Sunday 5th March saw girls from across the region comete in the Regional Grades Championships. The day started with Club Grades 6 and 5, and in the morning.
The R2 group did a great job with some beautiful beam work from Hattie Jackson and Stephanie Booth, an awesome and enthusiastic floor from Antonia, a lovely tight bar routine from Layla Lehane and Lily Hawthorne's poise in Range was great. The girls achived the scores of:
Layla Lehane - 57.276
Stephanie Booth - 59.917
Hattie Jackson - 59.817
Ella Dean - 55.083
Lily Hawthorne - 53.5
Antonia Crofts - 50.083
All passed their grades!
Development Challenge all competed at Club Grade 5. They started their competition on beam where we saw some lovely beam work from Bella Saunders-Lucas, and no falls for any of the girls on this piece! We then saw some much improved, neat floor and range routines from Nina McEachran and Adele Brown, very tight and controlled bar routines from Violet Billingham and Amelia Short and some great, powerful handspring flat back vaults from Lottie Darby and Anna Bianchi The girls achieved scores of:
Adele Brown - 59.5
Violet Billingham - 56.067
Bella Saunders-Lucas - 55.017
Amelia Short - 54.283
Nina McEachran - 53.7
Lottie Darby - 53.433
Anna Bianchi - 50.1
All passed their grades!
Development Elite competed Compulsory 5 in the afternoon. The coaches are very proud and the afternoon saw a beautiful bar routine from Cadie Munday, powerful vaults from Diaz Hector, Naomi Williams and Lily Reyes, Sofia Granton-Crow's range was very elegant, and Katie Donaghey and Erin Prentice did some beautiful back walkovers on beam. Lots of personal worries were overcome and we can't wait to get back in the gym and keep building on their achievements.
All girls showed team spirit and for their first big competition they did a fantastic job, achieving the following scores:
Katie Donaghey 55.55
Sofia Granton-Crow 52.2
Diaz Hector 56.85
Cadie Munday 58.2
Erin Prentice 54.85
Lily Reyes 49.9
Naomi Williams 56.1
Conratulations to all the girls involved!

