Cloud Nine Trampoline Club members were competing in the north and south in February and saw success at all levels.

The club's month started on February 7, where they hit winning ways again as 24 of its members competed in the Essex Open at Harlow, and 14 of them came home with a trophy.

Starting the day as it was set to continue was Desmond White who, competing in his first competition, took first place in the Starter Under 10's.

Desmond was followed soon after by James Davies who stormed away to win the Intermediate Under 11.

Next it was the turn of the girls to win as the Intermediate Under 13 and Under 15 teams competed.

In the Under 13 category, James' older sister, Hannah Davies, showed that she wasn't to be outshone as she also took first place, followed closely by Carly Bedford in second.

Maria Drayton, who was the final member of the team, just missed the medals at fifth place but was pleased with her team prize.

The Under 15's were led home by Natalie Ah-Kye while Becci Nicholls was just half a point off at equal third.

Other team members collecting trophies here were Debra Monk and Naomi Wilson in an excellent team effort with less than two points between them.

The last of the Intermediate competitions saw some of the club's boys competing again with Luke Jones taking third place in the Under 15 and Luke Knowles finishing first in a strongly contested Under 18 group.

Getting towards the end of a long day and the Advanced and Elite groups were competing.

In the Advanced Under 18 girls Zoe Wilson was pleased to win second place having previously been judging for her first time, having passed her judging exam on her 16th birthday last year.

In itself this was a singular achievement since the BTF's regulations require judging examinees to be 16 or over.

Sarah Ainsworth came close to winning the Under 15 girls Elite with a strong second place and a personal best score and Suzanne Perkins celebrated an excellent result with first place in the Elite 15 and over.

Two of Cloud Nine Trampoline Club's Grade B competitors were also involved in BTF competitions in February.

They travelled to Grantham on Valentines Day to the Northern Grade B competition and then on February 21 to the Southern event at Harlow.

While competing at the same grade they had different objectives with Kirsty Peacock, 13, competing in the Under 15 girls aiming for qualification to Grade A and Suzanne Perkins, 14, competing in the more advanced Under 18 girls for the first time, aiming for the Grade B national finals.

These differing objectives meant they had to complete different 'set'routines.

Kirsty was the only girl in her group aiming for Grade A at Grantham and was competing the A qualification Set routine for the first time.

Kirsty did not quite make it at Grantham where she scored 51.2 overall - just 0.8 short of her goal, but she bounced right back at Harlow scoring 53.0.

Kirsty will now be able to join Sarah Ainsworth at Grade A competitions.

Suzanne did not have to wait as long. At 14, she was one of the youngest in her age group at Grantham and, after the Voluntary round, she was stunned to find that not only had she sailed past the national final qualifying score of 52 with 55.9 points, but she had ranked in fourth place as well beating 45 other girls in the process.

Cloud Nine trains at the Courage Hall in Brentwood every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and enquiries about joining these regular sessions should be directed to Courage Hall who can be contacted on 01277 227522.

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