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TERM 3 - 2017

In this issue …. A WORD FROM OUR PRESIDENT ….

Peter Dwan – Maroochy Beach Gymnastics Club President

News around the Club

Junior Program news

Competition Highlights

Grants Success

The 2017 Club

Handbook is

available from the

Club website now:

Parent Information

Well, this has been the busiest time for Maroochy BeachGymnastics that I have ever seen. The fire we experienced hasseen us rely on volunteers more than ever. A special thanks mustgo to Brent Hall, our extension project coordinator for all his workpre-fire, and now with the additional work required in rebuild, Brentis again a very busy man. Thanks Brent, MBG is very fortunate tohave you.

Also, a large thankyou goes out the MBG committee who weremeeting daily initially post-fire. I will also give a special thanks toVice President Jason Powell for his continued work with ourinsurance company as we rebuild. Jason’s professional time andadvice, as with all committee members, has been most valuable toMaroochy Beach over this very difficult period for our club.

I am also grateful to the wider gymnastics community who havebeen most supportive with free Hall Hire from Sunshine CoastGymnastics Academy, Delta Gymnastics and the HPC and manyother club’s with donations and support. It is most encouraging tosee and feel the genuine care shown by our fellow clubs not only inQueensland but also NSW from Tamworth and also as far asCanberra City Gymnasts in ACT. Even though it has been a verydifficult time, Maroochy Beach will be bigger and better as we riseup through this difficult time.

To recognise the hard work of recent times, and to Thank You allfor staying with Maroochy Beach Gymnastics, we are holding abrief social event to meet, and discuss the future we have ahead ofus. Please join me on Saturday between 4:00 and 5:30pm for thisevent.RSVP required to [email protected]

Now, as we know, help is alway required, and we are running theMAG Junior Regional Championships this weekend, so we areasking for help for a quick set up between 3-4pm this Saturdayafternoon.

WELCOME TO TERM 3: Maroochy Beach Gymnastics Club extend a warm welcome to all new gymnasts enrolling for

Term 3-2017 and welcome back to gymnasts resuming from last term. There are many excited

little athletes thrilled to resume gymnastics at our new venue at Kunda Park. We thank all of

our members for your support of Maroochy Beach Gymnastics Club over the past Term 3

classes will run through to Saturday 16th September.

Please ensure your child is prompt to arrive for class. It is important for children to participate

in the class warm-up as a preventive to injury. To ensure the safety of all members, parents

are requested to escort children to and from the car park in to the gym facility. Students are

requested to bring a water bottle to every lesson and have long hair neatly tied back. As a

safety precaution, we request that spectators refrain from talking to students or coaching

staff during class.

Detailed information is available in the 2017 Club Handbook, downloadable from the Parent

Information of the Club website: www.maroochybeachgymnastics.com.au

We encourage parents to also visit the MAROOCHY BEACH GYMNASTICS Facebook page

CLICK HERE as we publish regular posts and news items on this site, in addition to the NEWS

tab on the Club’s official website.

Enrolment for Term 4 classes will open on Monday 4th September. Current members are

given first invitation to enrol for each subsequent term. Students enrolled in our Under 5’s and

Fundamental Boys and Girls programs are requested to pay a $25.00 enrolment deposit to

secure their child’s position in class for the subsequent term. Children are enrolled in to the

same class time and day unless a vacancy is available in another class session; or the

coach has progressed the student to the next level. It is imperative parents remit the deposit

if enrolling for the next Term as this will help us to finalise our class schedule and roster our

coaching staff accordingly.

Thanks to our members’ and community support we have gone from this …

….. to this, in less than 6 weeks

Children enrolled in our Under 5’s, Prep, Stages and Open Boys’ and Girls’ programs are

invited to enrol in to classes for Term 4. Term 4 enrolments will open on Monday 4th

September. A $25.00 deposit is required to secure your child’s position in class. Term 4 will

run from week beginning Tuesday 3rd October through to Saturday 9th December. Term 4

accounts will be emailed to families during the September school holidays with the

balance due for payment on or before 7th October. If you have a sibling or friend wanting

to participate in our classes for Term 4, they may register their name via the Club website.

EFTPOS and credit card payments may now be remitted through our Kerryl Street venue

Monday – Saturday mornings. The Wises Road administration office is temporarily closed

and will reopen Monday 4th September. Payments may be remitted online to the Club’s

bank account: Maroochy Beach Gymnastics Assn Inc BSB: 014650 Account: 199894637

Please reference your child’s surname when remitting online payment

TERM 3 CLASS VACANCIES Do you have a sibling or friend who is wanting to commence gymnastics?

