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“Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat.” -- Prince Phillip of England This week marks the second HUGE change in my life in as many months. In August I sent my “baby” off to college, leaving me a true empty nester – and this week I will return to Austin, Texas and leave a job I have loved and one that has loved me back. For the last six years, I have “worked” as the Team Coordinator for Texas Dreams Gymnastics, and I have never lacked ...

Why is World Championships a big deal this year? (or any year for that matter?) Why do the girls train so hard, coaches sweat so much, and National Team Coordinators and Selection Committees scrutinize so closely? This year, the World Championships is the qualifying meet to the Olympics of 2012. (You see, not everyone gets to go to the Olympics and compete.) But – EVERY year, the Elite competitors of the world ‘get together’ and participate in a little meet. World Championships is the Olympics of gymnastics – every year....

August, for an elite athletes' mom, is the culmination of a years training building to six months of routine work and culminating with two months of perfecting routines that -- from a moms view -- are already perfect. August is the month that you don't breathe in the gym for fear of a rolled ankle, a tweaked shoulder, a hyper-extended elbow or an achy back. August -- is -- Champonships of the USA (except in an Olympic year). The biggest, baddest, loudest, most important meet of their season - and if it's their first year - of their career. Work...