Jackson Payne – Senior Men’s Canadian All Round Champion !!!!!!!

And again ... I know this is a girls blog but how could we not recognize how amazing Jackson did at Nationals?!  On top of his gold AA, Jackson also got 1st on pommels and floor, and 3rd on high bar (with a fall) and p bars.  Brandon got 1st on p bars, 3rd on floor, and 4th on vault.  It was really fun to watch Jackson and Brandon compete event finals on CBC on Saturday.

Congrats to all our Capital City boys who competed at nationals!

Nationals 2011 - May 25th to 28th Results

Our National Novice Paige Romano was very consistent and got 9th AA on Day 1 and Day 2.  Sara McLean got 17th AA on Day 2.

Our National Open team got bronze and Rochelle and Haley lead their team with having the top 2 Alberta scores.  Rochelle got 6th AA on Day 1 in the 16+ Open category and Haley received 6th AA in the 13-15 Open category.  On Day 2 Finals Rochelle finished 11th AA in her category and Haley 8th AA.

In the Junior AA Competition Brielle finished 12th and Marisa 15th.  In event finals Marisa did great and got 4th AA.

Congratulations to all our national girls for a great gymnastics season!

We would like to wish Erin Phillips a quick and healthy recovery!

I know this is our WOMEN's blog ... but hey I'm excited for our boys! Our HP Argo boys just competed and did great!  Kieran Fagan is 3rd AA after Day 1, Danny Schnoor is 5th and Ethan Marsden is 23rd.  You can watch Kieran's 1st place P-bar routine from Day 1 on the National's blog link.

Nationals 2011 Update

Congratulations to Brielle, Marisa, and Rachel who competed today in the Juniors Day 1- Qualifications for the All Around Competition and Event Finals.  Marisa and Brielle made the Day 2 - All Around Competition and Marisa made vault for Day 3 - Event Finals.  Great job ladies!


Good luck to our National Novice girls (Sara, Paige, and Katrina) who have their Team Competition tomorrow.  GO ALBERTA!

Click here to see full results for this whole week.
Click here for the National's blog; which has videos, pictures, interviews, and lots more up to the minute information.

To:  ALL Comp and LEAP girls
NO gym on Monday, May 30th.  Have a great long weekend!

And ... GOOD LUCK to all our ladies travelling to Nationals on Sunday.  Go kick some butt!!

Brooklyn M.'s first BHS back layout on own!

Taren's sub list while she is away: May 26th to 28th

• Thursday, May 26th - Katrina
• Friday, May 27th - Georgia
• Saturday, May 28th -  all girls from 8:00am-12:00pm with Katrina

Krystal’s sub list while she is away at Nationals: May 23rd to 29th

• Monday May 23^rd- Holiday, no training
• Tuesday May 24^th- Alex, Sigrid, Catherine, Taylor, and Raquel with Taren
• Wednesday May 25^th- Kristi (NO morning training)
• Thursday May 26^th- Kristi
• Friday May 27^th- Teresa
• Saturday May 28^th – all girls at girls at 1:00-5:00pm with Teresa
• Monday May 30^th- no morning Training, normal training in the afternoon.

Trinity's Jaeger!!!

Great job Trinity :)

March 13th Training

Brooke W. made her front giant!

Abi's side somi

Raquel's first day trying a Jaeger

Raquel's double pike

Abi's front giant!

May 12th Training

Trinity's triple twist

Emily's back walkover on the high beam

Abi's switch leap 1/2 on beam

Sara M.'s shoot half

A day of many accomplishments!

Brielle's floor routine with her full in pike on her feet!!!

Kass's yurchenko layout attempt

Brooklyn H.'s back layout

Julianna's standing back tuck

Rachel's new bar mount

Alyson A.'s first attempt at double back without spot

Katie C.'s full

Katie's endo on straps

May 5th - Katie's first day trying an endo on straps.  She did do one really good one to handstand, but we didn't get that one on camera :(  

 May 10th - We got the endo on video!

More pictures from Westerns

Alberta girls beating the AGF Monkey

Kiana and Kass with coach Krystal

In between Alyson's 2 great vaults :)

Sara and Katie

Cliff was a great cheerer all weekend!

Raquel during bar finals

Isabelle L.'s standing back tuck

Julianna doing flyaway drills

Brooklyn M.'s first attempt at 1 1/2 twist

Aaliyah's cast to handstand!

Emma's side aerial!

Our girls going to Nationals are in Calgary this weekend for a training camp.  Have a great weekend ladies and train hard!  

Ayrie and Kiana's BHS back layouts

*** You can still get your WEM water park tickets at the office for $10. The date is Friday May 6th from 7:30-10:30pm. Due to the water park event training for all girls will end on Friday, May 6th at 6:30pm. ***

Alyson's first BHS back layout on the highway beam

Katrina's 2 1/2 twist :)

Paige's double tuck without spot!!

Alberta and Capital City dominated at the 2011 Western Canadian Championships!

Alberta’s National Novice team won gold in the team competition.  Sara was the only one on the NN team whose scores on every event counted towards the team’s total.   Sara had a fantastic day and got 8^th in the AA and made vault, bars, and beam finals.  Katrina got 9^th in the AA and Paige Romano got 14^th.

Our P5 Tyro team also captured the first place team award and our Ayrie Freedman scored 1^st AA!! Ayrie was also the only one on her team that had counting scores on all 4 events.  Ayrie came home with 4 gold medals: team gold, 1^st on beam, 1^st on floor, and 1^st AA. 

P5 Novice team earned a bronze medal.  Raquel made bars and beam finals and Brooke made bars and floor finals.  Brooke got 7^th AA and Raquel got 12^th AA.  Brooke and Raquel turned it on at event finals.  Brooke got 1^st on bars and 2^nd on floor and Raquel got 2^nd on beam.

P5 Open team walked away with a 2^nd place team finish.  Taylor got 13^th AA and made beam finals.

The Pre-Novices did not compete as a team but Alyson, Kassandra, and Kiana had a great experience training and staying with all the other Alberta Pre-Novices.  Alyson had a solid day and got 3^rd AA out of 21 Pre-Novice Aspires and also got 5^th on vault, 6^th on bars, 3^rd on beam, and 4^th on floor.  Kiana got 13^th AA and 8^th on vault and 5^th on floor.  Kassandra received a silver medal on vault in Pre-Novice Elite and finished 9th AA.  

More pictures and videos to come!

Click here for the weekends full results.

National Novice 1st Place Team

P5 Tyro 1st Place Team

P5 Open 2nd Place Team

P5 Novice 3rd Place Team