Canada Day Long Weekend

FYI: to all tumbling families

The gym is closed sunday through Tuesday for the Canada Day long weekend.
The summer schedule will commence on Wednesday, July 2nd!

Have a terrific long weekend!

National Team Ranking

Gymnastics Canada has posted the updated National Team ranking list for trampoline, Tumbling and DMT. Here is how we are doing!

Elite Women:
1 - Emily Smith
4 - Jordan Sugrim
5 - Teja Durante

Elite Men:
5 - Nick Kurtz
6 - Markus Laczko

Youth Women:
1 - Meghan Hefford
2 - Catherine McNutt
3 - Alison Zareski
5 - Katelyn Vershoor

Youth Men:
1 - Justin Wong
6 - David Findlay

Summer Schedule

If anyone has not received a copy of this summer's training schedule please ask your child's coach for a copy. Please note the schedule will come into affect as of July 2nd 2008.

Retro-Summer - Results

The 3rd Annual Retro-Summer Tumbling Invitational was held today at the Scarborough Gym Elites gymnastics club. We had alot of great results and many athlete's compete new elements successfully! Great Job everyone!

Provincial D Women:
1st - Chloe Bottos
3rd - Maddy McGillivray
4th - Makaila Koshurba

Provincial C 12- Women:
4th - Brooke Bottos - competed back tuck and back layout for the first time!!
6th - Jennifer Harrison - competed back tuck and back layout for the first time!!
7th - Ryann Johnston - competed layout 1/2 for the first time!!

Provincial C 13+ Women:
3rd - Emily Brown - competed back tuck and layout for the first time!!

Provincial B Women:
1st - Naomi Suzuki - competed "whip" for the first time; special award for fastest tumbling!!

Provincial B Men:
1st - Michael Zeuner - competed "2 whips" for the first time!!

Novice 10-14 Women:
1st - Jasmine Ellis - competed an 8 pass to dbl back for the first time!!

On top of our athlete's achieving great success, I should mention that Emily and Nick won the "Best standing back tuck" competition for coaches!

Way to go B.G.'s!!

Sunday, June 15

Just a reminder to all Provincial families that all classes tomorrow are cancelled due to the retro-summer invitational in Scarborough. We will resume regular training on Monday!

Retro-Summer: Driving Directions

In case anyone needed assistance getting to the venue.

- 401 East to Morningside
- South on Morningside (right)
- Left onto Coronation St. (6th stop light)
- Straight through 4-way stop
- Just around the bend, on your left

510 Coronation Dr
Scarborough, On
M1E 4X6

National Championships - Day 4

Today was the 4th and final day of competition at the 2008 Canadian National Championships. The senior athletes put on a great show to help cap off what has already been a phenomenal week for our B.G.'s athletes.

Elite Women:
Gold - Emily Smith
4th - Teja Durante
6th- Jordan Sugrim

Elite Men:
Bronze - Markus Laczko

Congratulations athletes! You truly are the class of the field!

National Championships - Day 3

The youth national tumbling competition concluded today and our B.G. girls pulled off a podium sweep while Justin managed to place 3rd despite a fall on his first pass! To top that off Alison Zareski competed a new personal difficulty record and Justin Wong set a new Canadian Difficulty record!

Youth Women:
Gold - Meghan Hefford
Silver - Catherine McNutt
Bronze - Alison Zareski

Youth Men:
Bronze - Justin Wong

Meghan Hefford, Carolynne Wong, Teja Durante and Justin Wong will be representing Team Ontario in tonight's Provincial Team final.

Go B.G.'s!!

National Championships - Day 2

Our tumblers continued on their path to success today with the weeks for finals! Here is how we finished!

Novice 15+ Women:
11th - Lauren Robertson

Novice 10-14 Men:
Bronze - Sean Robertson
4th - Riley Baldin

Novice 10-14 Women:
Gold - Carolynne Wong
4th - Jaclyn Sicard

Congratulations athletes!

Competition continues tomorrow with the Youth National Finals!

National Championships - Day 1

Here's where we stand after day 1 of competition at the 2008 Canadian National Chamionships!

Novice 10-14 Men:
3rd - Sean Robertson
4th - Riley Baldin

Youth Women:
1st - Meghan Hefford
2nd - Catherine McNutt
3rd - Alison Zareski

Youth Men:
1st(tie) - Justin Wong

Elite Women:
1st - Emily Smith
2nd - Jordan Sugrim
6th - Teja Durante

Elite Men:
3rd - Markus Laczko

** Jordan Sugrim qualified herself to the Senior National Team nased on her performance! **

The rest of the preliminary competition start this afternoon and finals begin this evening and run through till Saturday!