Acrobats went for gold at the BC Championships

By Heather Cretelli

The Revelstoke Acrobats

The Revelstoke Acrobats’ competitive team got an exciting start to their Spring Break, travelling to Kamloops for the BC Trampoline Gymnastics Championships March 16-18.

The large meet saw teams from all over BC vying for the elusive titles of BC Champions; most categories had twenty to thirty athletes in them.  The largest team that Revelstoke has had in many years competed over the weekend, and saw five new athletes competing for the first time.

On the podium, winning gold in level ‘A’ synchronized trampoline were Stephanie Batke and Marissa Duncan.  Cheyenne Brule and Jordan-Vandenberg-Clark also placed 4^th in the same category.  In ‘B’, Kayla Fenwick and Jenna Bollefer earned a silver medal, just beating out Chloe Suchovs and Frankie Howe, winning the bronze.  Isabella Mendonca and Hannah Winger placed 5^th in the ’10 and under’ category.

Stephanie Batke and Frankie Howe also earned bronze medals for their individual trampoline events.  Joshua Winger earned a silver medal on the double mini trampoline, very narrowly missing the gold.  Many had personal best performances, including Alyssa Bollefer qualifying for finals in double mini at her very first competition.  Other individual results:

Alyssa Bollefer, ’10 and under’:  9^th double mini, 16^th trampoline

Devyn Gale, 10 and under’:  12^th double mini, 13^th trampoline

Hannah Winger, ’10 and under’:  15^th double mini, 12^th trampoline

Isabella Mendonca, ’10 and under’:  20^th double mini, 7^th trampoline

Julia Dorrius, ‘C’:  18^th double mini, 20^th trampoline

Amanda Batke, ‘C’:  15^th double mini, 16^th trampoline

Willow Shewchuk, ‘C’: 24^th trampoline

Chloe Suchovs, ‘B’:  8^th double mini, 9^th trampoline

Kayla Fenwick, ‘B’:  14^th double mini, 7^th trampoline

Jenna Bollefer, ‘B’: 7^th double mini, 5^th trampoline, 5^th ‘D’ tumbling

Frankie Howe, ‘B’:  17^th double mini, 3^rd trampoline, 6^th ‘C’ tumbling

Joshua Winger, ‘C’: 2^nd double mini, 4^th ‘B’ trampoline

Jordan Vandenberg-Clark, ‘B’:  9^th double mini, 6^th ‘A’ trampoline

Cheyenne Brule, ‘A’:  11^th double mini, 13^th trampoline

Stephanie Batke, ‘A’:  8^th double mini, 3^rd trampoline

Marissa Duncan, ‘A’:  13^th double mini, 11^th trampoline

In the team events, Revelstoke placed 4^th in trampoline and 6^th in double mini, out of all the clubs in the province.  For many athletes, this was the last competition of the year, although some will compete in the Western Canada Cup in Edmonton in May.  As the Acrobats finish off their season, closing May long weekend, they will be saying goodbye to their existing facility and packing up to move to the new elementary school come fall.

Here are some fantastic photos of our young Acrobats in action: