2010 National Championships

Congratulations to Georgia Bonora, the 2010 Australian Snr International All Around Champion, Australian Bars Champion and Australian Floor Champion!
Click here to read two articles in International Gymnast Magazine.
Shona Morgan took out 3rd AA at Snr International and 4th Bars. Emma Dennis took out
4th AA and is now the Australian Beam Champion as well as 4th on Vault.

At Junior International, Angela blitzed the field winning the Australian Jnr International All Around title as well as becoming the Jnr International Bars Champion and Jnr International Beam Champion as well as 2nd on Floor. Angela has now been selected for the Youth Olympics in August! Read the Australian Youth Olympics article here.






Eliza Freeman put in an amazing performance at her first Nationals to become the 2010 Australian International Level 6 All Around Champion as well as the International 6 Australian Beam Champion and International 6 Bars Champion, as well as 2nd Floor and 2nd Vault. Dania Juricskay also surpassed all expectations for her first Nationals with a beautiful performance placing 10th AA and 9th Vault.

THURSDAY 7th JULY

Congratulations to the Victorian Junior International Team - 1st place team!
Well done to WGC team member Angela Donald!!!



Congratulations to Victorian Senior International Team - 1st place team!
Well done to WGC team members Emma Dennis, Shona Morgan & Georgia Bonora!!



Click here for the GA news article

WEDNESDAY 7th JULY

What a truly amazing way to wrap up the 2010 Australian Championships – National 10 girls looked HOT and performed absolutely rock steady in the finals......

National Level 10 Finals Results:
Unbelievable Results.......

Highlights are:
All Around: 2nd – Alicia Brown
3rd Rachel Figgis (WGC)
5th – Meagan Silvers
12th – Tayla Dinuccio
16th – Harriet Adcock
22nd – Laura Hart (WGC)
23rd – Sarah Johnstone

Vault: 1st – Tayla – Australian Champion
4th – Laura
6th – Meagan
=8th – Rachel
=8th – Alicia
12th – Harriet
20th – Sarah

Bars: 1st – Rachel – Australian Champion
3rd – Alicia
7th – Meagan
13th – Tayla
15th – Harriet
22nd – Laura
28th – Sarah

Beam: 2nd – Alicia
8th – Rachel
15th – Meagan
18th – Tayla
21st – Sarah
22nd – Laura
24th – Harriet

Floor: 1st – Meagan – Australian Champion
3rd – Alicia
=5th – Rachel
9th – Harriet
11th – Sarah
16th – Tayla
25th – Laura

Well done also to Emily Cavell (National Level 9) who placed
15th All Around, 12th Vault, 13th Bars, 19th Beam, 16th Floor

Awesome job and awesome effort from all the girls and their coaches.

Simone
Head Coach

Congratulations Laura, Rachel & Emily!!!

TUESDAY 6th JULY

National Level 10 Team Results:
Congratulations to our brilliant and rock solid National 10 girls!!!

Team Results:
1st Place Team: VICTORIA
2nd Place Team: NSW
3rd Place Team: QLD

The girls looked great and as a team they all contributed and pulled together with great sportsmanship, winning the team title by more than 12 marks over the closest state!! Woohoo GO VIC TEAM!!!!!

Currently the girls are ranked in the following positions leading into
the finals tomorrow night:
2nd AA – Alicia Brown
3rd AA – Rachel Figgis (WGC)
5th AA – Meagan Silvers
10th AA – Tayla Dinuccio
13th AA – Harriet Troughton
18th AA – Sarah Johnstone
22nd AA – Laura Hart (WGC)

Well done to the Awesome Team from Vic who not only blitzed their rivals but blew everyone out of the water with their impressive line up of skills and the huge level of difficulty in all their routines.

After a very sick week – Rachel pulled it together and did what she does best.....Although her beam and floor were shaky, she still stayed on and pulled out was massive skills. Rachel is currently placing 1st on Bars – so fingers crossed.....Laura did a great job tonight and pulled out an impressive vault – which is placing her in 4th at the moment! Her quality really stood out tonight – I am so proud of both girls!!!!!

Tomorrow we have another massive day with the National Level 8, 9 and 10’s all having their All Around and Apparatus finals. Fingers crossed the girls will all do extremely well in the finals...Stay tuned for updates as they come through!

Sim

MONDAY 5th JULY

Hi All,

Nationals has been jam packed – full days, with early starts and late finishes (for the coaches anyway), not even seeing the day light!!!

Waverley girls are doing well. Emily Cavell competed last night and did really well. She hit all 4 apparatus and looked nice doing it. She is stoked to be in the top 10 AA and I think she is like 6th on Bars! So I am pretty happy with that.

Laura & Rach compete in the National 10 teams tonight. Rach has been sick as a dog, with vomiting every night and not eating much. She didn’t train yesterday at all. And her ankle isn’t too good – fingers crossed she will wake up this morning with some energy for tonight's competition. May have to look at rearranging some of her routines!! Laura has been training really well and is so focused, which is great to see! I say go girls and good luck to the Victorian Team!!!!

Sim xx

SUNDAY 4th JULY

We all enjoyed a nice sleep in........ well on Melbourne time anyway!! All got up around 8am, which is 10am in Melbourne!!!

Enjoyed a nice breakfast, before heading down to the beach for our Official Team Photo’s. Photos look great, but boy it was cold down there!

After photos we came back to our rooms to relax, before heading off to Harbour Town for a quick bit of shopping! I think we all loved that, I know the coaches certainly did. And I am sure the girls would have loved to stay but we did have to leave to go to Podium Training.....

Podium Training was pretty good – we got through with no major issues and girls felt comfortable on the equipment. Although the gym was quite cold to train in and we had a few sick (flu) gymnasts...... Poor Rach is extremely sick, and has been resting up in the chaperones room.

All Victorian Teams looked solid out there for the first time on the competition floor, they all seemed to worked well together and got through lots of numbers.....

Sim

SATURDAY 3rd JULY

We have all arrived here in Perth safe and sound..... Flight over was great and smooth. Hotel / Resort is very nice. Dinner was also yummy.

Not much today, just flight over, checking in, settling in and dinner. Girls are now in bed (9pm) - as their bodies are still on Monday time, which is 11pm!!!

Podium Training tomorrow - afternoon. So will send through further updates then and more photos!

Sim

Rach & Laura. Emily doing a V hold


Jenni Allen already hard at work with Rach. Emily