Posts Tagged ‘Gymnastics’
My Graduation Speech
(As excerpted from Gymfinity staff newsletter) Some day, someone at a prestigious college will give me an honorary doctorate to appear as a graduation speaker. This year as we have 5 staff and 2 team members graduating I have been thinking of the typical drivel that speakers usually deliver and couldn’t help but think: I could…
Read MoreChoosing your kid’s Activity Center
Here are a few questions to ask when you are considering signing your child up for an activity. Are the Staff educated in what they will be teaching? First off, education. The staff should be good at what they teach but should also have a solid background on the topic as well. I once…
Read MoreGet your share of the important stuff…. Calcium
Our bodies need Calcium and our main source is through our diet. Although it is a mineral that is essential for life, the majority of Americans do not get adequate calcium on a daily basis. Actually Calcium is the fifth most abundant element by mass in our bodies and it’s an essential factor in keeping those bodies running…
Read MoreTnT is amazing at AAU State Championship
Last weekend, May 16-17, The Gymfinity Tumble and Trampoline team travelled to Bloomington IL and Illinois State University to compete in the Wisconsin State Amateur Athletic Union Championship. Wisconsin does not have enough teams in-state to host our own meet, so our teams travel to Illinois and piggy-back on their championship weekend. Gymfinity Athletes dominated…
Read MoreJust wait until you have kids….
I’ve been in the “working with kids” business since 1980; coaching, teaching, supervising etc. I have worked side by side with parents and with people who don’t have children too. If I had a dollar for everytime I heard “just wait until you have kids…” I’d be pretty wealthy. I always thought how those who…
Read MoreTnT Rocks at State Championships
Gymfinity’s TnT team travelled to Romeoville Illinois for the state championships as Wisconsin only has 2 teams competing in AAU/US Tumbling and Trampoline Association. Our Wisconsin team competed with Illinois and Wisconsin teams. Gymfinity came out on top this year, with many of our kids taking top honors. TnT has 3 competition events; The Trampoline, The…
Read MoreGymfinity at Regional Championship
Date Line: April 26, Wisconsin Dells. Gymnasts representing 7 states, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin competed in the Regional Championship. Gymfinity sent 5 athletes in Level 8 (USA-Gymnastics Junior Olympic levels of competition range from Level 3 to Level 10, After 10 would be “Elite” and that’s the gymnastics you…
Read MoreTomorrow is the Day!
It started, officially, in December; and it will finish tomorrow. We began training 19 girls in the Junior Olympic Gymnastics program. They had good meets, they had disastrous meets, but everyone one of them, and us the coaches, learned from every lesson. I had two seniors this year, Meghan and Nicole. Meghan had been with us…
Read MoreGymfinity removes the Flyers Cheer program
Today was a sad day. We decided to eliminate our Flyers Cheer program and said good bye to many young girls who grew up at Gymfinity. We will miss them all and wish them and their families the best of luck. Gymfinity started the Flyers Cheer program 5 years ago and nurtured it to over…
Read MoreJust when you think you have them understood
I was sharing stories with a friend this week about our kids, mine is going to be 5, hers 4. We were laughing at the things kids say. Recently my son told me he wanted to get my wife a gift. When I asked what he had in mind he said “something like a stick…
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