Join us for our first Pizza Fun Night of the school year! It’ll be Friday, September 20 from 6:30-9:30. Ages 4-14. $12 members, $15 nonmembers.
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Have the kids outgrown those leotards or shorts? Check out our August deals below.
Deal #1- Buy any regularly priced GK leo and get 25% off a second GK leo!
Deal #2- Get a free scrunchie when you buy a pair of regularly priced GK shorts.
Our afternoon and evening classes work great for many parents, but we know some have schedules that are better accommodated by morning classes. With this in mind, we’re excited to announce that this fall we’ll be offering a of couple daytime Kinder Gem classes on Fridays.
Friday Morning Times & Classes:
Kinder Gem 3 – 9:45-10:30 am
Kinder Gem 4 & 5- 10:30-11:30 am
Let the kids escape the heat at our next open gym with candy, soda, and fun! It’ll be Friday, August 2 from 6 to 8. $7 members and $9 nonmembers. Ages 4 to 14.
Find out about fall registration. evaluation week, and this month’s pro shop sale. Read below for all the details.
Summer has finally arrived, classes have begun again, and our June newsletter is hot off the presses!
We want to congratulate the following athletes on making the 2013/14 Gem City All Star Cheer Squad! Hope and I truly enjoyed the tryout process. We look forward to working with you during the upcoming year.
2013/14 Cheer Squad:
Calissa Cormier
Makenna Gray
Olivia Hoebing
Kylie Jones
Shelby Lahr
Amber Leonard
Ashley Leonard
Sophia Marcola
Kayla McElroy
Savannah Nash
Sierra Nash
Kaylyn Orpet-Hulett
Brenna Phillips
Lindsey Schafer
Kelsey Shires
Sophie Soltwedel
We’re busy preparing for the state tumbling meet we’re hosting on May 18. (Read more about it here.) But we wanted to take some time to highlight how our level 5 gymnasts performed in Peoria at their state meet. We’re very proud of all their hard work!
Read individual results below.
Sydney Stupavsky
3rd Place – Beam
5th Place – Floor
9th Place – All Around
Maggie Schutte
3rd Place – Vault
9th Place – Uneven Bars
3rd Place – Floor
4th Place – All Around
Baylee Arnold
6th Place – Vault
7th Place – Floor
7Th Place – All Around
Isabella Anderson
11th Place – Beam
Mary Farmer
2nd Place – Beam
Read our current newsletter to find out about our May sale, summer field trips, and the 2013 AAU Illinois Trampoline & Tumbling Championship!
Gem City’s tumbling team competed this past Sunday at the USTA Southern Illinois State competition in Highland,Illinois.
This is our biggest tumbling meet of the season with over 900 athletes competing! Our downstate competitors performed well with nearly all qualifying for USTA nationals. Athletes must place 10th or higher to qualify. Find out about individual athlete placement below.
USTA Souther Illinois State Results:
1st – Maggie Schutte, Sub-advanced girls ages 13-14
2nd – Dawson Nash, Advanced boys all ages
3rd – Mick Bramlett, Advanced boys all ages
3rd – Brianna Barnes, Novice girls age 12
6th – Bella Soltwedel, Sub-novice girls ages 13-14
6th – Audrey Kaufman, Novice girls age 10
6th – Reagan Smyser, Sub-novice girls age 10
10th – Emily Lennox, Novice girls age 7
11th – Abbey Redd, sub-novice girls age 7
19th – Jaden Essig, sub-novice girls age 10
28th – Sierra Nash, intermediate girls ages 11-12
Don’t know what this tumbling team thing is? Read more about Gem City’s tumbling team here.
It’s a fun week at Gem City because it’s evaluation week. All this means is that during class instructors will use a standardized list to see what your child has accomplished this session. Should your child meet all the skill standards they will move up to the next level class.
Evaluations are important for a number of reasons. The most important one being that evaluations give your child concrete goals to work toward. The list of skill standards an instructor uses during evaluation week is the same list they use all session to guide their coaching. This means children are very familiar with each skill before evaluation week arrives.
The other reason Gem City uses evaluations is that it allows us to place children in the appropriate class. Nothing is more frustrating than being in a class this is either too difficult or too easy. (This is frustrating for coaches too!) A coach can better emphasize needed skills and efficiently use time if the children in a class all have the same approximate skill level.
Sometimes skills are really close, or a child may “basically” do a skill. Coaches will often comment “Almost” or “Getting close!” on the evaluation sheets in these cases. Some may wonder why we don’t just move the child up a level when this happens and it’s because what coaches are looking for is a mastery of the skills. This means coaches want fluidity, confidence, and consistency when a child does a skill.
If you have questions about your child’s evaluation please feel free to speak with your child’s coach.