Maroochy Beach Gymnastics Club currently have availability in the following classes:

Explorers 1 – 2½ years Wednesdays 9:00am – 9:45am

Adventurers 2 ½ - 4 years Monday, Wednesday or Thursday mornings

Astronauts 4 – 5 years Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday mornings

Boys’ Stage 1 6 - 10 years Saturday 9:00am

Girls’ Stage 1 6 - 10 years Saturday 8:00am; 9:00am or 10:00am

Registrations may be submitted by clicking on the BOOK NOW link below

IMPORTANT MESSAGE WHEN REMITTING INTERNET PAYMENTS

To ensure your payment is matched with the correct student,

please reference your CHILD’S SURNAME when remitting payment

PAYMENTS & OFFICE HOURS:

TERM 4 ENROLMENTS: open 4th September

We wish to advise families of additional parking available at the new Kerryl

Street venue. Boral Concrete have generously offered the Club and or

patrons the use of their vacant lot for parking. The vacant lot is situated

behind the building which is behind our gymnastics venue. Please see the

photo below of additional parking offered by Boral - noted within the red

rectangle. It is an easy 30 metre walk from the vacant lot to access the entry

to our gymnastics venue. We encourage families to utilise this parking area to

ensure the safety of our young athletes arriving and departing for class; and

to prevent families from having to cross the road during peak traffic times.

We also kindly request families respect our neighbouring businesses and

refrain from using parking bays reserved for their customers and clients.

The Management Committee of Maroochy Beach Gymnastics invite our

athletes and families members to a welcome and thank you BBQ to be held

at our Kerryl Street venue on Saturday 19th August from 4:00pm – 5:30pm.

We will be firing up the barbeque to say a huge thank you to our members

and new families, for your continued support of Maroochy Beach Gymnastics

Club during our recovery phase. There will be a few words from the

committee about where we're at and where we're going. For catering

purposes, may you please RSVP your family’s intention of attending via email

prior to 15 August to: [email protected]

Please join us for this social opportunity to talk to other families and coaches,

and hear about future plans for the club.

CAR PARKING @ KERRYL STREET:

WELCOME BBQ: Saturday 19th August

Welcome to Term 3 to our returning and new Astronauts, Discoverers,

Adventurers and Explorers Parents and carers.

We have a full term ahead and also settling into our new facilities –We are

starting the term with our ‘Circus’ Theme where parents will be invited on the

floor (for Astronauts) as the gymnasts do need to settle into the new

environment – 4 x two week themes with our big and fun thinking theme ‘Left

and Right with Balance’ and finishing with our last theme “Teddy Bears

Picnic”.

We have been so lucky to secure the equipment we have now and more is

still to arrive which will then make our gymnastics centre extremely well

equipped. We do have extra parking facilities – so if you cannot find a park

there is an empty block of land one building before ours where you are

allowed to park.

At Teddy Bears Picnic I will be giving out packets of Tiny Teddy biscuits (kindly

donated by our local Wises Road IGA) so if your child has a special diet

please bring something for them so they don’t miss out.

I do hope the term ahead is exciting and full of fun, jumping, climbing,

stretching, rolling, swinging and balancing. Thank you so much for your

continued support through our stressful and sad time and now looking

forward to the future in our Temporary facilities and then our wonderful new

and amazing home back on Wises Road.

Does anyone have a small change table or change mat they don’t need

anymore. Week Date com. Theme

Week 1

10th July

Welcome back (Settling in week for all gymnasts)

‘Circus’

Week 2

Week 3

17th July

24th July

‘Up and Down – Turnaround’

Week 4

Week 5

31st July

7th August

‘Animal Magic’

Week 6

Week 7

14th August

21th August

‘Tumbling Around’ and swing

Week 8

Week 9

28th August

4th

September

‘Left and Right with Balance’ – (thinking

theme)

Week

10

11th

September

‘Teddy Bears Picnic’ [Dress Beary if you like]

Bring your favourite Teddy Bear for a fun day for

end of term.

