This year five members of men’s artistic section where selected for the national and west regional academy squads, representing Scotland at major events including the Elite Grade finals, NDP Finals the Celtic Cup and UK School Games.
The Men’s Section is still operating with only one coach and waiting for Culture & Sport to do something for the 22 hours part time job we lost more than two years ago. Also, the Men’s Artistic Section have talent identified 9 boys who did trails at the end of June and were selected for the West Regional Academy Squad but at the moment Scottish Gymnastics is still looking to find the new West Academy Coach. We find ourselves in the same situation not be able to start this development group due to coach staff shortage.
The best performances of this year for Men’s Artistic section were the two silver medals obtained by Rob Keys and Ryan McKee at British Championships in London.
The conclusion of 2008 will find the Men’s Section involved in a four Piece Competition, Scottish Squad Trials and the Christmas display in December.
Here are some of the achievements for Men’s Section:
Scottish National Squads Selection 2008
- National Youth Squad (Liam Davie, Douglas Ross, Rob Keys, Kelvin Cham)
- West Regional Academy Squad (Mathew Barclay, Jordan Ramsay)
CELTIC CUP 2008, Lisburn
- U/17 Team Silver (Liam Davie)
- U/13 Team Silver (Rob Keys)
Elite / NDP Finals
- Gymnasts selected for British Elite and NDP Finals in Newcastle
- NDP In Age:
Jordan Ramsay P3
- Elite Grades:
Rob Keys Under 12
Kelvin Cham Under 10
Scottish Championship 2008
Individual All-round:
Elite Grade
- Under 10 Silver medal (Kelvin Cham )
- Under 12 Bronze medal (Rob Keys )
NDP Club
- P4 Silver medal (Mathew Barclay)
- P3 Bronze medal (Jordan Ramsay)
- P2 Silver medal (Colin Drisdale)
- P2 Bronze medal (James Thomson)
- U/16 Gold medal (Liam Davie)
- U/16 Silver medal (Ryan McKee)
UK Schools Games 2008, BATH
- Under 16 / Team Bronze (Liam Davie)
British Men’s Championship 2008, London
- U/12 Silver medal vault (Rob Keys)
- U/16 Silver medal vault (Ryan McKee)
- Under 16 / All-round 11th (Ryan McKee)
MARIUS GHERMAN, HEAD COACH
Posted on January 26th, 2009