August 23, 2007: Samantha had an amazing meet in San Jose, finishing 2nd overall and on bars and floor. She was also crowned the 2007 Junior USA National Beam Champion! Photos have already been added from the meet with more to come soon! Videos will also be posted in the next few days.

Sami began her meet on floor, scoring a 14.800 for a very clean routine to "Blues for Klook." She added a 14.100 on vault, a 14.400 on bars, and a crowd-favorite 15.600 on beam! Her beam routine was flawless, earning a B score a 9.400 which is VERY high under the new Code of Points. She finished day one with an all-around total of 58.900, just .050 out of first place! 

On day two she started on vault with a 14.150 (9.150 B score) and improved her mark on bars with a 14.600. Unfortunately she fell on her beam dismount after over rotating it, which was an otherwise perfect routine! She scored a 14.800 despite the fall. She improved her floor routine from day one after the fall, scoring a 15.050 (9.350 B score) giving her a total of 58.600 for a combined total of 117.500 and 2nd place behind WOGA's Rebecca Bross. This total would've put Sami in 6th place as a senior gymnast. Not too shabby for her 2nd Nationals ever!

Along with Samantha, the Junior National Team includes Rebecca Bross (WOGA), Jordyn Wieber (Geddert's), Chelsea Davis (TX Dreams), Rheagan Courville (Elite LA), her AOGC teammate Mattie Larson, Olivia Courtney (Orlando Metro), Ashley Stott (SCEGA), Corrie Lothrop (Hills), Cassie Whitcomb (CGA), Rebecca Clark (GAGE), and Sarah DeMeo (GAGE). Also, a big congratulations to her teammate Hallie Mossett for placing 8th on floor exercise.

August 12, 2007: The routines page has been updated with Sami's revised skills from the recent U.S. Classic and a new photo gallery from the meet is up! She now does a stalder 1/1 to her Pak salto, adding an extra 2 tenths to her start value on bars! On beam she replaced her 2 1/2 twist dismount with a double pike and removed her Yang Bo jump; she also now does a switch leap + back tuck + sheep jump combination instead of her front aerial + back tuck and front tuck + sheep jump combinations... for 1 tenth less than last year. Hopefully this will result in a more consistent routine! Finally, she re-arranged her dance elements and tumbling passes on floor and instead of doing a front handspring + double front, Samantha now does a running front layout 1/1. 

The 2007 USA National Championships in San Jose, California, officially begin on Wednesday with the junior and senior men's competitions. Thursday at 1PM marks the beginning of the junior women's preliminary competition and Saturday at 1PM is the start of finals. Just like last year, the top 12 gymnasts who score above a 54.00 qualify to the USAG National Team and there are also four open spots to be decided by the USAG National Training Camp staff. GOOD LUCK to Samantha and her teammate Mattie Larson!!

Visit the 2007 Championships home page or Inside Gymnastics for the latest news, quick hits, results, and photos. This website will not be updated until after the competition is over.

August 1, 2007: Samantha competed in the 2007 US Classic this weekend and won the silver in the all-around competition easily getting the qualifying score to proceed to the 2007 Visa Championships! Samantha competed a very clean yurchenko full on vault for a 14.05 and 7th place. She also hit an amazing bar routine good enough for the gold medal! Samantha unfortunately had to count a fall on beam scoring a14.50 and over rotated her double pike on floor for a 13.20. Samantha will be traveling to San Jose in two weeks to attend her second National Championships competition as will be vying for a spot on the junior national team.

Videos and full results from the US Classic have been added to the site.

July 24, 2007: Samantha will be competing in the US Classic this Saturday, July 28th! Samantha will need to score at least a 54 in the all-around competition to qualify to the USA National Championships which will be held next month in San Jose, CA. For more information on the US Classic please visit the Branch Gymnastics Website. GOOD LUCK SAMI!

