Burlington BG's Kevin Lytwyn in World Championships

Burlington BG's very own Kevin Lytwyn is once again shining brightly in the International Gymnastics scene where his most recent accomplishment made us all proud. Yes, Kevin has not only placed 1st in Canada at this years Canadian National Championships in Highbar but most recently he has risen to the ranks of competing among the very best in the 2009 World Championships. Kevin along with his coach Carlo Pacella continue to demonstrate what determination, persistance and the right stuff can accomplish. Congratulations to all.

For further information from CGC click here
Many of the results can be found here

Lytwyn competed over in Japan : Outstanding Performance

Congradulations to our very own Kevin Lytwyn who is featured, in the news, all over Canada and the rest of the world for his outstanding performance at this years' Japan Junior Gymnasts Competition. For details on Kevins outstanding acheivements please click HERE

Results can be found HERE

2009-2010 Competition Dates

The 2009/2010 season competition dates are now posted on the BG's Blog HERE along with any associated links. Good luck to all of our Athletes this year. May you all work hard to achieve your dreams and goals.

Fun had by all at this years Childrens Festival

Photos curtousy of Johnathan Garfield of Fine Art Media

What a great day it was.

Thank you for all your support in making our initial representation at the Burlington Children’s festival a successful one. Of course, its level of success is unknown, but rest assured we had hundreds if not a few thousand children on our mats yesterday. With many parents asking for program schedules, I was delighted to hear from our volunteers that the parents were very interested in signing their children up. My hope is our representation has attracted NEW children to our club to compliment those who are already planning to sign up.

I cannot stress enough how important it was that you assisted with this event and I thank you on behalf of the children, parents, board members and staff of our club, who all want to ensure that BG’s is able to offer the best training and accessibility to that training for anyone who wants to pursue Gymnastics no matter what their age.

Here are some pictures that were taken of at the event. Should anyone have others, I am collecting for these for future programs and display. Please let me know.


Thank you


Ken

Burlington Children's Festival

When: This Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm
Where: Spencer Smith Park, Burlington.
Why: To promote your son and/or daughters' favorite sport. To tell the 20,000+ attendees that gymnastic is a sport that offers children and adults an alternative to traditional activities all the while helping children to become more focused and self aware.
We need your assistance:Anyone who has a knack with putting together a 20 to 30 minute video with popular preteen music dubbed over the video, along with some text labelling would be of great help. We can supply you with the video as well as the music selection if neccessary.
This video production would be cycled on a laptop during the event for those who appeal to watching. Clips need to include video from youtube and personal sources of our members. If you would be interested in this job, any hours put forth for this production would be credited toward your volunteer committment. I am hoping you will see personal benefits of this opportunity as well.
As well, if others can offer any video recording of their children for possible inclusion into this video please contact Ken Mascola
We are also looking for children and teen athletes to provide safe, supervised exposure to the thousands of impressionable children who will be attending.
More information regarding this event can be obtained through our club or at the following web page Burlington Childrens Festival.
We are also looking for more Adult volunteers. It is going to be a great sunny day, and we will be protected from the sun under a canopy. If you are interested please call the office (905) 634-0310‎ or email Julia
A great family event with a little something for everyone - crafts, activity areas, play zones and much more. Entertainers for the day include: Splash 'N Boots, BMX Bike Show, CLaroL the CLown, and Craig Douglas! A day of fun you don't want to miss. Don't forget to check out the Children's Marketplace full of children's related products and services for sale.

Canadian National Mens Artistic Gymnastics Championships Senior Finals

Senior Finals ended up with an outstanding performance by KEVIN LYTWYN. Kevin reigned as this years Canadian Champion and beat out all of his competitors by nailing his High Bar routine. Beating out the likes of Casey Sandy who placed 2nd ( Great Job Casey ) and all other competitors from across Canada. As well as Gold Medal in High Bar he also took Bronze on the Parallel Bar. Excellant showing Kevin..... More to come...

Seen here is Kevin, his championship medals and coach Carlo Pacella. Excellant job men. Congratulations Burlington BG's for such an outstanding performance at this years 2009 Canadian Gymnastics Championships is all of its disciplines. Please see the other 2 blogs for results in Trampoline and Tumbling along with Jordan Sugrims Gold Medal at the BG's web site



Results as they come in can be viewed online at the National and Elite Scores web site.

