McHenry pair bounce to titles
September 28th, 2009
Originally found at www.mchenrycountysports.com
Maegen Bohac won the Joel Ferrell Outstanding Performance Memorial Award for trampoline and tumbling at the AAU Junior Olympics held from July 27 to Aug. 8 in Des Moines, Iowa.
It was a McHenry sweep for the award as Bohac, a senior at McHenry, joined the boys Ferrell award winner for trampoline and tumbling Ryan Bohn, also a McHenry senior. Bohac said that winning the award was all the more special because of the local connection.
“Winning that as a whole is so amazing,” Bohac said. “It’s just so amazing.” The Ferrell Award is the most prestigious recognition given at the AAU Junior Olympic Games and recognizes the athletic ability and sportsmanship of an athlete representing each official sport at the AAU Junior Olympic Games. In addition to the award presented at the Games, each recipient’s name will be engraved on a plaque at the AAU National Headquarters.In Des Moines, Bohac finished fourth in the trampoline and won a silver medal in tumbling. Bohac, 17, has been participating in trampoline and tumbling since she was 3 years old. She said she stuck with it for both social and competitive reasons.
“I made so many friends from it and I love the thrill of competition,” Bohac said.
Bohn also won the Joel Ferrell Outstanding Performance Memorial Award for trampoline and tumbling this month at the AAU Junior Olympics in Des Moines, Iowa.Bohac cheers for McHenry as both a sideline and a competitive cheerleader. She uses many of her tumbling or floor skills in cheerleading, which she said utilized her strongest abilities. Although trampoline might not be her strongest event, it is perhaps the most exciting because of the jumping power that it provides. “It’s just something completely different because of the trampoline,” Bohac said. “The trampoline gives you a different feeling. A good feeling.”
She said that one of the best aspects of the trampoline was body coordination that it instilled.
“With the jumping you learn so much about control,” she said. “If you do one thing wrong, you fly off the thing.”
