!!! Our Gymnasts !!!

Alex Turton

Name            Alex Turton

Age  11      

How often do you train?  3 days, 10.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Floor because it is good fir tumbles and m good at it.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Playing on my PSP and computer and going out with my friends.

What is you favourite colour?  Purple

What is your favourite food?  Curry

What are your future ambitions? To represent the eastern region in a competition. 

Bethany Bridge

Name            Bethany Bridge

Age  12      

How often do you train?  2 days, 4.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Bars because it’s fun. There is a lot to learn and it is interesting.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Rollerskating, Trampolining and dog agility training.

What is you favourite colour?  Pink and blue

What is your favourite food?  Pasta

What are your future ambitions? To become a vet

Bradley Martin

Name            Bradley Martin

Age  8        

How often do you train?  3 days, 10 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Pommel because it’s fun.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Football

What is you favourite colour?  Red

What is your favourite food?  Pancakes

What are your future ambitions? To be a top gymnast

Callum Barber

Name            Callum Barber

Age  7        

How often do you train?  3 days, 10 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Strap bar because I love to do giants!

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Hockey – weakly, football occasionally and multi sports occasionally.

What is you favourite colour?  Green

What is your favourite food?  Steak

What are your future ambitions? To win an Olympic gold medal!

Careys Healy

Name            Carys Healy

Age  8

How often do you train?  4 days, 13.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Vault because I enjoy it.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
I play on my DS and reading.

What is you favourite colour?  Purple

What is your favourite food?  Tuna pasta

What are your future ambitions? To be a top gymnast.

Charlotte Volf

Name            Charlotte Volf

Age  12      

How often do you train?  5 days, 18 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
My favourite piece of apparatus is beam because it is the most challenging piece.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
My other hobby is Tennis but I only play it a bit because I have very little spare time.

What is you favourite colour?  Blue

What is your favourite food?  Roast dinner

What are your future ambitions? My ambition is to get to the British Championships

Dominic Emm

Name            Dominic Emm

Age  8

How often do you train?  3 days, 10 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Vault and rings. I’ve improved a lot on the vault and it is fun. For the rings you have to be strong.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Stagecoach and violin

What is you favourite colour?  Blue and red

What is your favourite food?  Custard and chocolate

What are your future ambitions? To get a gold medal in the Olympic games and to become a gymnastics coach.

Eleanor Clifford

Name            Eleanor Clifford

Age  11      

How often do you train?  5 days, 16 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Floor because tumbling is really exhilarating and you get to show off a lot!

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
I love card games and board games especially Cluedo and Monopoly.

What is you favourite colour?  Pale blue

What is your favourite food?  Raspberry Sorbet

What are your future ambitions? To perform at the Olympics!

Ellie Watson

Name            Ellie Watson

Age  10

How often do you train?  5 days, 17.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Vault because I love the thrill of running down the runway.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Reading, riding my bike and chatting.

What is you favourite colour?  Electric blue

What is your favourite food?  Egg fried rice

What are your future ambitions? To qualify for the Olympics

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Emma Burley

Name            Emma Burley

Age  11      

How often do you train?  2 days, 4.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Floor because I like bouncing around and going upside down.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Football

What is you favourite colour?  Blue

What is your favourite food?  Maltesers

What are your future ambitions? To be a good gymnast and become a gym coach.

Finnley Claridge-Lawrence

Name            Finnley Claridge - Lawrence

Age  13      

How often do you train?  3-5 days, 10.5-16.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Floor, because it’s exciting and it combines dance with gymnastics.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
I do dance and athletics in my spare time when I’m not training

What is you favourite colour?  Pink and yellow

What is your favourite food?  Spaghetti bolognaise

What are your future ambitions? To open my own gym club and learn how to be a professional coach and judge.

Harriet Clifford

Name            Harriet Clifford

Age  6        

How often do you train?  2 days, 6 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Vault because I love to run and jump!

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
I like trampolining

What is you favourite colour?  Pink  

What is your favourite food?  Chicken stir fry

What are your future ambitions? I want to be a doctor

Harry Leggett

Name            Harry Leggett

Age  8

How often do you train?  2 days, 7 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Floor because I love to do front flips!

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Football, playing on my playstation 2, Wii and PSP also learning my spellings and reading.

