Dallas, Damiano lead Saratoga gymnasts to Suburban Council championship | The Daily Gazette
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Ava Dallas of the Saratoga Springs High School gymnastics team receives congratulations from her coach, Deb Smarro, after performing on the uneven bars at the Suburban Council championship meet at World Class Gymnastics Academy in Latham Sunday. (Erica Miller/The Daily Gazette)
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That was more than enough motivation for the Saratoga Springs gymnastics team.
“We’ve been here four years and we haven’t had a loss in a dual meet or an invitational in the section,” Saratoga’s Sophia Damiano said of fellow senior Ava Dallas and herself. “We wanted to keep that legacy going. We wanted to show that this is what we’re about, and that’s having fun and putting the work in.”
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Saratoga Springs gymnast Sophia Damiano began her senior season with another Section II-record performance.
It happened Sunday at a three-team fundraiser for Hatsgiving when the Blue Streaks veteran scored a 9.65 on her vault routine at World Class Gymnastics Academy in Latham.
“It’s the best vault I’ve ever had,” the 17-year-old Damiano said. “You’re never sure what the judges are thinking, but as I was flipping through the air, I thought I was going to score pretty well.”
Damiano scored a 9.475 on the vault at the state meet last season to place fifth and tie the Section II record that her teammate and fellow senior Ava Dallas had previously set.