News & Forthcoming Events:

• Our new leotards and tracksuits have arrived and are loved by everyone!
• Thanks to the fund raising efforts of parents, gymnasts and coaches, we have now placed an order with Gymnova for a new beam, new beam widening system for dismounts, new matting, but best of all ... an AIR TRACK! We should take delivery of the new equipment within the next 6 - 8 weeks.
• See latest 'Gymnast of the Month' and New Member pictures below
• Order form for new Recreational Leotard see Club Uniform
• January Achievements - Well done to Bex for achieving her giants on the metal bar, to Hayley, Ashleigh and Olivia for their round-off flics, to Bess and India for their work on flic on the beam, to Molly and Skye for their confidence on bars. A special thank you to Georgina for her work with the girls on a Saturday morning - we are very proud of you!
• This term sees us say goodbye to Jessica Wevill who has moved on to another club and welcome to Molly and Ruby Thompson who are joining the Competition Class - see picture below.
• Well done to the Metropolitan County Senior and Junior Teams who both took silver at the John Reeves Inter-County Competition on Sunday 13 December. Hannah Bond was in the Senior Team and Bess (Jessica) Bateman was in the Junior Team. Both girls performed extremely well and it was a good end to the competition season. Well done Hannah for doing your Tsuk, full twist on floor and shoot to catch on bars. Judges and gymnasts also received a commerative award to mark the 20th anniversary of the John Reeves competition. See picture below.
• CONGRATULATIONS to Rebecca Blay, India-Rose Cox and Emily Hawkins for gaining places in the Metropolitan County Squad for 2010!
• Christmas closures - The recreational classes finish for the Christmas break on Saturday 12 December - remember fees must be paid by 12 December to secure a place for next term. The new term starts on Saturday 9 January. The competition class finishes on Sunday 20 December and the new term begins on Wednesday 6 January.
• We bid a sad farewell to Amelia Nicholls who leaves us to concentrate on her dancing. We wish Amelia all the very best. Thank you Ross and Tracy for all your support to the club over the time Amelia has been with us - we will miss you all.
• See latest 'Gymnasts of the Month' photos below.
• Congratulations to our Level 2 Team (Freya, Bex, Jess B and Hannah) who got a bronze medal in the Team Apparatus competition on 15 November. Our Level 5 Team performed well on the day and narrowly missed out on the bronze medal by 0.5 (Niamh, Bess, Lucy and India-Rose). A special well done to India-Rose who did her back walkover on beam and a float upstart on bars in competition when she had only done them for the first time in training on the Friday night before the competition! WELL DONE girls! See Results for a full set of scores.
• November achievements - India-Rose for float upstart and back walkover on beam, Ashleigh and Emily for handspring on the vaulting table and cartwheels on the beam, Hayley for 3 straddle levers to handstand, Lucy P for her work on leaps and Olivia for forward walkover on the floor beam.
• Well done to our Level 5 gymnasts who competed on Saturday 24 October. Niamh Taylor came 5th in the 9/10 years category and in the In-Age category Jessica Bateman came 11th (3rd on bars), Lucy Fennell came 14th (with good scores on beam and floor) and India-Rose came 22nd (with good scores on vault and beam).
• October achievements - Hannah for her work on Tsuks, Jess Bayliss for her work on bars, Georgina for her work on changeleg immediate tuck back for beam, Niamh for achieving cartwheel tuck back beam dismount, India-Rose for her work on backward walkovers and Lucy F for working hard on all pieces!
• Well Done to all our gymnasts who competed over the weekend (3rd and 4th October). Georgina Mynott competed at FIG Seniors and came 4th overall (2nd on vault and floor). Four of the girls competed at Level 2 - Hannah Bond came 5th (1st on vault and 2nd on bars), Jessica Wevill came 7th (2nd on bars), Jessica Bayliss came 9th (1st on bars) and Freya Phillips came 8th (1st on vault). Rebecca Blay competed at Level 3 and came 6th (3rd on vault). A full set of Results is now available.
• Special congratulations to Hannah Bond for doing her Tsuk vault for the first time in competition!! Also to Jessica Wevill for doing her full twist on floor (despite not being able to train fully for the last 3 months due to injuries) and to Jessica Bayliss for doing a shoot to catch and getting her bar routine to flow.
• WELL DONE to our Level 2 and Level 5 teams who competed on Sunday 20 September. The Level 2 Team consisted of Freya, Hannah, Bex and Jess with Jessica W as reserve - they finished off in bronze medal position - see photo below. The Level 5 Team consisted of India-Rose, Bess, Niamh and Lucy and they came 4th.
• Term Dates are available under the Members section.
• The Metropolitan County Championships took place on Sunday 12 July. This year we were only able to enter 7 of our gymnasts, but came away with two County Champions!! Rebecca Blay came 1st in Level 3 (best score on all pieces) and Jessica Bateman (Bess) came 1st in Level 5 (best score on bars and only gymnast to score over 1300 on the day!). Kenzie Watkins, who is actually too young to compete in the Region this year, came 2nd in Level 5 (best score on beam). Well done to all the girls who competed - Freya Phillips came 4th in Level 2 (best score on floor), Morgan Watkins came 5th (best score on beam) and Lucy Paddock 6th in Level 4 and Lucy Fennell came 4th in Level 5. See photos below and for scores see the Results page.
• The Competition Class Annual Championships took place on Sunday 5 July resulting in five Club Champions : Georgina Mynott - Senior 13+ Champion, Hannah Bond - Senior Champion, Morgan Watkins - Intermediate Champion, Jessica Bateman (Bess) - Junior Champion and Kenzie Watkins - Infant Champion. A full set of scores is available on the Results page and photographs of the medal and awards winners can be found on the Photo Gallery.
• WELL DONE to Ella Cooper who came 31st out of 63 in the Elite Grade - Compulsory Level 4 - National Finals held on Saturday 2 May. Ella achieved 12.100 on vault, 10.950 on bars, 12.000 on beam, 11.000 on floor and 11.550 on Range & Conditioning (her best piece - coming 14th). This is a great achievement for the club and we are very proud of both Ella and her coach Krystie - see picture below. Congratulations also to the West Midlands Level 4 Team on coming 3rd - team members Caitlin Tsang, Bethany Lavelle, Eden Wathen-Edwards, Elise Tunstall and Maddie Kelly.
• GREAT NEWS Mark passed his National Judging exam!
• WELL DONE to all our gymnasts who competed during the weekend of 4 & 5 April. Special congratulations to Bess on coming 3rd in the Regional Grade 14. This was her first competition and a fantastic achievement as she only joined the Club last September. Lucy Fennell also did well despite a fall on the beam coming 27th. Well done to Lucy Paddock who came 4th in Grade 13 (narrowly missing a medal by 0.25) and to Morgan Watkins, Megan Hughes, Niamh Taylor, Amelia Nicholls and Annalise Pugh (Grade 12) - they all passed! Click here for a full set of Results
• FANTASTIC Results! At the GMAC Centre on 14 and 15 March at the West Midlands Grades Competitions our gymnasts did extremely well: Ella Cooper 6th at Compulsory 4 (Elite Grade); Jasmine Padda 7th in National Grade 8; Georgina Mynott 2nd in Regional Grade 9; Jessica Wevill 1st (Regional Champion), Freya Phillips 2nd, Rebecca Blay 3rd and Hannah Bond 4th in Regional Grade 10 and Alanah Coley 14th in Regional Grade 11. Well done girls. See photos below and click here for full Results
• See full list of Grades Champions including Jess's picture on the West Midlands Amateur Gymnasts Association website.

