Pack with me for Baylor vs. Oregon A&T Meet

Emily Bott

2/21/25

Hey everyone! Welcome back to continue Flippin’ with Emily. This week was a big long week, as it was expected to be. Me and my teammates left to fly all the way to Oregon for a big competitive meet against their Acrobatics and Tumbling team. We have always had very exciting and competitive meets against Oregon, but we still won. 

On our travel trips the coaches will provide us a list of important clothing and shoes we will need for our meet and for practices. They also supply us with matching Baylor suitcases to use for these trips, which aren’t the most spacious to include many extra belongings other than the important stuff. Other than the clothing, I will make sure I pack prepared for every occasion that may come which are the necessities like toiletries. My toiletries necessities are my toothbrush, toothpaste, hairspray, bar of soap, shampoo, conditioner, vitamin C gummies, hair brush, icy hot, advil, and lotion. Now the next extra thing I pack is my forearm braces that I use while I tumble to help my forearm splints. I also pack headphones for music, and all my school materials as in my iPad, computer, and books so I can still stay on top of my assignments. 

One thing that our coaches do during our away trips surprises a lot of people, is they take all of our phones from when we get to our hotel til after our meet. They do this so we can stay focused and enjoy our time spent with each other and have fun with our teammates without technology getting in the way of that. Although at times it's not the most ideal when you are trying to go into assignments and need a Duo confirmation code, I feel this is a very good way to bring the team together and to allow us to create our own fun in our free time without technology. 

This meet was so much fun and exciting. I loved being with my teammates and bonding through our fun, weird quirks. I hope this helped you figure out how to pack for a sporting event or other events and I hope you enjoyed it. 

Thank you everyone for touching back into Flippin’ with Emily and don't forget to come back for more fun stuff next week.