The co-founder, president and CEO of My Gym Enterprises has helped to grow the franchisor of children's fitness centers from a start-up franchising concept to a company that generated more than $10 million in 2008 corporate revenue. "The biggest thing about creating an emotional sense of ownership within an organization is giving people the power, responsibility and the recognition in big doses," Bertisch says.
University of Utah senior Ashley Postell is the No. 1-ranked balance beam gymnast in the NCAA this week with an average of 9.908. Two Southern Utah gymnasts, Ariel Lamb (9.875) and Katie Hicks (9.875), are tied for third, with Ute Daria Bijak (9.842) tied for 10th. Postell (39.442) is also third nationally in the third set of all-around rankings. As a team, the Utes moved up to second place after being third the past two weeks, with an average of 196.475, behind Georgia's 196.869. Utah defeated Georgia in the season's first meet, 196.3- 196.2.
The difference between moms and dads, example No. 745: My wife watches our daughter during gymnastics class and exults as the kid walks warily along the balance beam.
Gina Favocci was tired of being afraid. She stared down at the 4 inches beneath her feet, haunted by the tiny width of the balance beam. There were only 4 inches on which to pirouette, 4 inches on which to jump. And those 4 inches were the only thing between her and the floor, 4 feet below.
Eve Giancarlo of the Buffalo Turners won the All-Around in Level 5 as the club hosted its annula Turkey-Time Invitational. Giancarlo took first on uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise and third on vault. More than 200 gymnasts took part in the two-day event. Molly Denman was first in floor exercise and Mikala Thursam and Meadow Wright finished first and second on the balance beam in Level 6. The Turners' team of Grace Graney, Thursam, Wright, Denman and Alexandria Gorchek finished second.
I can't say I'm a huge fan of women's gymnastics, but I do look forward to watching it every time the Olympics roll around -- except, that is, for the balance beam. That event ties my stomach in knots, so much so that I want to turn away whenever those tiny little girls jump up on that measly 4 inches of beam. See, I'm not very good at balance. Not literally, of course -- most days I manage to go all the way from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night without actually falling down. No, my issues creep up in other areas, like figuring out the right combination of optimism and practicality, productivity and rest, charity and honesty, making the best of a bad situation and making noise until the bad situation gets better.
UCLA freshman Samantha Peszek won the balance beam title at the NCAA women's gymnastics championships Sunday in Cleveland, scoring 9.9 to become the Bruins' sixth NCAA beam champion and first since Kristen Maloney in 2005. I'm kind of new to the college scene so this is completely different, and I loved every moment of it," Peszek said on the Bruins' website. "I had so much fun out there competing, and I'm kind of sad the weekend is ending. ... To end with the beam title is amazing.
FORT JACKSON, S.C. - Sit-ups don't make a soldier, the Army has decided. So its 30-year-old fitness requirements are getting a battlefield-inspired makeover. Soon, every soldier will have to run on a balance beam with two 30-pound canisters of ammunition, drag a sled weighted with 180 pounds of sandbags and vault over obstacles while aiming a rifle. Those were just some of the tests the Army unveiled Tuesday as it moves toward making its physical training look more like combat.
BOSTON - Lynn Smith-Lovin was listening in the back seat of a taxi when a woman called the radio talk-show hosts to confess her affairs with a new boyfriend and a not-yet-former husband. The hosts, in their best therapeutic voices, offered their on- air opinion, "Give me an S, give me an L, give me a U." You can spell the rest.
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