2017 Archive

Excellent weekend at Lilleshall National Sports Centre for Mercedes and Josie as they attended their 2nd National Talent Development Squad. Both girls worked very hard over the 2 days as well as making lots of new friends with gymnasts from all over the country! Looking forward to their next one already![..]

On Sunday 16th July we hosted the Summer Classic 2017 which is an annual competition held between South Durham Gymnastics and Redcar Gymnastics Club. The competition saw all of our general, intermediate and advanced squad girls compete a set routine on the floor and also two vaults each. All girls competed fantastically and we came away with 16 overall champions! Special well done to our winners:
-Level 8, 7years: Adalyn Byers-Level 8, 8years: Emily Crawford-Level 7, 8years: Ava Smith-Level 7[..]

Sunday 25th June saw the return of the Pink Events Team Championships competition held right here at South Durham Gymnastics Club. The competition had gymnasts from South Durham, Gymtopia, Northern Hope, Tyneside and Wansbeck compete in teams across different levels from 1 to 7, with 5 girls from each team showing a floor routine and a vault and the highest 4 scores counting towards the team total.

South Durham took home 5 team trophies in levels 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7 as well as the OVERALL P[..]

Huge well done to budding coach Jade Armstrong! Our former GB international gymnast has just passed her level 2 Women's Artistic coaching exam!

Jade has been a #pinklady since she was 2 years old and after a very successful gymnastics career she is now passing on her wealth of knowledge and experience to the next generation of stars![..]

Massive congratulations to Emily Gargan who has been selected to represent Great Britain in the European Junior Championships in the triple jump event!

Emily spent many years training with our elite squad and on retirement from gymnastics thrust herself straight into athletics to pursue her dream of competing for GB!

Everyone at #teampink is super proud of you Emily![..]

A jam packed weekend of competition for our Intermediate and General Squad gymnasts as they competed in the Pink Events 2 Piece Championships.
The competition started off on Saturday at Wansbeck Gymnastics Club where we had 12 girls entered in rounds 1 and 2. The girls all had to perform individual routines with compulsory skills included as well as 2 vaults each. For a lot of the girls this was their first ever competition and they all performed brilliantly showing lots of confidence which s[..]

For lots of children last week many of them have said their final goodbyes to Fiona as she leaves the pink gym to continue on her journey with Darlington Gymnastics club. For all of us here at team pink goodbyes are just not possible and it was more of a 'see you soon' kind of day...her role over the past 16 years has influenced both gymnasts and coaches supporting them in all ways possible and over the past year even though her hours have reduced her support to push our younger coaches has only[..]

South Durham Gymnastics were very proud to have Ellie, Charlotte and Harriet qualify for the British NDP championships this month where the 3 girls travelled down to Stoke for the weekend to compete against gymnasts from all over the country on range, vault, bars, beam and floor.
Ellie competed on the Saturday and did an amazing job in NDP 3, with just one small error on bars but otherwise showing beautiful and mature routines! Onwards and upwards now with the big skills to work on back in th[..]

Team pink would like to say a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Georgia who has recently completed her pre-school course and has passed her exam meaning she is now a qualified pre-school coach! We are looking forward to seeing what else she and our other young coaches are getting up to in the coming months with lots of them currently going through coaching courses![..]

Super proud of all our beautiful Pink Ladies who competed in the North of England Regional Grades at the beginning of May!! You were all fantastic and performed some stunning routines.

The competition was held at City of Newcastle Gymnastics Academy where our gymnasts competed alongside a number of other clubs from around the region performing set routines on range, vault, bars, beam and floor. All of our girls showed off beautiful performances and did South Durham Gymnastics proud! Spec[..]