2008 News

2009 Prime Minister's Scholarships announced

CSG's CEO Avril Enslow was this week awarded a 2009 Prime Minister's scholarship. Avril is currently a category 1 international judge, which allows her to be drawn for Olympics, World Cup and World Championships as an A Panel Judge. The scholarship is to assist in the costs of attending the intercontinental judging course in Bratislava in January. This course is for the top judges in the World and is held every 4 years after the Olympics.

National Squads named - 9 gymnasts from CSG

The Women's Sport Development Committee today announced the Performance Squad and the Talent Development squads for 2009.
The gymnasts are:

Performance Squad

Lani Hohepa, Holly Moon, both 14 and Stacey Anderson 12 all CSG

Other members are. Danielle Greig (USA), Briana Mitchell (North Harbour), Jordan Rae (Counties Manukau), Olivia Trigg (Capital)

Talent Development Squad

 Waverley Gee 12, Ruth Platt 12 , Rebecca Morrison 10, Analise Borkus 9, Ari Graham 9, Hanna Malloch 10 all CSG

other members are, Brittany Robertson, Tessa Mullins, Amy Burrows, Serene Boon (all North Harbour), Danielle Jellicoe (Hutt) Charlotte Sullivan, Ella Martin (Olympia)
Elizabeth Main (Counties Manukau)

 Congratulations gymnasts and coaches.

Australian Clubs - Big haul by CSG level 7 men.

CSG sent it's first ever Mens team to the annual Australian Clubs competition in Canberra. It will not be the last time as they greatly exceeded expectations.
The level 7 team of Aaron Clutterbuck, Jordan Russell, Kyleab Ellis, and Chris Langridge won 1st team over some very good teams from high powered programmes.
2nd was the 5 man Victorian High performance Team and 3rd Woden Valley. CSG's team also took out the Pommel trophy, and was runner up on Vault, P Bar and HB. 3rd on Floor and rings.An excellent haul for a very motivated and well trained talented team.

Individuals

Aaron Clutterbuck 2nd AA, 1st on Rings, 1st Vault and 1st P Bar.
Jordan Russell 6th AA, 3rd on pommel
Kyleab Ellis 10th AA, 4th Pommel
Christopher Langridge 13th AA  5th P Bar.

Earlier in the week we had the level 4 WAG team take out the 2nd Team Trophy for uneven bars, and was 7th team overall.

170 gymnasts competed in level 4.

Ari Graham  17th AA, 2nd Bar
Hanna Malloch  18th AA 6th Bar
Sophie Inwood  22nd AA  8th Bar
Rosie Griffioen  29th AA 10th bar
Kelsi Lewis 44th AA 13th Bar

International level 6 team came in 2nd. 

32 gymnasts competed from HP programmes throughout Australia.

Rebecca Morrison 9th AA  8th Floor
Analise Borkus 11th AA  5th Beam
Waverely Gee 12th AA 10th Beam

International 10
Stacey Anderson - 7th AA and 6th on Beam

Level 10

Holly Moon 9th AA, 6th on Floor
Lani Hohepa 15th AA, 4th on Vault.

Australian National Clubs - Canberra November 23 to December 3

16 CSG Gymnasts will be winging their way to Canberra over the next week to compete in the Australian National Clubs Competition. After excellent results last year with the girls teams that competed, it was decided to open up the tour to the boys too.
The NZ National level 4 Title holders all came from CSG and 3 girls that were on that team are travelling over to pit themselves against 30 level 4 teams from the best clubs in Australasia. 

Level 4 Team - Ari Graham, Rosie Griffioen, Hanna Malloch, Sophie Inwood, Kelsi Lewis, 

International 10 gymnast Stacey Anderson,Seniors Lani Hohepa, Holly Moon

International 6 gymnasts Rebecca Morrison, Waverley Gee and Analise Borkus

Boys seniors, Aaron Clutterbuck, Jordan Russell, Kyleab Ellis, Chris Langridge.

Coaches - Head Coach Jozsi Ferencz, Svetlana Sazonova, Emma Hunt

Judges - Michele Hawke, Adrian Russell

AYOF - CSG Gymnasts and Coach named in NZ team

Holly Moon and Lani Hohepa were this week named in the NZ Team to compete at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney in mid January.
The gymnasts were selected in the 4 person gymnastics team after solid  performances at the National Championships in September. As a build up Holly and Lani will compete later this month at the Australian National Clubs competition in Canberra.
Jozsi Ferencz will be the NZ Coach to travel with the team. 

