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Welcome to Southport Aerobic Gymnastics |
Welsh open June 2011 At the Welsh Aerobic Gymnastics Championship in June, Southport Aerobic Gymnastics achieved personal best scores, target scores and introduced new gymnasts to the competition floor. On the Friday, the RAC competition began, with 4 of our new gymnasts; Brooke Shotton, Freya Abrams, Olivia Dodgins and Niamh Edmunds performing outstanding routines and scoring the highest artistic scores in their category. Brooke came away with her first bronze medal, closely followed behind by Freya coming 5th and Olivia coming 6th out of 16 competitors. |
We then had the fabulous 'Gummy Bears' routine, which included Niamh, Brooke and Olivia, who came 1st with a score of 12.250. The girls brought a smile to everyone's faces as they performed their cheeky trio! |
The day then moved onto the Foundation and National Development routines. Ellie Homewood competed in her 2nd competition this year and scoring a new personal best of 13.200 coming 7th in her category. In the National Development Category, Freya Dodgins competed as an individual performer for the first time and blew us all away with her routine on the floor, coming 10th! With Lydia Browne (11th) Molly Glinn (15th) and Sacha Sykes (20th) all performing beautiful routines. Sacha, Lydia and Freya all then returning together for their trio coming home with a Silver medal. |
Cerys Mellor, our only FIG Nat-Dev gymnast came 9th in her category and was later joined by Molly, for their Pairs routine coming a well-deserved 2nd with a score of 14.000. |
Saturday started with the NAC Group 1 category, where Emily Dodds came 7th |
The day then continued onto the FIG Group 1 category, Skye Shotton and Naomi Parkinson scoring a personal best of 16.350! |
After a long weekend, the final day of the competition came around, starting with the NAC Group 2 category and our only competitor Hollie Pomford taking to the floor with her 'Jai Ho' routine. |
Olivia Parkinson scored 15.450 coming 1st in her second competition in the NAC Senior category. |
After lunch our FIG competitors took to the floor. Rachael Briscoe was first out of the Group 2 section, scoring her target score of 16.000. Shannon Rigby scored 16.150, beating her target score. Keimoy St.Hill performed a magnificent routine, scoring her personal best in the UK, with 17.150! |
Katy Longden, now competing in the FIG Senior category, performed a stunning routine scoring 17.600! |
Skye and Naomi then took to the floor again for their pair's routine, unfortunately having a chair deduction of 1.0, the girls scored 14.750 missing out on a bronze medal! Lastly Shannon and Rach competed in the Group 2 FIG pairs category, coming away with a Gold medal. |
All the gymnasts worked extremely hard and we are so proud of each of them! The coaches for the weekend, Keshia, Hollie and myself were impressed with all the gymnasts and hope they all get working even harder to push for medal positions and wish them the best of luck for the next competition. Rebecca Mackarell Development Coach at Southport Aerobic Gymnastics Club |