25th Anniversary Show

New Pre-School facility

What a fantastic week in the history of Falkirk School of Gymnastics with the opening of our fully equipped Pre-School facility and our 25th Anniversary of the opening of our facility in 1986. Over 300 gymnasts, coaches, parents and old members joined us for a celebration show. All our clubs were represented and put on a stunning demonstration of all the various gymnastics disciplines that use our facility every week.

We were delighted to open our new fully equipped Pre-School facility in the old model railway section of the building. This will allow all our pre-school gymnasts to experience a full range of activities using real gymnastics equipment designed for their age group. This will also free up space in the main gym for other activities.

Our coaches and gymnasts from 1986	Our new Pre-school facility

We were honoured to have been awarded a Civic Reception by Falkirk Council on 28 th September to mark the 25 th anniversary of the opening of Falkirk School of Gymnastics in 1986. Past and present gymnasts, coaches and directors assembled in the Council chambers where Provost Pat Reid presented an engraved silver salver to Robert Callahan. Honorary President David Mould thanked the Council on behalf of the guests for their continued support over the past 25 years In this picture from left to right. Ian Torrance Director, Councillor Jim Blackwood, Provost Pat Reid, Jean Callahan Secretary/Treasurer, Robert Callahan, Director, David Mould President, Derek Callahan Director and Brian Pascoe Past Director

In this picture are the guests who attended the Civic Reception on 28 th September in the Falkirk Council Chambers.

It was a wonderful sunny day at Zetland park Grangemouth for the Annual Children's Day and once again our gymnasts took part in the event. This year it was the turn of our pre-club and junior Infinity girls who were joined on the day by 3 of Falkirk Infinity gymnasts. The team was coached on the day by Ailsa McLuckie and Claire Moodie.

We have been running a Summer School for the past few weeks and gymnasts from Falkirk School of Gymnastics have been joined by a number of dancers from McKechnie School of Dance and Performing Arts who were keen to add some gymnastics skills to their dancing. They were coached by Vikki Ann Callahan, Heather McLuckie and Jean and Robert Callahan. Gymnasts with their awards Winners of the junior and senior groups

These are a few of the many photographes taken at our 25th Anniversary competition held in Grangemouth Sports Complex on Sunday 4th June 2011. All the photographes can be viewed and purchased via borg-grechphoto.com you will require a password which you can get from Vikki.

At the Scottish Gymnastics Bi-annual awards night on Friday 25th March at the Cladahan Hotel in Falkirk it was a great night for Falkirk asFalkirk Infinity were awarded the General Gymnastics Team of theyear for 2010 and Jean Callahan was made an honorary member of Scottish Gymnastics.

At the Falkirk Council Scroll awards held in Falkirk Town Hall on Thursday 31st March 2011, Ava and Carmen Judge, two of our Jumping Beans,were awards scrolls for winning the baby dance competition in Blackpool. At the same event Falkirk Infinity were awarded scrolls for their outstanding achievement in Athens in 2010. The highlight of the night was when Heather McLuckie was awarded the Young Coach of the year for 2010.

INFINITY RE-UNITED

As we move towards our 25th Anniversary it was nice to meet up again with some of our ex gymnasts at Kayleigh Milne's 21st birthday party held in the Antonine Hotel on Saturday 31st July 2010.From left to right Ailsa, Hannah, Lyndsay, Kayleigh, Rebecca, Party girl Kayleigh, Heather, Stacey, Jean and Robert

Photograph courtesy of Borg Grech.

Grangemouth Childrens' day

The sun came out at last in Zetland Park Grangemouth when Falkirk Infinity Seniors and Juniors performed during the annual Childrens' day . Due to the holidays there were not enough gymnasts to perform the usual routines so the Seniors and Juniors joined together to entertain the crowds.

Infinity Rock in Athens.

Falkirk Infinity Gymnastics Club spend a very successful 6 days in Athens, Greece where they took part in Cosmogym 2010

Taking part were 130 teams from all over Greece and included teams from Denmark and Sweden. It was the most challenging event so far for the club who performed 6 routines during the week, 2 off which were in an outside venue at 35 degrees.

The highlights included being selected for the best of 2010, and their visit to the Acropolis. The club still found time to get some sun in their excellent hotel in Glyfada which had a superb roof garden and pool.

