The long wait for a bronze medal is finally over for our gymnast, Molly Cooke. She competed in a floor and vault competition in Deeside in May this year and was placed third in the 8 year old section. The results and photos of the girls taking part was posted in our news section on 19th May, however, Molly missed out and was not presented with her medal at the time. It looks great (at last) – well done Molly.
On 4/5th July weekend Maldwyn Dragons hosted its annual A-Z competition, for the first time in the new premises. Over 200 gymnasts competed from all over Powys, in four age categories and at three levels. There were both individual and team competitions for girls and boys and a plethora of medals and trophies to be won.
A full list of winners will be available shortly but in the meantime we’d like to say a massive congratulations to everyone who took part. There are lots of podium photographs on the gallery page, with loads of medals on show and even more smiles. What a fabulous weekend gymnasts!
On 20th June, 24 of our gymnasts travelled to the National Sports Centre in Cardiff to take part in the Gymeisteddfod 2015. There were over 300 gymnasts performing from around Britain, on a great stage to a packed audience. The Maldwyn girls transformed into the “Weather Girls” for the event and their display combined some wonderful artistic gymnastics and cheerleading moves. The accompanying music was a mash up of ‘I’m singing in the Rain,’ ‘Umbrella’ and ‘It’s raining Men,’ and was beautifully choreographed from start to finish. What an exciting display girls and great team work, you should all be very proud!
More photographs from the event can be seen within the gallery and there’s a video of the performance on our facebook page.
In May half term, some of our younger gymnasts aged 5, 6 & 7 travelled to Llanelli to compete in a Tumble and Vault competition. They all performed beautifully and the 5 year old team won third place. In the 7 year old category, Megan Thomas did well individually, coming joint third and we’d like to say a big ‘congratulations’ to all of our competitors. More photographs can be viewed on the gallery page.
This May, we took two girls teams to Deeside to compete in a floor and vault competition. Once again many gymnasts came home with medals, with coaches and parents very proud of their performances. In the younger age category, Team Cartwheel girls won three medals; Cerys Jones placed 3rd for 5 year olds and in the 8 year old section, Molly Cooke took 3rd and Ffion Jones 2nd.
Team Flick represented our older girls and they won a total of 8 medals, including a gold each for Shona Jones, Ffion Pugh and Buffy Knill. Well done girls! The other medal winners are as follows: Megan Thomas – 2nd (7yrs), Francesca Humphreys – 3rd (8yrs), Caitlin Price – 3rd (13yrs), Seren Richards – 2nd (16yrs) and Millie Jones – 2nd (17yrs).
More photographs from the competition can be viewed on the gallery page.
Over the weekend of 18/19th April, a large number of our gymnasts travelled down to Cardiff to compete in the Welsh National Prelims Competition. We are delighted to report that many of them came home with medals, including Katie Shackleton and Nick Negri who came 1st in their catagory and won overall individual champion awards and Caitlin Price, Shona Jones and Katie who collectively became the under 14’s team champions. The full results are detailed below and photographs from the day can be seen on or gallery page. Well done everyone.
Under 10’s – Girls Phase 1 (out of 130 girls):
Erin Bowen – 4th in tumble Team came 7th and 12th Unders 12’s – Girls Phase 2 (out of 67 girls): Eleanor Taylor – 10th in vault – 10th overall Rosie Rees – 13th overall Team with Carys Breeze came 7th Under 14’s – Girls Phase 2 (out of 40 girls): Rosie Waters – 3rd in vault – 5th Overall Olivia Hughes – 7th in vault – 9th Overall Team with Megan Costall came 2nd Lucy Lee-Jervis – 6th Team with Nadia Francis-Jones and Bethan Rees came 8th Under 14’s – Girls Phase 3 (out of 12 girls): Katie Shackleton – 3rd in tumble, 2nd on vault – 1st Overall Shona Jones – 2nd in tumble, 4th in vault – 3rd Overall Caitlin Price – 5th in tumble, 4th on vault – 7th Overall Team came 1st Over 14’s – Girls Phase 3 (out of 6 girls): Ffion Pugh – 4th in tumble, 3rd in vault – 3rd Overall Seren Richards – 2nd in tunble, 6th in vault – 6th Overall Under 10’s – Boys Phase 2 (out of 13 boys): Louis Miles-Owen – 5th in tumble, 6th on floor – 6th Overall Under 12’s – Boys Phase 2 (out of 3 boys): Issac Dingwall – 3rd in tumble, 3rd on vault – 3rd Overall Under 14’s – Boys Phase 3 (out of 4 boys): Nick Negri – 2nd in tumble, 1st on vault – 1st Overall Joseph Knox – 1st in tumble, 2nd in vault – 2nd Overall Jude Westermann – 3rd in tumble, 4th on vault – 3rd Overall Teegan James-Bentley – 4th in tumble, 3rd in vault – 4th OverallOn 29th March MDC Diamonds cheerleading team entered their first ever competition, taking place at Llanidloes community centre. All the cheerleaders performed individual arm drills, jumps, flexibility & tumbling moves in the technical section of the competition. In addition, MDC Diamonds entered and performed in 7 team routines with routines results as follows:
Mini Diamonds cheer routine = 2nd place
Mini Diamonds hip hop/free style routine = 2nd place
Youth Diamonds (Rubies) cheer routine = 1st place
Junior Diamonds cheer routine = 2nd place
Junior Diamonds hip hop/free style routine = 2nd place
Junior Diamonds (Sapphire) Pom routine = 4th place
Junior Diamonds (Crystal) cheer routine = 3rd place
All the girls did extremely well and made their coaches very proud! MDC Diamonds very much enjoyed the experience and are now preparing for more events in 2015. For more photos from the competition please look on our gallery page.
Francesca Humphreys competed at the regional West Wales area Grade 6 Competition 2015 in Llanelli on Sunday the 15th March. Over 28 gymnasts competed in the 8 year old’s age group, including those from Swansea, Neath, Port Talbot and Llanelli.
Maldwyn Dragon’s Francesca Humphreys competed on 5 pieces of apparatus; bars, beam, floor, vault, range and conditioning and passed the grade with a Distinction. Well done Francesca – we are all very proud of your fantastic achievement.
Maldwyn Dragons gymnasts competed brilliantly at the West Wales Regional Prelims, Tumble and Vault Competition 2015 in Llanelli on Sunday 17th February. Over 125 regional gymnasts took part and the Dragons came home with a host of medals and five Individual Champions trophies.
Champions in age were; over 17’s Millie Jones, under 17’s Ffion Pugh, Under 14’s boys Jude Westermann, under 14’s girls Caitlin Price and under 12’s Rosie Rees.
In addition, we won Team golds in over 17’s, under 14’s and under 12’s girls category and a bronze for our under 10’s team. Well done to everyone who competed, a fantastic effort and a great result. More photos on Gallery page.
Did you know that we now offer birthday parties with exclusive use of our fantastic facility? Why not let our qualified gymnastics coaches, who are all CRB checked, take care of the partying for you? We offer birthday parties with a difference where you can choose to have a one hour structured gymnastic session or free play for your child and friends with our fun, enthusiastic coaches, (free play is only option for under 5’s.)
After a whole hour of party fun in the gym you will have 45 minutes to use our party room, where you can bring your own food and play games, (please note this part of the party is not hosted by our team.) We will also include an optional visit from our club mascot ‘Maldwyn the Friendly Dragon’.
Please contact us for availability and booking details.
