City of Novato Parks, Recreation and Community Services is excited to announce the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Novato Gymnastics Center, at a special event on Saturday, October 19!
Countdown to the Fall Classic!
/The Countdown to the Fall Classic is on! Catch your Novato Gymnastics Team in action this Saturday, as it competes against teams from around Northern California in their last meet of the regular season. The Fall Classic will have sessions beginning at 9:00 AM and 12:00 PM. Let’s Go, Novato!
Hoppy Halloween!
/Hoppy Halloween from Novato Gymnastics! We hope that all our participants have been enjoying the festive spirit, costumed instructors, and the annual Halloween House!
This Halloween, we are also participating in a nationwide plastic recycling and awareness effort, and inviting you to join us! We are collecting used candy wrappers and hoping to keep a bit of plastic from entering our landfills and oceans. If you aren’t planning to do anything with your used plastic candy wrappers, please consider saving them and bringing them down to the Gymnastics Center for a recycling drive. We are collecting what we can, and sending it on to be processed into new plastic products. Curious about how it works? Check out the video below.
Trash or Treasure
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This Halloween, Novato Gymnastics is asking for your help to raise awareness and reduce the impact of plastic waste. We are working to put some valuable plastic resources back into use, and keep it out of the landfill and oceans. Through the Rubicon Trash or Treasure program, we will collect used candy wrappers in designated bins at the Gymnastics Center. These, in turn, will be sent to Rubicon for processing, and turned into future plastic products.
In 2021, Americans spent nearly $37 billion on candy. In 2020, the Ocean Conservancy reported that food wrappers were the number one item found in plastic waste through worldwide coastal clean-ups. While this effort may result in only a couple of pounds of plastic wrappers, this could help raise awareness and help clean up the planet!
Look for the Halloween themed receptacles to deposit your candy wrappers. Meanwhile, check out the links for more information. We hope you enjoy a Happy Halloween, and join us in keeping the planet cleaner, a little bit at a time!
Jersey Week (Sept. 18 - 23)
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Jersey Week at the Novato Gymnastics Center: September 18 - 22
Participants are encouraged to wear their favorite sports jersey or t-shirt to gymnastics this week!
Did you know that gymnastics prepares your child for other sports? Gymnastics activity provides your child with an awesome opportunity to enhance their physical conditioning and overall athleticism! Gymnastics develops many physical attributes such as strength, flexibility, balance, coordination, power, and agility which are the same skills needed for sports like football, diving, soccer, baseball, etc.
Wondering about some of the other benefits of gymnastics participation? Kids in gymnastics learn how to roll and fall safely which can aid in injury prevention. The complexity of gymnastics enhances cognitive development as well. It works on concentration, listening skills, and memory and can even help in learning to read and write. Through also teaching patience, focus, perseverance, time management, and sportsmanship, gymnastics builds character, too!
The Best for 2023
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Thanks to the Pacific Sun for for voting the Novato Gymnastics Center as the Best Indoor Children’s Sports Center in Marin for 2023! Novato Parks, Recreation and Community Services and Novato Gymnastics strive to be at our best for our community, especially when that effort helps our young participants be their best!
This is the second year in a row that we have received this honor, and fifth overall in this category. We are always grateful for our participants and their families, as well as their continued participation and support!
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Be Your Best for 2023
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At Novato Gymnastics, we strive to be our best for our community! Over the next week, we celebrate and share that effort with our participants. We have the best participants, staff, gym, and much more! Keep an eye out this week for activities and examples of our best in the gym, and show us yours, too!
San Francisco Classic
/The Novato Gymnastics Team kicked off its second season, featuring the Level 6, 7, and 8 Gymnasts. Georgia Thomas, Victoria Peraza, Lisa Ganzhorn, Tina Strack, and Maddie Iwami competed at the San Francisco Classic on January 14. Also pictured is Liliana Vasquez, who was unable to compete.
2022 NorCal Level 3 and 4 State Championships
/Congratulations to all the Level 3 and 4 Novato Gymnasts for capping off a successful competitive season! There were numerous noteworthy performances at the 2022 NorCal Level 3, 4, 5 State Championships on November 11-13, held at Capital Sports Center in McClellan Park.
