We are delighted to announce to the return of former Notts gymnast Sam Oldham to the academy.

Sam joined Notts as a 7-year-old and achieved a lot of success during his time at the club, breaking into the junior national squad and became the British under 12 champion. He left Notts at the age of 14 and has gone on to achieve great things within the sport.

As a junior, he was part of the 2008 Great Britain team that won the Junior European Championships for very first time, before going onto becoming individual Junior European All-Around and High Bar Champion in 2010. He also represented Great Britain at the Youth Olympic Games, claiming Gold on the High Bar and Silver on Pommel.

As a senior, Sam has represented Great Britain at the European and World championships, achieving an individual Silver medal at the 2013 and 2014 Euro’s on High Bar. He was also part of Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics, who claimed a historic Bronze medal in the team event.

Sam will be training at the academy full time within the Men’s squad and has his sights firmly set on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games.

We wish to offer him a huge welcome home and the best of luck in the future from everyone here at NGA!

Please note that between the 4th and the 21st August the office will be closed. 

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Thank you. 

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Jack Duggan to the role of Head of Gymnastics For All. Jack joins us with a wealth of experience as both a coach, but also in his current role with the British Gymnastics Education Team, which has involved tutoring and mentoring coaches across the Country.

Jack is a Level 4 qualified General gymnastics coach as well as holding Level 2 Men's Artistic and therefore brings lots of expertise to his new role at NGA, as head of GFA.

We look forward to Jack joining Team Notts from the 15th August.

Ellie Downie has kicked off 2016 in style as part of Hello! magazine glamorous photo shoot featuring Rising Stars of 2016.

'Young, hot & talented' Ellie has been picked as one of the amazing achievers after winning the BBC's Young Sports personality of the Year 2015.

The magazine picked 6 young talents from screen, stage & sport as they step into the spotlight.

The issue is the 11 Jan, number 1412

Notts gymnast Ellie Downie finishes her fantastic 2015 by being named the bbcs Young sports personality of the year! Well done Ellie - Notts is very proud.  

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