Nationals 2009

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Nationals roundup - CSG members only

WAG

Level 4

Team 1st Millie Williamson, Shontelle Rogers-Hancox, Natasha Boon
Team 3rd Tara Purvis, Bree Thomson, Celine Evans
Natasha Boon 1st AA, Millie Williamson 1st BB, 2nd UB, 2nd FX 3rd AA Shontelle Roger-Hancox 2nd AA, BB

Level 5

Team 1st Analise Borkus, Sophie Inwood
Analise Borkus, 1st AA, 1st UB, 1st BB, 1st FX, 2nd Vt
Sophie Inwood 3rd AA

Level 6

Team 1st  Rebecca Morrison, Evie Lavery
Rebecca Morrison 1st AA, UB, FX, - trophy for Junior Gymnast of the Meet. Rebecca scored 63.00.

Level 7

Team 1st Waverely Gee, Ruth Platt
Waverely Gee 1st AA, UB,BB, FX
Ruth Platt 2nd Vt, 2nd BB

Level 9

Ashleigh Wade 1st BB - Trophy for highest mark of the Senior Meet. 15.65 on beam too!

Junior International

Team 1st Stacey Anderson, Holly Moon, Stacey Anderson
Holly Moon 1st AA, 1st BB, 2nd UB, 2nd Vt
Lani Hohepa 1st Vt, 2nd BB, 2nd FX, 3rd AA
Stacey Anderson 1st UB, 1st UB

Senior International

Charlotte White 1st Vt, 2nd UB, 2nd BB, 2nd FX, 2nd AA

MAG

Level 4

Team 2nd William Fraser 

William Fraser 1st PB, 3rd AA, 3rd HB

Level 5

Team 1st Callum Roberts, Ryan Jeffs

Callum Roberts 1st AA, 2nd Vt, 3rd FX
Ryan Jeffs 1st 1st PH

Level 7

Team 1st Jordan Russell, Jorden O'Connell- Inns, Kyleab Ellis, Chris Langridge
Jordan Russell 1st AA, 1st PB, 2nd Vt
Jorden O'Connell-Inns 2nd AA, 2nd PB, 2nd PH
Kyleab Ellis @nd FX, 3rd Vt

Level 8

Team 1st Aaron Clutterbuck, Riku Takei, Michael Ny
Aaron Clutterbuck 1st AA, 1st Vt, 1st RG, 1st PH, 1st PB, 2nd HB, 2nd FX
Riku Takei 1st FX, 1st HB, 3rd PB. Highest mark on floor 15.10
Michael Ny 3rd VT, 3rd HB

40 National titles, 22 silver, 13 bronze - Flipping Brilliant

Wednesday
Lani Hohepa wins vault
Holly takes Beam title.
Stacey Anderson took out the floor and the vault titles in Junior International

Charlotte wins Senior international vault.

Ashleigh Wade  scored a 15.65 to take the level 9 beam title.

Tuesday was red and black day.

WAG level 4 all around, 1st Natasha Boon, 2nd Shontelle Rogers - Hancox, 3rd Millie Williamson, all Canterbury all CSG
WAG level 5 all around 1st Analise Borkus (CSG) with another 62, 2nd Saasha Singh (OLY)  3rd Sophie Inwood (CSG) 4th Aan Chu
WAG level 6 all around 1st Rebecca Morrison (CSG) scoring a record 63, 2nd Charlotte Sullivan (Oly).
MAG level 4 3rd William Fraser
MAG level 5 1st Callum Roberts - He also scored a 10 on vault!

Monday 28th

Level 6 girls came with only 3 members after an injury forced Izzy Hughes out, despite that the team performed well and beat a strong challenge from Bay of Plenty and Wellington to take the team title.This means a clean sweep of the girls level 4 to 6 Junior team titles to Canterbury again. Rebecca Morrison leads the field in the All around followed by Charlotte Sullivan.
It was not one of Rebecca's best performances overall, after she fell twice from beam which was the first apparatus. The last apparatus though clinched the title with a medal winning performances from the 3 team members.The bar routine from Rebecca was her best yet hitting her handstands and being rewarded for great form by an only 0.5 deduction from her B score.Final score 16.1 - the only 16 of the level 6 meet. Rebecca plac ed 1st on bars and 1st on floor.

