Kiara Nowlin

[Bekah]

Since we don't have a T&T forum, I didn't know where else to post this so I'll post it here.

I am IN LOVE with this girl's power. She's on the U.S. national tumbling team and won gold in Double Mini and Tumbling at this year's Age Group Games in the 13-14 age group. She's also the Double Mini and Tumbling U.S. Junior Champion. Here are her passes from Visas:

Tumbling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKrreio9hg
Double Mini: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0d9pA2Q4Xg

She's also a cheerleader. I'll have to be honest, girls like this make me believe that cheerleading is a sport. (Please don't hijack this thread to dispute the previous statement. ) Here's her cheer video. She can do TWELVE, yes, TWELVE standing fulls in a row. How insane is that?

Cheerleading: (feel free to skip to :52 if you don't want to watch her partner stunt work) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWH5l5tG9KM
A video of her tumbling through childhood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE8D_...1&feature=fvwp

[gymgal92]

Holy crap, that girl has power out the nose! I want to tumble like that!!!! That looks like so much fun

[smiles]

WOWW
I must admit, I was very skeptical about Kiara Nowlin before, knowing that she is a cheerleader (I didn't know she tumbled!!), and I was always like, "she can do a double twist, big deal". But she is ridiculously amazing!!!!
She had so much time on her double tuck that I actually thought she was going to do a triple. And her full in pike was so laid out that... it WAS laid out.
That's really cool!!! Thank you for sharing, Bekah.