Competitive Gymnastics Tryouts

The Men's Program is looking for new candidates for our Pre-competitive and Interclub Programs. Boys must be at least five years old by of September 2008.

The minimum time commitment is four hours per week (two days per week).

Auditions are on Saturday May 31st from 3:00 to 4:00 pm.

Please register with the office

Photo Day - Saturday May 24th

This year, all pictures that are taken of your athlete during photo day will be produced and available to purchase on a CD for $25. However, pre-registration for photo day is required.

This years' photo day will include pose pictures, group/team pictures and "new" action shots. Approximately 50 pictures per CD.

Action shots of the Women's programme will be taken on Bars and Beam. Men's will be on P-Bars and Rings. Tumbling will be Tumble Track and Trampoline. Attire should be club suits.

There will be multiple photographers available allowing us to photograph more than one athlete at a time. Please understand, should all athletes pre-register, we will have almost 200 athletes to "shoot" and this is the first time organizing an action shoot.

Schedule will be issued/posted after the total # of athletes is confirmed. Approximate start time is 3:30 pm.

Since some gymnasts will be at a competition on May 24^th, the main team pictures will start when these groups are at the gym. The club hosting this meet are aware that this is our photo day and are accommodating us by having our athletes finish a little earlier. Any athlete that is at the competition earlier in the day will still have the opportunity to be photographed.

Please fill out the registration form and return, to Agnes no later than May 3^rd.

NOTE:
Due to the data management required to make the CD and the actual organization of the shoot itself, only athletes that have pre-registered will have their pictures taken and put on a CD.

If you decide not to register your athlete for photo day, we please ask that your athlete be available May 24^th to participate in the team/group pictures.

Note: We may also use some pictures taken to update our website.

We will need some volunteers to help on Photo Day and a posting will be put up on the volunteer board.

Class Cancellations

All Provincial level classes are cancelled on Friday April 18th due to Springfest (pre-comp meet).

All Pre-competitive classes are cancelled on Saturday April 19th due to the competition the previous day.

Flares Re-scheduled

Both Flares I & II groups will train this Saturday April 12 from 9 to 11am instead of Sunday April 13. Dave is in Belleville at a Tumbling meet.

The Flares II group is training on Saturday as a make-up for April 21. Dave will be in BC for a Tumbling meet.

Canadian Championships

The Men's program has qualified six boys / men to the 2008 Canadian Championships.

Argo High Performance gymnasts Cory Paterson, Daniel Capstick, Michael Buczkowski and Senior HP gymnasts Matt Albrecht, Matt Grinter and Sean Lord will all represent OGC and Team Ontario in Calgary.

Eastern Canadian Championships

The Men's program has qualified six boys to "Easterns".

Congratulations to Alex Danahy, Cory Paterson, Daniel Capstick, Eric Mariglia, Jeremie Quek and Michael Buczkowski.

The boys will travel to Montreal May 9th to the 11th to represent OGC and Team Ontario.

Provincials Results

Another successful Men's Provincial Championships for Oakville.

Three All-around Provincial Champions.
Nathan Bollinger (Level 1), Cory Paterson (Argo HP) and Matthew Albrecht (Senior HP) all won their respective categories.

Four All-around Silver Medalists
Adam Kassam (Level 3: under 15yrs), Alex Danahy (Level 4: 11-15yrs), Brad Schnurr (Level 4: 16+) and Sean Lord (Senior HP) each placed second in their respective categories.

Twenty Two Apparatus Gold Medals
Adam, Brad, Christopher Hazineh, Cole Becker, Cory, Daniel Capstick, Matt Albrecht, Matt Grinter, Nathan and Sean Lord all won one or more events.

Eighteen Apparatus Silver Medals
Adam, Alex, Brad, Cory, Matt Albrecht, Nathan, Robert Wilson, Sam Tziougras and Sean all placed second on one or more events

Eight Apparatus Bronze Medals
Adam, Alex, Brad, Camden Palkovic, Matt A., Matt G., Nathan and Sean all placed third on one or more events

Complete results are available here