The level 7 boys also competed this morning. CSG's Kyleab Ellis, Jorden O'Connell-Inns and Jordan Russell were named as NZ's team to challenge the Australians'. This was the 2nd time this year that Jordan and Kyleab had a chance to represent NZ. They travelled to the Australian Nationals in July, where Jordan placed 3rd AA, but the team came 2nd.

Sunday 27th

The Canterbury team are now domiciled in Hamilton and have already made their mark at the Championships.

Day 1 saw the level 4 girl Canterbury A team take out the Team competition, from North Harbour, and Canterbury B.

The 2009 National Champion level 4 team  Millie Williamson, Shontelle Rogers-Hancox, Natasha Boon and Courtney McGregor.

Millie Williamson leads the field into the AA around final from fellow club member Shontelle Rogers Hancox.

Level 5 girls competed on day 2, also cleaning up in the team final from Wellington and Bay of Plenty.
Analise Borkus scored a personal best and NZ record of 62.65 to lead the field into the AA final on Monday, Sophie Inwood
competed strongly scoring 58.550 to come in 2nd. Other winning team members Saasha Singh 57.783 4th and Aan Chu at 56.20 14th.
Analise was 1st on Bars, beam and floor and 2nd on vault.

MAG

The level 5 boys team also took out the title beating Auckland 162.60 to 158.025.
The team was James Bolton 55.950 (1st), Ryan Jeffs 53.25 (3rd) Callum Roberts 53.00 (6th).
With only 3 members the Canterbury team really excelled.

Earlier in the day the Canterbury Level 4 team took silver, beaten by a strong North Harbour team.

William Fraser is ranked 3rd and Andre Debenham 2nd.

Canterbury Championships 1st - 2nd August

CSG Classic 17-19th July, 2009

The annual Classic was bigger than ever with over 400 gymnasts from around Australasia arriving in Christchurch for the years biggest competition outside Nationals.

Nelson - Top of the South Competition

CSG retains the Top Club Competition Shield, by 7 points from local club Olympia.
The competition was strong over the weekend with clubs competing from as far away as Manukau.
Impressive performances were posted by William Fraser 1st= in Level 4, Evie Lavery 1st Level 5.

Australian Nationals 2009

Jordan Russell competed well in Brisbane coming home with an All around bronze medal, as well as individual gold in pommel, and bronze in vault.
Kyleab Ellis, Findlay Christie and Brandon Bell along with Jordan came in behind Australia to take the silver in the teams competition.

The boys are back home now, training hard for their next challenge, CSG Classic on this weekend 17 to 19 July. approx 20 boys are expected to compete for the Level 7 title, the most ever outside the Nationals Championships.

CSG Day 2 at Victorian Champs 2009

Following on from an excellent first day the CSG young gymnasts continued their excellent form.

International 5

Analise Borkus 1st AA, 1st Vault, 2nd UB, 2nd BB, 

Hanna Malloch 3rd AA, 3rd Bar, 3rd BB

Ari Graham 5th AA, 2nd Vault
Team 1st

International 6

Rebecca Morrison, 6th AA, 4th Vault, 4th Bar, 4th Beam, 4th Floor

Junior International 

Holly Moon 4th Vt, 5th BB, 4th FX

Stacey Anderson 4th AA, 4th UB, 4th BB,

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CSG at Victorian Champs 2009

CSG on the first day of the Victorian Championships made their mark by taking out the team title in the International 5 grade against top competition from the Victorian High Performance Programme and MLC (Methodist Ladies College)

The competition is held over 2 days. Day 1 is the team competition and the apparatus winners and all around champion are found after day 1 and day 2 scores are added together.

