The Club was established in September 1996 by Head Coach,
Mark Simpson, with assistance from his wife Erin and Veronique Lamb,
and has grown from strength to strength with approximately 130 members.
The Club has both a Competitive Class and a Recreational Class.
The Club trains at Tudor Grange School in Solihull
and also holds sessions at the Munrow Centre, Birmingham University
and Lilleshall National Sports Centre.
The Club enters gymnasts in both Regional Grades
and Levels competitions and participates in the annual Metropolitan
County Competition. Over the last couple of years the Club has had
success at both County and Regional competitions and was the holder
of the Level 4 Individual Apparatus Trophy and the Level 4 Regional
Team Apparatus Trophy in both 2003 and 2004.
In January 2004 the Club was successful in gaining
places in the Metropolitan County Squad with Hannah Askill, Gabbie
Cook and Rebecca Cook. In January 2005 they were joined by Caroline
Curry, Jessica Wevill and Hannah Bond. Hannah Askill relinquished
her County Squad place by retiring from competitive gymnastics and
is now a qualified coach. The Club continued its success in January
2006 with 5 of the previous gymnasts retaining their places and
Georgina Owen-Smith, Jesscia Bayliss, Samantha Deakin, Alanah Coley
and Georgina Mynott joining them.
In July 2005, one of our younger gymnasts, Alanah
Coley, became the Metropolitan County Level 5 Champion and in October
2005 Caroline Curry gained the Regional Level 3 Champion title in
the 11/12 year old category. In 2006 Caroline took the Regional
Level 2 Champion title in her age category.
In April 2006 the Club saw three of its gymnasts
representing the West Midlands in the National Grades Finals for
the first time. Following their success in the Regional Grades competitions
held in March, Rebecca Cook was a member of the Grade 3 team, Caroline
Curry the Grade 2 team and Gabby Cook acted as reserve for the Grade
1 team. Later in the year Hannah Bond was part of the Level 4 West
Midlands Team at the National Finals held in Guildford in November.
The Club is affiliated to the West Midlands Amateur
Gymnastics Association and all our gymnasts and coaches are members
of British Gymnastics. The Club's British Gymnastics Registration
Number is 41236.
The Club gained the British Gymnastics GymMark
accreditation in November 2005. This certifies that Rebound Gymnastics
Club has been approved by British Gymnastics as a "safe, effective
and child friendly" club.
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