Top metro gymnastics teams, 20 athletes to watch, new state meet home

1. Lakeville North

2. Big Lake

3. Cambridge-Isanti

4. Eden Prairie

5. Rosemount

6. Northfield

7. New Prague

9. Hopkins

10. (tie) Champlin Park

10. (tie) Wayzata

Also worth considering: Maple Grove, Elk River, Mahtomedi

• Nadia Abid, Maple Grove, senior

• Julia Clark, Mounds View/Irondale, soph.

• Addison Dack, Northfield, junior

• Avery Doman, Rosemount, 8th

• Livia Dombeck, St. Michael- Albertville, junior

• Bella Frattalone, Mahtomedi, senior

• Kenzi Kluge, Eden Prairie, senior

• Anna Mielke, Watertown-Mayer/Mound-Westonka

• Dani Miller, Waconia, senior

• AnnaGrace Nelson, Cambridge-Isanti, senior

• Kelsey Neff, Edina, senior

• Teagan Ramboldt, Eagan, senior

• Ciboney Reglos, Hopkins, junior

• Emma Saksa, Champlin Park, junior

• Rachel Steiner, Lakeville North, senior

• Grace Treanor, Wayzata, senior

Mahtomedi, four others on move

Because of a conflict with a University of Minnesota wrestling meet at the Maturi Sports Pavilion, the Minnesota State High School League has moved the 2020 gymnastics state meet to Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul on Feb. 21 and 22.

Roy Wilkins had been the meet's longtime home until it was moved to the U of M campus in 2009. Many coaches are glad to be going back. "The atmosphere there is electric," Elk River/Zimmerman coach Jenn Bartlett said.

Cambridge-Isanti coach Wendy Rooney said she was ecstatic about the move. "It's a wonderful venue for the meet," she wrote in an e-mail. "There is so much more space on the competitive floor, and the crowd being higher up in the stands makes it feel more like the big meet it is."

Jim Paulsen