GILLETTE, WYOMING - Over the course of the 2024-2025 gymnastics season the Rawhide Gymnastics rookie competition team qualified all eight athletes to the state meet. Athletes headed to compete on Saturday, March 15 and were among over 350 gymnasts that convened at the Campbell County Recreation Center over the two day competition.

Rawhide athletes competed at the Bronze Xcel and Silver Xcel levels. All athletes are considered “women’s all-around” participants and showed their skills with routines in bar, beam, vault and floor. The young athletes had competed throughout the season at meets in Casper, Sturgis and Rapid City culminating with their rounds in Gillette.

All eight athletes are first time competitors and have been with the Rawhide Gymnastics program since it started in the fall of 2023. Rawhide Gymnastics is owned and operated by coach Kristen Gordon. Gordon established the program in the fall of 2023 and has been at capacity since the first session with a waiting list attesting to the demand for gymnastics in Niobrara county and the surrounding area.

In the Xcel program (an alternate levels program to the tradition Level 1-10 that many are familiar with) athletes compete in their skill level and then within their age division. All athletes achieved a personal best in one or more events, attesting to their hard work over the last year.