Welsh Group Invitational

Esprit gymnasts make it a fine end to a great year.

As the year draws to a close, Swindon club, Esprit Gymnastics are still bringing title after title back to the town with impressive displays from its elite squad of young athletes.

The final Group competition of the year before the National Group finals in December, saw young girls from the club travel to Cardiff for the Welsh Group Invitational event.

This high profile competition sees the girls compete in group routines, rather than the more usual individual or duets they are used to.

This means they have to concentrate as much on what the others in the group are doing, as themselves, and execute their timing perfectly.

This didn’t phase the highly experienced young girls from Esprit, all performing at an exceptionally high level, against some of the best clubs in the country.

As has been the case on other occasions this year it was the clubs Junior’s that led the way with an impressive array of skill that saw them secure victory and the Gold medal, 3 marks ahead of Welsh club Llanelli.

However they weren’t the only Esprit gymnasts to make their mark, with the youngest Espoirs securing a well-deserved 4^th place behind exceptional teams from Bath and Llanelli.

This was followed by the clubs Seniors who pipped Llanelli, to the Silver medal position behind the City of Bath squad who took Gold.

Esprit coach, Deb Hows said, “it has been an exceptional year for the club, with many high profile wins for the girls at national and International level and to finish the team events of the year so strongly shows how well prepared they are. To stay so focussed after a long hard year is testament to all the gymnasts as well as the exceptional coaching team at Esprit”.

She concluded, “we just have a few more competitions before Christmas, in Scotland, Slovenia and the National Great Britain testing event, before the annual club Christmas Display at our home in Headlands Grove.

We can then look forward to a well-earned rest before the competition season begining in earnest, in January, with the National Grades, before a possible trip the America”. Then of course the year builds towards the London Olympics, which the whole club is very excited about.