International level 5

CSG's team of Analise Borkus, Ari Graham, Hanna Malloch and Shontelle Rogers - Hancox  scored a total of 169.503. MLC 164.87 were 2nd and 3rd was the Victorian Women's High Performance Centre on 157.553.
Day 2 will be on Monday and this day will decide the all around champion and apparatus medallists. Currently Analise is lying 2nd with 58.284, only 0.218 behind Lidia McLean of MLC. Hanna Malloch is a further 1.049 behind in 3rd. Ari Graham 7th with 53.984 and Shontelle Rogers-Hancox is 12th 51.968.

International level 6

CSG's Rebecca Morrison performed strongly, and is placed 8th after day 1. Rebecca is ranked 1st on vault and 5th on her best apparatus beam, despite counting 2 falls.

Junior International

Stacey Anderson, just 13yrs is ranked 6th with a score of 45.150, and 1.10 points ahead of 15 year old Jordan Rae of Counties Manukau. Leading this grade is Emma Collister of Waverley Gymnastics with 51.517. Stacey's strongest event beam sees her in 3rd place, with a career high of 12.2, with a 4.5 D score.
Holly Moon 15yrs, competing only 3 events due to a shoulder injury, performed well on vault with a 12.850 and 6th place, and 10.95 on floor despite falling out of the floor area on her first tumble pass, tuck double back.

Notes from the gymnasts after the Team competition.

Rebecca Morrison -"I was pleased with my vault, and on Monday I want to be more consistent on beam, and will definitely get my connections on floor"
Rebecca is 1st on vault, 5th on beam.

Analise Borkus - "I was happy with what I did, and on Monday I can do better on floor, I bounced on my last tumble and next time I will stick it.
Analise is currently 1st on bar and beam, 5th on vault and 7th on floor.

Hanna Malloch - "I want to make my kip cast to handstand, I know I can do it. I was pleased with my vault score but want to improve my ranking"
Hanna is currently 2nd on Beam and 3rd on floor, 12th on vault and 4th on bar.

Ari Graham - "I was pleased to finally stick my beam mount in a competition. Vault was good I am 3rd. On Monday I want to make my tumbles and stick". Ari is 3rd on vault, 8th on beam, 13th on floor and 9th on bar.

Shontelle Rogers-Hancox - "I was pleased to stick my flic on beam by myself, and on Monday I will add my clear circle on bars"
Shontelle is 9th on beam, 11th on bars, 15th on vault and floor"

Holly Moon - "I was so pleased to compete my double back, but I went out of the floor area. On Monday I want to stick it. My beam could be better but I stayed on so that was great"

Stacey Anderson - "I was pleased to get the first day over, I went right through my bar but over rotated my dismount so that was a shame. On Monday it will be better.

The coaches (Jozsi and Svetlana) were very pleased with the decision to attend this competition. The competition was always going to be tough, Victoria is a strong gymnastics area, they had 3 women gymnasts in the 6 member Olympic Team. All the Australian gymnasts are peaking for their Nationals in July while NZ nationals is in late September. Australian Gymnasts have come to Melbourne to compete from as far away as QLD, SA and NSW.

The Victorian State Championships is a huge event in a very nice venue, The State Netball Centre. The gymnasts performed very well and were not overawed by their surroundings. They have learned to compete well, this was a big goal for this tour, we are happy with them.

Candid Camera at Vic Champs

National MAG Squads

National MAG Squads Named- another 3 on the list.

Following on from the WAG squads named late last year, the eagerley awaited MAG squads were named on Tuesday 17th February.
CSG had 3 of their last years Level 6 make it into the National Talent Development squad.

