Updated at 11:21 p.m., Thursday, March 8, 2007
Hawai'i gymnasts place at winter meet
Advertiser Staff
Two Hawai'i gymnasts captured first place in their respective divisions at the USA Gymnastics Winter Classic for Trampoline and Tumbling on March 1 in Lubbock, Texas.Nani Vercruyssen, a ninth-grader at Roosevelt High School, took first in the junior elite trampoline and first in the double mini-trampoline.
Spencer Dupio, a 10th-grader at Roosevelt, was first in the junior elite double mini-trampoline and finished seventh in the trampoline.
Two other Hawai'i athletes competed at the meet, with Kelsen Onigama (a sixth-grader at Kalakaua Middle School) finishing eighth in the junior elite double mini-trampoline and 14th in the trampoline; and Matt Moniz (a freshman at Leeward Community College) placing 10th in the senior elite trampoline and 11th in the double mini-trampoline.
Based on the Lubbock meet, Vercruyssen, Dupio and Onigama qualified for the U.S. Elite National Championships in Memphis, Tenn., from June 20 to 23.
