Brentwood Grading - Entries Invited

The Brentwood Grading is being hosted by us in the Courage Hall on 31st May 2009. If you have been told by your coach you ought to enter this competition then please note that:

• the closing date for entries to be received is Thursday 7th May;
• each entry is £6.00;
• the competition is for grades G - D only and age groups under-13 (not D), under-15 and over-15;
• minimum age-this-year to compete is 6 for G to E and 9 for D;
• you ought to have a new-style club leotard to compete at this competition; and
• there will be a last minute training opportunity on 30th May when we need as much help as possible to set up.

An entry form can be downloaded from our website at http://www.brentwoodtc.org/competitions.htm

If you are entering (or taking somebody to) a competition for a the first-time you might want to read a little more about how a competitiojn is organised by checking our website at http://www.brentwoodtc.org/competition_organisation.htm.

Georgia's GCTA Open Results

The full results of this competition are now available on our website. Our own members also did really well with a large number of new competitors who survived the day with smiles on their faces, and even trophies or certificates. With 32 members actually competing on the day they achievd the following results:

• G.Cordery Form Shield winners - Stephen Page (Senior) and Charlotte Webb (Junior) (pictured right with Georgia);
• 1st places - Fiona Humphries, Lauren Marchant, Abbie Goldsmith, Charlotte Webb & Stephen Page;
• 2nd places - Emma Brereton, Jamie Perry, Daniel Frost & Hannah McCann;
• 3rd place - Emma Martin;
• Team winners - Georgie Harris, Fiona Humphries, Emma Brereton & Alice Gibbs and Chrissie Law, Hannah McCann & Charlotte Webb;
• Team runners-up - Sophie Harris, Alex Bartkowiak, Mollie Harris & Joe Martin; Emma Martin, Georgia Tyrrell, Jonathan Gibbs & Megan Gannon and Harriet Gill, Georgia Walker & Nikola Kelly; and
• New Personal Best Scores - Jamie Perry (PB1), Tilly Ashcroft (PB1 & PB2), Daniel Frost (PB2), Hannah McCann (PB2), Charlotte Webb (PB1 & PB2) and Stephen Page (PB2).

Help needed

As I hope you are all aware we are holding our Open Competition to raise funds for Georgia’s Teenage Cancer Appeal this Sunday, 19th April. Lots of work has already been going behind the scenes organising this event and now is the time when you can add your support. There are four main ways you can do this:-

1) Saturday Night, 8pm - Help put out mats (the coaches will do the trampolines) and move chairs and staging to set up the hall for the competition. There is a lot to do and you don’t need to be particularly big and strong. There will be an opportunity for the youngsters to practice a routine or two before you go.

2) Second Hand Leotards - We are having a sale of second hand leotards with half the proceeds going to the GTCA and half for you. Please bring your leotards along early on Sunday morning or down to the club beforehand. Make sure you securely attach an envelope to the (clean) leotard with your name and how much you want it to sell for written on the outside. You could also come and buy one!

3) Raffle Prizes - Have you got some unwanted gifts lying around that could be somebody else's treasure. Why not donate it to the raffle (please note that if we receive lots of prizes we may hold some over to our next competition)?

4) Sunday - We need lots of help to actually run the competition on Sunday. So if you are able to do any of the following, even for an hour or so (but longer’s even better), please let me know which you would prefer to do, or just and volunteer on the day, we will be there from around 9 o'clock onwards and there are always odd jobs to be done:-

a) Sell leotards/programs/etc
b) Make refreshments for judges
c) Warm-up marshal or similar
d) Clear up at the end - we need lots of help here, lots of chairs need moving as well as mats, staging and trampolines.

If you do nothing else, please come and support us on Sunday and bring some money to spend!

Georgia's Open

The timetable for this competition is now available on our website together with lists of officials and competitors in starting order. The summary timetable is:

A new member?

Congratulations to Sarah & Scott on the birth of a new sister for Lauren in the early hours of Monday. She weighed in at 6lb 12oz (just over 3 bags of sugar for those of the metric persuasion) and has yet to be named.

(Note the picture is not of Sarah's newly-born but we expect to see one similar soon!)

UPDATE - We have just been informed baby is now named - 'Fay Louise'

Competitions update

On the 15th March Anthony Williams travelled to Newtownards just outside Belfast to compete in the National C competition in the Irish Gala Weekend. The results website has pretty much been offline ever since and so we have not been able to get a detail result but we do know he came 2nd - well done Anthony!

Last weekend saw 16 of our members competing at the regional grading competition at Harlow, 11 of them at Regional G. With only four out of one hundred grade G entries qualifying to Grade F it is no surprise that few of our members achieved personal best scores although first-timers Tilly Ashcroft, Jonathan Gibb and Callum Wylie performed creditably. In other respects we did have some success stories with:

• Abbie Goldsmith and Charlotte Hussey taking 3rd and 4th places in the 26-strong under-15 girls Grade G;
• Jamie Perry coming 2nd in the under-15 boys Grade G;
• Joe Dulieu-Hasler also coming 2nd in his first outing at Under-13 boys Grade F; and
• Both Emma & Daniel Frost reaching finals in the over-15 Grade D (girls and boys respectively of course) and each posting 2 new personal bests with Dan also just missing on a trophy in 4th place!

Several others also saw good improvements in their overall ranking.

Upcoming weeks will see us hosting a special competition in support of Georgia's Teenage Cancer Appeal (see our main website for more details) and our national competiotors travelling to Cardiff for the Gala Weekend there on 25th-26th April.

New website

Some of you will already know that our website is in the middle of a 'Makeover'. The new site is substantially complete bar a large number of formatting inconsistencies that are being ironed out before it goes live. If you would like to see the new site in its Beta-version please visit the site at http://new.brentwoodtc.org/.

Any constructive comment welcomed - talk to Dave.

Georgia's Teenage Cancer Appeal

Together with the other trampoline clubs in Brentwood we are pleased to be supporting this appeal which is the brainchild of Georgia Cordery (13) who is herself suffering from a rare form of cancer.  The main focus of our collective efforts is an extra Open Competition which we will be hosting at BSSC on 19th April.  You can find out more about this competition on our website here but, in the meantime, we are appealing for any help we can get to maximise the donation.  If you are able to help in any way either by providing services, raffle prizes, or plain simple money, please contact either of the following:

• Dave Kingaby or Olive Law in Brentwood TC,
• Zoe Wilson in Levitation or
• Janet Hay in Recoil Twisters.

Thanks in anticpation of your support.

Jack Petchey - January Winner

The winner for January was very deserving following a couple of months in which she has worked very hard on her performance and form and is now showing some considerable promise. Well done to Rebecca Martin!