Colchester Gym Club

100% pass rate for Colchester Gymnasts

 

Colchester School of gymnastics has had an excellent start to their competitive year.

Jessica Hill competed in the first competition of the year, which was the British Schools qualifier competition. Jess had an excellent competition finishing in 4th position and gaining a place in the East region team, which will be travelling to Newcastle for the National Final in March.

The weekend of the 23 and 24 Feb 08 saw 7 girls from Colchester competing at the regional club grades 4 and 3 in Ipswich.

On Sat 23rd Feb it was the turn of Ellie Watson, Anabel Dando and Temar Hadtezeht, in club grade 4 . The girls all competed extremely well and passed with flying colours, including an excellent score of 46.30 from Ellie Watson, which earned her a distinction.

The next day Charlotte Volf, Sophie Groves, Molly Palmer and Finnley Claridge Lawrence all competed in the club grade 3 finals. Once again all the girls competed to the best of their abilities and all passed an extremely difficult grade with Charlotte Volf and Molly Palmer gaining a distinction. Charlotte Volf’s score of 46.90 gained her 3rd position and a place in the East region team, which will go forward to the National Final in Birmingham in April. The second gymnast in the club through to a National Final!!!!!!

The following weekend was the County Club grade 6 and 5 competition.

The first competition of the day was club grade 5 and competing for Colchester in the 9/11 age group were Imogen Mohammed, Megan Beattie and Carys Healey. The girls all competed well and all passed the grade, with Imogen and Megan scores gaining them distinctions.
Imogen Mohammed did extremely well and gained a bronze medal overall with Megan Beattie not far behind in 4th place. The girls also qualified for the regional final in April.

In the older age group of 12+ Colchester had a further 4 gymnasts competing, Emma Burley, Tara Smith, Bethany Bridge and Megan Frogley. It was the first time all the girls had competed at Club grade level. All the girls had an excellent competition with all of them passing their grade and Emma Burley doing superbly to take the bronze medal overall!!

In the afternoon it was the turn of the club grade 6 gymnasts.  In the youngest age group Colchester had 3 gymnasts competing. Natasha Males competed well on all pieces and scored an excellent 60.20 which gained her a pass with distinction, second place overall and a place in the regional final in April. Rachel Burley and Isobel Stanton were also competing in this grade, again they competed well and both passed their grades.

Colchester had 6 further gymnasts competing in the 9-10 age group, Kimberley Rayment, Katie Pugh, Lucy Tate, Katie Males and Lana Mo, and in the 11+ age group, Megan Shahdin. All the girls did well and passed their grade. Kimberley Rayment and Megan Shahdin did exceptionally well in their competition by achieving passes with distinction and places in the regional final. Megan Shahdin also came third overall winning the bronze medal.

On Sunday 2nd March Maisie Corton represented Colchester School of Gymnastics in the Compulsory Level 4 grade. This is also a qualifier for the National final in May.
In this grade the gymnasts compete over 5 pieces instead of the usual 4. The fifth piece is a range and conditioning exercise, which the gymnasts have to gain a minimum score 0f 9.50 to pass the grade and to obtain entry to the National final. Maisie scored 10.80 on this piece, which together with her other scores totalled 56.05   
this gained her 3rd place and a place in the East region team who will be competing in the National Finals in Birmingham. Colchester’s 3rd gymnast in a national final!!

The School would like to say well done to all the gymnasts that competed over the last few weekends and also a big thank you to all the coaches for helping the gymnasts to achieve these results.       
    
           

 

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General Gymnastics Eastern Region competition

for levels 1 and 2

8th and 9th March

 

Joshua Mitchell raked in the medals for his performances in the level 1 ,11/12 age group. On bars he scored 10.90 winning him the gold and an outstanding bench routine scored him 11.90 for a second gold medal. The silver medal was his for vault, in which he scored 9.80 and he just missed out on a bronze by .15 on his floor routine with a score of 10.00.

Charlotte Brinkley in the level 1, 10 years age group, won silver for her vault scoring 9.80 and with a great score of 11.05 took the bronze for her elegant floor routine. With a score of 11.00 she came in 6th position for bars.

Lauren Edwards was Colchester’s entrant for the 11/12 age group for level 1. She gained a gold medal for her vault scoring 9.95 and with a score of 11.00 took the silver medal for her superb floor performance. Her score of 11.00 gained her 4th position on beam.

Beth Molly entered the 13/14 age group in level 1, in which 15 gymnasts took part.  Molly was only .05 away from bronze with her vault score of 9.80. A beautiful floor routine gained her fourth position in which she scored 10.80 and her beam performance gained her 6th position.

Savannna Edwards and Ellie Humphries entered the 11/12 age group for level 2. Savanna scored 10.25 placing her in 5th position for her vault, 12.05 got her 8th position on floor and the score of 10.55 on the beam got her the bronze. Ellie came 6th with her score of 10.20 on vault and 10th position for beam and floor.

