The Schafer School of Gymnastics girls team competed in its first meet of the season Oct. 5 and came away big winners. The girls level 4, 5, and 6 teams competed on the floor exercise, the balance beam, the uneven bars and the vault and the scores from each event were tallied for an all-around score.
Schafer had three girls that took first place on each event in their age group. Sophie Cohen, of Lawrenceville, who is a level 4 took first place on each event along with first place all around for her age.
Julie Peters, a level 6 took first place as well on all events and was all-around champion for her age and level and Nicole Ashley, also a level 6, took first place on every event as well as all-around champion for her age group and level.
There were 12 members of the Schafer team that competed and all came away winners. Mari Kwak took second place all around, Alexa Sullivan took fourth place all around, Grace Dismukes took fifth place all around and all other members took various placements for their first competition of the year.

