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 Overall

On 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.

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.

On Friday 23rd January, Maldwyn Dragon’s hosted the Urdd gymnastic competition for primary schools within the Powys area.  There were 32 entries from six schools travelling from Churchstoke, Llandysillio, Llanidloes, Montgomery and Newtown.  It was an exciting competition, for 7-11 year olds, where final scores were close in most categories with results as follows:

Girls: Rosie Rees – Gold, Leah Richards – Silver and Eleanor Taylor – Bronze

Boys: Joseph Knox – Gold, Nick Negri – Silver and Finlay Jones – Bronze

Pairs: Eleanor Taylor & Lucy Lee-Jervis – Gold, Rosie & Nadia – Silver and Menna & Leah – Bronze

 

The winners from each category will go on represent their school in  Aberystwyth on 11th February.  We wish them all luck, with particular congratulations to our very own Rosie, Eleanor and Lucy, who’ll also be flying the flag for Maldwyn Dragons.  Lots more competition photographs can be seen on our gallery page, please take a look.

Before Christmas five of our Powys Squad boys travelled to Cardiff to compete in a Men’s Artistic Gymnastic Floor and Vault competition and each of them came home with at least one medal. Particular congratulations go to Jack Nash, who won a gold medal on both pieces of apparatus and hence was the overall champion within his age group.  Stan Blake and Stephen Thomas-Parkes also competed well, taking a silver and bronze medal respectively for floor.  With all gymnasts having solid performances on vault, this resulted in Steve winning the overall bronze medal for the under 16 age category and together with Bob and Toby, they secured the team gold.  Well done lads.

In December’14, we held a Gymspire Competition within the club featuring three pieces of apparatus; floor, vault and trampette.  Thirteen girls took part in two age categories and the results were very close.

Within the younger age category, Caitlin won gold on floor, with Katie in silver and Rosie in bronze position.  On vault, Katie took gold, with Taylor winning silver and Caitlin bronze and on trampette Katie again won gold, with Kaitlin in second place and Eleanor and Megan sharing the bronze position.  This gave an overall result of Katie winning the first place trophy, Caitlin second and Taylor third.

In the 14 and over age range,  Millie won gold on floor, with Ffion taking silver and Buffy bronze.  On vault, Ffion took first, with Buffy second and Millie third and on trampette Ffion again won gold, with Maggie taking silver and Millie in bronze position.  When all the results were added up, this made Ffion the overall first place winner, with Millie taking the second place trophy and Buffy third.  Well done to all the girls for a fantastic competition.

The regional Gymspire competition will take place in Sophia Gardens, Cardiff in November 2015.  Please take a look in our gallery for more photographs of this club event.

On 16^th November 2014, four of our 5-7 year old gymnasts traveled to Llanelli to enter the Girl’s Welsh Preparation Grades for the first time. Each gymnast had to learn and perform 5 routines including floor, bar, vault, bench/beam and a range of conditioning.  Our four girls were Phoebe Short, Libby Loxam, Megan Thomas and Francesca Humphreys.

We are extremely proud of all our girls, who were competing against 15 – 30 gymnasts in each age group from some of the largest clubs in Wales, such as Llanelli, E.G.A, City of Swansea, and Neath Afon.

Phoebe and Libby had a very good day for their first major competition. Phoebe had joint 5^th place for bars and joint 6^th for her bench routine. Megan Thomas had a great competition positioning on all apparatus, including winning a silver medal for vault and finishing 6^th overall. Francesca Humphreys performed well and just missed out on a position for her bar routine.  Congratulation to you all.

There are more photographs from the competition on our gallery page.