A DAY AT THE

MAROOCHY BEACH CIRCUS

What an incredible year thus far for our Mens and Womens competitive

gymnasts. The year commenced with our Senior Level 7 – 10 athletes

competing at the South-East Queensland Regional Championships in March;

followed closely by the Queensland State Titles In April. Six of our Maroochy

Beach athletes gained selection to represent Queensland at the 2017

National Gymnastics Championships and WAG Border Challenge.

Despite an interrupted training preparation with the destruction of the Wises

Road gymnastics hall, our Senior and Junior gymnasts determinedly soldiered

on to achieve outstanding success at the State Club Championships, held at

Caloundra in June.

Our Level 3 – 6 athletes are now putting the final touches to their apparatus

routines in preparation for the MAG and WAG Sunshine Coast Junior

Regionals to be held during the month of August. Our WAG Level 4-6 and

MAG Level 3-6 athletes are looking forward to a great weekend of

competition with many already having gained the qualifying score to

compete at the Junior State Gymnastics Championships in September.

Please find below a brief outline of the 2017 competition results to date:

Maroochy Beach Level 7 - 10 athletes attained great success at the 2017

Queensland Senior States held at the Sleeman Sports Complex, Brisbane in

April. State Championships saw over 270 gymnasts competing in 2 rounds of

competition in the Men's and Women's Under and Open divisions. Of our

small team of ten athletes, two gymnasts attained 1st All Around placing in

their age division and were crowned Queensland State Champion; five

athletes attained 1st placing in Queensland on individual apparatus; and 6

gymnasts were selected for Queensland representation. The Club brought

home a total of 18 individual apparatus podium placings. Hannah Dwan – WAG Level 7 Under 13 years: 1st Floor; 5th Beam; 1st All Around

Isabella Stevens - 2nd Vault; 4th Uneven Bar; 4th All Around

Rhiani Lizemore - 6th Floor

Abbey Barnett – WAG Level 8 Under 15 years: 3rd Floor

Karleigh Fraser – WAG Level 10: 1st Vault; 1st Beam; 1st Floor; 3rd Bar; 1st All Around

Harrison Williams – MAG Level 8 Under 14 years: 2nd Rings; 2nd H-Bar; 3rd Vault; 3rd

P-Bar; 3rd All Around

Kobi Thompson – MAG Level 8 Open: 1st P-Bars; 2nd Floor; 2nd Pommel; 3rd Rings

Hannah Dwan; Karleigh Fraser; Harrison Williams and Kobi Thompson also gained

selection to compete at National Championships, whilst Rhiani Lizemore and Isabella

Stevens were selected to compete at 2017 Border Challenge.

Early in April, our four Queensland representatives travelled to the Hisense

Arena in Melbourne to contest the 2017 National Championships –

Hannah Dwan – WAG Level 7; Karleigh Fraser – WAG Level 10;

Harrison Williams – MAG Level 8 Under 14 years; & Kobi Thompson – MAG

Level 8 Open. Each gymnast competed in two rounds of competition against

the top eight gymnasts from Queensland, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, Western

Australia, South Australia and the ACT. Selection to compete at National

Championships is the pinnacle of dreams for all gymnasts, with podium

success being the optimal icing on the cake. Our four Maroochy Beach and

Queensland representatives did themselves, their coaches and our Club very

proud.

Congratulations to Hannah who placed 7th on floor apparatus at her

inaugural National Championships. Karleigh Fraser also performed

exceptionally well to be crowned the Australian Level 10 U/16 years Vault

Champion with her gold medal performance. Karleigh also attained 3rd

placing on Uneven Bars and 3rd on Beam; in addition to the gold medal 1st

placing in the team event.

In the Mens event, Kobi Thompson’s outstanding performance saw him taking

the National title for 1st placing in Australia on Parellel Bars. Kobi’s clean

routines contributed to Queensland MAG Level 8 Open taking the silver

medal placing in the team event. Harrison Williams also displayed great

performances against a strong field in the Under 14 years Level 8 division to

place 3rd on Rings and silver medal placing in the team event.

TOP LEFT: Hannah and Karleigh

TOP RIGHT: Hannah meets Allana Slater

BOTTOM LEFT: Kobi

BOTTOM RIGHT: Harrison

Karleigh selected for New Zealand tour

Following her stellar performance at National Championships, Karleigh has now

been selected as one of only four team members to represent Australia in the Level

10 division at the New Zealand Championships, to be held early October.

Karleigh is placing every last ounce of energy and determination in to each and

every training session to ensure she is prepared to compete at her very best.

