This week the builders were in to put together the flooring for underneath the sprung floor and vault areas. They worked very hard and got it all down in under 2 days, which left time for them to build our locker room and spotting platform for bars.

James

It is now 2012 and we have been back at Diamond Creek catching up on all the things we had planned to do before our other gyms flooded.

Christmas is over and it is nearly 2012. Four days ago we were hit with the storm and both Peel St and Brisbane St got flooded. Luckily Diamond Creek was barely affected, so we have been focusing on the clean-usoar Brisbane St in order to get it up and running before School Holiday Program starts.

Today was the day to pack up Peel st and bring everything we need over to Diamond Creek. Thank you to all the fabulous helpers that made the pack up so quick and easy. In the afternoon Ross Thomas and Mick Ostojic arrived with their trucks.

This week a truck load of equipment arrived from Coffs Harbour. Mat ‘the equipment guru' came with the equipment to help us get some of it installed. We started off with the bars in the pit and the trampolines. Mat and Steve did most the work while Ross and I mostly pointed at stuff!

It has been quite a busy term for all Jets venues throughout Term 4. Competitions, Display Days, Presentation Nights and prepara-tion for 2012 were just some of the reasons Term 4 has seem to fly by. I would like to congratulate all venues on their efforts and prepa-rations leading up to their display days and in particular, congratu-late all coaches, gymnasts and families who participated on the day.

Well it has been another amazing year at the Jets High Performance Centre. The year started with a bang with our Squad Training Camp in January. This year the camp was held at Pinnacle Resort in Mansfield and was the best ever. The girls had an absolute ball whipping their bodies into shape with a variety of non-gymnastic activities such as swim-ming, boating, running, dancing.

Congratulations to Joanne Tassone who flew to Canberra this week to complete her Advanced Silver Level Judging course. Jo has had a meteoric rise through the judging ranks and is now our top qualified judge at Jets Gymnastics.

The Jets Gymnastics Eltham, Squad training schedule for January school holidays has just been released on the website. Click here to download.

Jets Gymnastics is very proud to announce that our Sport Aerobics team competed at the National Championships during the school holidays and placed fourth in Australia! This is a fabulous achievement considering they only started in the sport 9 months ago.

JETS GYMNASTICS ELTHAM finds new support from PAINT RIGHT ELTHAM

Recently renovated specialist store, PaintRight Eltham has launched a fabulous new program – Colouring the Community - in order to create stronger links with the Eltham community by giving something back.  Jets Gymnastics Eltham has been chosen as one of three lucky local partners in PaintRight’s program who will receive an allocated percentage of all retail transactions.

Special Spring Promotion - click here

We were lucky enough to visit the building site of our New High Performance Centre in Diamond Creek. The building has been progressing rapidly recently with the floor all completed including the inground pits, the walls and roof have all been finished. Can't wait to get the gym equipment inside and start training. Check out Maddie & Harriet in their hard hats on the building site - we've waited sooo long for this !!!

Junior International gymnast ISIS LOWERY, who trains at the Jets High Performance Centre in Eltham, has been selected onto the Australian Junior National Squad for July 2011-July 2012!!! This is a fabulous achievement and recognition of Isis's outstanding progress over the last 12 months. Hopefully this is the start of much bigger things for Isis and her team mates training at the HPC in Eltham. For a list of all the squad members click here

Well done to our Sports Aerobics girls who recently competed in our first competition for the year, the Aerochallenge at Ivanhoe Girls Grammar on Saturday 18^th June. A big congratulations goes to Molly, Helena, Breanna and Georgia who in their first competition won the Intermediate Level 1 group section. Good luck for the upcoming Trial one and Victorian Championships in August girls. Keep up the great work!

Senior Victorian Championships

On the Queen’s Birthday long weekend 21 of our highest level gymnasts competed in the Victorian Championships. This event is the biggest in the Victorian gymnastics calendar, featuring Men’s & Women’s Artistic Gymnastics as well as Rhythmic Gymnastics and Trampolining.