24TH ANNIVERSARY COMPETITION

GRANGEMOUTH SPORTS COMPLEX MAY 23RD 2010

Once again Grangemouth Sports Complex hosted our annual competition which is now in its 24th year. Nearly 200 gymnasts took part which included all age groups from our recreational classes and displays from Falkirk Jumping Beans, Falkirk Infinity Juniors and Falkirk Infinity Seniors.

Photographs courtasay of Borg-Grech and all the photographs taken on the day can be viewed at www.borg-grechphoto.com

REGIONAL GYMFEST PERTH

Teams from Falkirk Infinity and mums and friends group took part in the event on Sunday 15th November in the Bells Sports Centre in Perth. It was an excellent event which was packed out with gymnasts, parents and the public. This is the first of a number of new planned events which will take place throughout Scotland bringing Gymfest to new locations.

GYMNASTICS BI-ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER 2009

Scottish Gymnastics held their 2009 awards dinner in the Park Hotel Falkirk on Friday 28th August and Falkirk were well represented with Falkirk Infinity Gymnastics club being awarded the General Gymnastics Team of the Year 2008. Jean Callahan was also awarded the Presidents Award for 2009 for her work over the last 30 years organising events and supporting the President.

The photograph courtesay of Borg Grech photographer includes 6 members of the team.

Jenna Welsh, Ashley Meikle, Leigh Wright, Lyndsay McLuckie Jean Callahan, Lisa Rushford, Jenny Mathews and Robert Callahan.

GYMFEST 2009

The Magnum Centre in Irvine was again the venue for Gymfest. Falkirk Infinity performed on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd May. There were six new members in the team but they performed very well and enjoyed their first Gymfest.

The New Girls

The Cats

EUROGYM 2008 ALBI FRANCE

FALKIRK GYMNASTS SHINE IN THE SUN AT EUROGYM 2008

Sixteen members of Falkirk Infinity Gymnastics Club accompanied by Coaches Robert and Jean Callahan set off last Saturday for a week of outstanding gymnastics in Albi, a medieval town in the south off France. They were the only Scottish team representing Great Britain where 4500 gymnasts from 22 countries gathered for the 6th Eurogym event. During their visit the team performed twice in the city centre to very large crowds given the number of visitors to the town. The girls attended 4 workshops, Tumbling, Acrobatics, Rugby and Beach Volleyball during the week where top coaches from France taught the girls some new skills. However at the Rugby they were outclassed by the Icelandic girls who proved to be too strong on the day. One of the trip highlights was the visit to the outdoor activity centre which was a converted quarry with ski slopes, bob sleigh runs, water skiing and trampolines in the water. As all the girls are good gymnasts they had a wonderful time. At the closing ceremony we were honoured to be selected to carry the British flag. Kayleigh Milne carried the flag with Hanna Moffat and Stacey Edmiston carrying the Great Britain banner. The ceremony was a superb event with over 2000 gymnasts performing in the stadium at the same time. After a week of sunshine we returned to the usual Scottish weather but all the girls had wonderful memories of their time in France. They made friends that will last a lifetime and were a credit to their club, Scotland and Great Britain. We would like to thank all members of the British Teams who were most helpful to Robert when Jean took ill, especially Lisa Eastwood and the GB team who covered all the meetings allowing Robert to stay with his team. There remainder of the team were :- Heather McLuckie, Ailsa McLuckie, Lyndsay McLuckie, Lisa Rushford, Nicola Wilson, Rebecca Wilson, Kayleigh Skinner, Kirsty Smith, Jenny Matthews, Bethany Gloag, Ashley Meikle, Leigh Wright and Jenna Welsh.

22ND ANNIVERSARY COMPETITION

SUNDAY 8TH JUNE 2008

Grangemouth Sports Complex was packed to capacity on Sunday for the 22nd Anniversary competition marking the opening of Falkirk School of Gymnastics in 1986. The large number of family and friends were thrilled by the 150 young gymnasts as they performed their gymnastics skills. The competition was organised by the school of gymnatics new operations manager Vikki-Ann Callahan, who took on the role only on April this year. Every age group was represented from Primary 1 to Secondary 3 and every gymnast who took part received a commemorative medal. Individual medals were give to 1st , 2nd and 3rd place in each age group. Summing up the day Director of Administration at the school Robert Callahan MBE said “ This has been a great showcase for what we are doing at Falkirk School of Gymnastics. Vikki has brought in a great new team and already we are seeing the results. We are very lucky that we have so many young dedicated coaches and we can only go from strength to strength given the performances today”

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