"The starting point of achievement, is desire..."
Earlier in the year, our squad competed at the Regional Championships, where if they placed 1st, they qualified through to the National Finals competition, to compete with the best in the country. Our G2 and G5 Mixed Pairs managed to achieve this, and so we made our way to this prestigious event in Stoke-On-Trent this weekend.
We arrived on the Friday for some Podium Training (training prior to the event, using the competition equipment). Quite a precarious time, as our lovely gymnasts rocked up 15mins late to their 25min training slot (I'll let you guys do the maths on that)... but thankfully we managed to sweet talk the organisers into letting us have some more practice time.
Saturday morning arrived to welcome the G2 competition, in which Tom&Darya were ready to compete. Needless to say, they created havoc amongst their category - scoring 27.64 (including a 0.3 deduction for a time fault).. and STILL came 1st, crowing them as NATIONAL CHAMPIONS in grade 2!!! How about that!!
The next day, our grade 5 MxP of Yunus&Tara arrived for their competition. Unfortunately they were not at 100%... Yunus was suffering from fever and a full blown cold, as well as revising for his first GCSE which was scheduled the day after!!! Nevertheless, they were committed to putting their best effort in. Sunday morning saw their balance routine performed. It was an outstanding routine, scoring 27.49, placing them in 1st position ready for the next routine. We had to wait a good 6.5hours before competing their dynamic routine (plenty of time to help Yunus with his trigonometry revision.. we actually did!). There were some concerns in the warm up for the 2nd routine, but this did not phase them. They performed their dynamic routine with style, and held onto their winning position, scoring 27.59... totalling 55.08... which was a FULL mark ahead of all other pairs. They truly smashed it!
We now have our FIRST SET OF ACROBATIC NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!
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