Success at South Dublin Regional Level 2-7 Competition
This weekend saw the South Dublin Regional Level 2-7 Teams and Apparatus competition take place in Shoreline Leisure Centre in Greystones. The Old Bawn gymnasts performed really well with a total of 5 team medals and a total of 27 individual apparatus medals!! All apparatus medalists will go through to form part of the South Dublin team for the National Finals in DCU on 15th April.
Results as follows:
Level 3 under 9
Team Gold (Amy Thewlis, Heather Morgan, Alannah Hunter)
Amy Thewlis – Gold Vault, Silver Beam and Floor and Bronze bars
Heather Morgan – Silver Vault, 1st Reserve on Beam
Alannah Hunter – Gold Floor, Silver Bars, 1st Reserve on Vault
Level 3 under 11
Team Silver (Sarah O’Reilly, Liadh Cruise, Emily Fitzpatrick, Amber Ryan-Fitzpatrick)
Liadh Cruise – Silver Floor and Bronze Vault
Emily Fitzpatrick – Silver Vault
Level 3 over 11
Leah O’Reilly – 5th Vault
Level 4 under 11
Team Gold (Maeve Kalusche, Sarah Moran, Julia Corps-Heffernan,Hanah Molloy, Aoibheann Bryson, Niamh Boland)
Sarah Moran – Gold Beam, Silver Bars
Maeve Kalusche- Gold Vault & Bars, Bronze Floor
Aoibheann Bryson – 1st Reserve on Floor
Level 4 over 11
Martha Kavanagh – Gold Bars
Level 5 over 13
Team Gold (Aine Murphy, Caoimhe NicSeain, Emer Handly)
Aine Murphy – Gold Bars, Silver Vault & Beam, Bronze Floor
Emer Handly – Silver Floor, Bronze Vault, Bars & Beam
Caoimhe NicSeain – 1st Reserve on all four apparatus
Level 6 under 13
Team Silver (Hannah Sullivan, Lucy Gillmor, Shannon Quinn, Amy Dunne)
Hannah Sullivan – Bronze Beam, 1st Reserve on Vault
Lucy Gillmor – 1st Reserve on Bar
Shannon Quinn – 1st Reserve on Beam
Level 6 over 13
Aoife Murphy – Gold Bars, Silver Floor, 1st Reserve Beam
Four Old Bawn Gymnasts to Celtic Cup 2012!!
More great news for Old Bawn. The Celtic Cup delegation was announced on Tuesday and we can now announce that FOUR of our gymnasts have been selected to represent the Republic of Ireland at the competition. As a club we will have the biggest representation at the competition which is great testament to the hard work of the gymnasts and coaches over the past year.
On the Junior team we will have Beth Gillmor, who has been selected onto the team for the 5th year in a row, and Ali Kavangh who has returned from a difficult injury to regain her place on the team this year. This will be Ali’s 4th time to compete at Celtic Cup. On the minor team we have Shauna Kelly and Katie O’Hara who have both only moved up to full FIG level competition this year. A pretty impressive achievement for their first attempt! Coach Evelyn Burke will also travel as part of the delegation to the competition as Team Coach for both the Minor and Junior teams.
The Celtic Cup is an annual competition where teams from Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and the Rep. of Ireland battle it out. This years comeptiton will be held in Dublins DCU on 14th April. Full teams are as follows:
Minor Team:
Shauna Kelly – Old Bawn
Katie O’Hara – Old Bawn
Ellen Hynes – Renmore
Taylor Coyle – Trojan
Jessica Ryan – Nadia
Niamh Rogers – Excel
Junior Team:
Beth Gillmor – Old Bawn
Ali Kavanagh – Old Bawn
Ciara Melia – Excel
Emma Lunn – Excel
Denise Moloney – Nadia
Sarah Buckley – Douglas
Success for Old Bawn Boys at Appenzeller Shield 2012
Big congratulations to the 3 Old Bawn boys who competed in the annual Appenzeller Shield competition last Saturday 10th March in Phoenix Gymnastics, Churchtown.
All 3 boys came away with medals as follows:
Ciaran Fitzgerald – GOLD- level 3 under 12
Oisin Delaney – BRONZE – Level 3 under 10
Jamie Greene – GOLD – Level 2 under 8
Well done to the boys and their coaches!
IRISH NATIONAL ALL AROUND CHAMPIONSHIPS – Bronze for Beth!!
