Heather!

Right handed, left-sided gymnast, right jumper/left spinner in skating (very odd, I know :)
CURRENT FLOOR MUSIC: Pirates of the Caribbean
PAST FLOOR MUSIC: Avalon, To The Fair (from Beauty and the Beast), Jellicle Ball (from Cats), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
EXHIBITION MUSIC (I've done many, many exhibitions at the school where I work! These are the only ones I remember): Crazy Nights, Avalon, To the Fair, Disney song medley, Smooth, We're Dancing (from Center Stage), Livin' in America, Lord of the Rings medley, A Moment Like This, Hero (from Spiderman), World's Greatest, Complicated, Pirates of the Caribbean, Miss Independent, Someday, Candy, Black Cat, 1985, Lonely No More
PETS: 4 cats (orange & white, named Sunni; solid black, named Inky; another solid black who actually belongs to my neighbor but he stays at my house all the time, named Garth, and a black and white kitten named KitKat), 2 guinea pigs (brown, named Quendi; white, named Arwen)
AWARDS I'VE WON (at the annual team banquet, beginning in 1995): Hardest Worker (95), Most Positive (96), can't remember 97-98-99, Fastest Learner (00), Most Graceful (01), Best Attitude (02), Most Dedicated (03), Most Successful (04)

Here are descriptions of my routines for level 9, 2005 season.

Vault: tuck Tsuk :-D, FHS-full

Bars: Kip, cast, clear hip, kip, stoop-on, straddle back, kip, stoop-on, kip, cast HS, giant, giant, double tuck

Beam: On end, jump to straddle hold, lower to pose arching off end of beam; ff ff; full turn; switch leap, back tuck; scale; straddle jump, straddle jump; tucked front-full.

Floor: front tuck RO ff full; switch-ring, Strug; 1-1/2 turn with leg up to tuck jump 1-1/2; RO ff 1-1/2; cat leap double cat leap 1-1/2, FHS front layout
MUSIC: Pirates of the Caribbean ("He's A Pirate" on the soundtrack)

OTHER FACTS
I started gymnastics in 1995 (I was 12).

I have met Shannon Miller many times.

People have told me that some of my dance-type stuff in my routines is similar to Shannon. :-)

I have over 100 leotards!

I used to be a synchronized skater.
I am the webmaster of all these sites--
Gymnastics Unlimited--my general gymnastics site, lots of pictures, animations, and videos!
Shannon Shines!--my Shannon Miller site, probably the largest and most up-to-date fan site for her out there!
Ice Champions--my general skating site.
Uruviel's Argonath--my Lord of the Rings site!
Still on the Bloody Island--my Lost site (my latest obsession)
Non-gymn Stuff--my site for everything else that I like that doesn't have to do with gymnastics, skating, or LOTR! **NOT UPDATED OFTEN!!**

Click to hear my old floor music! "Avalon".

FAVS
EVENT: Beam, Bars, Floor, Vault (in that order :-).

LEAST FAV EVENT: None

BEST EVENT: Beam, Floor

WORST EVENT: Bars

USA GYMNAST: Shannon Miller (also Jaycie Phelps, Amanda Borden, Vanessa Atler, Kim Zmeskal, Elise Ray, Carly Patterson, Tabitha Yim, Courtney Kupets, Hollie Vise, Annia Hatch, Tia Orlando, Liz Tricase, Courtney McCool, Nasia Liukin and TONS more!!)

UKRAINIAN GYMNAST: Lilia Podkopayeva (also Viktoria Karpenko, Lyubov Sheremeta, Olga Roschupkina, Tatiana Lysenko, Svetlana Zelepoukina, and Oksana Knizhnik)

RUSSIAN GYMNAST: Elena Zamolodchikova (also Dina Kochetkova, Anna Kovalyova, Ekaterina Loaznyuk, and Elena Produnova)

ROMANIAN GYMNAST: Andreea Raducan (also Simona Amanar, Gina Gogean, Lavinia Milosovici, and Sabina Cojocar)

CHINESE GYMNAST: Liu Xuan (also Yang Yun, Kui Yuanyuan, Bi Wenjing and Ling Jie)

