Wishart playing a significant role for Saratoga gymnastics team | The Daily Gazette
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LATHAM Seniors on the Saratoga Springs girls’ gymnastics team are asked to fill the role of point producer, motivator and teacher.
Megan Wishart has done that so well in a season that’s been different in so many ways, and for a Blue Streaks team that includes so many new faces.
“I know how it was to be on the team as a newcomer,” said Wishart, who has been with the Blue Streaks since the seventh grade. “They need someone to talk to them and see them through it.”
Winter season has produced noteworthy numbers | The Daily Gazette
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This winter season will be remembered for masks, virtual competition and near-empty venues among other pandemic-related items, but also for the diligence displayed and some cool and noteworthy numbers produced by our Section II athletes in a variety of sports.
Here are 10 of them already in the books, and over the next few weeks there are certain to be a bunch more as this one-of-a-kind campaign squeezes in basketball, hockey and wrestling events before its completion.
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Pin total surpassed by five Columbia boys in a virtual Suburban Council bowling match against Niskayuna at East Greenbush Bowling Center. With their three-game production, Zack Bogholtz (773), Mason McDowell (760), Ryan Lemay (752), Thomas Stein (745) and Tyler Bogholtz (701) combined to down 3,731 of Columbia’s 4,318 total pins in one of the highlight performances this winter for the SC regular season and tournament champion
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.”
Suburban Council girls' gymnastics teams will be heeding to COVID-19 protocols, including competition at two off-campus locations, and competition at staggered…
Damiano sets Section II gymnastics record at fundraising meet | The Daily Gazette
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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.