What is you favourite colour?  Green

What is your favourite food?  I love raw cabbage heart and broccoli stalks, oranges and grapes

What are your future ambitions? To become a vet and to be a top gymnast

Imogen Mohammed

Name            Imogen Mohammed

Age  9

How often do you train?  4 days, 13.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Bars because you use your strength on the harder moves and I like doing harder moves.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
At school  do choir once a week and I like reading and writing stories.

What is you favourite colour?  Purple

What is your favourite food?  Sausages

What are your future ambitions? To be a gymnastics coach.

Isabelle Dick

Name           Isabelle Dick

Age  8        

How often do you train?  2 days, 4 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
I like floor best because I’m good at I and I like the moves.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
I like ballet, jazz, tap and swimming because I enjoy doing sports.

What is you favourite colour?  Turquoise

What is your favourite food?  Toffee

What are your future ambitions? When I grow up I would like to be a gym coach or an interior designer.

Jack Oakes

Name            Jack Oakes

Age  7        

How often do you train?  2 days, 6.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Pit rings because they are harder to pull myself up n than the other ones over the floor and I like to do harder things.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Cricket

What is you favourite colour?  Blue

What is your favourite food?  Eggs

What are your future ambitions? To play cricket for England!

Jade Burley

Name            Jade Burley

Age  13      

How often do you train?  2 days, 4.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Bars

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Football

What is you favourite colour?  Orange

What is your favourite food?  Pizza and chips

What are your future ambitions? To be a millionaire

Jessica Darkins

Jessica Hill

Name     Jessica Hill       

Age        16

How often do you train?  4 days - 15.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 

Floor and beam because I love tumbling and doing my routine and I like learning new moves on both pieces

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 

I don't have time but I do dance and full course PE at school

What is you favourite colour?  Blue

What is your favourite food?  Lasagna

What are your future ambitions?

To do as well as I can possibly do in gymnastics and all of my schools exams and to eventually become a highly qualified coach

Joshua Sage

Name            Josh Sage

Age  8        

How often do you train?  2-3 days, 6-8 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
My favourite is vault because it is fun to jump over it with some skill. I am improving and enjoying it more and more each time.  

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Swimming, football (I am in the school team), bike riding, playing computer games on my playstation and bowling. Most of all my favourite is skiing and any other sports really!

What is you favourite colour?  Blue

What is your favourite food?  Pasta and chicken casserole

What are your future ambitions? To do well in gymnastics and see another clubs competitions and to travel

Katie Pugh

Name            Katie Pugh

Age  9        

How often do you train?  2 days, 4 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Floor because I am always learning new things.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Drawing and music

What is you favourite colour?  Turquoise

What is your favourite food?  Lasagne

What are your future ambitions? To be an artist and a geologist

Kate Males

Name            Kate Males

Age  9        

How often do you train?  2 days, 7 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Floor because it’s the most lively and I like being energetic.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Football, netball, karate and music.

What is you favourite colour?  Blue

What is your favourite food?  Pasta, chicken and cream

What are your future ambitions? To become an artist or a writer

Leah Mansfield

Name            Leah Mansfield

Age  6

How often do you train?  3 days, 9 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Floor because you get to do round-offs and cartwheels.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Colouring, writing, painting and drawing.

What is you favourite colour?  Pink

What is your favourite food?  Spaghetti bolognaise

What are your future ambitions? To be an author.

Lucy Tate

Name            Lucy Tate

Age  8

How often do you train?  2 days, 7 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Bars because I can do lots of fun things on it.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Swimming

What is you favourite colour?  Pink

What is your favourite food?  Pasta

What are your future ambitions? To be a gym coach.

Maisie Corton

Name   Maisie Corton         

Age        8

How often do you train?  5 days - 17.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 

Beam - because it's my best piece

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 

Swimming, reading, watching the TV

What is you favourite colour?  Purple

What is your favourite food?  Lasagne

What are your future ambitions?

To be a gymnast, when I grow out of gym I want to be a children's doctor

Marcus Fenton

Name            Marcus Fenton

Age  9

How often do you train?  2 days, 6.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
My favourite apparatus is P.Bars because I enjoy the moves.  

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
I do Kuk sool won, it is a type of martial art!

What is you favourite colour?  Blue

What is your favourite food?  Roast dinner

What are your future ambitions? To be a better gymnast and win more medals and I would like to be a gym coach. Also I want to be a black belt in karate!

Megan Beattie

Name      Megan Beattie      

Age        10

How often do you train?  5 days, 17.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 

Floor becuase there are loads of things to work for and its fun

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 

Reading, dancing and singing

What is you favourite colour? 