Nationals 2008

Wow CSG way to go, an excellent final meet of the current season.

Top competitors were

Analise Borkus Level 4, with 5 golds,
Samantha Russell level 10 who took out 4 golds, and 2 bronze and
Rebecca Morrison level 5 with 5 golds and a silver.
Lani Hohepa Level 9, 4 golds and 2 silvers

WAG
Level 4

Analise Borkus 1st AA, 1st on Bars, 1st on Beam, 1st= on Floor
Ari Graham 3rd AA, 2nd  on Vault
Sophie Inwood, 5th AA 2nd on Beam, 1st= on Floor
Hanna Malloch, 8thAA
Lydia Johnson, 10th
Rosie Griffioen 13th
Kelsi Lewis, 20th

Team 1st    Analise, Sophie, Rosie, Hanna - all CSG
Team 2nd   Ari, Lydia, Kelsi, CSG and Saasha (Olympia)

Level 5

Rebecca Morrison 1st AA, 1st on Bars, 1st on Beam, 1st on Floor, 2nd on Vault.
Evie Lavery 10th AA

Team 1st   Rebecca, CSG, Charlotte, Izzy, Ella (Olympia)

Level 6

Georgia Catlow, 2nd AA, 2nd Vault, 3rd Floor
Waverley Gee, 3rd AA, 1st Beam
Ruth Platt, 5th AA, 2nd Beam
Olivia Rule, 14th AA

Team 1st   Georgia, Waverely, Ruth all CSG and Anna (Olympia)

Canterbury girls took 7 of the 9 AA placings in the junior divisions of level 4,5 & 6. They also took all 3 team titles (again) plus their No 2 team was 2nd in level 4.

Level 7

Annie Stevenson 5th AA, 2nd Bar
Anna Leathers 12th

Level 8

Laura Carpinter 9th AA, 3rd Vault
Ashleigh Wade 1st on Beam

Team 2nd, Laura, Ashleigh CSG, Stacey, Cecelia (Olympia)

Level 9

Lani Hohepa 1st AA, 1st Beam, 1st Bar, 2nd Floor, 2nd Vault
Michelle Lewis 5th AA, 2nd Beam, 2nd Bar

Team 1st, Lani, Michelle CSG and Emma (Olympia)

Level 10

Samantha Russell 1st AA, 1st Bar, 1st Floor, 3rd Vault, 3rd Beam
Charlotte White 2nd AA, 1st Vault, 1st Beam, 3rd Bar, 2nd Floor
Karla Singh 3rd AA, 2nd Bar, 2nd Vault, 2nd Beam, 3rd Floor

Team 1st - Sam, Charlotte, Karla

Junior International

Holly Moon 2nd AA, 1st Vault, 1st Beam, 1st Floor, 2nd Bar
Stacey Anderson 3rd AA, 3rd Vault, 3rd Bar

MAG

Level 4

Samuel Elstob 2nd AA, 1st High Bar, 3rd on Vault
Ryan Jeffs, 3rd AA, 1st on Pommell, 2nd on High Bar, 3rd on Rings
Callum Roberts 7AA, 3rd on High Bar.
Matthew Howes 9th AA, 1st= on Vault
Samuel Pitcaithly 21st AA

Team 1st, Samuel, Ryan, Callum CSG, James (Rang)
Team 3rd Matthew, Samuel P CSG, James N (Olympia)

Level 5

Full individual results not to hand.

Nathan Taylor 4th AA.3rd Rings, 3rd High Bar

Team 1st, Nathan, CSG, Daniel, Lennon, Joshua (Olympia)

Level 6

Jorden O'Connell-Inns 4th AA, 2nd Pommel, 3rd P Bars, 3rd High Bar,
Chris Langridge, 5th AA,
Kyleab Ellis, 7th AA, 3rd Floor,

Team 1st Jorden O'Connell-Inns, Kyleab Ellis, Chris Langridge CSG, Billy Gordon (Olympia)

Level 7

Jordan Russell 6th AA

Level 8

Aaron Clutterbuck 14th AA, 1st Rings, !st Vault, 3rd Floor. 

Trampoline

Kerry Truman 1st DMT, 1st Trampoline. 

