PIZM gymnasts aim to stick the perfect landing this season
The team has won the past four section championships and the last five conference titles.
Posted: Feb 25, 2021 11:14 PM
Posted By: Kaleb Gillock
PINE ISLAND, Minn. - The MSHSL State Gymnastics Meet is just a month away and Pine Island/Zumbrota-Mazeppa (PIZM) is setting the bar high. To understand how good this team is, it has won the last five conference championships and the previous four section titles.
This season has been anything but normal but PIZM is not willing to settle.
“Before (the) season, we didn’t get practices so we all came in kind of not knowing where we were, not knowing what routines we had so we all threw them together the first week,” Eliza Goplen said.
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In an instant, it was all gone.
Utah s 2020 meet at the Huntsman Center against in-state opponent Utah State, it s final meet of the season and Senior Night for Kim Tessen and Missy Reinstadtler was canceled the day before as the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic began to take shape in the state. The entire season would soon follow as sports, and life as many knew it, shut down indefinitely. It definitely was a big blow and something I think all of us will remember for a lifetime, head coach Tom Farden said. But there s a lot of resilience, and we tried to patch things back as best as possible and keep them engaged through that long quarantine.