Australian Youth Olympic Festival

With rumours having been flying for several weeks now that Scott Gregory was to represent GB at this event it was gratifying to finally see it confirmed today by BG:

"The British Olympic Association has announced the athletes due to attend the Australian Youth Olympic Festival early next year. Amongst the delegates, 16 gymnasts representing all 4 Olympic Disciplines.

"The Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) is a bi-annual multi-sport for Olympic aspirants between the ages of 13 and 19. It is organised and hosted by the Australian Olympic Committee, and importantly has the patronage of the International Olympic Committee."

Scott will be competing alongside fellow Olympic aspirant from Liverpool, Stephen Williams.

Annual Awards Evening

It turns out our Annual Awards Evening went well on Friday with some 70 members and their family turning up to enjoy good company and (some) good singing with the Karaoke. We also took the opportunity to run our AGM and although most committee places remain filled we are still looking for a Minute Secretary, Competitions Secretary and Parent Representatives.

To see more pictures visit our main website here.

Annual Awards Evening

Well, there are only a few days to go until our annual Awards evening at the centre and a huge number of you have said you are coming - that is great news since it means I will not have to sing during the Karaoke session! The evening will start at 7pm in two halves:

• adults and those juniors who are interested, will participate in as brief an AGM as we are able to make it. You are encouraged to look over the Annual Report in advance (click to open) in order to ensure it does, indeed, remain a brief affair, meanwhile
• the junior members, with some suitable supervision, will start off the karaoke session.

We will then come together for the awards presentations and an amazing video that Stephen Page has constructed. After this we will all (except me of course) participate in the Karaoke. The bar will be operating on a pay-basis throughout the evening although some snacks will be provided.

BBC Visit

For the second time this year we have been visited by BBC Essex Radio.

Last time the reporter popped along to find out about trampolining, this time the reporter was interested in the history of trampolining and the place Brentwood has within that history. To find out more visit our website here.

Jack Petchey winners

We finally got around to catching up with Jack Petchey recognition awards recently following summer holidays and preoccupation with getting into the new competition season and structure. This gave us a backlog to catch up on but all winners were highly deserving of their awards achieved for commitment in training and competitive performance.

Congratulations go to Georgia Walker, Daniel Frost, Joseph Dulieu-Hasler and Jamie Perry for the months of July to October respectively.

Annual Awards Evening

Following the success of last year's event we are again holding an awards evening early in December. 

This evening will commence with a brief AGM during which we plan to arrange for some entertainment for the younger members; this then leads into the annual awards where all Jack Petchey winners will receive their medals.  Following the awards the entertainment will continue until approx. 9:30.  

Regional & English Selection

Following the recent regional development & squad day the club hosted, it was pleasing to hear that many of our members are being selected to represent the region at the forthcoming Inter-Regional Championships and Home Nations Championships in Hull next month.

Following nomination by Eastern Region, Scott Gregory has been selected to represent England in the Senior Male team. No other Eastern Region trampolinists were selected.

The Eastern Region team for the English National Championships comprises 15 individual and 12 synchro places to which our club is contributing no less than 11! Those selected from Brentwood include:

Over-15 Individual male

• Scott Gregory
• Stephen Page

Over-15 Individual female

• Natasha Holme

Under-15 Individual female (the entire team in fact)

• Hannah McCann
• Charlotte Webb
• Kensie Sherlock
• Chrissie Law

Synchro Pairs - Over-15 male

• Scott Gregory (with Elliot Stratton - Stephen Page is reserve)

Synchro Pairs - Over-15 female

• Natasha Holme (with Natasha Wood)

Synchro Pairs - Under-15 female

• Chrissie Law (with Molly Hurford)
• Charlotte Webb (with Ellie Semon-Keene)

Congratulations to them all and good luck on 22nd/23rd November.

Regional Training

Last weekend saw 40 of the regions best trampolinists visiting us for a regional development and squad selection day. Eastern region has been running development days for a little while now (we hosted one last year as well) but this is the first year that we have decided to have a regional squad as well. As one of the few venues regionally with enough trampolines of competition standard it was decided to run a development and squad day together. The structure of the day involved performers working on drills and routines under the guidance of John Beer (one of the country's top coaches) and Sally Slinger (one of the top judges).

Competition Round-up

The past couple of weeks have seen us host the first competition in the region running the new routines and grades at Brentwood and also competing at the first official grading at Ipswich. Highlights from these competitions are as follows:

Brentwood Open

• Under 9 Club H - Lauren Bembrick-Taylor came 3rd closely followed by Georgia Tyrell;
  
• Under 11 Club H - Emma Martin won;
  
• Under 11 G Reg G - Rebecca Martin came 3rd and with Tegan Roycroft (18) and Megan Gannon (16) were 3rd-placed team of 5;
  
• Under 15 B Reg G - Joseph Dulieu-Hasler won this with Jamie Perry just missing in 4th place;
• Under 15 G Reg G - Abbie Goldsmith won, Charlotte Hussey 8th;
• Under 15 G Reg E - Lizzie Nicholls 4th;
• Over 15 G Reg E - Georgia Walker 2nd;
• Under 15 G Reg D - Chrissie Law 10th;
• Over 15 G Reg D - Emma Frost 7th;
• Boys Reg D - Daniel Frost 3rd;

None of our higher grades competed.

Read more here.

Ipswich Grading

• O15 M Reg D - Daniel Frost 3rd;
• U15 F Reg D - Chrissie Law 1st;
• U15 F Reg E - Lizzie Nicholls 5th;
• U13 F Reg E - Kenise Sherlock qualified to D;
• O15 F Reg E - Georgia Walker 5th;
• O15 M Reg E - Mark Hardiman 6th;
• U13 F Reg G -
• Megan Gannon 1st;
• Rebecca Martin 10th;
• Emma Martin 20th
• Team 1st of 9
• U15 F Reg G -
  
• Abbie-Jo Goldsmith 2nd and qualified to Reg F
• Charlotte Hussey 4th and qualified to Reg F
• U13 M Reg G -
  
• Joseph Dulieu-Hasler 1st and qualified to Reg F
  
• Jamie Perry 2nd and qualified to Reg F
  

Read more here.