Australia WAG Teams Update!

This weekend saw the trial not just for the Pacific Rim 2012 team, but the juniors and seniors heading to Gymnix in Canada as well.


GA have updated the following assignments, congratulations to all our gymnastics representatives:

Pacific Rim team: (Everett, USA)

Senior: Lauren Mitchell

Emily Little

Georgia Simpson

Reserve: Georgia-Rose Brown

Junior: Alexandra Eade
Madelaine Leydin
Jazminne Casis

Reserve: Georgia Godwin

Gymnix team: (Montreal, CAN)

Senior: Lauren Mitchell

Emily Little

Georgia Simpson

Georgia-Rose Brown

Georgia Wheeler

Nickola Chung

Ashleigh Brennan
Mary-Anne Monckton
Larrissa Miller

Junior: Alexandra Eade
Madelaine Leydin
Jazminne Casis

American World Cup: (All Around competition)

Georgia Simpson

The VWHPC has photos of their gymnasts up at Facebook.

You can also read about the WA girls (lovely pic!) in a new article here.

Aussie NCAA Head-To-Head

Aah, it's good to be home, and even better to be home to gym news!

In an interesting match-up over the weekend, collegiate Aussies Mel Jones and Olivia Vivian (Oregon State) took on conference rivals Stanford, where one of their stalwarts is fellow Beijing 2008 squadder Shona Morgan.

Competing in front of a home crowd, OSU came out on top, with Olivia scoring an awesome 9.925 on bars. More great reviews are flooding in for Mel's floor (I still haven't seen video of it?) while Shona competing without major error on beam and floor. I do so love her choreo!

(ETA: If you would like to watch an archived stream of the meet, go here.)

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!

I'll be in Sydney over the weekend.

Have an ace one.

:D

Dude! Dude.

BREAKING NEWS

Superstar newbie Georgia Simpson will compete at the 2012 American Cup!


The lineup has been announced by USA Gymnastics. It will be held at Madison Square Garden on March 3rd.

In other happy news, our national women's coach Peggy Liddick will tomorrow officially become an Australian citizen. She appeared on Adam Spencer's breakfast radio show in Sydney earlier this morning to talk about it. Happy Australia Day, boss!

And Then There Were Two

It can't be easy battling with your best mate for the one chance at realising a dream.

Read more about Josh Jefferis' experiences on the road to London here.

Got To Dance

Check out this nice news feature on national team choreographer (AND TOTES MY SECOND BEST FRIEND BECAUSE WE'VE MET IN PERSON AND EVERYTHING LOLZ) Stacey Umeh, training young gymnasts at the Central Coast Gymnastics Academy. She has some lovely things to say about Lauren Mitchell.

Sam Offord Update

The Herald Sun online is running a short piece on Sam Offord, detailing his injury sustained at the Waveney club friendly.

We wish him the best for a speedy recovery.

Camp As

The Victorian Women's High Performance Centre is putting up photos from camp at their Facebook page! Hurrah!