2018 Junior Victorian Championships
The 2018 WAG Level 4-6 Junior Victorian Championships were held across the weekend of Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th November, at Geelong Arena. Waverley was represented by teams at all three levels, following the qualifications at the recent Metro South Regional Championships. It was an incredibly successful weekend of competition, with Waverley gymnasts claiming 3 Victorian Champion Team titles, as well as a combined 28 Individual All Around/Apparatus medals!! [...]
2018 Metro South Regional Championships
The Gymnastics Victoria Metro South Regional Championships were held across the weekend of Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st October, co-hosted by Waverley Gymnastics Centre. Waverley had teams competing from ALP 3 to ALP 5, with gymnasts aiming to put their best foot forward in order to qualify for the upcoming WAG Junior Victorian Championships in November. It was an incredibly successful weekend of competition, with Waverley gymnasts claiming six [...]
Waverley gymnasts selected for 2018 World Championships team
Congratulations to Waverley's Emily Whitehead who competed at the 2018 World Championships in Doha on Saturday 27th October. Emily finished 48th All Around in her first ever World Championships! Although it wasn't the most consistent competition for the Australian team, Emily showed great determination and resilience to compete through illness and finished up having three of her four apparatus scores count towards the team total - awesome effort Em! [...]
Women in Sport Breakfast
On Thursday 11th October three of Waverley's up and coming Future International gymnasts - Miella Brown, Sumer Daly and Zoe Nitsiopoulos- had the exciting opportunity to be involved in a ‘Future Star Q&A’ at the annual Women In Sport Breakfast held at the RACV Club in the city. The Waverley girls blew away the crowd of 400 - which included Gymnastics [...]
2018 National Clubs Carnival
The 2018 National Clubs Carnival was held at the Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre from 13th September - 7th October. The Carnival included the Australian Classic event for Level 9 to Senior International gymnasts, and the Women's Artistic Gymnastics competition for Level 5 to 10 gymnasts. Based on the combined results for all levels, Waverley placed an amazing THIRD overall in the ‘WAG Champion Club’ rankings! Well done [...]
2018 Gym For All Competition
Waverley's 2018 Gym for All Competition was held on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th September. Congratulations to all of our Educational and Pre-Squad gymnasts who competed across the weekend. It was fabulous to see so many gymnasts from our Armadale, Glen Waverley, Mount Waverley and Narre Warren campuses showing off the skills and routines that they have been working so hard on in their weekly [...]
CORESKILLS Progress Reports
From Monday 28th May - Sunday 9th June our Educational Gymnasts will be working on their CORESKILLS progress reports. The CORESKILLS progressions take 6 core gymnastics skills (including back flips, front saults and round offs) and breaks each skill in to 8 progressions, plus an advanced version of the skill. The first step in the early years of gymnastics starts with a very basic drill. The final step will be taught in [...]
Waverley duo medal at Pacific Rim Championships!
Waverley duo Talia Folino and Kate McDonald have combined with their Australian teammates to win Bronze in the Team Competition at the 2018 Pacific Rim Championships in Medellin, Colombia! The Team Competition took place on Saturday 28th April, with the strong USA team victorious and Canada taking out Silver. Talia also finished 8th All Around, qualified for the Beam final, and was [...]
Junior Gym FREE ‘Come & Try’ Next Week!
Junior Gym (2-5 year olds) *Our next FREE Come & Try Week will be held from Monday 7th - Sunday 13th May. Come along and try our Junior Gym program - no bookings required! To celebrate the success of Waverley's own Emily Whitehead at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games any child that joins the Junior Gym program by Sunday 20th May will receive a FREE Waverley leotard or [...]
Victorian selection for 27 Waverley gymnasts
The past month has seen a number of Waverley gymnasts trialling for selection on the Victorian State Team. The standard of competition has been very high and we are very pleased with each and every athlete from Waverley - well done to you all! Congratulations to the following staff and athletes who have been selected to represent Victoria at the Australian Championships in May. LEVEL 7: Hanano Sakamoto, Olina Karatzias, Sabine [...]