In the Level 4 competition, highlights include Avery Vuong’s first place on Beam with 9.750 in the Senior G Division. She also placed third All Around with 37.500. Ava Kennedy placed second on Vault with 9.425, and sixth on Floor Exercise with 8.825.
In the Senior I Division, Damen Heath won the Floor Exercise event with 9.125, placed second in the All Around with 36.950, and placed second on Bars with 9.625. Andie Fuetsch won the Vault with 9.700, and placed third on Bars with 9.475. Meanwhile, Sakura Knoles placed third on Floor Exercise with 9.025, and sixth All Around with 35.950.
Lyla Yee was sixth on Beam with 8.850 and 6th All Around in the Senior J Division with 34.850
Madison Lieberman placed third on Beam with 9.300 in the Senior E Division. Sofia Martinez placed 6th on Bars with 9.400 in the Senior B Division, while Yuki Chance placed third on Vault in the Child I Division with 9.000.
In Level Three, Phoebe Disharoon placed fourth on Beam and Floor, with 9.225 and 9.300, respectfully, in the Senior H Division.
In the Senior G Division, Kensie Stevens placed third on Floor with 9.275, and third All Around with 37.450. Also in the Senior G Division, Alexa Garcia won four State titles on Bars with 9.650, Beam with 9.775, Floor with 9.500, and All Around with a career high 38.275.
Way to go, Novato!
LEVEL FOUR
Child I Division
Yuki Chance
VT: 3rd (9.000); UB: 10th (8.725); BB: 12th (8.225); FX: T8th (8.650); AA: 11th (34.600)
Senior B Division
Sofia Martinez
VT: 11th (8.250); UB: 6th (9.475); BB: 11th (8.625); FX: 11th (8.400); AA: 11th (34.750)
Senior E Division
Madison Lieberman
VT: 8th (8.500); UB: 10th (8.425); BB: T4th (9.300); FX: 7th (8.325): AA: 10th (34.550)
Senior G Division
Avery Vuong
VT: 4th (9.250); UB: 5th (9.450); BB: 1st (9.750); FX: 4th (9.050); AA: 3rd (37.500)
Ava Kennedy
VT: T2nd (9.425); UB: 9th (8.850); BB: 10th (8.675); 6th (8.825); AA: 7th (35.775)
Senior H Division
Andie Fuetsch
VT: 1st (9.700); UB: 3rd (9.475); BB: 8th (8.550); FX: 9th (8.500); AA: 5th (36.225)
Sakura Knoles
VT: 8th (8.525); UB: 5th (9.225); BB: T7th (9.175); FX: 3rd (9.025); AA: 6th (35.950)
Senior I Division
Damen Heath
VT: 5th (8.900); UB: 2nd (9.625); BB: 5th (9.300); FX: 1st (9.125); AA: T2nd (36.950)
Senior J Division
Lyla Yee
VT: 8th (8.650); UB: 7th (9.125); BB: 6th (8.850); FX: 8th (8.225); AA: T6th (34.850)
LEVEL THREE
Senior G Division
Kensie
VT: T4th (9.375); UB: 4th (9.450); BB: T4th (9.350); FX: 3rd (9.275); AA: 3rd (37.450)
Alexa Garcia
VT: 4th (9.350); UB: 1st (9.650); BB: 1st (9.775); FX: 1st (9.500); AA: 1st (38.275)
Senior H Division
Phoebe Disharoon
VT: 7th (9.100); UB: 7th (9.225); BB: T4th (9.225); FX: 4th (9.300); T6th (36.850)
Tools of the Trade
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We always enjoy the smiles of our participants and staff using the variety of equipment and mats we have to work with. It is so valuable to have the tools to help them learn, and to have variety to keep the learning fresh and fun!
The images above are a few of the newest mat shapes and equipment at the Gymnastics Center. The staff are always excited to challenge our participants through a wide range of options, and these new pieces will only add to the curriculum. We hope these colorful additions will inspire and challenge all of our participants and their bright future!