Prizegiving - 2008

This will be held at the gym on Sunday 12 October 4pm to 5.30pm.
(Results under Results / prizegiving tab)

International Challenge - Perth 12 -14 September, 2008

On the 9th September 8 of our gymnasts depart for Perth WA to compete for NZ in the International Levels Challenge. The competition will be tough, there are 3 teams competing from Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
The CSG members are:
Samantha Russell, Karla Singh, Charlotte White - Level 10
Michelle Lewis, Lani Hohepa - Level 9
Laura Carpinter - Level 8
Annie Stevenson, Justice Shaw Cross Level 7
Good luck girls.

CSG is providing 8 of the 15 members of the team. 

Beijing

CSG's judge Avril Enslow drew vault in Team finals, Floor in individual AA and Bar in the Apparatus finals.
The bar final will be the toughest of them all as the top 8 gymnasts are very tight and it will be a close fought event. 

39 CSG gymnasts named in the 2008 Canterbury Team

Once again CSG provides the majority of gymnasts in the strong 2008 Canterbury Team.
38 Artistic gymnasts and 1 trampolinist.

Melbourne - Victorian State Pennant Finals - 9th August, 2008.

The CSG Junior Development squad (Level 1A and 2A) travelled to Melbourne this week to compete in the Victorian State Pennant Finals.
CSG was invited to send two teams from their junior programmes straight to the final competition without going through the preliminaries. The organisers must have been very surprised by the quality of the work on show from the NZ girls. It has been many years since gymnasts from NZ have kept pace with Australians, after all Australia are one of the world power houses of the sport. They also provided half of the WAG gymnasts into the Australian Olympic team. Melbourne is gymnastically very strong.

The CSG level 1 A team, won not only the team AA competition by 4.0 points but also every apparatus - wow!

The CSG level 2 A team won the AA by 5 whole points, and were  2nd Floor, 5th on Vault, 1st on Bars and Beam.

In December 07 CSG attended the Australian Clubs competition in Canberra with teams in level 4, 5 and 7. these gymnasts, already NZ National title holders held their own. The level 7 team won the Australian overall title, as well as taking the Bars, Beam and Floor apparatus trophy and placing 2nd in the Vault. The level 4 team was 4th from 33 teams, and the level 5 team was 5th. The club learned from this that they were competitive against their Australian peers, and now the juniors have dominated.The future is looking better. A system is in place and is performing well, CSG is looking to the future and is producing and preparing a strong group of gymnasts that are competitive in Australia, that bodes well for the future of the sport.

Well done Joszi and his coaching staff. It takes more than just one person and it takes more than just a few gymnasts, it takes a team, a culture, a programme.

CSG has that, lets look to the future with confidence. 

Competition Results

Level-1A_08.pdf

Level2A_Vic_Champs_08.pdf

CSG members are finalists in the 2008 Hadlee Awards.

Jozsi Ferencz is once again a finalist in the Sir Richard Hadlee Canterbury Sportsperson coach of the year  awards, and our WAG level 7 team is too.The awards cover the 2007 /8 year and so the stunning results from Nationals 2007 results count.

The level 7 team of 

Lani Hohepa, Laura Carpinter, Stacey Anderson, Madison Lafituanai (Canberra), Ashleigh Wade (NZ Nationals) were nominated due to their exceptional performances at the National Championships in September 2007 (the team won, and all were from CSG) and then they went on to dominate at the Australian National clubs competition in December. This group of talented gymnast deserve their recognition. Good luck at the finals.

 Kathryn Lewis was also nominated as young sportsperson, but in the build up to 2008 Olympics there were many nominations for this award and Kathryn did not make the fnal cut.
We all know how much Kathryn achieved though and we appreciate the dedication and the effort that went into her 2007 year, and what a year it was.
We appreciate and love it Kathryn. See below.

Kathryn Lewis.

2007 National Level 10 Champion, 2007 Gymnast of the Meet, 2007 Levels Gymnast of the Year. NZ representative 3 times, numerous apparatus titles and AA National, and regional titles to her credit, Kathryn announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics earlier this year.

It was a difficult decision after such a long and successful career, but it was now time for Kathryn to move on.
A presentation was made to Kathryn at the CSG Classic Competition on the weekend, to acknowledge her 12 years as a gymnast with the club.

Kathryn has not left us, she is coaching a junior squad with great success, and hopefully enjoyment. 

