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Inside the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School Gymnastics Dynasty: A Story of Streaks and Score-Crunching

By

Nina Mandell

23d ago· 8 min readen

Summary

An excerpt from the book "A Fraction of a Point" detailing the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team's remarkable state championship win streak in Ohio. The passage focuses on a tense moment during a meet where team members Andrea Kinzer and Diana Moock (nicknamed "the human calculator") anxiously calculate scores from other teams to determine if their streak will continue.

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Andrea Kinzer stood over her teammate Diana Moock, watching her as she sat on the ground calculating the scores from other teams across the meet.
Diana, a numbers whiz with the nickname 'the human calculator,' was furiously computing the scores of the competition that the team had
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The following is excerpted from A Fraction of a Point: A Gymnastics Dynasty on the Line, by Nina Mandell. Published by Kent State University Press. Reproduced by permission. The book is available for purchase now.  With the Brecksville-Broadview Heights H

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