A group of local athletes brought home a large pile of hardware from the Chimo Gymnastics Club’s competition in Comox last weekend.
The 19th Annual PJ Party Invitational, which took place Feb. 10 and 11, saw teams from almost a dozen clubs from across the Island compete. Athletes participated in four events – vault, bars, beam and floor – with each scored out of 10. Those scores were combined for overall results.
Representing the West Shore, Lion’s Pride Gymnastics had 16 young athletes hit the mat.
Addy Lynn scored 9.2 for her performance on the bars, earning a gold medal on that element.
Her teammate, Sailor Naus earned a silver on the bars and combined with her other scores took fourth overall for the Junior Olympics (JO) 2A Division. Teammate Eliana Gibbs also had a strong competition earning fourth for her floor work.
Competing in the JO 2B Division, Jayah Niedoba earned first on the beam with a score of 9.4, second on the floor with a score of 9.35 and took first overall. Teammate Alanna Hrycuik was right behind her, taking second overall after a gold medal finish on floor and silver on vault. Ellie Murray also earned gold on vault and a fourth-place finished on floor to take fourth overall. Maia Nelson earned a silver on bars with Shenare Johnston taking silver on floor and a bronze on vault.
Competing in the JO 2C Division, Cadence Greenway took gold on vault and silver on bars to finish sixth overall.
Under the team’s banner, Maya Iles earned silver on beam and bronze on floor while teammate Lily Vick had a strong meet, competing in the JO 3B Division.
In the JO 4A Division, Jade Kosmuk took first overall with a gold medal on beam, silver on floor and a bronze on bars. Right behind her, Keira Cabana finished third overall after scoring 9.25 on bars for a gold medal and earning silver on vault and bronze on beam.
Ella Rouleau took second overall in the JO 4B division, after earning gold medals on beam and bars. Lily Fudge earned two bronze medals in bars and floor, and Kaelyn Abrahamson earned a silver medal for her floor routine.
Levels 1 and 2 are compulsory routines with set choreography and music, which allows the gymnast to develop strong basics. Levels 3, 4 and 5 also use compulsory routines and choreography with a focus on building on new skills and perfecting the fundamentals.
Levels 6 to 9 are competitive programs which use optional routines have have difficulty restrictions.
Athletes are also broken into age groupings within those levels.
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