Athlone Gymnastics Club

Our gymnasts are returning to the National Arena in Dublin over the weekend to compete in the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Competition. Good luck wishes to Zara, Kate, Mia, Ciara, Nicola, Orlaith, Aoife, Caitlin, Barbara, Clíodhna, Gráinne, Rachel, Stephanie, Jenny, Tara, Orla, Sive, Niamh, Marsha, Clodagh, Aoibhinn, Mary, Jane, Emma, Ava, Ayla, Lucy, Aoibhinn, Ericka, Mya, Isla, Katie and Maeve. For some of these girls, it’s their very first time to compete in the National Arena, have the best time, do your best and most importantly enjoy the experience. We are very proud of all of the gymnasts taking part, we hope you all have a wonderful day.

Wishing Judy, Aimee, Keela and Sara continued progress in their recovery, we hope to see you all back in action very soon!

Thank you to our Director of Gymnastics, Elisha and the coaching team – Aoife, Eimear, Saoirse and Lauren for always supporting and encouraging the gymnasts.

Please note that there are no classes on the following dates ONLY :-

• Friday, 25th October
• Tuesday 29th to Thursday 31st October (INCLUSIVE)

Saturday and Sunday classes run as normal over Mid Term but there are no classes on 9th and 10th November.

Bag Packers needed on 25th and 26th October for 2 hour slots from 10am to 6pm on both days in Dunnes Stores, Montree, Athlone. Please text your name and preferred time slot to 083 8333171 or email administrator@athlonegymnasticsclub.ie. All help is greatly appreciated.

Existing Members in 1 hour classes only

If you are requesting a change in class time/day for your child for next term, and have not already contacted us, please note the deadline for this is 12th October. Whilst we cannot guarantee that we can facilitate all requests, we will try to accommodate as many as we can once we have received the request by email only to administrator@athlonegymnasticsclub.ie by 12th October.

We had a wonderful turnout of Volunteers for our 2 Flag Days in SuperValu on Friday and Saturday – Cathriona, Karin, Nicola, Trevor, Victoria, Maggie, Maura, Eimear, Trevor (again!) Sheila, Jackie, Sinead, Deirdre, Eabha, Mary, Orla, Rosalie, Mary, Tatiana, Eimear, Claire, Aisling, Bethany, Amanda, Natalia, Annemarie and Sarah, thank you all so much, we wouldn’t have a Club without Volunteers and we are very appreciative of every volunteer giving their time.

Many thanks to Tim and all the staff of SuperValu for allowing us to do this and all the customers who donated very generously to this fundraiser.

All parents/guardians/adult members are invited to attend the Club AGM on Monday, 21st October 2019 in the Athlone Springs Hotel, Monksland at 7.30pm.

The Club is run by a Committee of dedicated Volunteers, made up of parents of gymnasts,who give their time in a voluntary capacity to ensure that all the gymansts have a safe, progressive and fun environment to learn gymnastics from our experienced and committed coaches. Without volunteers we wouldn’t have this wonderful facility for our children.

Thank you for your support throughout the year and we look forward to seeing you on the night.

Thank you to the parents who turned out to the Information Night last night, the dreadful weather didn’t deter you😊. There were some excellent suggestions which we welcome and will look at how we can integrate them over the coming months. We hope that we provided clarity on the queries, if not, please email administrator@athlonegymnasticsclub.ie and we will be happy to help.

We are holding a Parent Information Evening in the Gym on Monday, 30th September at 7.30pm. This is an opportunity for parents/guardians of current members to come along and meet our Director along with some of the Coaches and Committee and learn more about the Club, how classes are run, etc. We look forward to seeing you there

We need your help on 4th and 5th October for our Flag Day at Supervalu in Monksland. If you can help for 2 hour slots from 10am to 6pm, please text your name and preferred time to 083 8333171. All help will be greatly appreciated!

Welcome back to our members who joined us for classes over the weekend, a special warm welcome to those children (boys and girls) joining us for the first time, we look forward to seeing you again next week. For the children who come to our weekday classes, we hope to see you all during the week.

A special welcome to Judy, Jenny, Stephanie and Tara who have now joined our coaching team, if you see some fresh young faces in the coaching department, this is them! All four girls have been gymnasts with us since they were 6 years old and have completed their Gymnastics Ireland coaching qualification and mentoring program under the direction of Elisha. All of them are still training and competing with the Club at National Competitions so their knowledge is right up to speed. We are delighted to have them on board and look forward to having them as part of the team for a long time to come.