Pink

What is your favourite food? 

Pasta

What are your future ambitions?

To be a gymnastics coach

Megan Frogly

Age 13

How often do you train ..........3 days 6.5 hours per week

Whats your favourite piece of apparatus and why?

Floor and vault, I can’t choose. I love these because of all the speed and power that’s involved with vault and tumbles, so you have to be crazy to do it. And I am! You also have to show off a lot, which I like.

Hobbies

Mostly basketball, but at school I also do football, rounders, athletics and I am on the team for all of the above. I play for a basketball team outside of school called the North East Jammers, coached by Mark Lloyd.

Favourite colour .... Red

Favourite food ..... Pizza or ice creams or noodles or salad, not much really

What are your future ambitions

I want to get 10 A* - B GSCE's then go to the 6th form college to study PE and Graphics. I then want to go to university to become a PE teacher or another profession related to PE. Or I would love to be a national league basketball player.

Megan Shardin

Name            Megan .S.

Age  11      

How often do you train?  2-3 days, 5.5-8.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Floor! I really enjoy doing routines to music.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Swimming, neopets, drawing, calming down with music.

What is you favourite colour?  Pink (not Barbie pink)

What is your favourite food?  Rare steak and chips

What are your future ambitions? To go to university and get a well paid job

Natasha Males

Name            Natasha Males

Age  7

How often do you train?  3 days, 10 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
I like beam because when I did my other competition I got the most points.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Swimming, netball, drawing and writing, reading, doing other peoples hair and mine.

What is you favourite colour?  Pink, purple, blue and red

What is your favourite food?  Ham and tuna

What are your future ambitions? To be an actress.

Oliver Hulstrom

Name            Oliver Hulstrom

Age  8

How often do you train?  3 days, 10.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Pommel because it’s fun to go round and round and I’m the best at it.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
I like going on the computer and playing football

What is you favourite colour?  Red

What is your favourite food?  Pasta

What are your future ambitions? To be a goalkeeper for England, or to go into the Olympics and become famous.

Rachel Burley

Name            Rachel Burley

Age  7        

How often do you train?  2 days, 7 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Bars because it gives me strength.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
I like listening o music and making up dance routines.

What is you favourite colour?  Red

What is your favourite food?  Sausages

What are your future ambitions? I want to be a vet

Rebecca Day

Name  Rebecca Day

Age  12      

How often do you train?  2 days, 4.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Floor because I love dancing in floor routines and I also love tumbling

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
I do netball at school and I go to a dance club.

What is you favourite colour?  Pink

What is your favourite food?  Strawberries

What are your future ambitions? To do well at school, go to university and get a job

Rosie Simpson

Name            Rosie Simpson

Age  8

How often do you train?  3 days, 9 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
My favourite apparatus is floor because it is fun.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Swimming, recorders and watching Ipswich Town play football.

What is you favourite colour?  Pink and blue

What is your favourite food?  Pancakes

What are your future ambitions? My ambition is to do my best at everything.

Sophie Clinch

Name            Sophie Clinch

Age  6

How often do you train?  2 days, 6 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Bars because I love swinging on the strap bar and doing leg lifts.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Dancing (ballet, modern and disco), swimming, rainbows, arts and crafts and riding my bike.

What is you favourite colour?  Blue

What is your favourite food?  Roast dinner

What are your future ambitions? To be a really good gymnast and to become a vet.

Sophie Simpson

Name            Sophie Simpson

Age  6

How often do you train?  3 days, 9 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
I like the bar best because it is fun.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Swimming and dancing.

What is you favourite colour?  Purple

What is your favourite food?  Roast dinner

What are your future ambitions? Try my best at all times.

Tara Smith

Name            Tara Smith

Age  11      

How often do you train?  2 days, 4.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Floor because you get to do dance and floor moves to music.

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
I have loads of hobbies, mainly football, netball, basketball, dodge ball, athletics and trampolining.

What is you favourite colour?  Baby blue

What is your favourite food?  Pancakes

What are your future ambitions? Teaching gymnastics to children with disabilities or working as a policewomen / investigator.  

Toby Sayer

Name            Toby Sayer

Age  12      

How often do you train?  3 days, 10.5 hours per week

What is your favourite piece of apparatus and why? 
Floor because you can’t fall off it!

What hobbies do you have other than gymnastics? 
Football

What is you favourite colour?  Blue

What is your favourite food?  Pizza and pasta

What are your future ambitions? To sky dive as soon as I’m old enough.