The Sports Acro and Tumbling Squad successfully kicked off their competition season at the Hollington Invitational Competition in Hastings.
In tumbling, Katy Morris secured gold at Women's National 3 15+ years and in National 2 12-14 years, Jenny Walker won bronze.
In Sports Acro, competing in Grade 2 pairs in their first competition since moving up a level, Mica Pinfold and Ashleigh Heath came away with a silver medal.
National Qualifiers
On Sunday February 24th, members of the squad travelled to Rushmoor Gymnastics Academy in Aldershot to compete in the National Qualifiers.
Recently crowned Regional Champions Sian Davies and Megan Bruton carried on with their gold medal winning form in the Grade 2 Womens' Pairs qualifying for the National Finals at Stoke in May.
Also qualifying are Mica Pinfold and Ashleigh Heath, who came second in the Grade 1 Womens' Pairs competition.
The Sports Acro Regional Championships took place in Sittingbourne.
Four pairs from Deal competed with Sian Davies & Megan Bruton becoming Regional Champions in the Grade 2 Womens’ Pairs. Sian & Megan have trained and competed together for two years but will now both become part of two new trios and two new pairs competing for Deal.
The same competition saw team-mates Natasha Ponsford & Jenny Walker finish in 5th place. This was Natasha’s last competition as she will now be assisting as a Sports Acro Coach before moving to Spain. The club’s second two Sports Acro pairs competed in the Grade 1 Womens’ Pairs with Mica Pinfold & Ashleigh Heath finishing in 4th taking and Abby Heath & Katie Walker finishing in 14th place.
Congratulations must go to Sian and Megan on their achievement and their coaches Carole Stone and Tracey Morris.
