South Durham Gymnastics Blog

Susan Robertson, a highly valued member of our volunteer coaching team who gives so much to the many disciplines of gymnastics in the North as a participant, coach, judge and tutor has very deservingly won the accolade of Volunteer of the Year! Team pink could not be prouder of Susan and all she has done for the club!

Our head coaches Nicola Preston and Rachael Wright were recognised once again for their amazing achievement and work in producing an Olympic Bronze Medalist! They were awar[..]

Mia Scott and Leah Greenland took part in their first ever international competition as part of the Great Britain Junior team. The girls flew down to London with their coach Rach who was also the Great Britain coach for the junior team! The girls had an absolutely fantastic weekend as they secured the silver medal behind the GB Seniors, a great experience for both girls who did themselves, the club and their country proud!

A special mention also to Mia Scott and secured herself a place i[..]

The North Voluntary Levels 2017 which were held at City of Newcastle Gymnastics Academy saw a large amount of our elite and intermediate squad gymnasts competing on the vault, bars, beam and floor. The competition was a great success with many girls taking home ribbons, medals and a few overall champion trophies! Well done to our of our beautiful pink ladies who took part and well down to our winners:
-Level 2: Charlotte Moralee Overall Champion and Olivia Bell 5th Overall
-Level 3, 11&[..]

On Friday our National Coach David came to visit the Pink Gym. The girls worked very hard and took away lots of new ideas! Great motivation for them all! #alwayslearning![..]

A fab weekend of competition this weekend as we saw Charlotte and Harriet travel down to the Challenge Cup 2017. Both girls had a good competition, showing off their beautiful routines and placing 25th for Harriet and 22nd for Charlotte out of a field of 72 gymnasts!

Charlotte then competed again on the Sunday at the Bill McLaughlin Team Championships as part of the North Team, having a steady competition and helping the team finish in 7th place.

Fab weekend and awesome effort fr[..]

WOW! What an amazing weekend we have had here as we hosted our annual Pink Ladies Invitational competition!
The competition, which was ran over three days, saw more than 550 gymnasts competing from over 28 different clubs based around the country. Huge thank you to all of the clubs, coaches, gymnasts, SD staff, parents and volunteers for helping to make the weekend so special. We have made so many new friends and special memories and the plans for next years competition have already started, [..]

***BREAKING NEWS***
We are super proud and excited to announce that Leah Greenland and Mia Scott have been selected to compete for Great Britain at their first international in Rushmoor in October . A fantastic achievement for the girls and for the club!![..]

Very proud of our 3 little Pink Ladies who competed in their Regional Voluntary Levels yesterday at Redcar Gymnastics Club.

In the pre level 4 competition we had Keira and Eva-Mae who both showed excellent composure as they competed in the biggest round. Both girls had a good competition only have a small error each on beam. Keira finished the competition in 3rd place and Eva-Mae in 6th place.

Elise was our only gymnast from the club competing in the Level 4 competition. Elise ha[..]

On the 17th September 2017 we had two teams travel down South to compete in the Adrian Stan Team Championships 2017.

Our Senior team consisted of Leah Rockett, Harriet Gibson, Charlotte Moralee, Ellie Potts and Isobel Gosling. Although a very young team competing in the senior competition, they had a good run out, picking up lots of experience on the way and finishing in a credible 11th place.

Our Junior Squad team, which consisted of Mia Scott, Leah Greenland, Mercedes Moore and[..]

Mia Scott and Leah Greenland spent 3 days down at Lilleshall National Sports Centre where they attended their Great Britain National Junior Squad training. The girls had an awesome few days training alongside the best juniors in Great Britain working with national coaches Amanda and David.[..]