Unfortunately without a full sprung competition available at our Kerryl Street venue,

Karleigh and her WAG Senior team mates are required to travel to Brisbane every

weekend to hone their skills at the High Performance Centre. Karleigh is chuffed yet

honoured to be representing Australia, but is struggling to meet the expenses of

travel, accommodation and Australian uniforms. A Go Fund Me page has been

established to help Karleigh fund the Open tour and relaise her dream of

representing Australia, and Maroochy Beach Gymnastics, at the New Zealand tour.

If you would like to contribute to Karleigh’s Go Fund Me, please CLICK HERE.

All donations – no matter how large or how small – are gratefully appreciated.

Maroochy Beach Gymnastics congratulate our WAG Level 7 gymnasts -

Rhiani Lizemore and Isabella Stevens - on their performances at the 2017

WAG Border Challenge The girls gained selection for the Queensland team

based on their All Around placings at Senior State Championships, where

both girls finished in the top 20.

Rhiani and Isabella competed in the two day Border Challenge event at the

Caloundra Indoor Sports Stadium on 23rd and 24th June vying against the

top gymnasts from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

and the ACT.

Day 1 of competition was the team event. Rhiani performed elegantly on

Balance Beam, scoring an outstanding 12.5, to push her Queensland team to

overall 3rd placing. Isabella's artistic and graceful Floor routine scored an

incredible 12.7.

Day 2 was the individual competition. Both Rhiani and Isabella competed

with strength and determination throughout the 2 day event, and did their

coaches - Vlad and Irina Joura - and their Club proud. Congratulations

to Isabella Stevens who attained individual 3rd place on Floor apparatus.

Isabella (LEFT) and Rhiani (RIGHT)

with coaches Vlad & Irina

State Club Championships

Even a devastating fire destroying their gymnastics training hall and

equipment, couldn't stop our Maroochy Beach gymnasts from attaining

outstanding success at the 2017 State Club Championships. The Queensland

Club Championships, held at the Caloundra Indoor Stadium from 24th - 27th

June, attracted over 1100 athletes in the MAG Level 3-10 and WAG Level 4-

10 divisions. Maroochy Beach nominated a total of 45 athletes competing in

the MAG C & D divisions and WAG Levels 4-10.

Maroochy Beach enjoyed resounding success to bring home 3 silver and 3rd

bronze apparatus medals; and 13 ribbons for 4th – 10th apparatus placings.

In the All Around podium placings, our WAG Level 7 team placed 3rd ;

MAG Division D placed 5th All Around; WAG Level 4 placing 6th ;

MAG Division D 7th All Around; and WAG Level 6 placing 10th All Around.

OVO in your Mojo Congratulations to our MAG athlete - Rory Thompson

on winning Week 1 of the "Ovo in Your Mojo" competition.

The mobile phone company ran a competition with

athletes required to promote their brand "OVO".

Rory's entry was extremely creative and demonstrated

great strength and gymnastics skill. Rory won $200.00

from Ovo which he has very generously donated to

Maroochy Beach’s Rebuild Our Future campaign.

Nine year old Rory trains 3 hours per week and has recently

progressed to our MAG Development squad.

Term 2 Major Raffle

A very big thank you to all the families and businesses who supported our Term 2

Major Raffle, whether be through your donation of a prize or purchasing or selling

tickets in the draw. The Term 2 Major Raffle raised in excess of $10,700.00 and

enabled the Club to purchase one of our new balance beams and some matting.

Thank you to Gwen Farrelly who was the driving force behind the Term 2 Major

Raffle. Gwen’s energy and enthusiasm was endless

spending countless weekends in our very bare

carpark to ensure families could collect tickets

and return their monies. Thank you Gwen from

all the members of Maroochy Beach Gymnastics

and congratulations to all of our prize winners.

Please see the Maroochy Beach Gymnastics

Facebook page for a list of our winners.

Grant Funding success

Our Grants writer – Jenny Lawson – has exerted a solid effort putting pen to paper to

gain some very successful grant funding to assist with the purchase of equipment

and venue improvements.

$8,800.00 in Sunshine Coast Council’s 2017/2018 Community Partnership

Funding program to assist with meeting the Club’s electricity expenses

$17,499.90 in Sunshine Coast Council’s March 2017 Major Grant round

to purchase a sprung gymnastics floor

$34,500.00 from the Gambling Community Benefit Fund to purchase an

Olympic sprung floor

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