Canadian National Mens Artistic Gymnastics Championships Day 3

Day 3 ended up with both William Albert and Matthew Mascola competing in their Event finals for National Open and National Youth respectively.

William placed
4th on the Pommels with a difficulty of 3.4 and event score of 11.6

Matthew placed
2nd for a Silver medal on Rings with a difficulty of 3.1 and score of 12.05
3rd for a Bronze medal on Floor with a difficulty of 3.1 and score of 12.40
4th on Vault with a difficulty of 4.6 and score of 13.8

These competitions along with the Tyro and Junior Day 2 events were very exciting. Showing just what it takes to be able to compete among the best in Canada. Congratulations to both William and Matthew. It is an outstanding accomplishment to be competing among the very best across Canada.

Results as they come in can be viewed online at the National and Elite Scores web site.

Today we see the Mens Argo Division Day 2 events in the morning along with the Mens and Womens Artistic Finals in the afternoon. It is going to be a very exciting day to watch. CBC live coverage goes from Noon to 2pm for Floor Rings and Vault. Taping of Pommel, Parallel Bars and High Bar will occur from 4:30 to 6:15

Canadian National Mens Artistic Gymnastics Championships Day 2

Yesterday was the day, that by the end of the day all of the BG's Athletes have finally had a chance to compete. And compete they did indeed. Two levels competed and those were the Natonal Open division (William Albert and Geoff Rellis) and the Senior division (Kevin Lytwyn). Among some of the highlights was a Silver for William Albert with his Pommel routine and Kevin Lytwyn placing First in Parallel Bars, Silver medal in High Bar and 4th overall on Vault. Outstanding results.
















This is Kevins' 1st year competing among many of the best in Canada. These results also earned Kevin 5th Overall in the Senior Mens division. Casey Sandy who also was representing Burlington BG's on the Ontario Team performed outstanding routines that earned him Gold Medal Overall across Canada. These were the individual results which also propelled Ontario as reigning champions in the National Open and Senior Mens divisions. Results as they come in can be viewed online at the National and Elite Scores web site.


















Here we have the National Open Ontario team who took 1st place Gold Medal in the Provincial Team standing. Outstanding performance by each and every one of these young men.
















This photo captures the men of the Canadian National Seniors Team. Congratulations Kevin, for today, you have shown your ability to compete with the finest in Canada and come out ahead. Shown here are other Canadian Gymnasts such as Adam Wong, Brandon O'Neill, Ken Ikeda and many others. For more information on this and many other stories please see the CGC web site stories page

Alot of fun, interest and support came from many of our families and friends. Below are just a sample of some of us having a great time.



Jacob and Wolfe with their moms.



Brian, Zach and Tony watching outstanding gymnastics routines



Letting loose and having a great time




Just cant get enough




We're not the only ones having fun... Kyle Shewfelt showed up to let a lucky young gymnast where his Gold Medal




Kyle Shewfelt was there MC'ing the event between flights


Tomorrows Highlights


The competition continues with Matthew Mascola and William Albert competing in their division finals. Competition for both is from 1:30 to 4 pm with their warmup starting at 12 Noon.

Canadian National Mens Artistic Gymnastics Championships Day 1

Our young men have been busy training for their competitions both in the Competition gym and the extra training gym. Levels National Youth, National Open, High Performance Argo, High Performance Tyro, National High Performance Junior and Senior Teams are all competing over the next 4 days.

Results from Todays National Youth Competition

Matthew Mascola was the BG's Representive Athlete competing in the National Youth Division today. Matt came away quite satisfied with his results. Out of 39 other competitors from 10 provinces and territories, Matt placed 4th overall. He placed 1st with his Rings routine, 2nd in his Vault and 3rd on Floor. Matt not only was representing the Burlington BG's but he was competing on the Ontario National Youth team, with its 7 athletes, pulled off 1st place out of all the provinces. Way-to-go ONTARIO.

Below are some pictures from the awards and following those awards.

TEAM ONTARIO accepting 1st place on the podium

Matt Mascola qualifying for 3 events this Friday great job Matt

Team Ontario taking a pose with their team coach Gary Isaacs

Tomorrow early afternoon we will see William Albert and Geoff Rellis compete along side of other gymnasts in the National Open division and Kevin Lytwyn competing in the Senior Day 1 events.

2009 Canadian Gymnastics Championship

How lucky can we be.... such an honor and opportunity we have with the National Championships sooooo close to us. Just across the bay in Hamilton and nestled within cootes paradise. Yes, Burlington BG's is being very well represented this year as always. With 20 Tumbling and Trampoline representative and 4 Artistic gymnastics representative, we certainly are not short of very talented young men and women.

Please take this opportunity to cheer on and support your fellow athletes. Another opportunity to impress may not come our way for a number of years.Among our Artistic Gymnasts you can witness the spectacular moves by Kevin Lytwyn, William Albert, Geoff Rellis and Matthew Mascola.

Matthew is competing on Wednesday 9:30 am to 12:00 and possibly qualifying for Friday Afternoon 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm.

William and Geoff are competing Thursday 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm and possibly qualifying for Friday afternoon 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm.

Kevin is competiting Thursday 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm and Saturday 2:00 pm to 6:15 pm.

We hope you can come out and support our athletes. We also hope one day you may see your son or daughter here. Its quite an accomplishment of all our athletes to qualify as well as excel in their academic grades.

For further information please click HERE

For current Newspaper articles please see links along the right margin of this blog under the heading "Newspaper Links"

BG's Artistic Mens Gymnasts at 2009 Canadian Gymnastics Championships

Burlington BG’s is pleased to announce that members of its Men’s Artistic Gymnastics team will be representing Burlington and Ontario in the 2009 Canadian Gymnastics Championships. This event is being held in Hamilton from May 29th to June 6th at McMaster University, Hamilton. These gymnasts compete in all 6 events which include routines on the Floor, Pommel Horse, Rings, Vault, Parallel Bars and High Bar. Performing in these events require a high level of concentration, discipline, strength, self awareness and determination. All of which our boys demonstrate extremely well. Among the athletes and coaches we are proud to announce are coaches Carlo Pacella and Robert Ene, athletes left to right Kevin Lytwyn (Senior Men’s), Matthew Mascola (Youth Division), William Albert (Open Division) and Geoff Rellis (Open Division). More information regarding the Canadian Championships can be found at http://www.2009cdnchampionships.ca
As well, if you require further information regarding Mens Artistic Gymnastics as well as Tumbling and Trampoline competitive and recreational gymnastics please see www.burlingtonbgsgymnastics.com or call Burlington BG’s (905)634-0310 at 610 Maple Avenue.

Please join us in wishing these young men a very successful competition.

Congratulations to our Artistic Team

Once again Burlington BG's Artistic Mens Athletes and Coaches demonstrated their skill, endurance and commitment to the sport of Artistic Gymnastics at the 2009 Ontario Gymnastics Championships held this past weekend in Mississauga. Results are posted on the OFG website. Simply click on the title of this posting from the Artistic blog site to link to these results.
Results summarized are as follows.
Provincial level 1 :10-12 years
Brian Lee came home with a Silver Medal overall in his division along with Gold medals in Parallel Bars and High Bar. Thomas Bowles was outstanding with his Silver medal in Pommel. Zachary Jeffery Morris had also shown resilience placing within the top 10 of his division.

Provincial level 2 :10-12 years
Adam Walsh achieved Gold medal standing with his Vault while placing 3rd in his pommel routine. Ryan Romanoski took the Gold medal for 1st place with his Floor routine, beating out 15 other competitors.

Provincial level 2 : 13+ years
Alexander Lang achieved a Silver medal for his Rings routine as well as a Bronze in both Pommel and Parallel Bars.

Provincial level 3 : 10-12 years
Liam Bee placed 2nd in both his Floor and Rings routines as well as 3rd in High Bar. Along with Jacob Bonnay, these fine young athletes placed within the top ten of their division amongst 20 other competitors.

Provincial level 5 : 13 - 15 years
Wolfe Gazer-Ambrosino walked away with a Gold medal for his Vault routine along with a Silver for 2nd place in Parallel Bars.

National Level : Youth
Matthew Mascola came home with a Silver Medal for his 2nd place standing with his Vault along with Bronze medals in Floor, Pommel and Rings. Matthew placed within the top 5 amongst 15 other competitors.

National Level : Open
William Albert, once again, came first overall in his division. As well as achieving gold overall he came 1st place in Pommel, Rings and Vault. Geoff Rellis came away with a Bronze for his 3rd place finish overall as well as a Bronze medals for both Pommel and Vault.

National Level: Senior
Kevin Lytwyn came home with a medal for all of his routines as well as obtaining a Silver medal overall in his division. Rings and Vault were also top notch achieving 1st place. Pommel, Parallel Bars and High Bar routines both earned Silver medals while Kevin's Floor routine saw a Bronze medal for 3rd place.

Once again congratulations to these young athletes and their coaches Carlo Pacella, Robert Ene, Tudor Mereuta and Yale Holmberg for an outstanding performance to end off the 2009 Provincial competitions.
Please support Kevin, William and Matthew through encouragement as they head off to compete in the 2009 Canadian National Championships being held this June at McMaster University in Hamilton. They will be competing against other top Gymnasts from across Canada. For a link to the 2009 Nationals click HERE

Link to OGF Site for all Artistic Results

Since I and others have had difficulty surfing to find the latest results of our athletes performances, I have taken the liberty to post the link in "Noteworthy Links" along the right side of the blog. As long as OGF doesn't change the linkage we should be good for a few years.

You can also click on the title of this post to take you to this link.

Results Now Posted + Provincial Meet Schedule Available

Results are now posted on the OGF website for this past weekend's qualifier.

As well the schedule for the Provincial Championship in Mississauga is posted. Please see link on the artistic blog.


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New Feature on the BG's Artistic Blog

Visit the blog for the latest newspaper articles. Simply click on the link of your choice under "Newspaper Links" along the right side of the blog.
Latest posting is from the Burlington Post regarding our 3rd Prov Qualifier this past weekend.
Should a link be missing please do not hesitate to bring it to my attention at streamline@cogeco.ca

2008 Beijing MAG Finals

Added to the BG's Artistic Mens Blog along the right side of your screen is a list of links that can be used to view the 2008 Beijing Mens Artistic Gymnastics Final Events. These are added for our Boys and Parents to show what can be done on the apparatus you train on with much dedication, endurance, experience and desire. Enjoy !!!!

BG's Potluck Dinner and Athlete Sleepover

BG’s POTLUCK Dinner and Sleepover

Hello everyone.

The Spirit Team has organized a family night for all Coaches, Staff, Pre-Competitive and Competitive families on Saturday February 28th 2009. 6pm – 9am Sunday. Yes that’s only 2 weeks away.

This evening will be filled with yet another opportunity to meet and talk with fellow athletes and parents in a related, fun atmosphere. Not only will there be great food but we will have games as well for athletes and parents alike.

In order to make this a successful evening we are asking that each family bring a dinner menu item of their choice. As well, 5 dollars to cover any extra costs for prizes, rentals and other items needed for the evening.

As you are aware the current economic conditions are adding yet further burden to families that are not as fortunate as ours. Prior to these times, there were and still are many children, elderly and others that rely on the generous donation that we can and have provided in the past. As a result we are asking that each family bring along with them a minimum of 2 non-perishable food items which the club will donate to the Burlington Partnership West Food Bank. This food bank will see to it that our donations are put into the right hands at the right time. Thank you for your participation.

As well athletes are welcomed to stay the evening for a great night of fun and games in the gym along with a movie or two. They are welcomed to stay for the sleepover. We will be having classes at 9am so we will have to cleanup and be gone by this time.

Please see the signup board in the gym for your contribution to the potluck dinner and sleepover. There will be boxes available in the entrance corridor where you can deposit your donated food items.

Lets’ celebrate the successes of our Athletes during this fun filled family event.

We hope to see you all there.

BG’s Spirit Team

Ps. please sign up by Wednesday Feb 25th if you are planning on attending.

2nd Qualifier Results Available

Congratulations to our Artistic Team

Our Athletes and Coaches have added 7 addional Gold Medals, 7 Silver and 9 Bronze for a total of 23 new Medals.

For all the Standings please click HERE to read the latest.

Hope you will keep Feb 28th evening free

Let me also make you aware of the Clubs Potluck Dinner and Athlete Sleepover. For details and how you can participate please see the BG's lobby post boards. This event is going to prove to be a great social event for our club members. Hope to see all of you there.

2nd Qualifier Information is now available

Just as an FYI. By clicking on the listing for the 2nd Provincial, 1st High Performance qualifier link on the right hand side of the blog, your browser should load a web page that provides Hotel, Scheduling and other information for this competition.

Click on the BG's Artistic Blog link for direct access to the blog


Ken

BG's Blog Videos and Images

If any of you would like a picture or video added/updated to the blog then for the following:

Video(s): Upload the video clips to youtube and email the link to the youtube video to kmascola@cogeco.ca

Image(s): Just email the image(s) and I will see about adding to the blog.

Thanks Ken