MIHS Girls Gymnastics Win District 1/2 Championship

The MIHS Gymnastics team narrowly defeated to win the District Championship at Sammamish High School Saturday night.

No Islander won any single event, but consistently high marks from Mercer Island's gymnasts in all the events led to finishing the meet with the highest team score. The top 5 scores on each of the 4 events counts towards the final team total. 

Mercer Island scored a team meet total of 153.175, edging out KingCo champs Mount Si, who scored 152.837, by less than 0.4 points. Bainbridge scored 151.075 to get the final slot to the Feb. 18-19 State Championships at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition.

Only eight teams from all of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) 3A will compete at state. 

Placing at the District Meet from Mercer Island were:

All Around: 6th Kristin Trumble 32.325; 7th Vanessa Gaffney 32.20

Vault: 6th Kari Johnson 8.475

Bars: 4th Vanessa Gaffney 7.6; 5th Kristin Trumble, 7.4; 6th Kari Johnson 7.35

Beam: 3rd Kristin Trumble 8.55; 10th Kari Johnson 7.85

Mercer Island Gymnastics team members headed to state include: Kari Johnson, Vanessa Gaffney, Liana Shibuya, Cheyanne Lewis, Sydney Zeldes, Emily Lightfoot, Tonayo Crow, Kristin Trumble, Olivia Groh, Stephanie Pedreira, Monica Airut-Murphy and Kelly Grady.

Ticket Prices for State: A valid ASB card must be presented for student price; Ticket windows will open one hour prior to the first game time of the day.