Yesterday saw 8 of our National Level gymnasts compete at the Irish National All Around finals held in Janz Gymnastics, Sandyford, Dublin.
In the senior competition Beth Gillmor had a strong competition to bag her first ever All Around medal coming in 3rd place. She nailed her tucked tsukahara vault and performed an impressive double twisting somersault on floor to help her to bronze. Ali Kavanagh was not far behind her in 4th while Julie Sadlier who was guesting at the competition would have come in overall 6th and Ciara Nixon in 7th. The girls had some very strong performances with Ali and Julie both adding upgrades to their beam routines and Ciara having a much improved bar set from previous competition.
At junior level Elaine Hayden came in 4th with strong performances on both Vault and Bars and upgrades on beam adding a switch leap to her routine.
Our newest National level gymnasts also had a great competition in the minor age group. Shauna Kelly came in 5th, Lauren Reddy 6th and Katie O’Hara 8th. All of the girls showed upgrades on beam with Katie performing an aerial cartwheel, Lauren adding a tuck back and Shauna adding a switch leap. Lauren and Shauna also upgraded on vault. This was a very encouraging competition for the minors and they are growing in confidence with each performance.
Congratulations to all gymnasts and coaches on a fantastic day. Next competition for our National gymnasts will be the Apparatus finals on 20th May where we will hopefully come away with even more success!
2012 Irish National Squad Members
Its official!!! Old Bawn have qualified FOUR gymnasts to the Irish National Squad for 2012!!
On the senior squad we will be represented by Beth Gillmor who has been a squad member since 2008, and Ali Kavanagh who has made a remarkable recovery following a bad injury last year and regained her position on the squad. On the minor squad we will be represented by Katie O’Hara and Shauna Kelly both of whom only moved up to full FIG competition this year! This is a fantastic achievement for the 4 girls and for the club.
National All Around & Apparatus Finalists
We have finally received official qualification lists for the Irish National All Around and Apparatus finals…. and the Old Bawn girls have done FANTASTIC!!! Each one of the 8 girls who entered National Teams in December has earned a place in at least one of the finals. This will be the biggest representation for the club at National finals to date. Brilliant Job girls.
Our finalists are:
Minor:
Katie O’Hara: Beam, Floor and All Around
Shauna Kelly: Beam and All Around
Lauren Reddy: All Around
Junior:
Elaine Hayden: Vault, Floor and All Around
Senior:
Ali Kavanagh: Vault, Bars, Beam, Floor and All around
Beth Gillmor: Vault, Bars, Floor and All Around
Ciara Nixon: All Around
Julie Sadlier: Vault
Start-Back Dates!
Hi Everyone,
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas break! Our classes will resume in the new year as follows:
Competitive squads: 3rd Jan 2012 (Tues)
Recreational classes: 7th Jan 2012 (Sat)
Looking forward to seeing you all in January!
Christmas Club Competitions 2011
All recreational competitions will take place during gymnasts’ normal class time. Competitive Squad competition will take place from 11am to 2pm on Sunday 18th.
Venue for all competitions will be Old Bawn Community School Hall.
Best of luck to all, Cant wait to see your performances!!!!
National Teams Competition 2011
8 gymnasts from Old Bawn competed at last Sundays National Teams competition. Each year the top teams in Ireland compete for this title. Old Bawn performed great and only narrowly missed out on the bronze by just a mark, bettering the bronze medal team on three apparatus. Unfortunatly some uncharacteristic errors on beam kept them from the podium.
However this competition is also a qualifier for selection to the Irish National Squad and also for National All Around and Apparatus Finals. Due to the strong individual performances of our 8 gymnasts, we are very hopeful that the girls will be well represented at both. Watch this space!!
Gymnasts who represented Old Bawn:
Beth Gillmor
Ali Kavanagh
Ciara Nixon
Julie Sadlier
Elaine Hayden
Lauren Reddy
Shauna Kelly
Katie O’Hara
Beth competes at Northern Europeans 2011
The Irish delegation arrived home from Uppsala in Sweden this morning after attending the 2011 Northern European Championships. We are delighted to report that Beth from Old Bawn had a very solid competition, landing 2 strong tsukahara vaults and a clean floor routine. The Irish contingent also had some success on the podium with Anthony O’Donnell from the men’s team making 3 apparatus finals and achieving bronze on floor. A great achievement and hopefully a sign of things to come for Gymnastics Ireland.
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