The World Championships for Women have been organised since 1934; the European Championships began in 1957 and the National Championships for women in England were introduced in 1924. An Olympic discipline.

Judging Clinic

Mandy Mc Master is hoping to run a Women's Artistic 'Judging Clinic' this September.

This would consist of a watered down version of the club judging course in an attempt to try to drum up some interest prior to the next full judging course which we hope to run late Feb 2009 or early March 2009

The course will be held at Salto and there will be a fee of £20 per person.

This is also a really good opportunity to help coaches attain a better understanding of the requirements of routines for competitions, particularly with the new competition season about to begin.

If anyone in your club is interested in this please email Mandy: japs11@btinternet.com

The squad are lucky enough to have the expert input from the following coaches:

Tony Byrne, Gina Popa, Sun Jie, Clare Taylor and Kim Kensett.

Future team’s and also individual’s will be selected from this squad to represent NI at major competitions like Northern Europeans, Europeans, Commonwealth Games and many more internationals.

We will hopefully get some pics of the Elite women in action for the next Ezine!