AllStar Magazine July 2012--Girls - Allstarmagazine.com

Photos compliments Jane Feely.
Story by Christy Michals with special
thanks to contributor Jane Feely
Carmel Catholic High School Gymnastics Champions
This impressive team won the Illinois High School
Association State Championship this year—an outstanding
achievement considering there were only six girls on the
roster. But the accolades don’t stop there. Not only did the
girls go unbeaten all season and set a new school record
for team score, their State title was their third in as many
years and a fifth for Carmel in this sport. In addition to the
team title, the girls also celebrated three individual event
state champions—Sarah Cohen-Smith won the vault title,
Lauren Feely took first on balance beam and Kristin Mirski
claimed the top spot on floor exercise. The girls were
coached by former Carmel Catholic gymnast Sarah Mikrut
Doyle, a member of the school’s State winning team in
1992 and 1993. She was assisted by Nicole Gluzinski and
Steve Bell.
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2012 Carmel Catholic High School Varsity Gymnastics Team
(From left) Anna Brandmeier (Sr), Sarah Cohen-Smith (Jr), Kristin
Mirski (Sr), Lauren Feely (Jr), Jen Zeller (Sr) and Kari Osowski (Jr).
The Carmel gymnasts haven’t stopped there. Upon
the completion of the high school season, all of the
girls returned to their club teams to continue training.
Again finding success, two of the girls competed at the
National level for their club this season. Additionally,
two of the seniors on the team—Kristin Mirski and Anna
Brandmeier—traveled to Florida in May to compete in this
year’s High School Senior Nationals competition where they
helped Illinois to a joint first place finish.
The girls plan to spend the summer working on new
skills and perfecting new routines. Lauren Feely, has
verbally committed to compete in Division 1 gymnastics at
Bowling Green State in Ohio for the Fall of 2013.
Congratulations on a spectacular season! �
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