ISA National Gymnastics Championships

ISA National Gymnastics Championships 

On the 4^th of February Copthill competed at the ISA Championships at Adcote School in Shrewsbury.  We entered an U11 girls team, U9 girls team and for the first time an U11 boys team.

Most of the children travelled up the night before due to a very early start for the boys especially! 

The U9 competed first for the girls and performed beautifully over all four pieces.  Their team spirit was fantastic and they demonstrated clearly how much they have improved in just a year. 

Set floor in particular saw huge improvements with Flo Cavaciuti scoring 9, Florence Keeble 9.25 and Ava Turner 9.25, which is a fantastic achievement.  Their voluntary floors to music were performed confidently and neatly, which also saw some higher scores being produced.

The girls have worked very hard to improve their vaults and performed a squat through vault on this occasion.  The standard was very high and the girls finished in a fantastic team 5^th place.  All great practice in preparation for our first ever National ISGA competition to be held in early March.

 

The U11 also had a good competition considering in the week before we had three of the five girls injured!

In vault the girls competed either two squat through vaults or a squat through and a handspring.  Again showing some good improvements in their form and shape.  Annabel Hayes achieving a great score of 9 for her handspring.

On set floor the girls competed with confidence and although we did have a few wobbles they completed the routines well.  Ivy Kettlewell in particular demonstrated her strength and composure scoring a 9.2, which she also managed to replicate on voluntary floor with another 9.2.   All of the girls performed some lovely floor routines to music. 

The U11 finished in a fantastic 4^th place out of 10 teams with Ivy Kettlewell finishing in 7^th place individually.

Now we have a few weeks to prepare for our first ever ISGA Premier National five piece competition which we qualified for this year.  The girls will get to compete on a sprung floor and experience a very professional competition.