Special Olympic athletes in pursuit of their personal goals in St. Albert. Click here for full story from The Journal - July 2nd 2009.
(Photo courtesy of The Journal).

Alpha Rhythmics sent two AGG groups to attend the Red Ribbon AGG Invitational in Markham, Onatario on June 20, 2009. Alpha also attended the Fort Worth Sport and Cultural Festival June 22-28. They achieved spectacular results in both events. For a detailed report, please click here.

Bree Chelle, Elizabeth Kazakov and Olivia Jack made the national team! Results are available here. More news and pictures to follow.

Hannah Parry represented the athletes of the future University Games in Brussels on May 23rd. The Edmonton 2015 bid committee invited Hannah to join the Canadian Bid team as they made their last presentation in the hopes of winning the Games for Canada, but Korea was eventually declared the winner of the 2015 Summer Games. The website described the Edmonton bid by saying, “The MC was nobody less than former Universiade and Olympic Swimming Champion Alex Baumann who delivered an emotional plea recalling his participation and medal winning performance at the 1983 Universiade in Edmonton. However, it was 12-year old rhythmic gymnast Hannah Parry who stole the hearts of everybody present in the room with her stunning performance.” Hannah came 3rd AA at the Canadian Individual Championships in Hamilton just a few days after returning from Brussels.

Results from the Western Regional Championships in Winnipeg have been posted.
Congratulations to Team Alberta, leaping away with 57 medals! (19 Gold, 25 Silver, 13 Bronze) Our National Stream Seniors "owned" the podium (Caitlin Marchak 1st, Olivia Jack 2nd, Caitlane Tarun 3rd, Hannah Whitford 9th), while our PreNovices and Novices (Marina Lavrentier 4th, Nina Pavlovic 7th, Hannah Parry 2nd, Iveta Milciute 5th) blew the competition away with stellar performances. Our Juniors rocked the rotation by taking the two top spots (Amanda Sha 1st, Bree Chelle 2nd, Amanda Greenwell 4th, Katarina Yakimchuk 12th, Leah Gasparovic 13th, Maddy Fraser 18th) and our Provincial Stream athletes twirled around the competition.(Gayle Laird 2nd, Natalia Pavlovic 3rd, Lilian Dang 10th, Nicole Shteinbah 13th, Londyn Franko 14th, Jenna Matijevic 20th, Brooklyn Fedoretz-Maxwell 1st, Erica Teghtmeyer 6th, Mathilde Ruth 8th, Caitlyn French 1st, Meika Wong 11th, Sylvia Cao 13th, Jenny Wang 14th, Chelsea Tran 15th, Katelyn Malayko 6th, Kristin Dombroski 7th, Cecilie Fenger-Anderson 2nd, Andrea Virag 3rd, Isabella Englert 5th)

A fully packed house of audience and lots of gymnasts is a sign of an awesome show - 46 coaches and 230 gymnasts at the provincial gymnaestrada with News coverage! Please click on picture to see the picture gallery for the event.

Congratulations to Capital City Gymnastics Club for their fun rhythmic gymnastics spring show. Alpha Gymnastics Club, the Capital City Gym club and Connie Bramer’s RG classes all joined together at the end to do a small scarf routine. Participants ranged in age from 3 to 76!

Kamryn Rawles (Megan Hockley's daughter) is happy to announce the arrival of her baby brother 11-03-2009

Congrats to all our judges

Results from Elite Canada have been posted! Elizabeth Kazakov of Calgary placed eighth AA in Junior (with 6th place in both Hoop and Ball. Bree Chelle is in 10th place. Amanda Sha placed 13th, (8th place in both Clubs and rope). The seniors placed well in a tight senior competition, with Olivia Jack (15th), Caitlin Marchak (16th) and Caitlane Tarun (18th). Congratulations to the gymnasts and coaches who placed in the top 10! They will be meeting with the national team advisory team immediately after Elite Canada.

Photos by Brian Neufeld at the Edmonton Rhythmics Gala.

The University of Alberta Panda and U of A Bears basketball teams were treated to a demo by Alpha’s AGG and Performing teams.

Congratulations to all who participated in LA Lights 2009. We look forward to posting photos of our Alberta gymnasts, but here is a taste of who they were able to see when they weren't competing. Photos courtesy of Tom Theobold.

Capital City Gymnastics Club shows how they combine rhythmic and artistic gymnastics in their recreational classes. Click here.

Congratulations to Judit Viktoria Berecz on the completion of her Level 3 coaching credentials. Her certification increases the ranks of Level 3 certified coaches to ten.

June Sasano just had Cara on January 1 – 4 weeks early, but healthy and over 6 pounds. Congrats!

It is nice to see the PRISM program being used in the North West Territory. Details here.

Congratulations to Kelsey Cnudde and Bree Chelle - the 2008 recipients of the Brittney Rose Hunt Memorial Award.

The Hunt family has graciously supplied one award per zone with registered National Level gymnasts. It is their hope that this award will show the gymnasts that it doesn't take a lot of effort to do small things, with kindness, cheerfulness, and consideration. By providing an award for each zone, it magnifies the number of people that will be rewarded for exceptionally good behaviour, and for good sportsmanship.

Look for the nomination forms for the 2009 awards to be distributed in your club in April.

Click here for great article about the non-competitive and competitive aspects of rhythmic gymnastics, and what parents should look for when assessing a rhythmic gymnastics club