting a season-high team score last weekend in New Hampshire, we got back to training hard and getting ready to take on Penn and Bridgeport this weekend.

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This week was a busy and exciting week for the Terps. With flying all the way across the country last week to sunny California, then traveling once again to a nice snowy New Hampshire, the Terps have definitely been on the move.

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So this week was a pretty exciting week for the Terps. We journeyed across the country all the way to San Jose, Calif. We left College Park bright and early at 5:45 a.m. Thursday. Despite a long, bumpy flight to Las Vegas and almost missing our connecting flight, the Terps remained calm and successfully arrived in San Jose! At the airport we were greeted with welcome signs by some of Ally's family, as well as the beautiful California weather!

Hey Terp Fans,

I hope this letter finds you all doing splendidly! Now, it has been a bit chilly here in College park, but I can assure you that things are heating up inside the gym. We had a solid week of practice as we prepared for our big Pink Meet. Luckily, the meet fell the same week as Valentine's Day, so we got to throw in a little bit more pink into our wardrobes, and perhaps a few chocolates.

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We have been very busy! This past Friday we competed against UNC once again.

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After getting home from Florida, we had a whole week to prepare for our next home meet.

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Hey Terp fans!

It's been a really exciting week and beginning of our season!

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Hope everyone had great holidays! It sure was nice for all of us to take a break and relax with our families at home for a little while.  Being away from each other was tough, but we are back now and more ready than we have ever been to rock our first meet!

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            Having just finished up our final exams, everyone was excited to head home for the holidays. We ended the semester strong in both our schoolwork and in the gym. We have been studying hard to get the grades we want, so we can hopefully win President's Cup, which is the team with the highest GPA. 

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It's been another great week here for the team! It's finals week so everyone has been very busy completing all their work for the end of the semester! Tuesday was our last practice together as a team before everyone separated for break. So we made sure to have a nice loud practice and enjoyed being in each other's company! I'm sure going to miss everyone while I'm home for break!

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Another week has gone by and we get closer and closer to season which is so exciting! This past week was a fun week at practice. Not only was it the week of our Red and Black Intrasquad, but every year we do Secret Santa where we pick a name out of a hat.  For each practice your Secret Santa had a little gift for you which lead up to our holiday party at Brett's house on Sunday! This year was by far the best Secret Santa gift giving ever as well as everyone keeping their secrets on which they had from each other! Pretty impressive when everyone on this team is so close!

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Hey Terp Fans!

We just got back from Thanksgiving break! The break was awesome, we all got to go home and be with our families. The time was really nice to relax and rest up. We definitely needed the time with our family.

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Hey Terp Fans!

Phase three of this season's Maryland gymnastics begins today!   With bootcamp being phase one, and preseason preparation and routines being phase two, we are now finally into the most exciting part of the year!

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Happy November! It has been another exciting week here in College Park with practice, schoolwork, and even community service!

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It's been another great week here in Terpland, and it has flown by once again.  We had a hard week in the gym with starting to put full routines together, but our team came together and conquered the challenge.  We had less practice this week which means we worked extra hard in the gym!

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Well, it is that time of year again, bootcamp is over and phase two of our training has begun! This week in the gym the coaches challenged us with some pretty tough assignments, but of course being Terps we responded with some really great practices.

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I hope this Tumble Talk finds everyone doing splendidly, because I know the team is doing quite awesome.

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                This week we started boot camp up again after our week off. It was tough getting back into things, but we pulled through and there is only one week left!!! For our last Sunday workout we had a color war, Black Team vs. Red Team.

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It's hard to believe another week has gone by. It was our week off of bootcamp and we felt as strong as ever. As a team we are starting to feel the results of bootcamp. Our hard work is definitely paying off! 

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Wow, I cannot believe yet another week has gone by. It is most definitely true that time goes even faster the older that you get. I cannot believe that it is my senior year already, but I am soaking it all up and enjoying every single minute of it.

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It's been a great finishing up week two of boot camp! All the girls are really giving it there all and the new freshmen are really starting to get the hang of it! They are getting loud in the gym and cheering on for everyone else! We are not just teammates, we are starting to become a family!

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It has definitely been a crazy yet exciting week!

Let me start off by saying that we have all survived the first week of boot camp! Go Terps! It certainly was not an easy task, but we stuck together as a team and supported one another through the strenuous days.

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It's been a great first week here and it's so exciting to be back with the whole team!

We've had a lot of meetings and assemblies this past week and we're getting everything set for a great year! Classes started on Wednesday, and aside from a few freshmen getting lost on campus, everything is going smoothly.

Hi Everyone!

Hey Terps Fans!

What an incredible season we have had! This team is one of the most dedicated and hard working that I have ever had the privilege of working with. Their relentless commitment to excellence is truly what has allowed these Terps to be so successful this year. We were able to make school history by being the first team to record a perfect 8-0 record in regular season competition amongst EAGL conference opponents. The Terps went on to finish 3^rd at the championships, just 0.275 away from winning the whole thing! Our talented Terps even took home first place honors on Vault, Balance Beam, and the All-Around! This was one of the closest and most exciting EAGL competitions in years!

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            We are just coming off our big win on the main court this Sunday against William and Mary, Rutgers, and Bridgeport! We received our highest score of the season with a 195.45! We have received 195s in our past two meets, which is really exciting! We are constantly pushing ourselves and our hard work is really starting to pay off out on the competition floor.

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We are so excited to finally be back home! We have been on the road for the last three weekends in a row and this weekend we were back home against Penn State, Rutgers, and William and Mary. We switched up some things in the gym last week and did not do team events. We practiced perfecting our skills and using the time we had in the gym to focus on our consistency. It really seemed to help on Friday night! We put up our season-high score of a 195.300 and had some real exciting performances!