FEMALE ELIGIBLE SKATERS: Michelle Kwan

FEMALE PRO SKATERS: Lucinda Ruh, Surya Bonaly, Yuka Sato, Josee Choiunard, Katia Gordeeva

MALE ELIGIBLE SKATERS: Evgeny Plushenko

MALE PRO SKATERS: Philippe Candeloro, Victor Petrenko, Brian Boitano, Todd Eldredge

PAIRS ELIGIBLE SKATERS: Shen & Zhao

PAIRS PRO SKATERS: Brasseur & Eisler, Gordeeva & Grinkov, Sale & Pelletier, Kazakova & Dmitriev, Woetzel & Steuer, Ina & Zimmerman

ELIGIBLE ICE DANCERS: Denkova & Staviski (was Lang & Tchernyshev til they broke up)

PRO ICE DANCERS: Anissina & Peizarat, Torvill & Dean, Punsalan & Swallow, Fusar-Poli & Margaglio, Usova & Platov

VAULT TO DO: Yurchenko

WORKING ON: Yurchenko

VAULT TO WATCH: handspring double front, the "Podkopayeva"

BAR SKILL TO DO: bail, double flyaway

WORKING ON: cast handstand-1/2, shoot-1/2, blind turn, front giants, giant-1/2, clear hip-HS, tucked Gienger

BAR SKILL TO WATCH: 1-arm Gienger, hop-fulls, full-twisting double layouts, Comaneci.

BEAM SKILL TO DO: gainer ff, back tuck, most dismounts.

WORKING ON: straddle jump mount, ff back tuck, ff layout, ff ff 2-foot layout, standing back pike, split jump 3/4, straddle jumps sideways

BEAM SKILL TO WATCH: front aerial, the "Miller".

FLOOR SKILL TO DO: anything really

WORKING ON: double fulls, double backs, front layout-front tuck, front-fulls, RO 1 1/2 step-out

FLOOR SKILL TO WATCH: double front 1/2, double layouts, triple fulls.

SKATING SKILLS TO DO: toe loops, waltz jumps, 3-turns, 1-foot spins, sit spins, lunges, spirals, mohawks, bunny hops, back crossovers, 1/2 flip, sit spins, Chinese attitude spiral

SKATING SKILLS TO WATCH: triples, quads, double axels, scratch spins, layback spins, spirals

FOOD: Pizza, tacos, black olives, anything raspberry or blueberry flavored

LEAST FAV FOOD: Onions, mushrooms, Chinese food, mayonnaise.

MOVIES: LOTR trilogy, A Knight's Tale, Pirates of the Caribbean, Center Stage, Liar Liar, all gymnastics movies, The Lost Boys, School of Rock, The Matrix trilogy, The Cutting Edge, Ice Castles, Kindergarten Cop, National Treasure

DISNEY MOVIES: Beauty & the Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, The Aristocats, Sleeping Beauty

ACTORS: Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood, Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Sean Bean, Viggo Mortensen, Josh Holloway, Ian Somerhalder

ACTRESS: Liv Tyler, Evangeline Lilly

TV SHOWS: LOST, American Idol, South Park, Mama's Family, Roseanne, Home Improvement

Fav Lost characters: Sawyer, Boone, Charlie, Jack, Kate, Claire, Sayid.
BOOKS: The Lord of the Rings, Sweet Valley series (I started reading those when I was about 7 and I still like them now lol), Winning Every Day, V.C. Andrews books, Shannon Miller: My Child, My Hero, Landing on My Feet, To Catch A Dream, My Sergei

COLOR: Purple, red & black (Wimbleton colors!)

THINGS I COLLECT: ANYTHING gymnastics, gymnasts' and skaters' autographs, gymn pins, Beanie Babies, anything with harp seals on it, Disney pins, Beauty and the Beast stuff, Lord of the Rings stuff.

ANIMALS--cats, rabbits, harp seals, some (but not all!) kinds of dogs, guinea pigs.

RESTAURANTS--Friday's, Chili's, Logan's, Red Lobster, Ruby Tuesday's, O'Charley's, On the Border, Pancho's.

FAST-FOOD PLACES--Taco Bell, Chik-Fil-A, Sonic, Steak Escape, Danver's, Wendy's, McDonald's.

Just for fun, I filled out one of my Biography pages that I have on my gymnastics site--click HERE to see it! :)