MARCH & ARPIL BIRTHDAY WISHES to - Francesca Phillips (12), Joy Kimberlee (12), Annalise Pugh (11), Isobel Riley (11), Angharad Watts (11), Grace Frances (11), Niamh Taylor (10), Kathryn Mackiewicz (9), Tiegan Pound (9), Verity Lord (8), Olivia Kunneke (8), Emily Hawkins (8), Isabelle Dance (7), Emily Armstrong (7), Ruby Carr (7), Rachel Evans (6), Sophie Rochelle-Smith (6), Kristelle De Leon (6), Olivia Key (5) and Isobel Bird (5)

WELCOME to new squad members

Georgia & Sophia

COMPETITION CLASS

Gymnasts of the Month

FEBRUARY - the award goes to Ashleigh for excellent attitude, effort and determination.

JANUARY - the Awards go to Niamh Taylor and India-Rose Cox for working hard during training sessions towards their competitions - well done girls.

WELL DONE to Freya, Bex, Jess, Hannah & Jessica

Individual Apparatus Championships 2009

Level 2 Team - Bronze medal winners

Metropolitan County Level 5 Champion 2009

Jessica Bateman (Bess)

Bess pictured with Kenzie who came 2nd and Lucy who came 4th

Metropolitan County Champion 2009 - Level 3

Rebecca Blay

Compulsory Level 4 - National Finals - 2nd May 2009

Ella Cooper pictured with her coach Krystie Newton after the Finals. She came 31st overall with her best piece being range & conditioning where she came 14th.

Well done Ella!

Regional Grades 2009

Beth Tweedle

A selection of our gymnasts got to meet one of their idols at the opening of the New GMAC Centre in Perry Barr.

Pictured with Beth are Georgina, Hannah, Megan, Jessica, Morgan, Amelia, Kenzie, Abigail, Alanah and Ella

At the REGIONAL AWARDS CEREMONY held on Sunday 14 October 2007 Melanie Warner, Mark Simpson, Veronique Lamb and Erin Simpson (pictured below) received their Long Service Coach Awards

BETH TWEDDLE - Gymnasts in the Young Development Squad had the opportunity to meet Beth Tweddle at Coventry Sports Centre on 19 June 2007. Hannah is pictured with Beth below.

HANNAH BOND came 2nd in the Regional Grade 4 competition which took place on Saturday 3 March 2007 and competed in the National Final held on Saturday 28 April 2007 Pictured with her coach, Erin, above at the National Finals.