1994 NCAA Big Ten Championships


Written Summer 2000 © Stephanie Schneider

Location: Penn State University~Rec Hall (University Park, PA)
Date: March 26-27, 1994

This meet was the first gymnastics competition that I had ever been to. It was actually a birthday present from my dad who found out that there was going to be gymnastics at Penn State. I was only 11 at the time and kind of just getting into the whole gymnastics thing. I guess you could say I had a lot to learn. I didn’t really know what the meet even was; I was just excited to be going to see gymnastics. I remember being amazed by everything. We saw the men in the afternoon and the women in the evening. The only thing I remember is that Michigan won the women’s competition. Oh, and I remember that there were all these delays on floor for the women and my dad kept saying how long it was taking. Isn’t it funny the kinds of things that you remember?

Note: I’m looking through my program, and I’m seeing names like Blaine Wilson, Jay Thornton, Kip Simons, Drew Durbin, Garry Denk, etc. Names that I’m more than familiar with now; they weren’t incredibly big names back then, but it’s still neat to see that I saw them even if I don’t remember. :)

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