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We have been on the road the last few weeks and this past weekend we were at University of Pittsburgh.  Everyone has been working hard in the gym and its definitely showing at our competitions!

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We're back in the gym this week preparing for this weekend's meet against Pittsburgh. This past weekend, we competed at UNC and we won! It was great to beat a conference opponent and it gives us good energy and momentum leading into our next meet.

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Hi Everybody!

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Hey Terp Fans!

It's Karen here and I cannot believe that season is already started! The team headed to Kent State for their first away meet.

Our team is all safely back on campus and were excited to get started on season! It was a great break and I think we all got some much needed time to relax. However, even though we all had a great time at home, we all missed each other and are glad to be back together!

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This past week in the gym was an amazing lead up to the closed-door Intrasquad that we had on Friday.  We ended the week with two team days and a day of visualization.  The team looked more than ready for the challenge of facing those judges for the first time this year.  The entire team and coaching staff was extremely confident in everything that we have been doing leading up to this first Intrasquad.  This was going to be the first test for the team.

Hey Terps Fans!

Wow has it been an exciting couple of weeks! We have been looking amazing in the gym with more depth than ever before.

Hey Everyone!

Hey Terps Fans!

What a crazy fun month September has been. I cannot believe it is just about October, boy does time fly when you are having fun! This week was full of fun stuff, but especially the weekend. This weekend was recruiting weekend and it was definitely one of the best yet! First, on Friday we had a shortened practice as well as a shortened spin!! Every once in a while Brett will do his "Make a Deal" with us. This past Friday he "made a deal" with the freshman.  Each of them had to perform certain skills under pressure on first tries, or do skills for the first time and if they did 30 minutes would get knocked off our spin time to give us an extra half hour to get pretty for our recruit dinner. I want to give a huge shout out to each one of them, Karen Tang, Katy Dodds, Elizabethe Manzi, Jessie Black and Ebony Walters who all showed us what they are made of when put under pressure! Thank you guys! As I mentioned we had to get pretty for our recruiting dinner. Every year we take a trip to Baltimore's Inner Harbor for dinner. Everyone looked absolutely beautiful and we all enjoyed a spectacular meal.

The fun continued on Saturday as well. Our agenda consisted of a tailgate before the football game, the football game against Florida International, and to end the night a Jersey Shore party. We were blessed with warm weather that was even too warm for most of us to handle. This football game was also the Student Athlete Honor game, where all athletes with a GPA of 3.0 or higher were honored and got to walk across the field at halftime.  After the game everyone returned back to their place to shower and get ready for the awesome Jersey Shore party. We had pizza, dressed like characters from the show and played Pauly D's music, and took a trip to Rita's Italian Ice.

This morning it was sad to say goodbye to all of the girls because we had such a blast with them all weekend. The weekend added with a great touch because this week there is NO BOOTCAMP! It is a great opportunity for everyone to get some extra rest, caught up with school work, and push extra hard in the gym to get some more super duper gymnastics done! I cannot wait to see what this team puts together in the gym this week when we are all fresh and ready to go. We looked fabulous while sore and tired I am almost scared to see the "fire" we bring this week. None the less we will be RELENTLESS through it all! Have a wonderful and blessed week everyone! Thanks for reading!

Hey Terp Fans,

            My name is Karen Tang and I'm a new freshman at the University of Maryland. I'm so excited to start my first year and join the Terps gymnastics family! All the freshmen and I are having a blast living together! We've had such a good time decorating our dorms! We've become such great friends! We are all excited to work together and show what we got in the gym!

            Everybody has been training so hard! Us, freshmen are trying to keep up with our very first boot camp, but we manage to push through! The team has been so encouraging! We're ready to kick some butt this year!

            As freshmen we have to attend study hall for six hours a week and all of us have gone above and beyond with our hours! We care a lot about our education as much as we care about gymnastics! We make sure to get in there and get our work done!

            Also, all the freshmen were so excited to receive all the gymnastics apparel! It's like Christmas all over again! We got so many leos, shirts, shorts, hoodies, and a ton other stuff! That's all we were to class now! We love it all!

            This first month has been amazing! I'm so excited to see all the new and exciting things to come during the season.

Thanks for reading!

Sept. 14, 2010

Welcome back, Terp fans!

Wow! I can't believe another year has started!  We are all so excited to welcome five new freshmen and a new assistant coach, J.J. Ferreira, to the Terps gymnastics family!  Our first few weeks of school are now under our belts and we are really starting to get back into the grooves of college life.  The girls and I got through our first week of boot camp (in one piece) and everyone is already working very hard in the gym!  It's so great to see everyone already eager and ready for our preseason practices!  This is the most intense and excited I've seen this team in a long time! 

This weekend the whole team went to Jennifer Iovino's house for a BBQ and to celebrate her 21^st birthday!  Her parents made so much food for us it was all so delicious!  We spent the night enjoying each other's company and watching some exciting Sunday night football games!  Thanks so much to the Iovino family for having all of us over!

Gymnastically, this team is proving to be stronger than ever!  We've started working on skills and preparing for harder assignments in the weeks to come.  Everyone is looking so great already!  The energy and team spirit in the gym has been so encouraging and motivating.  It is already evident that Terps gymnastics is going to be a threat to any team we compete against this coming season. 

I know you all are excited for our new episodes of Gym Terps TV! Keep an eye out for the first episode featuring all three coaches: Brett, Erinn and J.J.!  A big thanks to Becca Pang for all her hard work on putting together the videos!

Thanks for reading!

Kelsey McDermid