July 6, 2007: We are so sorry that the site has been down for so long, we have switched to a new server and hopefully we will no longer have these problems! We would like to send out another huge congratulations to Samantha's sister, Nicole, who won the level 7 State Championshps title back in March.

Samantha was also featured in Inside Gymnastics Magazine's 50 Most Photogenic Issue which can be seen here. Many new photos have also been added from 2006 US Nationals.

January 18, 2007: We hope everyone had a great holiday season! It's hard to believe it is already 2007 and time for another exciting season of gymnastics! Over the last few weeks, Samantha was featured in an article on International Gymnast's website about how gymnasts around the world spend their holidays: Shapiro Enjoys Snowy Holiday Weekend. She was also pictured in their 2006 Year in Review photo gallery doing her signature planche on beam!

Sam is one of many talented gymnasts headlining the roster for the upcoming WOGA Classic in February, which includes recent World Beam Champion Irina Krasnyanska, Alina Kozich, Mayu Kuroda, Karina Myasnikova, past US Nationals competitors Sarah DeMeo, Ivana Hong, Rachel Updike, Kayla Hoffman, Alaina Johnson, Randi Lau, Christa Tanella, and Katelyn Mohr - along with many others! If you live in the Dallas area, you should definitely consider attending this meet. For more information, visit WOGA.net. 

November 10, 2006: More new photos from Nationals have been added. We would also like to send a huge congratulations to Samantha's sister, Nicole, who recently won the level 6 State Championship Title! Samantha will be attending the upcoming National Team Training Camp, which starts on Wednesday.

October 10, 2006: Many new photos from both prelims and finals of Nationals have been added. Samantha was also recently featured in the "Shooting Stars" section of International Gymnast, the scan of that article can be seen here

September 1, 2006: Three videos are up from the first day of Nationals - vault, bars, and beam! Be sure to download them by following the links on the multimedia page.

August 28, 2006: A photo gallery has been added from Nationals! If you have any photos to submit to this website, please do not hesitate to send an email to got-chalk@hotmail.com! Thanks!

August 24, 2006: Sorry for the delay! We were experiencing some technical difficulties and were unable to update any sooner! 

Samantha had a great first Nationals in St. Paul! She finished 13th in the all-around, with a combined total of 113.350. She was just edged out of qualifying for the National Team automatically, just .050 out of 12th place. But after the meet ended, Sam was selected as one of the additional three gymnasts to be added to the National Team. These athletes were personally selected by Marta Karolyi!

She finished 10th on bars (28.900), 12th on vault (29.000), 17th on beam (27.750), and 23rd on floor (27.700) with both scores from both days combined. She was in an impressive 11th place after prelims (56.850) despite two falls on floor, and was 10th on bars (14.700). She also had one of the highest B scores throughout the meet on her vault (9.500) - twice! During finals she scored very close to her marks from prelims (56.500), despite two falls on beam.

For full results visit the official USAG Event page. Pictures and videos will be added shortly! Congratulations on a great meet Samantha! We are so proud of you!

August 12, 2006: This website has been released! Please look around and sign the guestbook.

After coming off her stellar 4th-place finish at the U.S. Classic, Samantha will be competing in her very first National Championships later this week in St. Paul, Minnesota! She will begin Thursday's preliminary competition on bars (9th up) and Saturday's finals on beam (1st up)! Also in her rotation will be Samantha Peszek (DeVeau's), Mattie Larson (All Olympia), Rachel York (Krafft), Madison Turchin (Brandy Johnson), Petra Matthies (Brestyan's), Randi Lau (HITS), Amy Borsellino (North Stars), and Shelby Salmon (DeVeau's). In order to make her first USA National Team, she must finish in the top 12. National Team members are eligible for international assignments throughout the next year!

For quick hits, results, and photos of the meet, be sure to visit USA Gymnastics, International Gymnast, or Inside Gymnastics! There will be no updates to the website until after the competition is over. Good luck Samantha!!