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10.9.2006 - My husband and I have moved to Brooklyn, NY. He is in an Orthopaedic Residency at Maimonides Hospital. We are expecting our first child in January!

10.19.2005 - My husband and I moved to Gainesville, Florida. He graduated medical school in June and is in a Surgical Residency at the University of Florida (Shands Hospital). I am coaching at Balcony Gymnastics in Ocala, Florida.

5.29.2004 - Hello. It is great hearing from everyone and I would love for any of my old teammates to email me. My husband has transferred medical schools and we are now living in Chicago, IL where he is doing his rotations at Jackson Park Hospital. I am working in sales at Crunch Fitness. Hope to hear from everyone.....

4.21.2003 - hello everyone. things have changed quite a bit for me since the last time i wrote. i got married to a wonderful man and we are living in guadalajara, mexico where he is attending medical school and i am coaching gymnastics. i want to share a little story of just one of the many benefits of being a parkette. when i first went down to mexico i did not speak one word of spanish but i needed a job so i decided to check out the local gyms in the phone book. i chose the one with the biggest ad and it just so happened that the owner of the gym new of the strauss's and was willing to give me a job. i asked what i would do about the language and he said just use alot of hand motions for now and you will learn!!! so i did and things are going great! i would love to hear from any of my old teammates......

9.26.2000 - HI. My name is Sarah Balogach. I have been invovled with the Parkettes since the age of five and although my days as a gymnast have quickly passed, I still feel the need to be involved with this place that I hold very dear to my heart. The love and support I have received both during and after my career truly shows the greatness and loyalty of the Parkette coaches. It would be impossible to go through all of the amazing experiences and lessons I have gotten out of being a Parkette gymnast. Yet there is one incident I would like to share that really has nothing to do with gymnastics but rather will help to define all that I feel the Parkettes stand for. As some of you may know my sister Becky (also a former Parkette gymnast) was diagnosed a couple months back with a brain tumor. Afraid and hysterical I knew I needed to speak with Mrs. Strauss. As I expected, she along with the rest of the Parkettes were there for my family and I every step of the way. The hope and encouragement I once needed to get me through a beam set was now directed toward something far more important, my sisters life. I can't explain what their words of support did for us. I just know that they gave a sense of hope and a reason to believe that everyhting would be okay. Today Becky is doing well and getting healthier by the day. There are no words to express how I feel about the Parkettes. I just know that they are great people with an unusual ability to touch the lives of everyone they come into contact with and I am just thankful they are in my life.