South Durham Gymnastics Blog

The master coach award recognises outstanding achievement by British coaches and is awarded to the personal coaches of any master gymnast. The club are delighted to announce that Nicola Preston and Rachael Wright received the master coach award for coaching a gymnast who represented Great Britain at the 2015 World Championships and the 2016 Olympic Games. Nic and Rach were presented with their awards this weekend at the 2017 British Championships.[..]

This weekend saw the first major competition of the 2017 British Gymnastics calendar with the British Championships held in Liverpool, starting with podium training on Thursday, junior all around competition Friday, senior all around competition Saturday and apparatus finals on Sunday. The club had two representatives with Mia Scott taking part in the junior competition and Leah Rockett in the senior competition.

Mia Scott started off her British Championships on Thursday. Podium trainin[..]

On Sunday the Elite Squad had their first competition of 2017 at their compulsory, national and development grades held at the City of Newcastle Gymnastics Academy.
The first round saw our development 5, development 4, national 2, compulsory 4 and compulsory 3 girls take to the floor where they all had to compete routines on range, vault, bars, beam and floor. The girls had a fantastic competition with South Durham taking the top spot in every level! As well as the development 5 girls winning[..]

A number of our gymnasts from the Intermediate Squad took part in North Grades at the weekend, having a very successful competition with every gymnast from the club passing their grade! The gymnasts had to deliver routines on all four pieces from a set of compulsory skills ranging from grade 6 all the way down to grade 1.
Special mention to our overall grade winners:
Grade 6, 8 years: Bethany Blackburn
Grade 6, 11 & under: Mia Dowson
Grade 6, 12 & over: Katie Johnson
Grade[..]

The general and intermediate squad gymnasts had an awesome competition at the weekend, winning lost of ribbons, medals and trophies. The gymnasts competed on floor, range and bench/beam where they showed off set routines to our panels of judges. South Durham competed against gymnasts from Redcar, Darlington, Tyneside, Gymtopia and Wansbeck with 165 gymnasts taking part on the day!
Results and photos can now be found on our website, special mention to our overall winners:
Level 6, 8 years: [..]

The pink coaches had a successful night at the North of England Gymnastics Awards at the weekend where 4 different awards were awarded to the club and coaches!

Club: Women's Artistic Technical Committee Club of the Year
Nicola: Presidents Award
Rachael: Presidents Award
Kelly: Master Judge[..]

Today we saw our gym filled with hundreds of children from over 10 different schools taking part in the annual Key Steps competition. We had a record number of children competing on both the vault and floor, displaying well learnt set routines to our team of judges with all children in each separate year group showing the exact same floor sequence and vault.

It was an exciting day with lots of encouragement and cheering from all schools as everyone battled it out to see who would be crow[..]

Huge congratulations to these 12 superstars who have been selected for the North of England Regional Squad for 2017. The girls were chosen following their outstanding results from last year and will attend their first out of four squads at the end of February. The girls will now train alongside the best gymnasts from around the North region in their respective age groups!

Well done Charlotte, Lily, Emily, Harriet, Isobel, Lydia, Elise, Ellie, Olivia, Francesca, Abbey and Mia![..]

Gymnasts Of The Month.
MINI SQUAD - Ella Turner.ADVANCED GENERAL SQUAD - Summer Grayson.JUNIOR INTERMEDIATE - Ellie Fox.SENIOR INTERMEDIATE - Emily Tyler.ELITE - Dena Kirk.
Annual Trophy Winners.ADVANCED GENERAL SQUAD.Most Improved - Eleanor Metcalfe.Gymnast Of The Year - Hannah Deakin.
INTERMEDIATE.Junior Most Improved - Demi Solan.Senior Most Improved - Eleanor Walmsley.Gymnast Of The Year - Carissa Lloyd.
ELITE.Achievement Of The Year - Mia Scott and Leah Greenland.Most Improved -[..]