Pre-school Christmas Gymnastics sessions

All those that are on our General Parent Committee, there will be a meeting on Saturday at 3pm to discuss the Christmas display. There was a lack of General Parents at the last, so as many of you that can attend please do.

We are also looking for a new treasurer for the General Disicpline and Parent Rep.

Please contact the office if you are interrested.

Huge congratulations to Ellie Downie who has scooped the Young Sportsperson of the Year Award 2013 at Nottingham Post Sports Awards.

Accompanied by proud mum Helen she accepted the award but true to form was back in the gym by 7.30 the following morning, training hard as usual.

Well done Ellie and to all the coaching team at Notts.

The post report highlight:

"SPORT in Nottinghamshire was the winner last night at a sparkling celebration of the achievements of our superb sportsmen and women.

The great and the good of Notts sport, past and present, gathered at the East Midlands Conference Centre for an evening staged to acknowledge the county's sporting excellence.

You the readers had the chance to vote on 13 of the Nottingham Post Sports Awards categories since we launched this year's event in July.

Between then and the closing date in September, hundreds of votes came flooding in – both from in paper nomination forms and also via nottinghampost.com.

Ellie Downie, meanwhile, was the runner-up in the Young Sportsperson of the Year in 2012 but went one better this time around.

The Notts Gymnastics Academy teenage starlet won gold in the vault and silver in the team competition for Great Britain at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Utrecht, in the Netherlands earlier this year."

Thursday 31st October is the award ceremony for The Nottungham Post Sports Awards 

Today Ellie features on the front page of the Post, we wish her good luck!

Nomination for Ellie Downie

TEENAGER Ellie Downie won gold in the vault and silver in the team competition for Great Britain at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Utrecht, in the Netherlands earlier this year.

Her victory continues the legacy of success in her family as 21-year-old sister Becky is a double Commonwealth medallist, finished a record-breaking 12th overall in the all-round event at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, when she was just 16, and recently made the final of the uneven bars at the World Championships over in Belgium.

Having won team gold and individual all-around silver at a junior international in Germany in the lead up to the Youth Olympics, to go with her national junior titles from earlier this year, Ellie looks to be progressing nicely in her own career.

And the 2016 Olympics in Rio is certainly an aim – for both Downie sisters, who train at Notts Gymnastics Academy at Rushcliffe Leisure Centre in West Bridgford under the tutelage of head coach Claire Starkey.

Next month Ellie will be jetting off to Marseilles in the south of France for an event for GB, alongside sister Becky.

European Youth Olympic Post Story