Club Championships....

 

Wickers Club Championships 2009

Coming soon - more info to follow!

Wickers Club Championships 2008

Unfortunately cancelled due to our moving to a new home

Wickers Club Championships 2007
Click here for the results of the Championships
click here for the 3 - 4 year old's floor criteria
Click here for the 1 hour and 11/2 hour floor criteria
Click here for the vault criteria
Click here for the beam and bar criteria
Click here for the squad criteria

 

Wickers Club Championships 2006

Click here for the results of the Championships

The 2006 Review
On Saturday 2nd December, Wickers Gymnastics Club held its annual club championships to which all 300 members of the club are invited to participate in!

The championships took place at the Clubs main facility at Kings Manor Community College, Shoreham, but members from its satellite clubs at Boundstone Community College and Whytemead School also take part.

Gymnasts from as young as 3 years old participated on the day! The day was split into 2 halves, with the morning round for gymnasts training 1 hour and 1 ½ hrs per week performing a short floor routine and a vault, and the afternoon session was for gymnasts who train for 2, 4 and 8 hours per week. These gymnasts performed a combination of tumbles, a beam routine and a vault.

The day was very exciting and over 120 children participated! Gymnasts had been training hard for several months for the competition to perfect their routines and took delight in showing off in front of almost 250 spectators made up of family and friends!

For some gymnasts this was the first time they had performed in front of so many people, and their nerves stood up to the occasion!

Squad members also took the opportunity to show off some of their skills to younger club members and tumbled to wow the audience.

The championship medals and club annual awards were presented by Simon Osborne, a radio DJ from Splash FM, Worthing, who was very impressed with the level of gymnastics the children displayed! All gymnasts received a Certificate and a water bottle for taking part.

This is also the annual fundraiser for the club in order that new equipment can be purchased for gymnasts at all 3 sites. Gymnastics equipment is very expensive and as a non profit making organisation the club championships are very important to help raise much needed monies for this and also to pay for continuing coach education.

Medal winners were:
3 - 4 years - Anna Dornbusch, Lily Obermayer, Maya Monis, Aleigha Busahra, Henry Davies, William Davies
5 years - Natalya Havers, Charlotte Bracy, Erin Campbell, Daisy Gunton, Katrina Brown, Ryan Hambrook, Joshua Weston, Brandon Williams
6 - 7 years - Abbie Pugsley, Abbey Mousley, Millie Davies, Jude Hayward, Matthew Votta
8 - 9 years - Neath Champion Weeks, Rachel Elphick, Letitia Odero, Amber Bathurst, Alex Wareing
10 - 12 years - Annalise Short, Amber Saunders, Emma Newman

In the afternoon gymnasts were set a baseline score to achieve in order to gain a medal. Medals were awarded as follows:
Bronze: Layla Bushara, Cherri Gilbert, Kiera McIvor, Sophie Coburn, Amy Smith, Hannah Short
Silver: Georgia Stringer, Katie Lankshear, Keeley Harber, Becky Welch, Kay Fonyodi, Jaime Leigh Gilbert, Pache Holland, Megan Phillips, Phoebe Holdsworth, Gina Neal, Louise Back, Kimberley Lord, Cory Winter, Laurent Hilton, Kayleigh Munday, Natasha Tully
Gold: Amelia Brown, Sophie Gunn, Danielle Davis, Ellie Carter, Lisa Day, Anna Pickles, Robyn Glinsman, Martha Button, Nina Day, Annie Politano, Emma Smith, Abigail Phillips, Jessica Fifield, Abbie Fowler

Club Annual Award Winners
Recognition Award Recreational: Daisy Page, Erin Campbell, Laura Gooch, Katie Price, Julia Brown
Alliance and Leicester Gymnasts: Charlie Jones, James May, Cherri Gilbert,

Recognition Awards Squad: Jessica Fifield, Kimberley Lord
Most Improved Gymnast: Megan Phillips and Anna Pickles
Achievement Award: Louis Back
Gymnast of the Year: Martha Button

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE GYMNASTS THAT TOOK PART AND FOR ALL OF THOSE MEDAL AND AWARD WINNING GYMNASTS!

Also many thanks to everyone who supported the day - we were successful in raising over £1000 which has been added to our fund raising pot and we are able to buy some new equipment for all three sites - vault run up carpet for Boundstone and Whytmead Schools, and a free standing set of bars and mini coaching block for the Kings Manor Site.

We have also been able to fund 4 coaches on a management training course, Emma, Carleen Hayley and Claire and also Hayley, Claire and Carleen will be attending their next level of coaching course later in the year.

Fundraising events such as the club championships are so important to the club to enable us to further the club and coaches development, so many thanks to everyone.