P.A. gymnastics set the standard for Sask. provincials
The 2018 Canadian Tire Gymnastics Championships provincials happening from Friday to Sunday at the Alfred Jenkins Field House are an anniversary of sorts.
Back in 2011 when the last time the Prince Albert Aerials Gymnastics Club hosted the event, they did something no other club in the province had previously done — run a provincial championship that includes all four disciplines: women’s artistic, men’s artistic, rhythmic and trampoline & tumbling.
“We were actually the very first club to host the four-discipline provincials, we started this whole thing and it’s been the standard ever since,” Mike Amouri, Aerials head coach and program director said. “Now it sort of feels like a full circle eight years later to do it again. It’s a lot of work, but it’s for the kids. The kids are really excited, so we’re excited too.”
Amouri moved to Prince Albert in 2010 and joined on with the Aerials shortly afterwards. At the time, the Aerials expanded their space in the High Noon Optimist Centre after the local indoor soccer club moved. That gave the club enough room to hold all the disciplines in.