Gymnasts doing cartwheels over national award

A gymnastics club in Shinfield has won a national award, just two years after its launch and recently the squad got together to celebrate the achievement and thank their coaches.

Flexx Gymnastics was founded by Katherine Gale from Earley and Holly Lowe from Shinfield. With almost 40 years of combined coaching experience in gymnastics between them, from pre-school to international level, both Katherine and Holly have a wealth of knowledge to support their members.

The British Gymnastics Awards champion the people and clubs throughout the sport that go above and beyond to create fun, safe and accessible gymnastics for all – and Katherine and Holly discovered they had won the Community Club Award (for under 250 members).

On hearing that they had won, Katherine admitted she shed a few tears then said: “Just to be nominated was a real honour but we were bowled over to win.”

The club was actually celebrating its second birthday on the day the announcement was made. Katherine added: “Because we started small, we never thought it was possible that we would win. We are in shock and are absolutely over the moon to say we have won this national award! We can’t tell you what it means to us!! Gymnas-