Esprit’s Welsh Wizards are Magic!

After the English Championships our girls made the trip to Wales for the Welsh National Champs, with some memorable results.

Katy, Maya, Gemma, Hannah, Gabriela and Laura

Following Swindon based gymnastic clubs triumph at the English Championships, where the clubs medal haul included newly crowned English Junior Champion, Stephanie Sherlock. 
The clubs other outstanding Junior, Laura Halford showed her own impressive credentials by becoming Welsh National Champion.

Laura just back to competition form in 2011 is now ranked as one of Great Britain’s top Junior gymnasts, after missing the 2010 British Championships through injury.

But that setback didn’t stop the Cricklade youngster from working hard whilst she was out of action, on her body conditioning and fitness, or being determined to get back to full fitness, ready for this year’s British Championships.

As soon as she was able to return to full training she proved exactly why she is a long-standing member of the Welsh and Great Britain teams and vowed to get back to the very top of British gymnastics.

This she did with an emphatic victory over her rivals at the Welsh Institute of Sport in Cardiff, claiming Gold in all 4 of her apparatus finals, Hoop, Ball, Clubs & Ribbon, as well as being crowned Welsh National Champion for an impressive Fifth time.

Laura however, didn’t have everything her own way, with the clubs other bright young stars, Maya Lucas, Gemma Rand, Katy Coleman, Hannah Curtis and Gabriela Caruso all competing in the open section, for non Welsh born gymnasts.

All were using the Welsh Championships as preparation for the upcoming British Championships and all competed very solid and impressive routines.

Maya and Gemma put down some very solid performances, both taking a Bronze medal apiece, Maya with her Hoop and Gemma the Ball.

Esprit’s Head Coach Deb Hows said, “these results are excellent preparation for the British and all the girls showed very encouraging performances. As long as they all continue to work hard I expect them to do very well at the British Championships in a few weeks time”.

“It is testament to the excellent rhythmic coaching team at Esprit, who have all worked very hard to produce these fantastic results”.

Esprit now has several top gymnasts, improving all the time, as well as Stephanie Sherlock, English National Champion and Laura Halford, Welsh National Champion. With 10 of the clubs gymnasts qualified for the British Championships and the country’s top two Junior gymnasts going head to head, things are looking really exciting in the build up to the premier event of the year.