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The top level of the championships saw strong performances across the board. In the Gold Individual Female division, Mary McCormick (Woodside, Calif.) partnered with Sydney Frankel’s Palatine and lunger Carolyn Bland to take home the National Champion title with a score of 8.029. Adding to his impressive resume, Kristian Roberts (Moss Beach, Calif.) won his fourth consecutive Gold Individual Male division title with the help of Palatine and lunger Bland, scoring 7.447. In the A Team division, the Mt. Eden Vaulting Club scored top honors with a final score of 6.332, partnering with Sunny Boy, owned by Garrod Farms Stables, and lunger Laura Yelavich for the compulsories, and Stanford, owned by Woodside Vaulters, and lunger Krista Mack for the freestyle. The squad, consisted of Tessa Belardi (Aptos, Calif.), Michelle Guo (Palo Alto, Calif.), Bodhi Hall (San Jose, Calif.), Tallulah Hickman-Smith (Saratoga, Calif.), Kate Morse (Los Gatos, Calif.), and Tarra Samak (Los Gatos, Calif.). With an overall score of 7.396, the Open Pas de Deux National Champions were Carlee Heger (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Haley Smith (Parker, Colo.) of Mile High Vaulters on Jodi Rinard’s Sampson lunged by Rinard.
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In addition to her Pas de Deux title, Heger won the Silver Individual Female title with an overall score of 7.140, vaulting on Rinard’s Xena and lunged by Rinard. Luke Overton (Stanwood, Wash.) had a great final outing before the FEI World Vaulting Championships for Juniors, winning the Silver Individual Male title with an overall score of 6.504, vaulting on Kimberly Bell’s Prize lunged by Bell and Patti Skipton’s Vidar lunged by Skipton. The Mile High Vaulters were named the B Team National Champions with a final score of 6.313. The squad was made up of Melanie Ford (Fort Collins, Colo.), Heger, Jim Roedel (Fort Lupton, Colo.), Ana Schult (Longmont, Colo.), Smith, and Rachael Weiner (Fort Collins, Colo.).
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