Congratulations to

Kyleab Ellis, Christopher Langridge and Jorden O'Connell-Inns

The celebrations were a little subdued however as 13 year old Jordan Russell found out he was not eligible for the Talent Development squad as he had competed level 7 at the 2008 Nationals. He was also not eligible for the MAG Performance Squad (The senior squad) as he is too young to trial for the Commonwealth 2010 Team.
So here we have a talented gymnast that over the last 4 years was Level 4 and level 5 National Champion, runner up in level 6, and 6th in Level 7 but not recognised by the National Sport Development Committee. An oversight that we hope will be rectified soon.

Another to miss out was Aaron Clutterbuck, a NZ representative in 2007, he competed strongly winning 2 titles (Floor and Vault) at the 2008 National Championships. Aaron also competed at the Australian National Club Championships in Canberra in December where he placed 2nd overall. Check out the results in the 2008 news.

Jordan and Aaron, along with Georgia Catlow (who was unlucky to miss out on the WAG talent squad when she placed 2nd in Level 6) will have a point to prove this year, and I am sure that they will do just that.

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.

Intercontinental Course - Judging WAG, Bratislava

After Mike returned from Sydney, it was Avril's turn to travel to Slovakia for the Intercontinental Women's Judging Course. This course was for the top judges in the World to attend and is the first course for the Women this Olympic Cycle. 104 judges attended the course, 3 from New Zealand. Marie Stechman and Karen Bevins travelled too.
Results - Avril Enslow, maintained her category 1 status, and was placed 6th at the course. A great achievement. This top placing will mean that she will be in the 'pool' for selection to the world's top events.

Karen Bevins was ineligble for category 1, due to lack of international practical competitions, placed 28th within the category 1 range but was given Category 2. Marie Stechman attended the course only and was also awarded category 2.
New Zealand now again has 2 judges at the top of the international lists. Stephen Kendall of Auckland maintained his category 1 place at the Intercontinental MAG course in Germany held in December 2008.

International Course - Judging MAG- Sydney 10th to 14th January

Every 4 years, judges need to validate their international Judging licence (Brevet). The International Technical committees refine the rules to keep our sport trending in the direction they believe is the best for the participants and our worldwide audience. Therefore after the Olympics, courses are held all over the world to educate the judges and coaches ready for the next Olympic cycle.
Mike Plourde attended his first International Brevet course in the Southern Hemisphere when he attended the Men's artistic Gymnastics judging course in Sydney early in January.Mike accompanied, 3 other NZ judges, 2 of whom were taking the test for the first time. Mike received his brevet judging licence in the USA in the last Olympic cycle.The course in the USA had over 90 participants, so the Australasian course with 25 was much friendlier and easier for the lecturers and judges.

CSG now has a fully qualified MAG brevet judge. Congratulations Mike well done.

Flipping Brilliant Clinics. 14 to 16th, and 20th to 24th January.

CSG's January Flipping Brilliant clinics were again over subscribed. Gymnasts and coaches came from as far away as Auckland, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay and Invercargill.

Jozsi and his excellent team of professional coaches led a great learning experience. All the gymnasts came away exhausted but happy. Techniques and progressions were shared
friendships developed and all in all a great start to the gymnastic year.

AYOF - Gymnasts compete at their First international.

Lani Hohepa and Holly Moon competed this week at their first junior International in Sydney.
The competition was tough with a strong Chinese contingent, as well as Japanese, 2 teams of Australians, older British and a mixed age grou of Malaysian gymnasts.
Some of the Japanese competed at the International challenge in Perth in September, and some of the British team competed at the last AYOF. The NZ team was made of of the 2 CSG gymnasts, plus the level 8 NZ title holder Jordyn Rae,  the more experienced 15 year old, Briana Mitchell.
Lani Hohepa was the stand out on day 1 making it through to the Vault finals with a stunning yurchenko layout. She also was first reserve for her favourite evet the floor. After an injury to one of the top Chinese it may be that she may well get to compete in that event too.

Prior to their departure, Erin Baker the famous triathlete came to the gym to watch their last training session and shared some words of wisdom.