Primary Schools Competition

Another great Primary Schools Competition was held at CSG. Over 60 competitive gymnasts went through their routines in under 4 hours.
There were some excellent performances and it was great to see our hard working gymnasts have a chance to represent their school in their sport.
Well done everyone, and a huge thank you to the volunteers.

2008_Primary_Schools_Competitive_Results.pdf

New floor base installed 14th June

Thanks to the Lion Foundation we were able to purchase the base for the AAI Elite Performance Floor. The topper pad an underlay arrived 2 years ago, and today the base was installed. The floor is now complete.

The working bee was very successful with the old floor dismantled and the new floor installed in less than 2.5 hours. Well done everyone.

Junior WAG Coaching Course 6 - 7 June 08

13 coaches from around the South Island attended  an indepth Junior coaching course at CSG. Michele Hawke was the expert presenter and CSG provided level 3 gymnasts as demonstrators. The course was well received by the coaches.

 South Island Invitational Competition 31st May - 2 June, 08

The competition ran very smoothly last weekend, with the new competition format and management. This meet has for the last 11 years been run at QEII Park, but usually under the Canterbury Gymnastics Assn umbrella. Now that the regional body has been disbanded CSG is now responsible for this competition and Canterbury Intermediate  & Senior Championships. Olympia will host the Canterbury Junior Champs.

Isabel Goodhew has been retained by CSG as the competition assistant Event Director and Results manager, and at the weekend Dale Todd was the floor manager. Both of these ladies  have a wealth of competition knowledge between them, and teaming up with CSG"s Jane Clark as Event Manager, there was no doubt that it would be successful.
Approx 250 Gymnasts came from around the South Island and Wellington.
This competition saw the return of the junior and sub junior international levels to this area, with 4 gymnasts entered into international 6, Stacey Anderson in international 10, and Holly Moon in Junior International.

The WAG gymnasts from CSG took out every level they competed in - 15 levels.

Level 1A   Samantha Williams,        Level 1B     Caitlin Peterson     Level 2A   Millie Williamson             Level 2B Kristina Sammut    Level 3      Celine Evans   
Level 4      Ari Graham                   Level 5      Rebecca Morrison   Level 6      Justice Shaw Cross        Level 7      Annie Stevenson
Level 8      Lani Hohepa                  Level 10   Karla Singh             Int'l 6      Rebecca Morrison            Int'l 10      Stacey Anderson        Jnr I         Holly Moon

MAG

Level 2    Jonte Britten        Level 4    Samuel Elstob     

Christchurch Civic Awards - Adrian Russell

A cluster of community-minded individuals and organisations received framed certificates and boxed medallions from Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker, at the recent Civic Awards ceremony.
The awards recognised twenty two people and organisations from a wide cross-section of the community, whose actions have helped make Christchurch a better place to live.
This year’s recipients cover everything from services to wheelchair rugby, support given to the children and family of prisoners, to services, to the elderly and disadvantaged.

Civic Awards are presented annually by the Council in recognition of substantial service, usually of a voluntary nature that benefits the city of Christchurch and its people. This service can be in a number of areas including recreation, youth activities, social welfare, educational services, cultural, religious and community affairs.

Nominations were called for in August 2007 and went through a judging process. Recommendations on the nominations were then made to a full Council meeting. The process of calling nominations through to the Mayoral function is usually completed within the year of the awards. However due to the local government elections last year, the ceremony had to be postponed and took place on Monday 17 March 2008.

Our very own Adrian Russell was one of the 22. Adrian was nominated for what was achieved under his guidance as President from 2001 to 2007, and as Chair of the Building Committee 2003 to 2007. CSG would not be what it is today without his leadership and vision. 

 Congratulations Adrian and thank you. 

Beijing Olympics

Guess who has been appointed to the Beijing Olympics as a WAG Judge? 
Yes Avril Enslow has received notification of her appointment to Beijing. Congratulations. This will be her 4th Olympics!
Avril will travel to San Jose in March to be at the Pacific Alliance Championships. This is part of her

preparation for Beijing.
Unfortunately there are no NZL gymnasts competing, it is the first year since the Pacific Alliance National Gymnastics Federation competitions began
that no gymnasts will be there.
The Pacific region has many of the worlds gymnastic powerhouses. USA, China, Korea, Canada, Australia and Japan.