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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.

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)

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

Gymnasts of all levels gathered in Calgary for the Provincial Championship hosted by Chinook Rhythmics. Results are available here. Pictures of the awards are available at Tom Hamp's Prairie Light Photography website:

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Please also mention that competition images are available by downloading from a private webpage for each gymnast. Images are at full resolution, so can be printed up to poster size, without copyright marks. Cost of each gymnast's package, which contains 20-40 images depending on suitability, is $45.00 + GST = $47.25. Payment can be made by VISA.

Parents and gymnasts should please contact Tom directly at TomHamp@PrairieLight.org. (On request, a set of contact sheets (thumbnails) of the images can be made available prior to ordering.)

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.

Thank you Alex for being such a great representative of rhythmic gymnastics in Canada both before and during the Olympics!

A nice article from NBC about rhythmic gymnastics. Click here.

Congratulations to Olivia Jack and Caitlin Marchak for their Gold and Silver performances at Western Regionals.

Congratulations to all competitors - you were amazing! Tom Hamp - our incredible photographer - has picture packages for sale. Please contact him directly at Prairie Light Photography (TomHamp@PrairieLight.org) to purchase your competition package of photographs. To order photos or video, please follow the instructions here.

Congratulations to all athletes, coaches and volunteers. For results please click here. For a slideshow of the event, please click here. (The file is 5M in size and so will take a little while to download).

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!

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.

National Gymnastics Week celebrates the positive benefits of gymnastics in all its forms. National Gymnastics Week provides your school, club, or organization with the perfect opportunity to promote its activities to the local community. Join clubs and gymnasts from across the country in a celebration of GYMNASTICS!

Alberta clubs will be celebrating by taking part in activities through the week of February 9-16. Some clubs have already registered their National Gymnastics Week activities with RGA. Gymnasts will be participating in Alberta Winter Games (including both Rhythmic and Artistic Gymnastics competition) and there will be demonstrations at AWG 2008 by Parkland Rhythmics, Alpha Rhythmic Gymnastics and Sprites Special Olympians. Gymnasts ranging in age from 6 – 75 will participate in AWG as competitors and performers. Other events throughout the province include:

Illusions RG Club will be performing at Northlands Agricom for the Lunar New Year and at West Edmonton Mall, just prior to the start of National Gymnastics Week.

Be sure to send your photos to Rhythmic Gymnastics Alberta (rga@rgalberta.com) for inclusion on the website and in upcoming newsletters..

Fun meet at the Talisman Centre in Calgary

Gymnasts performing in front of families and friends.

Edmonton Rhythmic Gymnastics at West Edmonton Mall demo

Congratulations to the first two recipients of the Brittney Rose Hunt Memorial Award. Presented by Rosemary Hunt, this is a peer award was based on the consistent qualities of kindness and good sportsmanship shown by national level gymansts. Amanda Sha and Dakota Fancey received this award based on the votes of provincial and national level gymnasts in Alberta zones with national level gymnasts. Thank you to the Hunt family for donating the trophies in Brittney's memory. The trophies were specially commissioned in Brittney's memory, and represent Brittney's rhythmic gymnastics skillsfrom her last competitions in 2006. Thanks to Alberta artist, Everett Keogh.