Brentwood Sports Awards

Brentwood Trampoline Club had an excellent result at tonights Brentwood Sports Awards.  With nominations in a number of categories we were recognised in every one as follows:

• Brentwood Academy Club member (and £1,000 contribution) - Olive Law collected the cheque for us:
  
  
• Winner of Best Coach - Paul Kitchen:

• Winner of Olympic Hopeful  - Scott Gregory:

• Highly Commended - Community Club of the Year:

• Highly Commended Young Sports Personality - Scott Gregory:

• Highly Commended - Innovative Scheme:

Scott performs well in Kladno

The 36th International Trampoline Friendship Cup 2008 was held last weekend in Kladno, 20km outside Prague. Paul Kitchen & Scott Gregory attended with Scott performing in the Junior Boys (aged 15-17) and Senior Men Synchro competitions.

The Junior Boys competition was big enough to warrant 3 flights and saw Scott performing last in the last flight - after the preliminaries he was leading by 2.8 going into the finals. With such a lead he eased back on the difficulty in the final only to discover afterwards that the competition was, unusually, running finals on a zero start basis (this normally only applies to Senior competition) - this resulted in him having to make do with 2nd place by just 0.2!

Teaming with ex-clubmate, Matthew Wright, the Synchro saw an even closer finish with Scott & Matt ending in 2nd place by just 0.1.

Trampoline History

Many people may be unaware that for many years Brentwood was the trampolining capital of the UK.  This was all due to the endeavours of one man, Ted Blake, a Brentwood resident, who not only ran Nissen's UK business but was also heavily involved in creating the competition structure we now know.  Read more on our website here.

Trampolining all summer long

Yes - we are open all through the summer holidays! If for any reason you can't make your normal spot it is likely that you can come in another sessions to make up for it - just call to check or pop in on the off-chance.

National Finals - 2008

This was a long weekend with all trampoline disciplines and both grade 1 & 2 performers competing. We had 8 qualifiers for the event, 4 each at grade 1 & 2. With two being withdrawn on the day we had just 6 who competed and 3 of those made it through to the final round, one to be crowned grade 2 national under-13 champion! High level results are:

Competitor	Group	Place
Natasha Holme	U17 Girls G1	12/27
Gemma Philips	U17 Girls G1	-
Scott Gregory	U17 Boys G1	4/14 Final
Stephen Page	U17 Boys G1	11/14
Kensie Sherlock	U11 Girls G2	-
Hannah McCann	U13 Girls G2	1/44 Final
Chrissie Law	U15 Girls G2	30/38
Anthony Williams	O19 Male G2	5/19 Final

Read more details on our website here. Pictures and other material will follow.

Best trampoline club in town?

We always like to think that in Brentwood Trampoline Club we have something special and our success in being selected as a Brentwood Council 'Academy Club' and in achieving GymMark last year have helped support that view. It is now clear as well that competitively we are performing very well indeed.

Analysing our results over the recent competitive period shows that we achieve a higher proportion of podium positions at national competitions and achieve significantly higher form marks in regional competitions than some other local clubs. The results show:

	BTC	Club A	Club B
Average National entries (grade 1 & 2) 2008 to date	6	8	6
Average finalists	64%	39%	57%
Average medallists	44%	19%	27%
Average Regional Grading entries Oct 2007 to date	16	5	29
Weighted average set round form score	22.0	20.8	20.8

We might not be biggest but we certainly seem to be best!

Harlow grading competition

Yesterday just 9 of our members competed in the last ever regional competition under the current British Gymnastics competition structure. Five of them medalled with some strong performances all around.

Daniel Frost, Harriett Gill, Georgia Walker, Mark Hardiman & Emma Richardson all got trophies; Daniel, Emma Frost & Emma Richardson all posted new Personal Best scores whilst Nicole Ballantyne & Abbie Gunton survived first time nerves with some credit!

More detailed results are available on-line here.

Jack Petchey - May winner

Having spent a considerable time competing at Grade 3 our May winner pulled herself into Grade 2 this year and has flourished. Starting the season gingerly she has recently achieved consistent scores qualifying her to National Finals and also medalled. Well done Chrissie Law, the hard work you show consistently in training is paying dividends.

More about our Jack Petchey programme is available online at our website here.

Perth Gala - Medals Galore

Three of our grade 2 performers took the long road to Perth last weekend. Accompanied by mum's, head coach Paul (& Kendra) Chrissie Law, Hannah McCann & Kensie Sherlock (all of whom had already qualified for nationals) had differing objectives but principle was to final and get onto the podium. This they achieved with all three performing well, Chrissie took 3rd place and Hannah & Kensie both won. More detailed results are on our website here.