Jack Petchey - August Winner

Congratulations to Scott Gregory - a well-deserved winner of the Jack Petchey award for August, Scott excelled in competition. In the youth match against Germany & Canada he lead the GB youth team to a win over the Canadians (although sadly not also the Germans) by overhauling his GB team-mates who had previously beaten him at National Finals. Scott is pictured with Graham Parker, one of the club's coaches, who made the presentation.

Ipswich Grading 7th October

12 of our competitors made it to Ipswich for this competition and although there were disappointments everybody came away with something from the day.

• 7 won trophies, 5 for first and one each for 2nd and 3rd place;
  
• 3 won qualification to the next grade up (2 also winners)
  
• 8 improved on previous personal best performances (including the 2 who won neither trophy nor qualification).

Pictures and full members' results on the club's website here.

Jack Petchey - July Winner

We were pleased last night to award the July Jack Petchey winner with his certificate and cheque. Won for outstanding performance at the National Finals in Birmingham where he finished 3rd in his age group, Stephen Page was a deserving winner. Pictured with Stephen is John Beer (one of BG's Technical Directors) who just happened to be around for the presentation.

GymMark Accreditation

8th Brentwood Open Results

The full results are available for download now at our website - please click here. The website also includes a few photos of our own members.
As a summary, though, we were very pleased with our performers' hard work on Sunday. With 30 competing on the day 26 achieved a tangible goal:

• 8 received a trophy/medal and achieved a personal best score;
• 11 received a trophy/medal; and
• a further 7 achieved a personal best score

Well done all and thanks to our horde of willing volunteers!

GymMark Accreditation

Brentwood Trampoline Club were delighted to hear today that their GymMark accreditation has been approved. The club can now proudly display the GymMark logo (pictured right) and claim to be Safe, Effective & Child Friendly. GymMark is the British Gymnastics' equivalent to the ClubMark accreditation adopted in other sporting disciplines.

Gaining this accreditation was a team effort involving many members of the committee and coaching staff. Well done to all!

Brentwood Academy Club

Brentwood Trampoline Club were delighted to be invited to the launch of activebrentwood yesterday (link here) at the Brentwood Centre. This initiative is being run in conjunction with sportessex (link here) and has two complementary goals:

1. to increase the level of participation in sport; and
2. to produce 10 performers with the capability to represent GB in the 2012 Olympics and 3 actual Olympians.

In recognition of the role Brentwood Trampoline Club has to play in this, the scheme presented the club with a cheque for £1,000.
Following the presentation our representatives were invited to sit down together with those from other leading clubs and Bob McLintock (currently Chief Exec of Brentwood Borough Council but soon to be taking on a leading role in developing 2012 for the Borough), to discuss what was needed to encourage and develop the Elite end of sport in Brentwood.

Other member clubs are:

• Brentwood Hockey Club
• Brentwood Rugby Football Club
• Brentwood Swimming Club
• Brentwood Volleyball Club
• Champions Academy for Basketball
  
• Glendene Cycle Club and
  
• Hutton FC

International Friendship Cup

Two of our members (Matt Wright & Scott Gregory) flew to Kladno (near Prague), last week to compete in this annual friendly FIG-sanctioned international competition. I am awaiting full results and report but in their first ever competitive outing in Synchro Matt & Scott scored an amazing 9.4 in their voluntary for desynch with electronic sensors being deployed to ensure accuracy. Maintaining excellent form marks as well they easily won the men's Synchro against some strong international competition.

Results and pictures will be posted here in due course.

3-Nations Youth Match

Scott Gregory (library photo on right) lead the way for the GB-boys competing against Germany and Canada on 25th August at Sheffield's English Institute of Sport Arena. The annual match is normally between Germany and GB but took advantage of Canada's presence in Europe for World Cup matches to extend the competition. The format varies year-on-year and this year Germany had opted for an under-18 only competition. Fielding a somewhat older team than GB's 4 under-17 National Finalists, they narrowly pipped the GB team with Canada languishing some way behind. The final scores for the Men's Youth competition were Germany 289.3, GB 278.3 and Canada 249.3. Scott, accounting for 94.8 of the GB points in joint-3rd place (4th on tie-break) and highest GB performer, was particularly pleased to post 3 x personal best scores and to finish up placed higher than his GB team-mates who had taken 1st and 2nd place in the national finals earlier this year.