In the age 13/14 level 2 Competition, Georgina Humphries stole the gold for her outstanding performances on vault scoring 10.4 and a beam score of 11.75. Bronze was her medal for bars for the 10.60 score and she obtained 4th position for her floor routine.
Verity Michi received a bronze for her great performance on the beam, which scored 10.70, she gained fourth position for vault with 10.05 and 5th for her floor with a great score of 12.65. Ceri Butcher took the bronze for a lovely floor routine and scored 13.00 and her beam routine score of 10.60 placed her in fourth position. Danielle Bull deserved her bronze for her great vault score of 10.10. She also came in 5th position for her beam routine and 6th for her floor routine. Katie Hayward shared the bronze on the vault for a good score of 10.10. Her pretty floor routine gave her 7th position and she came 9th on her beam.

Colchester’s entrants for the 15/16 age group level 2, were Lauren O’Neill and Rebecca Bailey who collected an abundance of medals between them. Rebecca received gold medals for: vault scoring 11.00, beam 10.85 and for her outstanding floor performance she scored 13.75. Along with this she also gained the bonze medal for bars scoring 11.00. Lauren took three silvers. One for her fabulous bar routine in which she scored 11.10, her beam scoring 10.70 and another superb Colchester floor performance scored her 13.35. In vault she gained fourth position.

In the Level 2 11/12 age group Thomas Littlewood and Carl Brice took all the golds and silver medals between them.  Carl came home with four gold medals for his performances on vault
In which he scored 10.50, beam was also 10.50, an outstanding bench performance got him the score of 11.55 and his floor score was 11.45.  Thomas swept superbly over vault to score 10.30, and received a great score in bars of 10.20. His bench score was 10.05 and his floor 10.65.

Colchester School of gymnastics are very proud of all their gymnasts and coaches. We would like to thank them for all their dedicated hard work over the past few months

 

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Colchester potential to be a pre-games training camp

Date Published: 3 March 2008

LOCOG (London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) has confirmed today [Monday 3 March] that Colchester’s application to be included in their directory of potential training camp venues has been successful.

This is excellent news for the Borough and ensures that Colchester will be promoted to all Olympic and Paralympic Committees throughout the world as a suitable place to train ahead of the Games in 2012. As an endorsed location, it also means that competing nations will be able to apply for a grant from LOCOG to train in Colchester.

Colchester’s application to be included as a potential training camp was put together by the Colchester Partnership for London 2012, which includes key partners in the Borough such as Colchester Borough Council, the University of Essex and the Army. The key strengths of the application were the co-ordinated approach taken by these partners; the specialist sports facilities within the Borough such as the Garrison track and the School of Gymnastics; the accommodation and sports science support provided at the University; and the good location of the town, close to both the Olympic village in Stratford as well as major entry points into the UK including Stansted airport. 

Councillor Kevin Bentley, Colchester Borough Council’s Olympic Champion said: “This is a fantastic achievement for Colchester, which demonstrates the breadth and quality of our local facilities. Securing a training camp will be great for the town in many ways, with the potential to boost both tourism and business as well as helping to inspire our own young people through the provision of such strong role models. Our application to host a training camp is just one of the many ways in which the Colchester Partnership is looking to secure a lasting legacy from London 2012 for Colchester.”

 

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M E D I A   R E L E A S E
New Website Gets Kids Active!

 


LOCAL children look set to benefit from a new website launched this week by The Colchester School of Gymnastics based in Highwoods.

The site, www.colchestergymnastics.com has already welcomed hundreds of enquiries as parents look for activities over the Easter holiday period.

Commenting on the site, Karen Beattie, Chair & Trustee of the School of Gymnastics, said:

“This site contains all a parent needs to know tohelp get their kids more active, which is increasingly important for their health nowadays”.


Many people will have driven past the School and this is just one way we are encouraging them to find out more.”

The School, which was built in 1991, prides itself on being able to see and then develop the potential a child has and holds a variety of classes and holiday clubs to meet each child’s particular needs from baby through to competition standard. 

The School is a purpose built, fully equipped, gymnastic centre  which includes several beams, bars, vault, rings, floor level trampoline and a fully sprung floor.  It holds several competitions and welcomes almost 50,000 people through its doors each year.

Many of the School’s coaches have been involved in the sport for several years and have a wide range of gymnastic knowledge and qualifications ensuring that each child is coached at the appropriate level.

 
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Monday 4th February
Colchester & District Sports Award
Colchester Town Hall
 
Colchester School Of Gymnastics had a successful time at the
awards evening gaining 4 awards in total

*** U14 Female Sports Personality ***

Comendations: Eleanor Clifford


*** U18 Female Sports Personality ***

Commendations: Jessica Hill


*** Wilkinson Sword Trophy: Club developement of Children etc ***  

Commendations: Colchester School of Gymnastics


*** Eric Chapman Service to Sport Award ***

Commendation:  Phil Morris