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Local gymnasts enjoy competition
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Camrose Precision volleyball team captured silver medals at an Edmonton tournament on February 5 and 6. Members include, back row left to right, head coach Greg Ryan, Ella Stobbs, Ashlyn Ceulemans, Jenna Adkens, Hannah Wilm, Keeley Lamson and assistant coach Alyson Ryan. Second row: Larissa Mohler, Raya Schlaut and Kira Fiveland. Front row: Madison Dyck and Shaye Flemming. By Murray Green
The Camrose Precision Volleyball Club placed second in the Provincial North Premier 1 Volleyball tournament in Edmonton on Feb. 5 and 6.
The U17 team of 10 girls (two of whom are underage) won silver medals with head coach and founder of the club Greg Ryan and assistant coach Alyson Ryan. Precision played eight games with a 5-3 record. The final game for gold and silver medals was against Black Gold’s U18 team with two close games, 25-22 and 25-23. Precision U17 were placed at the bottom of the tournament ranking at them 35th out of 35 teams. The girls had nowhere to go but up in the standings. At the end of day one, the team won their crossover game placing them in the Blue playoffs, where they placed second. The team is heading south on February 17th to play in the Las Vegas Classic then onto Premier 2 in Calgary on March 5.
\By Murray Green
Precision and Academy of Gymnastics gymnasts had another successful weekend at the Exelta Cup 2022 in Red Deer, February 5 and 6. It was the first in-person competition since March 2020 and was attended by more than 25 clubs from across Alberta.
In the Xcel Bronze Category, top honours were taken by Kashtyn Ferguson. Haidee Gunderson of Camrose took home a gold medal in the All-Around. Also receiving gold in All-Around were Lauren Woodford and Sophie Sonnenberg of Camrose, Kalla Hayes and Mackenzie Fuller of Forestburg and Aubree Sheppard of Millet. Omosede Ogbeide of Gwynne, Charli Dietrich of New Norway and Paetyn Niehaus of Camrose all received silver medals.
In the Silver category, Precision and Academy of Gymnastics gymnasts dominated the younger category (seven to 11 years old) in the All-Around with Madison Niehaus taking gold, Raina Johnston silver and Mckenna Adloff tied for bronze. Palmer Heck placed a close fourth, Avery Walker tied for fifth, Quinn Urkow was sixth, Alexa Schmidt seventh and Addy Walker was ninth.
In the 12 and older category, Neve Stamp tied for bronze on floor and was sixth in the All-Around. Danika Hillyer was fifth on beam. Both girls are from Camrose.
In the Gold category, Brooklyn McNabb of Forestburg earned the gold All-Around, also silver on vault and bars, bronze on beam and gold on floor.
Lacey Adloff won silver on floor and bronze on vault. Peyton Harquail of Wetaskiwin was sixth on bars and beam. Abigayle Ryschka was seventh on vault and floor.
Brooklynn Church of Mulhurst Bay was seventh on bars. In the age 13 and over category, Aubree Gauvin of Glen Park was eighth on floor.
Elissa Battle of Millet in Level 8 was seventh on floor. Carly Letourneau of Wetaskiwin in first Trials to Canadians was ninth All-Around out of 17 competitors.
The club’s next competition will be the Copeland Classic in Spruce Grove at the end of February. The Precision and Academy of Gymnastics will host Trials to Westerns in Wetaskiwin at the end of March. This competition also serves as second Trials to Canadians. The club will also hold the All-Around Alberta Meet for the Xcel and L1 and L2.
