FIGPromoting Gender Equality in sport is becoming increasingly important around the world and is one of the main goals of the IOC’s Olympic Agenda 2020. FIG has made significant steps towards gender equality including: • FIG Rules for the makeup of executive and committee positions that ensure fair gender representation. • Establishing the FIG Women in Gymnastics Commission • FIG … Read More
Athlete Well-Being
The Athlete Well-Being Project was initiated through Project 2020 and athlete well-being will now be a regular feature in Clubland. For Athlete well-being to become integrated into the mind-set of all of those involved with athletes – coaches, parents and administrators, then the starting point to implement change is where the policy and decisions are made. We will update you … Read More
Women and Girls Strategy
Last year the NZ Government released its Women and Girls in Sport and Active Recreation Strategy. The Government’s vision is to enable women and girls to realise their potential in and through sport and active recreation. The Strategy has three priority areas: leadership, participation, and value and visibility. Above all the Strategy aims to ensure that all women and girls, … Read More
Health and Safety – August 2019
Relationship Managers have been working closely with many clubs around the country this year and it is great to see a lot of progress being made with Club Health and Safety (H&S). There is an increasing understanding of what H&S is, what clubs need to be doing and why it’s so important.Key documents for all clubs working on H&S: GNZ … Read More
Training and Development Opportunities – August 2019
Sport NZ Women + Girls Summit 2019 – registrations open The inaugural Sport NZ Women + Girls Summit is now open for registrations, get your tickets today for the one-day event taking place on 7 October 2019 at Te Papa, Wellington. Don’t miss hearing from expert keynote speakers and panellists on the topics of leadership, participation, value and visibility and … Read More
Our new Team members
For those of you who have not yet met our new team members, we would like to introduce you to them now. We have welcomed Penny Metcalfe as she takes up the National Support Administrator position. Penny is the first point of contact for general inquiries whilst managing the base administrative functions involving accounts, product orders and Board liaison. Penny … Read More
2019 WAG Trans-Tasman Team
Every year at Nationals our friends in Australia join us for some good old trans-tasman rivalry. This year, there will be a Women’s STEP 10 Team going up against Australia. The athletes selected to this team are: Josephine Chao (Christchurch School of Gymnastics – Canterbury) Brenna Leong (Hamilton City GymSports – Waikato) Sophie Manson (Gymnastics Nelson – Top of the … Read More
Two Ollerup Scholarships Awarded
We are really pleased to announce that not one, but two, coaches have been awarded an Ollerup Scholarship to commence in January 2020. Tara Fitzgerald from Waikanae Gymnastics Club is off to Olleryp to study Rhythmic Gymnastics with the aim to gain an in-depth knowledge in choreography and musicality, which she can also bring back to TeamGym. Tara is a … Read More
TRA Team to 2019 World Age Group Competitions
After the Senior Trampoline World Championships are the World Age Group Competitions. These will also be taking place in Tokyo, Japan 5 – 8 December. We are pleased to have announced the following athletes and officials to represent New Zealand: Trampoline – Individual 11-12 yrs Deacan Brill (Hamilton City GymSports) 13-14 yrs Liam Costley (Icon Trampoline) 13-14 yrs Sienna French … Read More
2020 NZ Championships announced
It is with pleasure that we announce that the 2020 New Zealand Gymnastics Championships will return to the Trusts Arena in Auckland from 14-18 July. 2020 should be an exciting year for Gymnastics in New Zealand! With the inaugural season of the new competition calendar and Nationals moving to the July holidays, we have decided to return to The Trusts … Read More