Our athletes competed extremely well, taking home many medals over the weekend. Results are as follows:

Our Squad Holiday Training times are now on the website - click here to see when your squad is training

4 gymnasts from Jets Gymnastics - Harriet Adcock (17), Isis Lowery (13), Brittany Engellener (13) & Brianne Allen (12) along with coaches Sally Young and Ross Bouskill travelled to the USA to compete in the Nadia Comaneci Invitational and WOGA Classic. The experience was definitely one the girls will never forget, especially their visit to Oklahoma University Gymnastics’ program and meeting Nadia herself.

Sally Young (Coach & Chaperone) travelled to the USA with the girls and sent these reports home to our High Performance Centre.

Diamond Creek Stadium Update

Jets is very excited to be the successful tenderer for the Gymnastics component of the Diamond Creek Stadium. The stadium will be 1200sqm and include 4 in ground trampolines, a full vault and tumbling area into an inground pit multiple bars and balance beams, full sprung floor and spectator seating area capable of hosting 200+ people for competitions. Click here for an update on the progress which is on schedule.

On Sunday 23rd May the Victorian Championships Team Competition was held at the Victorian Women’s High Performance Centre in Prahran for National Level 6.

Three weeks ago the National 4A girls competed at Waverley for the Team finals and Vic qaulifiers.. The girls had a great comp, a few mistakes but handle the pressure pretty well for their first major competition, with 6 of the girls qaulifying for Individual Finals and the Jets Gold team coming 2nd in Victoria.

The girls were then off to Geelong arena for Vic Finals,

Congratulations Harriet Adcock - Gold Medallist at National Championships Harriet Adcock (National Level 10 Gymnast) last night helped Victoria to Championship success in Perth. .

The National Black girls and Ross's Accelerated girls are competing in their first competition of the season on Saturday 10th April at MLC (International levels and National level 6-10).

Our very own Sara Kyne was married on Friday March 5th to Richard (Rich) Clements. All the girls in the accelerated squad that Sara coaches with went along to watch the fantastic occasion .

Isis Lowery and Maddie Green are traveling with coaches Ross and Linden in the USA click here to check out there blog.

Isis Lowery - competing in the highly fancied International Level 8 Competition at National Championships put on an awesome display over two days of competition.

Isis surprised the gymnastics world, imposing herself in one of the toughest International 8 competitions ever held at National Championships.

Madeline Green, Isis Lowery, Emily Dean & Brianne Allen all represented Victoria at National Championships over the past week. All performed magnificently achieving some personal bests.

Congratulations to emily Dean and Brianne Allen who qualified for National Championships over the weekend of Victorian Championships. We now eagerly await their performances at National Championships.

 Well done girls !

Jets Gymnastics is very proud of Madeline Green's efforts to qualify for the Level 10 Victorian Team. Maddie will be competing at Victorian Championships on the Queens Birthday Weekend before travelling to Perth in July to compete at National Championships. Well Done Maddie.

Sunday May 17th was our first ever Tennis Tournament for staff and squad gymnasts and families. The event was held at the Eltham High School Tennis courts and was an incredibly fun day. Check out our gallery for some more photo's from the day.

It was a hotly contested tournament with the following winners across the day

Our first ever parent participation day was a huge success at our High Performance Centre. Parents from our Accelerated Squad, National Squad, Mini & Senior Satellites programs all joined in for a very eventful morning of activities. Parents all performed an extensive warm up under the guidance of Tim Lees followed by Ballet by Linden Skerry and trampoline, bars and beam activities.

Our National Level 7-10 and International Level Girls unveiled their new uniforms at the recent Judges Invitational Event. These new uniforms supplied through AMCO look fantastic on the competition floor and have recieved many positive comments. A new leotard will also be implemented for our National Level 4-6 girls in 2010.