Club News March & April 2009

Tarrif competition Robin Park, Wigan - Sunday 19th April 2009

Yet another early start saw some of our girls off to Robin Park in Wigan to participate in a tumbling competition starting at 8:30am. Yes I said Sunday and 8:30am in the same sentence. After a few false starts at finding the place, all the girls were in a good mood and treating it like a girlie day out. Some were nervous as it was their first competition not being held in the club, but they all took it in their stride. The programme had 215 children participating in the tumbling competition as well as a sports acro competition going on at the same time. First on were the older girls in the 8-10 age group (we were a little confused by the age groups as some of our girls were only 7 and in that age group). Anyway they all tried their best and looked good. Unfortunately we didn't get any medal placements in this group but the comp was for their experience and they enjoyed it. Anna and Elin were in a separate group from the others and competed against each other. Anna coming in first with good scores and Elin following closely behind.

After a long morning the younger gymnasts were on. They looked tiny in their group of 5-7 year olds, even though some of them are 7. The first run went really well with all of them getting really high scores. They tried as hard as possible and were rewarded with Hollie coming 2nd and Amy and Rachel coming joint 3rd.

Well done to everyone!!!! Please can we have everyone's pictures for the website - thanx

Wirral & Richmond Interclub Tumbling Competition

SUNDAY 8th March 2009

The weekend started off with a training session on Saturday morning for all the gymnasts followed by a buffet lunch. Parents then joined us and the activities started with a ferry trip across to Liverpool with free time to explore the city. Bowling in New Brighton was next then a quick dash over to the Glegg Arms where Richmond were staying, finishing the evening with a meal. The day gave everyone a chance to get to know each other and socialise.

Sunday was competition day. The competition was for those competing at National NDP, Elite NDP and British level with ages ranging from 8 to 17. Gymnasts from both Wirral and Richmond won medals with a team trophy going to Richmond.

The competition finished early afternoon and everyone was glad to go home for a rest! Many thanks to Richmond for coming up and taking part – we all really enjoyed it.

NW GRADES & COMPULSORIES, BIRCHWOOD, WARRINGTON

SUNDAY 8th March 2009

Sunday saw the last 4 piece competition for Freya, Christa and Jess.

They all qualified for the North West regional grades competition and it was another long day as they started at 10:50 and the presentation ended at 7! Unfortunately the girls did not get individual placements but we were extremely excited that Freya and Christa landed their beam routines, and all their other pieces. Poor Jess suffering from the flu was not her usual self and narrowly missed out on a fantastic beam score by not landing her spin but landing all her hard moves! Typical. She did well considering she was against girls a lot older than her. All the girls performed well but the Greater Manchester team were far too strong for us. Freya and Jess were representing the Cheshire and Merseyside teams in Grade 13 in age and Grade 12 respectively. The C&M Grade 13 In Age team were placed 3rd and Grade 12 team placed 2nd. The C&M overall position was 3rd.

Freya and Christa who seem to be given jobs by the competition organisers at every competition had the priviledge of presenting flowers to the team coaches of Lancashire, Cheshire and Merseyside and Greater Manchester.

Freya and Jess will now move onto 2 piece and tumbling and Christa will be doing 2 piece and sports acro.