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Cooroy's Gymnastics team were in action recently at the Queensland State Championships in Chandler and sent through these amazing images of the boys in action. From top left - clockwise - Dean Chandler on Pommel, Lyam Chandler tackling the vault, Mackenze Jones in the middle of a floor rountine, and Finlay Jones staying strong on the Roman Rings.

0423 980 601 IT'S a Wrap! Cooroy Gymnastics sent a team of five gymnasts to the Gymnastics Queensland’s 2022 Senior States at the start of April. The State event is over two days where gymnasts compete on the first day for the all around award and qualification to the apparatus finals. The Championships also are the qualification event for the Australian Gymnastics Championships which will be held in five weeks on the Gold Coast. Cooroy came away with two State Championships and impressive 12 medals including capturing a clean sweep of the podium in the level ten vault. Each gymnast did Cooroy proud coming home with at least one medal.

Placings for Day 1 Allaround:

Level 7 Open: Mackenzie Jones 11th. Level 9 Open: Felix McWilliam 2nd. Level 10 Open: Finlay Jones 3rd Dean Chandler 6th Lyam Chandler 8th.

Placings for Day 2 Apparatus

Finals: Level 7 Open: Mackenzie Jones 3rd high bar Level 9 Open: Felix McWilliam 2nd high bar, 2nd pommel, 3rd floor. Level 10 Open: Dean Chandler 1st vault, floor 3rd. Lyam Chandler 2nd vault Finlay Jones 1st parallel bars, 3rd vault 3rd rings.

Cooroy Gymnastic's Craig Jones said what made the boys achievements so impressive was that each of them went into the competition with less than ideal preparation because of the many interruptions to their training schedule. "All but one were impacted by Covid and required to isolate - two were still feeling the impact of long-Covid," Mr Jones said. "Flooding also took out more training time, then there are the life commitments outside of training and competing. "Mac is in year 11 and Felix is in year 12, both are full time students, both work part time - with Mac even attending an outdoor education camp the week of the comp and commuting back into Cooroy to train those nights. "Dean is an apprentice plumber working fulltime. He backs up a day of physical work with another 4 hours of training 5 days a week. "Lyam is in his 3rd year of a degree studying fulltime. Finlay coaches as well as studying fulltime in the second year of his degree. "Life outside of 20 hours of training a week is hectic for these boys. Yet somehow, each one balanced their load to arrive at this point."

Cooroy Men's coach Greg Smythe was happy with the results.

He said he was hoping to get to the national event without any interruptions to training and that even though the preparation for states was less than ideal, he was impressed that all of the club's level 9 and 10 boys were selected to the Queensland Team to compete at Nationals next month on the Gold Coast.