Top row left to right: Naiyoli Rodriguez, Gabbi Munoz, Emma Anglin, Leah Lucey, Cassidy Marek
Front row left to right: Taylor Crow, Marta Aguero, Arcana Adame, Kendall Farmer, Aerlin Bethany
After opening in May 2013, TNT Elite now has a competitive gymnastics team. From the beginning they have offered recreational gymnastics, tumbling, Mommy & Me, boys and even competitive cheerleading, but as of last year they started training for the competitive side of things. All coaches at TNT are instructor or pro instructor certified through USAG, all CPR certified and both owners are USAG safety certified. All coaches are continually doing hands on clinics in and out of town and online courses.
Last summer the two owners took a group of children to Karolyis summer camp to get some extra training experience in Huntsville, Texas. While there they were able to work with former Olympic coach Bela Karoyli himself. They got to work on new skills and progressions to help them as they returned back to home. From there the team began to learn their routines and train in the gym.
These girls are in the gym anywhere from 4-5 hours a week. “Closer to meets they can be in the gym around 8 hours a week coming every day Monday through Saturday and competing on Sundays!” -Owner Brianna says. Right now we have five girls competing level one and five girls competing level three. So far this season level 3 has competed in Katy, San Antonio & Houston. Level one has competed in Houston. Both teams have done awesome! Scoring better at each meet and bringing home the goods including 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th & 8th out of 12 teams at one meet. The 1st place team award at another meet and scores that range anywhere from 7.000-9.400. “Which is great for their first year and considering there has not been a full gym around here in 10 years!” -Owner Alysha says.
Both teams have two more meets in April in Sugarland and San Antonio. Recently TNT also purchased some new equipment so that the children will have the best equipment to train on and not be thrown off by a different look or feel at meets. This equipment will not just benefit the team but all classes! “Between sessions we plan on giving the gym a little face lift, after three years it needs it,” both owner jokingly agree. We try and keep not only the gym family updated with TNT’s progress but the community as well by posting on our Facebook page. We encourage everyone to stop by at Facebook.com/tntelitegymnastics and “like” our page. We will also be posting the schedules for when we start registering in April for summer classes. Right now we are registering for a Spring Break camp. The camp at this time of year will be our first one to date. We also offer lots of fun and exciting more things like birthdays, parents night out, flip flop Friday’s and Summer camps. You do not have to be enrolled to take part in any of these programs! For more information stop by the gym located at 200 Hwy 35 south in Port Lavaca or give us a call at 361-827-5510.
