Balance beam state champion Sammie Boster named DAC Most Valuable Gymnast

Tom Keegan
Onwardtrojans.com
Two days after Chesterton sophomore Sammie Boster became state champion in the balance beam, she was named Most Valuable Gymnast in the DAC, an honor earned when she won the all-around title at the DAC championship.
Joining Boster on the 10-deep All-DAC gymnastics team in the order they were listed in the release: Megan Garibay, Ava Moe, Ione Skafish and Coe Krischke of Valparaiso, Madelyn Martell and Leah Fenner from Crown Point, Evie Travis of LaPorte, Corynn Morgan from Merrillville and Portage’s Mia Pace.
On the day Boster won the DAC all-around title at Crown Point, she also won the beam and floor exercise and took second in the vault and fourth in the bars. She added to her trophy case by winning the beam, the floor and the vault at the Crown Point sectional, and then for the second year in a row won the regional beam title at Portage.
The Chesterton winter sports season officially ended with Boster standing on the highest perch of the beam medal stand was Trojans athletic director Jeff Hamstra, an IHSAA executive committee member, hanging the first-place medal on her neck.