2011 News
All the Gym Mark documents are now complete. You should find Information on the notice board at Collegiate and here on the website on the `Information` page.
This year the Club is aiming towards gaining Gym Mark accreditation.
The introduction of Sport England’s “Clubmark” has encouraged British Gymnastics (BG) to adopt set core criteria as its own, to enable gymnastics clubs to work towards nationally recognised accreditation. GymMark therefore is BG’s club accreditation scheme that recognises a quality club.
The key phrase for British Gymnastics is ”safe, effective and child-friendly”.
BG website GymMark
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2011 Northwest Teams competition results
At the Teams competition held at the Birchwood Leisure & Tennis Complex in September the Pre-Novice team, Emily Unsworth, Rochelle Wood, Millie Lomas and Olivia Morley came 5th. The Novice team, Ellie Gunther, Joye Crawforth, Michaela McKenzie, Georgia Fletcher and Megan Connor came 2nd. In the Level 4 competition Catherine Crewe, Zoe Houghton, Katy Stafford and Jessica Swannack were placed 5th.
Scores are here
NDP British Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships at Fenton Manor
On the weekend of 21st and 22nd May, 11 gymnasts with coaches Nicola Gosling and Sammy Mankowska went the NDP British Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships at Fenton Manor, Stoke on Trent. 
The gymnasts were representing the North West team and pulled off some fantastic performances for spectacular results.
Melanie Evans, 17 with Bethany Wills, 12 put in a fantastic performance standing out from the other competitors managing to become British Champions of Grade 1 Womens Pairs.
Kathryn Ellor, 15 , Melanie Evans and Bethany Wills managed to finish in second place in a very close competition losing out to the group from Oxford.
Dale Hughes, 21 And Melanie Evans competed in the Grade 2 Mixed Pairs which was the closest competition Of the weekend with only 0.05 separating their silver medal from the gold medallists from Heathrow.
Amy McPhail 13, and Ella Kersey, 9 were one of the youngest partnerships in the competition they showed their skills with precision and elegance managing to gain the silver medal losing to Harefield.
Will Panter, 21 with Lauren Turner, 15 competed in the Grade 3 Mixed Pair competition. After the first routine the scores were drawn but the pair managed to wow the judges with their second routine winning the British Champion title by over a whole mark.
Catherine Crewe, 15 with Sarah Perry, 15 and Georgia Clark, 11 demonstrated a high level of technical and artistic performance in both of the routines they performed becoming British Champions of Grade 3 Womens Groups again winning by over a whole mark.
Nicola and Sammy were overwhelmed with the results with it only being the second time the club has participated in the event. The club is going from strength to strength in the Acrobatic section. We have certainly started to put Blackpool on the map in the Acrobatic section of gymnastics and done the club, Blackpool and the North West proud
2011 Northwest Teams
NDP Finals
NDP 15th 16t May