2016 DCSD Gymnastics Champions — Lakeside Lady Vikings

In the second closest competition of the DeKalb County Gymnastics Championships, the Lakeside Lady Vikings pulled out a 0.15 victory over the Arabia Mountain Lady Rams 95.65-95.50 at Dunwoody on Tuesday for their fourth title in the past five seasons.

Coach Pat Floyd’s Tucker squad pulled out a 0.05 victory (102.50-102.45) over Redan in 1991 and is the only DCSD Championships that had a closer finish.

The beam was the final event for both Lakeside and Arabia Mountain and would be the deciding factor in the win for Lakeside.

Arabia Mountain, leading by a slim 70.4 to 70.3, was up just before Lakeside on the beam and the duo of senior Nia Freeman and freshman Noelle Senior both posted 8.50 marks to move into a five-way tie for the gold medal. Freshman Raine Julius added a nice 8.10 on the beam to give the Lady Rams a 25.10 total in the event.

Arabia Mountain freshman Noelle Senior won the All-Around title behind this 9.0 performance on the uneven parallel bars. (Photo by Mark Brock)

Lakeside followed needing a 25.20 total in the event to get the victory. Freshman Amelia Stockwell put up a score of 8.00 to help the Lady Vikings to cut into the Arabia lead.

Senior Mira Munro scored an 8.70 to capture the gold and leaving the Lady Vikings needing a score of better than 8.40 by their final competitor junior Paige Munro. Munro delivered a score of 8.65 to take silver and propel Lakeside to the narrow victory.

Arabia Mountain’s Noelle Senior put together an All-Around score of 34.40, including gold in the uneven parallel bars (9.00) and in the floor exercise (8.70) and a tie for silver in the beam (8.50), to become the second consecutive freshman to win the All-Around title.

Senior also became the second All-Around champion from Arabia Mountain joining Camille Cassar who won in 2011.

Lakeside junior Paige Munro performs in the floor exercise. Her silver medal finish on the beam pushed Lakeside to the title. (Photo by Mark Brock)

Lakeside’s Paige Munro won two silver medals and two bronze medals to compile an All-Around total of 32.65 to take second in the All-Around competition.

Redan sophomore Mya Hemingway (32.15) was third in the All-Around for the second consecutive year followed by Lakeside freshman Amelia Stockwell (32.10) in fourth, Stephenson sophomore Isha’e Harris (30.50) in fifth and Arabia Mountain senior Nia Freeman (30.00) in sixth.

Freeman also took gold in the vault with a score of 8.60 to round out all the event winners.

Defending champion Redan finished in third with 87.85 points and Dunwoody was fourth with 87.05.

The title was Lakeside’s 20th in the 51 years of competition (1966-2016). The 20 wins include a string of 10 consecutive wins from 1972 to 1981. Coach Elizabeth Krieger now has two titles in three seasons at the helm of the Lady Vikings.

Tucker is in second with 9 DCSD titles followed by Redan with 8 and Dunwoody 7 to account for 44 of the 51 championships.